![]() ![]() Eliana’s story doesn’t involve romance the end, and I’m not even sure it will be a thing, I just have a feeling. I’m especially interested in their roles in the sequels. I really enjoyed a lot of the secondary characters like Remy, Simon, Zahra, and Ludavine. ![]() ![]() The magic history and how each element has a temple, a magical beast, and a casting item. Secrets and mysteries are slowly revealed and more questions arise that keep you turning the pages. It was non-stop action from the first page! The prologue sunk its claws into me and I was heavily invested in the story from there on. The two stories remain separate and easy to follow I often find dual timelines to be confusing but that wasn’t the case with Furyborn. I favored Eliana but enjoyed both of these strong, indepedant women ![]() Rielle feels certain she can use her magic for good but can she control it? And can she resist the dark temptations of the voice in her mind? Eliana feels her actions means she is unredeemable, a monster, but the people around her believe she can be kind and honorable. Both main characters, Rielle and Eliana are trying to decide if they stand in the dark or the light. The chapters alternate between Rielle, in the past, and Eliana, in the future. It’s set in two timelines and describes the events leading up to and after the fall of a magic and rise of a mysterious and cruel Emporer. Furyborn is an action-packed story about two girls, both struggling with the dark and light within themselves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A contract is made, and she is given a task: create life in the underworld in six months time, or forever be bound to the underworld. A game of poker with a handsome man turns dangerous, when she finds out that the man she lost to is the God of the Underworld himself. When Persephone has a chance to rebel against her mother's many rules, she takes it, and goes to Nevernight, the ultra-exclusive nightclub owned by Hades - and where mortals go to for the chance to make a deal with him. Persephone, the unknown Goddess of Spring, is living amongst mortals, and is enrolled in university, with the goal to become a journalist, despite her mother Demeter's objections. After the Great War, after the Gods came down to Earth, they brought all continents together and created New Greece, and ruled once again. ![]() ![]() In this retelling of the Greek pair, we are brought to modern times. A Touch of Darkness is the first book in Scarlett St. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Ella’s parents, East German art historians under Stasi surveillance, were caught trying to defect during a ‘vacation’ to Hungary in 1987, their three children were taken from them and only two were returned. #1 My interest in Stasiland was piqued by reading Sophie Hardach’s Costa Prize-shortlisted novel Confession with Blue Horses (2019). She molds her travels and her interviewees’ testimonies into riveting stories – though this won the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2004, it’s as character-driven as any novel. While working part-time for an overseas television service in what was once West Berlin, Funder started gathering stories of how ordinary people were put under surveillance and psychologically terrorized by the Stasi, the East German secret police. The challenge starts with Stasiland (2003) by Anna Funder, which I also happened to read recently. It’s my third time participating in Kate’s Six Degrees of Separation meme (see her introductory post). ![]() ![]() ![]() He realizes NCIS Detective Holder may be one of the men (or could have been) in the clinic. Unfortunately, he finds his wife and nine-year-old daughter murdered. He races home to ensure his family is safe. ![]() Reece fends them off, killing one, and the gun he takes from them is from his safe at home. He wakes up from the scan with two sicarios in the room with him. Eventually, Reece heads to the clinic to get a CT scan. Reece also talks to a reporter (Constance Wu) who wants to know what happened there. After the funeral of his entire unit, the Secretary of State, Louise Hartley (Jeanne Tripplehorn), wants to award him the Navy Cross. He has headaches and is not acclimating well at home with his wife, Lauren (Riley Keough), and his daughter Lucy (Arlo Mertz). ![]() Reece also meant that one of his Navy SEAL team members panicked, Donny Mitchell. However, Reece is told it took place two days ago. When he returns home, Boozer shoots himself the next day. Reece is knocked out and dragged to safety by one of his team members, Boozer. While pinned down, an SFP trooper panics and sets off a trip wire. ![]() When they arrive, it appears to be a setup. Please enjoy this recap of the Amazon original series The Terminal List! Story Recap – what happened in The Terminal List season 1?Ĭommander Jack Reece (Chris Pratt) leads his team on a top-secret mission to kill a chemical weapons terrorist in Syria named Kahana. ![]() ![]() ![]() And no one will know how the fire started. As if that picture-perfect family isn't enough, their father is Mick Riva, the legendary singer.īy morning, the Riva mansion will have burned to the ground. Everyone wants to be in the company of the famous Rivas: Nina, the surfer and model her brothers, Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other his renowned photographer and Kit, the adored baby of the family. Malibu is buzzing with anticipation for Nina Riva's annual party. But over the course of one night, each of their lives will be changed forever in this propulsive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six. Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meira struggles less with two potential suitors (whom she only kisses briefly) than she does with her sense of duty to her country and how she can matter to her people in a meaningful way. The romantic angle is much milder than the rest of the content. So with this heavy topic of ethnic cleansing and some other intense violence - rather bloody battle scenes, a scene of an attempted sexual assault, magical torture where ribs are broken and healed repeatedly - this fantasy read is definitely for the mature teen crowd. Except for a teen named Meira and seven others, all other white-haired, blue-eyed Winterians live in labor camps - many of them worked to death or dying there. It takes place 16 years after a kingdom called Winter is decimated by the kingdom of Spring. Parents need to know that Sara Raasch's Snow Like Ashes is the first book in a trilogy of the same name. Story of the main character stealing wine when she was younger, getting tipsy, and getting punished for it.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Barnes returns to the Southbank Centre for the first time in five years to reflect on his life in literature, as he discusses his novel Elizabeth Finch (Vintage), as well as art, mortality and the concepts of Englishness and Europe. Fellow debut novelist Jacqueline Crooks celebrates Fire Rush (Jonathan Cape, newly shortlisted for the Women’s Prize), in a special event featuring conversation, dance, dub music and extended readings from the book. Running from June to September, the programme will see authors, artists, economists, politicians and poets exploring themes such as the abuse of power, politics of race, modern masculinity and the impact of new technologies.Īuthor and journalist Adegoke will discuss her debut novel due this summer, The List ( won by Fourth Estate in an 11-way auction last year) in conversation with Booker Prize-winner Evaristo. ![]() Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes and Elliot Page ( pictured) are among those headlining the 2023 Southbank Summer Literature Season along with Yomi Adegoke and Bernardine Evaristo, discussing “ground-breaking” new novels, non-fiction titles and poetry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Willow is financially desperate, and it leads her to some questionable decisions. If you are looking for a very spicy why choose romance with enigmatic and intriguing characters, then… this book is for you. Twisted Game is a full-length new adult romance with dark themes, damaged anti-heroes, and high heat. I’m a loose thread to them-but somehow, I’m becoming more than that too.Īnd no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon… These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. ![]() They don’t… but they don’t forget about me, either. ![]() When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me too. ![]() On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s an example of a passage that, depending on the reader, will induce either delighted chuckles or serious eye-rolling:Įlsewhere the world may be blustering or sleeping, wars are fought, people live and die, some nations disintegrate, while others are born, soon to be swallowed up in turn––and in all this sound and fury, amidst eruptions and undertows, while the world goes its merry way, bursts into flames, tears itself apart and is reborn: human life continues to throb. Certain readers will find this premise delightful, while for others it will prove insufferable (a lukewarm reaction is least likely). ![]() Despite their superficial differences, both protagonists are obsessed with philosophy and art, and experience intense alienation from a world they feel will never accept them.īarbery provides first-person narration for both characters, and we quickly learn that these women are existential worry-warts who’d rather muse about death and insoluble philosophical problems than leave the house and do something useful. The story follows two women living in close proximity: Renée, the middle-aged concierge of a French apartment building, and Paloma, the precocious and suicidal daughter of two well-off tenants. I truly enjoyed Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog, but wouldn’t recommend it to just anyone. Very few philosophical novels hold universal appeal, and this one doesn’t break the mold. ![]() ![]() ![]() The original bedrooms are a little larger and generally quieter, with a more traditional Victorian feel - French polished furniture, brass chandeliers, gilt mirrors, damask throws, silk drapes and rich colours (olive, cobalt, aquamarine, mauve). If you love the gee gees, choose a room with a view of the stables some have terraces and balconies overlooking the courtyard, clocktower and a weather vane which used to belong to Ascot racecourse. We particularly liked the buttoned brown leather headboards, which gave an old-saddle look. Deluxe kingsize beds (usually 2 singles zipped together) are dressed with crisp white linen, plush velvet throws and piles of matching cushions. The décor is Country Life with attitude - upholstered chairs, fringed and tasselled drapes, the odd antique desk or wardrobe, lots of horse-and-hound prints. The newer rooms are arranged on 2 levels, linked by long corridors, and though these make the place look a wee bit corporate, the rooms come in a variety of shapes, sizes and bold colour schemes (a warm hunting-jacket red, pea green, gold, taupe and black). ![]() Named after favourite estate horses (Ryan, Frosty, Sweeny, Pluto), the hotel’s rooms are split between a 2-storey wing, and a restored Victorian Lodge - a handsome Gothic cut-stone building clad in Virginia creeper, just inside the castle gates. ![]() |