It’s a novella not to be missed by fans who crave action-packed stories with tantalizing romance like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Legend by Marie Lu.įracture Me was… okay. including killing everyone Adam has ever cared about.įracture Me sets the stage for Ignite Me, the explosive finale in Tahereh Mafi’s epic dystopian series. The Reestablishment can’t tolerate a rebellion, and they’ll do anything to crush the resistance. On the battlefield, it seems like the odds are in their favor-but taking down Warner, Adam’s newly discovered half brother, won’t be that easy. And just as Adam begins to wonder if this life is really for him, the alarms sound. He’s reeling from his breakup with Juliette, scared for his best friend’s life, and as concerned as ever for his brother James’s safety. Set during and soon after the final moments of Unravel Me, Fracture Me is told from Adam’s perspective.Īs Omega Point prepares to launch an all-out assault on The Reestablishment soldiers stationed in Sector 45, Adam’s focus couldn’t be further from the upcoming battle. In this electrifying sixty-page companion novella to the New York Timesbestselling Shatter Me series, discover the fate of the Omega Point rebels as they go up against The Reestablishment.
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"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But she can, perhaps, do the right thing. Kingdom of Needle and Bone audiobook (Unabridged) By Mira Grant. She will never be forgiven, not by herself, and not by anyone else. It may be the only way to atone for her part in everything that s happened. Isabella Gauley, whose niece was the first confirmed victim, the route forward is neither clear nor strictly ethical, but it may be the only way to save a world already in crisis. When its terrible side consequences for the survivors become clear, something must be done, or the dying will never stop. By the time the spots appear, it's too late: Morris's disease is loose on the world, and the bodies of the dead begin to pile high in the streets. If you dont like sleep, go with KINGDOM OF NEEDLE AND BONE (Mira Grant). Those old diseases can't have been so bad, people say, or we wouldn't be here to talk about them. If you like zombies, try my Newsflesh series (as Mira Grant), starting with. For with the reduction in danger comes the erosion of memory, as pandemics fade from memory into story into fairy tale. There are still monsters left to fight, but the old ones, the simple ones, trouble us no more. Vaccination and treatment are widely available, not held in reserve for the chosen few. Modern medicine has conquered or contained many of the diseases that used to carry children away before their time, reducing mortality and improving health. A book can be filled with action and still feel slow and boring. So all that being said, what’s the catch? For the most part there isn’t one as this isn’t so much a major issue as it just something getting in the way of a 5-star review and that’s the pacing.Īs I am a bit too fond of pointing out in reviews, action does not equal progression. He writes well written books with actual characters rather than walking talking sex dolls for the hero to win. As always Michael Scott Earle’s writing style is really fun, and he continues to spend time actually fleshing out the female characters in this series which is what sets him apart from other authors in the genre. Along the way there is plenty of action to keep you interested in what’s happening and for the most part this book was a pleasure to read. Once again Victor and his tribe of beautiful alien women are up against dinosaurs and the other survivors on their crazy world as in this book they make the trek to the new location for fort v2.0. It’s only been just over a year since the last one so it hasn’t really been that long, but compared to the fast paced releases that used to be the case when the author was able to publish on Amazon, that year has felt like forever. It’s really good to get another book in this series. The author’s research, which also included access to volumes of emails and other internal documents, revealed an extraordinarily difficult corporate culture for ordinary human beings to work in, one designed to forge (but not necessarily reward) people able to think like Bezos. In addition to speaking to Bezos several times over the years, including an interview for this book, Stone also spoke with employees across all levels of the company, from C-level officers and software developers to fulfillment center “associates,” including many who have moved on. Fair-minded, virtually up-to-the-minute history of the retail and technology behemoth and the prodigious brain behind it.īloomberg Businessweek journalist Stone has covered Amazon, “the company that was among the first to see the boundless promise of the Internet and that ended up forever changing the way we shop and read,” and its founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, among other technology stories, for 15 years, and his inside knowledge of a company ordinarily stingy with information is evident throughout the book. There is a scene where a group are out for dinner and they talk about gross food. There is hardly anything in the book about her heritage however and I thought the representation was underwhelming, to say the least. Ruby is half Caucasian and half Filipino (through her dad). I admit that was a little jarring after only ever hearing Teddy Hamilton do Aaron’s voice.ģ. Callie Dalton narrates this section in it’s entirety. After Aaron returns to the States, the book moves to the traditional Mariana Zapata style – first person from Ruby’s perspective. The protagonists don’t meet in person until well into the book. Callie Dalton narrates the emails and IMs from Ruby and Teddy Hamilton narrates the emails and IMs from Aaron.