![]() ![]() ![]() Dodola teaches Zam to read and tells him stories, which are interspersed throughout the novel. And the story is equally wonderful: Dodola and Zam, brought together as slave children, escape and spend several years living in the desert together. Every page is filled with details that I probably didn’t even notice because I was whipping through the story so fast (despite being 700 pages, you can get through this in a couple days because of all the pictures), and it made me want to go back and just look at the pages without noticing the words. THE GOOD: first, this is a gorgeous graphic novel. Better use the bathroom and grab a snack, guys, we're gonna be here a while. But it's okay, because that just means I was given an opportunity to write a review in what is, personally, my favorite reviewing style, which is:Īw yeah. Some parts I loved, some parts I hated, some parts I wonder if I just misunderstood. At first, I wasn't sure how to review it, because frankly I had a lot of conflicting feelings about it. I don't usually read graphic novels, but on the recommendation of my roommate (and the fact that this is one beautiful-looking book) I started reading this. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Okay, yeah, he's a snarly, powerful, frustratingly perfect master himself, but at least she knows where she stands. Lucky for her, she still has one ally up her sleeve: Lucien. A master who is looking for a mate and wants Simone to participate in the Selection to prove her worth. Turns out that the last time she was there, her teeny tiny mistake sent out an energy burst that called to an ancient powerful master. ![]() Then a summons back to Valdor-the vampire world- is dropped in her lap. She'd been there, done that, and had the near death experience to show for her time. Simone, of the Torma shifters, thought she was finished with the world of supernaturals that existed outside of Earth. ![]() Best read after Deserted for storyline continuity. A standalone story in the Shadow Beast Shifters world. ![]() ![]() ![]() She teaches ukulele, zine-making and creative writing, and holds an MFA from Lesley University. ![]() She can be found at jojo Lazar is a multimedia artist, writer, and vaudevillian sometimes known as "the burlesque poetess," in Boston-based band Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys. She was born in China, raised in Sacramento, and lives in Boston. Meia Geddes is the author of Love Letters to the World and The Little Queen. The formal reading will be from 7-8 and will feature three local poets reading from their latest works. The event will feature a social hour from 6-7 in which you can grab a beer and converse with the poets, hosts, and other poetry fans. ![]() So, once a month we will gather at the community space at Aeronaut on the Duck Village stage, to celebrate that community with readings by three local poets. The greater Somerville and Cambridge area is lucky to have such a vibrant poetry community. Join Porter Square Books at Aeronaut brewery for a celebration of local poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah, a 60 year-old grandmother, is the protagonist of the series. These are written by different people but the stories fit together seamlessly. This one takes place at Thanksgiving, the one before earlier in autumn and the next one is a Christmas story. And the books, if read in sequence, follow each other in order of life. What is always a surprise is how an old quilt plays into the story- or actually, it's always directly involved with the mystery. ![]() In this story you know that from the beginning, even though clues along the way build that conclusion up. The mystery is good and the solution satisfying- but you always know that it's going to happen and most of the time you know who the "bad guys" are. This series is wonderful- the cozy mysteries, with just a touch of religion, is perfect for a great read. The only reason that I didn't give it that is because it just seems to be too much of a simple cozy mystery for that and the 5 stars that I give usually denote a complicated story with red herrings and a solution that you don't see coming. ![]() ![]() ![]() He assigns the three to follow a human woman. We haven't yet gotten their complete stories, but they all work for Rollick who is a particularly nasty high level shadowkind that owns a hotel in California. ![]() This time we have three "monsters," Torrent, Crag, and Lance. Until I discover the real reason they're protecting me.Įva has done it again! We get another RH series starring the shadowkind. ![]() But the more we dig into the mysteries surrounding my existence, the more I catch glimpses of tenderness beneath their vicious exteriors.Īnd the touch of their fangs and tentacles makes me feel so shockingly alive, it's hard to remember why I ever feared them. ![]() I can tell they're hiding things from me. My monstrous saviors are just as brutal as the creatures they fought off, damaged in ways I'll never understand. They say there's something special about me-something the others want to devour and they mean to protect. The beastly men wrench me away from my home, claiming they'll keep me safe. So when three more demonic figures leap out of the shadows to defend me, my choices are trust my unexpected champions.or die. Still, the last thing I expect is a horde of nightmarish monsters descending on me in the night, eager to tear me apart. Now who's going to save me from them?Įvery beat of my heart is the tick of a time bomb, reminding me to squeeze as many thrills out of life as I can. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Also living in the house are Sophia’s parents, Philip who writes obscure history books and Magda, an actress given to treating even real life as a performance (and dramatizing it whenever she can). Aristide has only recently remarried a much younger woman, Brenda, an obvious gold digger, who seems fairly happy spending his money. As a person who is an outsider (who doesn’t know the family), and yet an insider (as Sophia’s fiancé), Charles is asked by both his father and Sophia to be involved in the matter.