![]() ![]() Nothing about them can work, nothing about them makes sense, but nothing can seem to stop them from trying. Kade's shiny name can't be tarnished, and Raya has a jaded tie she can't cut loose. Too bad you can't force yourself not to care. Little by little, her hatred fades and is replaced by emotions she never would have believed she could have for the rich jerk she desperately doesn't want to care about. Raya is torn between being amused or disturbed by Kade and his philosophy, but the drive behind his determination isn't what Raya expected. when you only put forth superficial effort, you only acquire superficial friends. Coming from money has made Kade's life easy, but he wants to build his own name - his own future. Twenty-one-year-old Kade Colton has his life planned out, and everything he does is an elaborate game to aid him with his future endeavors. Fate intervenes before she has the chance to find a new home, but she struggles to decide if it's divine luck or the devil's cruel sense of humor. Everything was working out perfectly until her two roommates were expelled for a prank, leaving Raya with the house she couldn't afford on her own. Sterling Shore was supposed to be a new start for eighteen-year-old Raya Capperton. ![]() Despite the fact they live next door to each other, Kade and Raya have never made an effort to speak, until a wild party, four frat boys, and. Everyone has secrets that define them, a past that has shaped them, and a game they play - whether they know it or not. ![]()
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![]() Often, these are the reviews that make me think critically about what I just read. Now, you need to know that my favorite thing to do after finishing a book I enjoyed is to go read the one-star reviews on GoodReads. There are other great characters, but these three are the POVs. The main players are Thea (a slave girl/woman), Arius (a gladiator), and Lepida Pollia (the villain and also a member of the middle-upper class). ![]() Mistress of Rome is a multiple POV book that covers the rule of Emperor Domitian from start to finish. Especially the ones I loathe.Īnd I just read a really good one – Mistress of Rome, by Kate Quinn.Ī Brief Aside – It was a tantalizing breath of fresh air to find a historical fiction book set in something other than World War 2.Īnyway! If you haven’t read it – THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD, TURN AWAY ![]() I tell you that because since that personal experience I now pay a LOT more attention to the villains in the books I read. ![]() It took awhile, but I eventually did round him out. The heroine overcame his dastardly plan (and looked heroic) and then he ran away only to show up later and try again. He showed up when it was convenient and caused trouble. The first draft of The Star of Time was plagued with this. ![]() I mean the cardboard cut-out that exists to make the hero look heroic. I’m not talking about the ones with weak motivation. I think we are all painfully familiar with the motivation-less villian. ![]() ![]() ![]() McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld), the human world and the realm of faerie dangerously intertwine through chaotic magic. In this classic fantasy novel from the late World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia A. 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It’s a narrative told through the eyes of one person in the boat, the just married twenty-two-year-old Grace Winter. ![]() The Lifeboat is an extraordinarily intense narrative that unflinchingly examines the individual’s will to survive. Who gets to live in those circumstances? Who deserves to die? And who has the right to make those decisions? Should the men in the boat sacrifice themselves for the female survivors? Those questions lie at the heart of this novel. For some of them to survive, some of them must die. But as the 39 castaways see hopes of an early rescue fade, their struggle for survival takes on a far more menacing aspect. In Charlotte Rogan’s debut novel, a disparate group of passengers from a luxury ocean liner are squashed in a small lifeboat adrift in a mid Atlantic.Īs you’d expect, a large part of The Lifeboat features tales of endurance against the elements and hostilities between the survivors. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Selection is set in a dystopian future where 35 girls are selected to move to the palace and compete for Prince Maxon’s heart. The Selection series weaves together a fairytale romance that is a mixture of The Hunger Games, Cinderella, and The Bachelor only with young adults as the main characters. The Selection series continues to be a popular pick among readers, especially those on Tiktok, even ten years after its publication, thanks to #Booktok. Since its release, The Selection series has sold more than 11 million copies around the world. ![]() The first book in the series, The Selection, was released in 2012 by HarperTeen and was nominated for Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction book in the Goodreads Choice Awards that same year.