Ģ. Over time and once they become friends, the pair move to IMing each other. The first part of the book consists entirely of email. Aaron is a Staff Sergeant deployed in Iraq and Ruby Santos from Houston writes to him as part of a pen pal program for soldiers serving overseas. It’s an epistolary novel set in 2008/2009 for the most part. Narrated by Callie Dalton & Teddy Hamiltonġ. This time, it’s Tahiri Veila on the front and Tenel Ka on the back. Because Conviction is part of a series that refused to allow each book to stand as an individual story, it’s simply not possible to separate out the review of Conviction as a book from its part in the series.įor the second time in the series, the front and back covers of the book both feature female characters. On the other hand, Conviction is seriously dragged down by the weakness and defects in the story design of the Fate of the Jedi series as a whole. On the one hand, standing purely on its own terms, Conviction has solid writing, good characterization, and some classic Allston hilarity. My overall reaction to Conviction is similar to what I felt about Vortex, and it echoes what others have said about this book, as well. Running from a painful past, and rumored to be involved in nefarious endeavors, Harry will never be a proper match for Desdemona. As brilliant as she is beautiful, Desdemona still hasn't learned how to stay out of trouble-which suits Harry just fine. But an unlikelier hero would be impossible to find: Harry Braxton is a rogue, a scoundrel, and a born opportunist-who has already broken Desdemona's heart once before. Desdemona could not have conjured a more dashing savior in her wildest fantasies. Then she sees the man in black, galloping through the Egyptian desert on a pure white steed. Kidnapped, drugged, and about to be sold to the highest bidder, Desdemona Carlisle is having a hell of a time maintaining her English pride. In Connie Brockway's mesmerizing tale of romance and adventure, a notorious treasure hunter realizes that the greatest jewel of all is the woman before his eyes. Still Katherine is appealing and Miss Lofts' ladies-in-waiting at the lending libraries will not be disappointed. Not nearly as successful, as The Lost Queen (1968) perhaps because extant material-scholarly and fictional-is so formidable and invites comparison. Amid royal confrontations and a fine death scene or two Miss Lofts stakes out the Royal Decline shrewdly, to cover all key Tudorana. Loving robust, handsome Henry, Katherine became a willing bride only later to cling miserably to her title as England's Queen during humiliations, banishment and heartbreak. But Arthur, Prince of Wales, soon dies and their unconsummated marriage becomes the cause celibate on which the rift between Henry (who had posted hastily to incestuous sheets) and the Church was based. While Katherine is Miss Lofts' latest nobly suffering lady victim to the wrath of kings, Katherine, like Guinevere, came to an Arthur fresh and hopeful. Now, in this story of Katherine of Aragon, Anne becomes not only a Supporting player but also a schemer and even mean to her mastiff. In The Concubine (1963) Anne Boleyn bent her frail neck to Henry's axe with topLoftian empathy. The dying Katherine in Norah Lofts's The King's Pleasure (1969) longs for the sight of Henry, young and eager, coming towards her under the green leaves at. Miss Lofts' output of historical novels is so hefty that one is really not too surprised, although perhaps grieved, that she is not constant in her affections or portrayals. It almost became a TV series, and, after decades out of print, reappeared in the late 1990s. Only recently did I discover that this book had developed quite a following, initially among women who had been teenagers in the 1950s, and then with YA readers. The owner (or somebody) claimed it later that day. I found that more interesting- I don't think I knew what one was before then- but I immediately recognized I'd found one of those books a kid wasn't supposed to read. A teenage girl was giving a boy a blow job. I turned to another page, much closer to the ending. I turned to one page: some teenage girls were discussing a TV broadcast of Peter Pan, which they planned to watch. We were beyond the 1973 publishing date, but not much beyond. I'm not certain exactly what summer I saw The Cheerleader, and I don't know who owned it. Up to the early years of this century, we always passed some summer time there. When my uncle who owned the land died in 1994, the place passed to my father, the last surviving brother. Their sister and her husband bought the property next door. My father and his brothers built a cottage on Lake Superior back in the 1950s. Prologue: Summertime, Peter Pan, and the First Blowjob The sense of impending tragedy is never far away from these lovers. And when Briseis, the concubine Agamemnon later steals from Achilles, gradually learns Greek from Patroclus, "her words were like new leather, still stiff and precise, not yet run together with use". Iphigenia, sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to appease the goddess Artemis, is described as having "a tripping name, the sound of goat hooves on rock, quick, lively, lovely". Miller's prose is more poetic than almost any translation of Homer. Achilles remains a godlike figure to Patroclus: "Then I turned to look at him. The story is told from the perspective of Patroclus who, exiled by his father to live in the court of Peleus, soon falls in love with his host's son, the superhuman Achilles: from childhood, his demi-god status means he is swifter, more beautiful and more skilled than all his peers.Īstonishingly to Patroclus's eyes, Achilles returns his love, and the two boys grow into adulthood and a love affair. Homer sets all this out in the opening line of The Iliad: "Sing, muse, of the wrath of Achilles." Even after death, his ghost still thirsts for blood, and Polyxena, a Trojan princess, has to be sacrificed at his tomb before the Greeks can sail home from Troy.īut in her novel, The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller has found the lover beneath the bloodshed and fury. His revenge on Hector was merciless: not only did he kill the bulwark of Troy, he dishonoured the corpse, dragging Hector's body around the city three times. |