Īt the Leonides home, Three Gables (the ‘Crooked House’ of the title), Charles finds a set of curious residents. Charles’ father is the Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard while Chief Inspector Taverner is investigating the case. But when he meets Sophia, he finds that Aristide has not died a natural death but was poisoned. When he arrives in England some two years later, he finds a newspaper announcement to the effect that Sophia’s eighty-five-year-old grandfather, the self-made tycoon, Aristide Leonides has died. He plans to marry her when he returns to England from his next posting. In Crooked House, our narrator, Charles Hayward (wrongly described in the blurb of my 2002 St Martin’s Press edition as a criminologist) meets and falls in love with the attractive and intelligent Sophia Leonides when the two are posted in Egypt during the war. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I-I figure you know wh-what to do, Miss Corbie, bein’ a detective an’ all. Tom skittered around Miranda, keeping up a monologue. Perfect artist’s model, except for the blood dripping.įred was standing in the stage shadows, hat in his hands. Stretched across the platform, breasts firm, nipples plump, pubic hair shaved. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. With a strong female protagonist more steel than silk and a mystery that will grip you until the last page, this sequel to the critically-acclaimed City of Dragons will appeal to fans of noir and historical mysteries. When Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco's 1940 World Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war. "Author Kelli Stanley has her eye on greatness." - George Pelecanos ![]() City of Dragons, with its brittle patter and its broken heart of gold, is a joy to read."-Tom Nolan, San Francisco Chronicle"īeautifully imagined and beautifully written- this book does everything great fiction is supposed to." - Lee Child Readers will eagerly await the next installment in this exciting new series." -Booklist (starred) ![]() Miranda Corbie is back in this sequel to the Macavity Award-winning City of Dragons. "Impressive.Stanley's hard-boiled, strong female sleuth stalks Hammett's San Francisco and does the job with all the panache of Sam Spade. ![]() ![]() ![]() Servitor robots and sentient moth spaceships also seek to be free of Kujen. Each iteration of Jedao works to find a way to kill the seemingly immortal Kujen, whose consciousness is somehow sustained by the ritual sacrifices. Kujen has incarnated Jedao to lead his Kel troops to conquer the fragments of the hexarchate and reinstate the old calendar, with its remembrance celebrations that involved an untold number of deaths by torture. Bewilderingly, Lee begins by introducing a newly conscious Jedao, one who last remembers life as a Shuos cadet and who owes his current existence to hexarch Nirai Kujen, hidden leader of the tech faction. Lee concludes his brilliant Machineries of Empire trilogy (Raven Stratagem) with this volume that follows nine years after the soldier Kel Cheris who carries some of the memories of the assassin, general, and mass murderer Shuos Jedao has splintered the intergalactic hexarchate by creating a renegade calendar. ![]() ![]() One can’t help but liking both Maeve and Rob, although Rob is still a bit of a cipher. She does, however, idolize her boss, Chief Superintendent Charles Godley, or “God”, (who is a bit reminiscent of Inspector Simon Serrailler from the Susan Hill crime novel series), yet she is embarrassingly (to the reader, at any rate) intimidated by him. She also must endure ongoing harassment at work, both for her Irish heritage and her gender. A copycat killer is also on the loose.Īs if Maeve’s life weren’t already stressed enough, she has a continuous battle on the home front with her boyfriend Ian, who resents her long hours. ![]() He has been killing young women, burning them (along with any evidence) and dumping their bodies in parks around the city. Maeve Kerrigan is a 28-year-old Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police in London, and along with her partner, Rob Langton, is involved in an intense investigation to find the serial killer nicknamed “The Burning Man” before he strikes again. ![]() ![]() Nevertheless, Casey is talented, and it was probably a bit unfair of the publishers to set her up with expectations of French. ![]() author is touted as the next Tana French, and who wouldn’t want another Tana French? And indeed, there is a bit of resemblance, but in this book Casey reveals flaws and unevenness in execution that I have never seen with Tana French. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weir's action-packed second novel stars tough antihero Jasmine (Jazz) Bashara and offers a gratifyingly thrilling plot while providing enough hard science that you'll finish the book feeling like an expert in metallurgy, lunar surface exploration and the limitations of EVA suits. If you liked "The Martian," you're going to love "Artemis," a fast, engaging and at times funny lunar caper that will, despite a few minor flaws, pull you in from the first page with its unique setting, memorable characters and detailed scientific scrutiny. But after nearly eight years of waiting, fans of Weir's debut can rest easy. ![]() ![]() Weir shot to fame overnight, with "The Martian" becoming a New York Times best-seller before being adapted into a critically acclaimed movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. In 2011, Andy Weir self-published his debut novel, "The Martian," for 99 cents on Amazon's Kindle Store, where it caught the attention of a literary agent who bought and re-published it in 2014. ![]() |