But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland-the infamous Queen of Hearts-she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.Ĭatherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. My content rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing, Some violence)
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È stato anche finalista per il premio Arthur C. Nexus ha vinto il premio come miglior romanzo al premio Prometheus del 2014 assegnati dalla Libertarian Futurist Society. Mentre svolge il suo lavoro, è coinvolto in intrighi governativi e di corporazioni. La trilogia segue il protagonista Kaden Lane, uno scienziato che lavora su un nano-farmaco sperimentale, il Nexus, che consente al cervello di essere programmato e collegato in rete, collegando le menti umane insieme.
I think this has been the most disappointing finale of a series that I’ve ever read, to be completely honest. I wish I could pretend that the entire ass last half of this book did not exist. Because maybe someone has been watching her all along. When Pip starts to find connections between her possible stalker and a local serial killer, Pip knows that there is only one choice: find the person threatening her town including herself-or be as good as dead. A USB stick with footage recording her and the same anonymous source always asking her: who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? It could be a harmless fan, but her gut is telling her danger is lurking. After solving two murder cases and garnering internet fame from her crime podcast, she's seen a lot.īut she's still blindsided when it starts to feel like someone is watching her. Pip's good girl days are long behind her. I didn't know if I should like her or be wary that she was just using him. It was also very confusing what sort of relationship Macky and Tate really had throughout the book, which was frustrating. She either has a really good theory of what's going on in the town and is angry over it or totally oblivious when proof is presented to her, it felt silly. Alot of the reactions were under or over exaggerated, especially for Tate. Alot of the language felt odd for teenagers to use. But that too much of the book was 'filler' that could have been used to give the characters more than their two dimensional feel. Overall I felt the background story, the characters, had a really good basis. I felt this story had a solid premise but as others have commented about, it dragged and was slow in several parts. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it" ( Buzzfeed). "Ward's writing throbs with life, grief, and love. Jesmyn Ward's historic second National Book Award-winner is "perfectly poised for the moment" ( The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. Description WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARĪ finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a "tour de force" ( O, The Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic. When her new husband joins her, they set about investigating the 18 year-old case with the help of Miss Marple, who just happens to be a friend of a friend. The plot concerns a young bride returning to England and buying a house that it later transpires that she had lived in briefly as a young girl, and recalls a repressed memory of seeing her stepmother being strangled, possibly by her father, but (conveniently) she doesn’t see the murderer’s face. It took about half a page before the entire plot re-established itself in my memory, but luckily this wasn’t the case with Sleeping Murder. I remember re-reading A Murder is Announced for the second time about ten years after the first. There’s always the risk that the plot details come screaming back to you. Invariably that means ones that I was less than enamoured by the first time round, but having read some of them when I was very young, tastes and opinions change. Well, writing my top five Marples and Poirots awoke my old fondness for Dame Agatha’s work, so after that one, I went on Abebooks and picked out a few other cheap ones that I couldn’t remember much about. I said I wasn’t going to review any Agatha Christie’s in full in an earlier post, and then almost immediately broke that resolution with The Hollow. On his return trip, Odysseus braves such terrors as the Cyclops, a one-eyed monster the Sirens, beautiful temptresses and Scylla and Charybdis, a deadly rock and whirlpool. The Odyssey recounts the subsequent return of the Greek hero Odysseus after the defeat of the Trojans. It tells of the exploits of such legendary figures as Achilles, Ajax, and Odysseus. The Iliad relates the tale of the Trojan War, about the war between Greece and Troy, brought about by the kidnapping of the beautiful Greek princess, Helen, by Paris. While historians argue over the man, his impact on literature, history, and philosophy is so significant as to be almost immeasurable. Homer is thought to have been an Ionian from the 9th or 8th century B.C. Nothing is known about Homer personally it is not even known for certain whether there is only one true author of these two works. Homer is the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two greatest Greek epic poems. But instead of finding safety at Amberwood Prep, Sydney discovers the drama is only just beginning. To avoid a civil war, Sydney is called upon to act as Jill's guardian and protector, posing as her roommate in the last place anyone would think to look for vampire royalty - a human boarding school in Palm Springs, California. Jill Dragomir - the sister of Moroi Queen Lissa Dragomir - is in mortal danger, and the Moroi must send her into hiding. When Sydney is torn from her bed in the middle of the night, at first she thinks she's still being punished for her complicated alliance with dhampir Rose Hathaway. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives. Sydney is an alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of human and vampires. Yet, June Mei and her friends from the group, Waverly, Rose, and Lena, for the most part were interested in achieving the American dream, often times at the expense of their mothers who worked hard to preserve their Chinese cultural existence. The other families who joined her- the Hsus, Jongs, and St Claires- became like family as together they celebrated festivals, children's birthdays, and indoctrinated the next generation in Chinese culture. Suyuan started this game and Joy Luck Club when she first immigrated to the United States as a way to maintain her Chinese culture in a new country. Now, years later, with many other books and various experiences under my belt, I reread The Joy Luck Club, Tan's first book, as part of my March Women's History Month lineup.įollowing her mother's death, June Mei Woo has replaced her mother Suyuan at her monthly mah jong game. During high school, when I did not have the life experience to fully appreciate her work, I read each of Amy Tan's books as they came out. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. "I LOVED this novel.If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." -Nick HornbyĪlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this "delightful" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for-who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer. |