![]() ![]() Trapped in the mortal state, Lestat must overcome the human frailties of despair and physical pain to thwart James's evil intentions and, with Talbot's help, regain his immortal self. But Lestat has given little thought to how James intends to use his body and its vampiric powers. In order to experience mortality for one day and two nights, he agrees to switch bodies with the scoundrel Raglan James, a former member of the secret order of scholarly occultists called the Talamasca, and a ``sinister being,'' according to David Talbot, the order's superior general and Lestat's longtime friend and advisor. Desiring to see the sun, to love without taking blood, to seek God as mortals do, Lestat enters blindly into an unholy bargain. In sensuous, fluid prose, she follows the tormented vampire Lestat as he struggles to integrate his bloodthirsty nature with his aspirations to achieve humanity. ![]() The fourth book of the Vampire Chronicles series, launched in 1976 with Interview with the Vampire (which Knopf is simultaneously reissuing in cloth), reconfirms Rice's power as a mesmerizing raconteur. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Overall, I enjoyed this smutty retelling. The only issue which I know another reviewer has brought up is that Jasmine’s insecurities got a little repetitive, a little more evolution would have made her more of a sound character. The story had enough plot for it not to sink into ultimate filth, and I really like Jafar and Jasmine together. Getting past the intense spice at the beginning, I really enjoyed this retelling. For 5 years he waited in the wings to overthrow the King, ever inching closer to power, but one thing set it all in motion – Jasmine. ![]() ![]() I really enjoyed the spin on the Disney villains, set in modern times Jafar is second in command to Balthazar the King of Carver city. I did have to take a second to adjust, but once I got past the first chapter then I was away. Just for clarification, a spicy book is where most of the plot is based around the romance scenes instead of a book with spice, which focuses on the plotline with the romance incorporated into it.Ī pre-warning for those who are not expecting spice right away, this book hits heavy straight away. Well, it’s been a while since I have read a spicy book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Xiang is convinced this map could lead to the fabled treasure. Rumor has it that the legendary Head of the Dragon had one last treasure-the plunder of a thousand ports-that for decades has only been a myth, a fool's journey. The revelation that Xiang's father sailed with the Dragon Fleet and tucked away this secret changes everything. ![]() Her single memento of him is a pendant she always wears, a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry.īut the pendant's true nature is revealed when a mysterious girl named Anh steals it, only to return it to Xiang in exchange for her help in decoding the tiny map scroll hidden inside. Her father is also only a story, dead at sea before Xiang was born. She desperately wants to prove her worth, especially to her mother, a shrewd businesswoman who never seems to have enough time for Xiang. Its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Head of the Dragon, is now only a story, like the ones Xiang has grown up with all her life. The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. ![]() Two intrepid queer girls of color embark on a legendary treasure hunt in this YA remix of Treasure Island, flipping the script on a notoriously Euro-centric sausage-fest of a classic.ġ826. In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While their homesteading adventure - being surrounded by nature, and living “off of the grid” and off of the land as much as possible - initially seems idyllic, this is no ordinary piece of land, with no ordinary bog. The plan is to build their dream home with their own hands in a clearing surrounded by pine forest, with a narrow path leading down to a bog. Happily married, yet both questioning their lives, they decide to shift gears, give up their teaching jobs, sell their suburban, Connecticut condo, and purchase forty-four acres of land in rural, Hartsboro, Vermont. ![]() The Invited opens with a gripping and viscerally-felt description of the fate, in 1924, of Hattie Breckenridge, an opening that grabs hold tightly, and immediately pulls the reader into this paranormal and horror-influenced tale.Ĭut to 2015, when we meet Helen and Nate Wetherell, a history teacher, and a science teacher, respectively, at a private, residential, middle school. ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew nothing at all about the author before I read this book, so I started from zero. He was epitome of an academic idealist, and he left those remains in the book. ![]() ![]() Dorfman was not a savvy insider or a member of the struggling class. It was hard to take him seriously after that but I tried. In "Heading South, Looking North" my first clue that Dorfman wasn't paying attention to anything outside his own head, was how he "hoped," against all reason and evidence to the contrary, that Allende would be saved at the last minute by some Deus ex machina. They are not brimming with any real insight. These books are good for dipping into a culture and then moving on. They are all three very civilized books that told me nothing I didn't already know, and many things that I did know quite well from a totally different perspective. In that list I would include this book, Rushdie's "The Jaguar Smile," and Teju Cole's "Every Day is for the Thief." All three books were tarnished with the brush of what I call class unconsciousness, by men who have settled into the armchair of the elite-whilst they try to write with sympathy and thinly veiled self aggrandizement, about a place, a time, a set of experiences, and a population that they may claim to know, but don't quite. I found myself putting this book on a new shelf in my mind (I should make a virtual one too) of highly respected authors that fall short with a particular book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not so for Achelous, a ULUP enforcer it's his job to protect the defenseless. ![]() ![]() Destroying whole cultures to satisfy the Nordark avarice is just the cost of doing business. Ruthless in its insatiable demand for a rare mineral, Nordarken Mining ignores federation law, the Universal Law of Unclaimed Planets (ULUP) that protects the isolated, primitive planet. Those plans rest on the forge in Wedgewood's foundry. Outnumbered, the citizens and mercenaries of Wedgewood stand shoulder to shoulder and send a rally call to their brethren.įor IDB Chief Inspector Achelous, if Wedgewood falls the plans to protect the planet from Nordarken Mining fall as well. In a staggering retreat, the defenders fight the first battle to save their planet from tyranny and galactic exploitation. Over the walls, Paleowright soldiers and their troglodyte allies climb and meet the human defenders, swords against teeth. The assault crashes against the walls of Wedgewood, an idyllic mountain town. The Foundry, first in the Dianis A World in Turmoil ChroniclesĪ storm of greed and a desire for global domination is rolling across the planet Dianis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's a look at some of the new additions (and a few subtractions) to the business district in recent years. The new entrants seem to be trying to attract a larger, more regional customer base, she said. There's also a new lunch place that specializes in made-to-order chicken wraps, a longtime new and used bookstore that swapped its overcrowded store for a larger location with giant windows and others investing in the area too.Ĭonnors's group represents the businesses on this busy strip and added that new enterprises - including bars - have largely gone away from focusing a very small group of customers living in the immediate vicinity. A niche quilt shop seems to be thriving along with a trendy coffee spot that sells handmade doughnuts. Other independent businesses that have followed include Open Outcry Brewing Co., which opened July 21 to both hungry and thirsty crowds. for setting a changed tone along the corridor. Caroline Connors, the executive director of the Morgan Park Beverly Hills Business Association, credited the brewpub that debuted in 2013 at 10426 S. It's not uncommon to have to wait for a table on weekends at Horse Thief Hollow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This article examines the relatively critically neglected novel, The Flight of the Falcon, as a narrative transformation of the classical myth of Icarus and the psychoanalytic theories that it inspired. Furthermore, the presentation of the novel’s Donati brothers reflects, with uncanny accuracy, components of Jungian symbology as well as the “Icarus complex”, first identified by psychologist, Henry A. Her incessant re-working of the myth of Icarus finds its climax in her later novel, The Flight of the Falcon (1965), in which Aldo Donati dons Daedalus-like wings, then, “like Icarus, fl too near the sun” before plummeting to his death. ![]() Bird-men, compelled fatefully to soar sun-ward, haunt Daphne Du Maurier’s novels and short stories. ![]() ![]() Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. ![]() Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. ![]() Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is very much about the intersections of disability, gender, trauma and D/s, and while it definitely has some angst, it’s also rather cozy and heartwarming, in the ways the central characters treat each other and work to mend their relationship. Nine of Swords, Reversed by Xan West (me!) (contemporary fantasy genderfluid/genderfluid romance novelette)** This contemporary fantasy romance novelette centers two Jewish fat disabled genderfluid mages sorting out the issues in their D/s relationship.Note: Hannah’s autism is Word of God established, in the interview I link below.(A) Untouchable is one of my most favorite books of Hibbert’s. Fell for her and felt for her, and loved watching their romance unfold. Untouchable by Talia Hibbert (contemporary m/f romance novel)** I fell so hard for the heroine of this single dad/nanny romance. ![]() |