![]() ![]() But there's an ocean between us, and I'm not sure it can be crossed with something as easy as a phone call or a plane ride. It's dirty and filthy and rich - as dirty and filthy and rich as he is - and it haunts me as much as he ever did.Įven after knowing what I know now, I still want to talk to him, to touch him. I've discovered Donovan Kincaid's secret. Especially when I know how much I’ll like it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've been down this road before, and I know all the dirty, filthy ways Donovan will try and wreck me.īut it’s hard to resist. He saved me, and then Weston finally noticed me, and I finally learned what it was to be in their world. I knew what I wanted - I knew who I wanted - until one night, their world tried to bite me back and Donovan saved me. I knew poor scholarship girls like me didn't stand a chance against guys like Weston King and Donovan Kincaid, but I was in love with his world, their world, of parties and sex and power. Truth be told, I was only trying to get his best friend to notice me. When I met Donovan Kincaid, I knew he was rich. Both books in the Dirty Duet included in one bundle.įrom New York Times best-selling author Laurelin Paige, discover a whole new world filled with sex, love, power, romance, and dirty, filthy rich men. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Steam-London is a city of sky-scrapers, the tops of the swaying buildings held in place by helium-filled balloon-like sky-anchors. Thus the city hisses with myriad "cognoggin" gadgets of every size and purpose, including self-propelled Refuse-Agitators and Night-Illuminators, steam-powered lifts and trolleys, mechanized Tome-Selectors and corset removers, Steam-Stream guns and finger-sized steam throwers, and clockwork hairclips and dragonfly pins. ![]() ![]() The story is set in a steampunk 1889 London, for Parliament has passed an act banning electricity and promoting steam power. And the girls quickly find themselves investigating a deadly scheme to bring the Egyptian goddess of death Sekhmet back to life. What a promising premise to Colleen Gleason's first "Stoker and Holmes" novel, The Clockwork Scarab (2013)! Irene Adler, AKA "the woman," the American opera singer who got the best of Sherlock Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia" and is now the keeper of British Museum antiquities, recruits Alvermina (Mina) Holmes, the great detective's niece, and Evaline Stoker, Bram Stoker's younger sister, to be secret agent/detectives discretely risking "life and limb for their queen, their countrymen, and the Empire," just as many young men but no other young women do. ![]() ![]() ![]() Definitely looking forward to her future works. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets. Such an interesting book for a debut novel, read in acknowledgments that this was a 7 year labour of love. With that said, two of the characters that had great character development much early on was Santiago and Eleanor. Nonetheless, I have underlying masochist tendencies and like to experience painful conversations and dialogues of entitled, privileged, pretentious people. Cleopatra and Frankenstein, the luminous debut novel from Coco Mellors. ![]() The two MCs are toxic to each other and to themselves, personalities most of the times where pretentious with a lot of woke undertones. Cleo and Frank run head-first into a romance that neither of them can quite. This book is a definition of NO PLOT JUST VIBES. Cleopatra and Frankenstein is an astounding and painfully relatable debut. Everyone has baggage and it’s like watching a train wreck of a movie that sucks you in even when the plot is non- existent. Cleo and Frank run head-first into a romance that neither of them can quite. The writing sucks you in and the pacing/chapters are written in a somewhat monthly timeline where it involves anyone’s POV Cleo, Frank, Quentin, Zoe, Santiago, Anders and Eleanor. Was tossing up between 1 star rating to 5 star rating, it kept moving all through out settled on a 3.5 star rating. ![]() I literally just finished the book a mere seconds ago and don’t know how to feel- it ended as swiftly as it started. ![]() ![]() Dennis is a subversion he lives, but saves the family from Slappy. Demonic Dummy: Slappy, who's alive and evil. ![]()
![]() ![]() The four friends were wandering through the maze of characters at Comic-Con while waiting to meet up with Tory’s aunt, forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan. Overall this was obviously another great virals book. I was really hoping for more of it since she found out about Ben's attraction in the last book, but ahh I guess Kathy just wanted me to be subject to torture! I mean this is me because now I have to wait until March.*Sigh* So I really wanted to see Tori and Ben take off and honestly there was only one moment that really showed Ben's attraction for Tory and let me tell you it was surprisingly pretty funny. It just gives me the greatest joy to hear Hi say remarks about the Jedi code or how the culprit would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for us meddling kids. ![]() Of course one of the greatest things within the book was being able to hear old reference jokes from Hiram who is in his natural environment, comic con which was not a surprise let me tell you. Not to mention that there are people everywhere and anyone could be a culprit. ![]() The four of them have to use the smallest clues and newly found evidence to discover where the culprit hid the terminator. This one is about the gang investigating the disappearance of the T-800(a terminator) at comic con! Yes, the real comic con for all you fellow geeks out there. Of course this one had to be good! It has been so long since I have heard the jokes of Hi or Sheldon and man have I missed it! I mean I started reading it and felt like ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It