![]() ![]() If you’re looking for a book that is appropriate for children from eight to teenagers than this is the book for you. With a message of kindness, YouTube star Glynn's middle grade debut, a series opener, is a story of devoted friendship and fierce loyalty that is sure to win readers over. Morose and unfriendly Ellie, meanwhile, proves herself good-hearted. ![]() Unflappably upbeat Lottie proves herself valiant when danger arises, willing to face down Ellie's enemies with the bravest of hearts. Lottie is full of fairy tale fantasies, and Ellie loathes her princesshood, making them both an unlikely pair and a perfect match. ![]() When Rosewood starts buzzing about royalty-in-hiding in attendance, and someone leaves threatening messages for the fake princess, life becomes filled with intrigue for both girls each new threat becomes more menacing as the person behind them gets closer to revealing Ellie's secret. Rooming together at posh British boarding school Rosewood Hall are Ellie Wolf, Crown Princess of Maradova, who is masquerading as a normal girl, and Lottie Pumpkin, a normal girl who masquerades as the Princess of Maradova to protect Ellie's anonymity. ![]()
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Eleni nicholas cage5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() His performance as Roy borrows and builds upon the likes of Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool to deliver a charismatic and likeable portrayal of a man who is forced to relive his death over and over again. ![]() ![]() The film’s central concept of repetition plays out like a fusion of movies such as Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow, creating a film that truly embodies the essence of a videogame.įrank Grillo solidifies his status as a leading action star. Not knowing how or why he’s being forced to repeat the day over and over again, Roy begins to unravel the mystery surrounding his circumstances and the role both he and his ex-wife Dr Jemma Wells (Naomi Watts) must play in stopping Colonel Clive Ventor (Mel Gibson). It centres around a retired special forces soldier Roy Pulver (Frank Grillo) who is forced to relive his death over and over again that sees him murdered by an ensemble of assassins in a never-ending time loop. This review was done in collaboration with Player One which you can listen to on Mondays from 8-10PM or wherever you get your podcastsĬelebrating the formula of old hack-and-slash videogamesīoss Level is an action and science-fiction film directed by The A Team filmmaker Joe Carnahan. ![]() The great library series rachel caine5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Instead of disseminating knowledge freely, the Library has fallen into utter corruption of its purpose. ![]() Worst of all, the Library’s officials maintain order by way of automata programmed to kill for any infraction. Book burners are fanatics who delight in burning every book they can get. It rigorously trains acolytes to carry on its legacy of repression and exclusion.īook smugglers make fortunes running and selling original texts. ![]() How might the world be different had Rome not destroyed the Great Library of Alexandria? In Rachel Caine’s Great Library Series, Egypt has remained the center of world culture, surviving and flourishing over the centuries by controlling all dissemination of knowledge and by the use of alchemy. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. Details on how to win a copy of the first book in the series, Ink and Bone, at the end of the review & a link to purchase Ash and Quill. ![]() Shadow of Honor by Ronie Kendig5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Shadow of Honor has plenty of spacey wacey action sure to hook any space opera fan. Kersei is pregnant with the traitor’s child. Only by uncovering the truth about an ancient conflict now shrouded in deception will she find her place.įaced with her true identity, Eija sees her purpose snap into focus, and she realizes the war Marco fears may be the very one he has been called to start. Shadow of Honor by Ronnie Kendig is another exciting, action packed installment of the Droseran Saga. On board the alien dreadnought, Eija Zacdari flounders, torn amidst military machinations, prophecies, and an inexplicable bond with one of the fearsome creatures who have imprisoned her friends. Does he leave her to fight Symmachia alone, or risk bringing an unwinnable war to every planet in the Quadrants? In them his bonded calls to him across lightyears. But his dreams betray that singular design. Held captive, tortured by monsters of a nightmarish alien race, Marco Dusan clings to a final goal: keep these beasts from the Quadrants, even if it means orchestrating his own death. ANNND Best of all-you can PREORDER NOW (LINK IN BIO) ![]() ![]() Also, I love that Marco is in shadow, which lends itself to the story and his journey far from home. It took some back/forth to find the right representation of Isaura for this cover, but I think we finally landed on the perfect model, who is both demure yet strong. I’m thrilled with this cover, as it’s perfect and conveys the right message for this installment in my much-beloved series. Isn’t she beautiful? SHADOW will release June 2022 from Enclave Publishing. VOIDS!! It’s the gorgeous COVER REVEAL for SHADOW OF HONOR, Book 3 of The Droseran Saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF BRITAIN'S TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019 Read more Fans of Angela Carter and Shirley Jackson take note' i Newspaper All will burrow their way into your brain and not let go' Stylist These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum and a cheery account of child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. ![]() You won't put it down' Sunday TelegraphĪ shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction.Īlone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. A shocking contemporary collection of dark, feminist short stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing horror, by a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter. ![]() Something wicked this way comes carnival5/11/2023 ![]() It is very clear where he learned this from. Now I thought Stephen King was the master of small town dramas, adolescent stories and the idea of the evil that killed the neighborhood. For Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade, the carnival will show them many wonders and what the price is for the wishes within their hearts. For in the town of Green Town, there are two boys who answer the call to the carnival. Welcome to Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show! A place of outlandish people, rides and a charismatic ring master who seems to know the darkest desire of anyones heart. On an October night, the week before Halloween, the carnival arrives. This was also the first book in a while that I just randomly picked up and read on the basis it was interesting. I’ve been slowly getting into his work and I was highly impressed with this particular book. I’ve been dying to get back to my reading of the works of Ray Bradbury. Sometimes people can’t be picked off, led to dead falls. ‘Because, sometimes good has weapons and evil none. ![]() Fight or flight by samantha young5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() But even if she does decide to risk her heart on Caleb, there is no guarantee her stubborn Scot will want to risk his heart on her…. When his stay in Boston becomes permanent, Ava must decide whether to fight her feelings for him or give into them. Not long thereafter Ava realizes she’s made a terrible error because as it turns out Caleb Scott isn’t quite so unlikeable after all. ![]() Ava agrees, knowing her heart’s in no danger since a) she barely likes Caleb and b) his existence in her life is temporary. When pure chance pulls Ava back into Caleb’s orbit, he proposes they enjoy their physical connection while he’s stranded in Boston. And that’s all it was–until Caleb shows up on her doorstep. Then over the course of their journey home, their antagonism somehow lands them in bed for the steamiest layover Ava’s ever had. Her last ditch attempt to salvage the trip was thwarted by an arrogant Scotsman, Caleb Scott, who steals a first class seat out from under her. As if flying back to Phoenix to bury a childhood friend wasn’t hell enough, a cloud of volcanic ash traveling from overseas delayed her flight back home to Boston. The universe is conspiring against Ava Breevort. A series of chance encounters leads to a sizzling new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the On Dublin Street series. ![]() The Weirdest Noob by Arthur Stone5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first 5 hours of this book felt like a badly done training video you watch when you get your first job at a fast-food restaurant. Which, it turns out was completely pointless as the characters all go by alternate names…. Next, what’s with the character naming? It looks like the author said “Your name is….” and then banged on the keyboard 3 or 4 times, and viola, a character name. I then found several reviews for the Kindle version of this book on Amazon that details the plagiarism pointing out that the mining sequences were lifted directly from The Way of the Shaman series (which I have read). The main character ends up mining in a cave and I started to get a familiar feeling about the events that happened. This is obvious by the BLATANT PLAGIARISM in this book. It seems like he just read a couple of litRPG books and thought “Hey, I can do that too!”. I don’t think this author has EVER played an online game. Seriously! I gave myself several headaches while listening to this book with all of the facepalming I did. ![]() Jenny offill goodreads5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And the truth is really much duller: that we haven't had anything so dramatic happen to us, although, like any couple, of course, we've had our moments where things seem to wobble. There are many autobiographical things in the book - the obvious thing that people gravitate towards is whether or not I'm the wife and my husband is the husband. On how much of the book is based on her own life And I wanted to try to put some of that into a book. And instead, what I saw more often in the women I knew, especially the women that had a great passion for some kind of work, was that they were just struggling to bridge the person they used to be with the person they were now - and that maternal love, which is quite fierce and can be obliterating of what came before it. ![]() The word that would come up if you talked about the complexities of motherhood would be "ambivalence," and I think ambivalence implies that perhaps you wish that you hadn't had a child. I felt like the conversation about motherhood felt a little narrow to me. On how her experience as a mother influenced her writing of the book of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries) 1,385 Kindle Edition 119916.00 Other formats: Audible Audiobook, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio CD Weather: A novel 1,261 Kindle Edition 99916. was that they were just struggling to bridge the person they used to be with the person they were now. : Jenny Offill: books, biography, latest update Books 18 titles Sort by: Popularity Dept. And instead, what I saw more often in the women I knew. I think ambivalence implies that perhaps you wish that you hadn't had a child. ![]() Borrobil5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() And anyway, he’d written a book, and hadn’t I already learned that people who were from Northern Ireland - I mean really, properly from here - didn’t write books? So he can’t have been from here. He’d certainly done all the interesting things in England, like being a professor. Maybe his parents had just been here on holiday or something. Being born somewhere isn’t the same as living there, and it didn’t say anything about him living in Northern Ireland. ![]() Well, apart from CS Lewis, I was proud to discover but he didn’t really count - not properly - because according to the potted biography in my Narnia books, he’d only been born in Belfast. Probably nobody from Northern Ireland had ever written a book, or at least not one good enough to go in the shops. Clearly, people like me just didn’t get to appear in books and on television. The Famous Five, the Pevensey children, Wendy Darling and her brothers - English, and posher than me, the lot of them.īut that was okay, because all the children on telly were English too. I mean, most of the kids in the stories I read shared my skin-colour, more or less but they were English. There were lots of books about children a bit like me. ![]() ![]() When I was young I was a voracious reader, but I never read any books about children just like me. ![]() |