Ĭass went on to release a new book in The Selection series each year thereafter with the final book, The Crown, releasing in 2016. The Selection series is a five-book, young adult dystopian fantasy series written by Kiera Cass. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. ![]() Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider-this time on her own. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. ![]() The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” ( Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” ( Shawshank Redemption). Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Harrigan’s Phone”- now a Netflix original film starring Donald Sutherland and Jaeden Martell!įrom the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm mastery of the form” ( The Washington Post). ![]() ![]() But there is also those behind the attack on Simplicity, and they will stop at nothing to get her back. There's Charlie, the journalist and aspiring novelist, and associate Henry,both well-to-do men who are concerned about the state of London's poor. But when Dodger saves the life of a young woman, calling herself Simplicity, who escapes from a carriage, he finds himself under unwanted attention from corners both benign and malevolent. And so many people in the rookeries and other low places of London know him. ![]() ![]() The street-savvy kid known as Dodger is a little more fortunate than most, in that he has lodgings and a man looking after him. The life of a tosher is a hard one, scavenging valuables from the muck of London's sewers. ![]() And anyone thinking that this will be a Pratchettian take on Oliver Twist is in for a twist themselves. ![]() Now, four years later, he comes to Victorian London, a setting that seems so much like Ankh-Morpork of the Discworld books. In 2008, Pratchett published the alternate history novel Nation, a good but serious work. Much of Terry Pratchett's output is occupied by his famous Discworld series, but of late, it seems that he is making a comeback to original novels, particularly for younger readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Language, Gyasi says, was literally taken away from her West African ancestors during the slave trade. The 26-year-old, a graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, speaks plainly of a phenomenon that is specific to all artists, but which has distinctly complex implications for black women authors-that call to speak for those ancestors who could not speak for themselves. It’s a quality they share with their creator, Gyasi. ![]() And while each descendant experiences life (and blackness and love and family) in distinct ways, these characters have at least one thing in common: the inability to ignore a certain call they hear, sometimes in their minds, sometimes in their very bones, from those who came before them. The book, an overwhelming page-turner-as addictive as a binge-worthy TV show-follows their two bloodlines all the way to the present day. ![]() Effia is from Fanteland and marries a British slave dealer, while Esi, a member of the Asante nation, is sold into slavery. In Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing, every character granted his or her own chapter is a descendent of two 18th-century, Ghanaian half-sisters. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Arts and Entertainment Festival had brought people from all over to our small town. Where would I sleep? I glanced nervously around at the people covering the busy streets. It had been my responsibility not to lose her. Normally I held her hand when we were in crowds but today she was carrying an armload of her books. She’d warned me I could get lost in the crowd if I didn’t keep up. ![]() Tears clouded my vision and I let out a panicked sob. But it had only been a second that I’d stopped and thought about it. Maybe clean out from under my bed or maybe straighten the shoes in her closet. I’d been trying to think of something I could promise Mommy I’d do if she’d buy me one. ![]() I’d just turned around to watch the pretty balloons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the late 1890s she met Aeneas James Gunn, eight years her senior they were married with Presbyterian forms at Rolyat on 31 December 1901. Former pupils recalled listening for her light, springing step outings with her were as 'exciting as setting off to the moon'. She was tiny, about 5 ft (153 cm), energetic and determined. When it closed in 1896 Jeannie became a visiting teacher her subjects included gymnastics and elocution. In 1889 she and her sisters opened 'Rolyat' school at the family home in Creswick Street, Hawthorn. Jeannie was educated at home by her mother and at 17 matriculated at the University of Melbourne. Jeannie's father and grandfather were ordained Baptist ministers her father served at Sandhurst (Bendigo) and Melbourne, but later went into business, and for some twelve years before his death in 1909 was on the staff of the Argus. Jeannie Gunn (1870-1961), author, was born on 5 June 1870 at Carlton, Melbourne, fifth child and fourth daughter of Thomas Johnstone Taylor, from Chapelton, Scotland, and his wife Anna, née Lush, from Ilchester, Somerset, England. State Library of South Australia, SLSA: B27404/7 ![]() Jeannie Gunn (1870-1961), by unknown photographer ![]() |