masterfully pulls at the heartstrings, but logical readers may notice some inconsistencies, particularly in the portrayals of Adam’s alternately attentive and distant parents. ![]() The novel is a love letter to this time and place and to the people of Manhattan. Callum’s death ultimately brings Ben and Adam together, but the story is not just about their connection it’s about the history of New York and the people who fought and coped, loved and lost, died and survived during the years when an HIV diagnosis was a death sentence. Adam fights to be a good boyfriend, to be responsible, and to keep Callum in his life until the end. Adam’s boyfriend, Callum, a smart, passionate musician with dreams of conducting, is HIV-positive, and his illness has progressed enough that it’s impacting his life. It’s also where he keeps seeing Adam, a 17-year-old who’s facing the horrors of the AIDS epidemic for the first time. It’s there that he meets Gil’s girlfriend, Rebecca, an up-and-coming magazine and fashion photographer who understands him and nurtures his gifts. In 1990 Manhattan the paths of two young men intertwine.Įighteen-year-old Ben, fashionable and repressed, is forced to live with his doctor brother, Gil, when his mother kicks him out after discovering that he’s gay. ![]() ![]() ![]() And slaveryĬlosed down upon the Balkan peoples - no legend here, but history - for 500 years. He and his soldiers died vainly on that consecrated but disastrous battlefield. Its oncoming enemy "all was holy and honorable" within him, but like the celebrants of false sacrifice, he had set death before life. For the king chose piety and immolation instead of the effective defense of Christian civilization against Not less but more tragic when man identifies himself with the false altar's hapless victim rather than with its cruel priest. The black lamb is the symbol, seen in a gypsy rite in Macedonia, of false - and thus of impious - sacrifice and the terrible complexity of the choice between good and evil becomes Of modern pacifism and points to its tragic results. He gray falcon is an enigmatic figure in a Slav folksong about a military defeat in the year 1389 and it offered the Serbian king a choice which expresses the sad dilemma OctoRebecca West's Brilliant Mosaic of Yugoslavian Travel By KATHERINE WOODS Rebecca West's Brilliant Mosaic of Yugoslavian Travel ![]() ![]() And when Arlette passes, she leaves a strange bequest. Years later, Betty is a young woman who takes care of the ailing Arlette in her final days, deferring the possibility of university somewhere more glamorous in order to live with Arlette and be by her side 24/7. She takes an immediate shine to Elizabeth, renames her Betty (a much snazzier name, to be sure), and takes her into her heart as a full-fledged granddaughter. Arlette, Elizabeth’s stepfather’s mother, is the grande dame of the crumbling old mansion, always immaculately dressed, with an air of sophistication and glamour that seems out of keeping with a woman who’s spent her entire life isolated on an island. ![]() When 11-year-old Elizabeth moves to the island of Guernsey with her mother and stepfather, she has no idea that she’s about to meet a woman who will change her life. ![]() Book Review: Before I Met You by Lisa Jewell ![]() ![]() The way she ends up meeting Luke, and the progression from there, has an overall steady course and the way it changes her is realistic and smoothly handled. Her feelings of being alone while her best friend thrives in high school come through strongly, in a way that isn’t simply for a lack of trying on her part. With a well thought out plot and overall good execution, this is definitely one that will make readers think while still throwing them into a fictional world.Ībby is mature and smart, but holds a fear of the change that comes with starting high school that any reader can understand. Though Abby seemed a little too conveniently naïve at times, the full scope and ease with which she finds herself in this situation is well understood and gripping to read. Gutting and intense, Want to go Private? delves unflinchingly into the world of online predators. ![]() If they don't, they'll never see Abby again. When Abby goes missing, everyone is left to put together the pieces. Then Luke asks her to meet him, and she does. It feels dangerous and yet good to chat with Luke-he is her secret, and she's his. The only thing she cares about anymore is talking to Luke, a guy she met online, who understands. ![]() Soon.Ībby is starting high school-it should be exciting, so why doesn't she care? Everyone tells her to "make an effort," but why can't she just be herself? Abby quickly feels like she's losing a grip on her once-happy life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harper Lee decided to publish it after she was rediscovered by her publishers. The book was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird, but it was never published. Go Set a Watchman, which was published in 2015, is set 20 years after the events of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s also worth noting that, while there is no sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a prequel. There are plenty of characters and plot threads that could be explored in further detail. That doesn’t mean, however, that there aren’t stories that could be told set in the world of To Kill a Mockingbird. ![]() Harper Lee, the author of the novel, has said on multiple occasions that she has no plans to write one. The question of whether there is a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird has been asked many times over the years. The story of Atticus Finch, a white lawyer in the deep south during the 1930s who defends a black man accused of a crime he didn’t commit, is one that has resonated with readers for generations. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most beloved novels of all time. ![]() |