![]() An Elegant Faade Audiobook, by Kristi Ann Hunter. ![]() THIS AUTHOR IS A KEEPER! KUDOS to Kristi Ann Hunter!!! HOWEVER, Warning, one MAJOR drawback is this Narrator!!! I rarely ever comment specifically on the narrator, however Anticipating my long journey, I downloaded the first two books in the series.while I LOVED □the STORY□, continuity and further development, I was terribly disappointed to find that Audio Books SWITCHED Narrators on us!!!!! □ This one is Charlotte Anne Dore and she was dreadful, she certainly was NO MATHCH.too flat and mechanical sounding! □ It was a CHORE and sheer determination to persevere listening. An Elegant Facade by Kristi Ann Hunter - Alibris Skip to main content Weekend Sale Save 10. Download and enjoy your favorite Kristi Ann Hunter audiobooks instantly today to your mobile phone. ![]() Both the plot and Character development was fun carrying on from the first book in the Hawthorne Series.yet nice that they would stand-alone if someone only has access to the second one. ![]() Another Great Story from Krist Ann Hunterįun, escapism.Loved the characters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually they take shelter with Ripley’s slightly eccentric aunt and proceed to clear up misunderstandings with remarkable clarity. Ripley catches Olympia in the act and since he can’t let a drunk bride stagger about the streets on her own, he goes with her. Minutes before the wedding, Olympia gets drunk on brandy, panics, and escapes in all her wedding finery out the window. Ashmont has two best friends: Ripley and Blackwood. ![]() The ridiculously named heroine, Olympia Hightower, is supposed to get married to The Duke of Ashmont. If it had had a kraken, a cat, and someone earnestly trying to explain a scientific concept with their shirt off, we would have achieved the Carrie Singularity and I would have been sucked into the pages never to return. It has an eccentric and acerbic old lady. How DARE this book be over? How DARE it be so incredibly perfect and constructed almost completely of Carrie Bait? It has a book collector. ![]() And do you know why? Because I purposely kept putting it down once I realized that eventually I would RUN OUT OF BOOK. I should have been able to read A Duke in Shining Armor in a day. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he returns after years on the front, he’s confronted by a sense of foreboding as his father has aligned himself with the Vultures, a religious cult that even he, a powerful blood mage himself, is wary of. Meanwhile, Serefin Meleski, the high prince of Tranavia, a powerful blood mage and general of the army is called back home suddenly after a botched attempt to capture Kalyazin’s only cleric, the only person who may be able to save his enemy. ![]() When a devastating attack takes away everything Nadya knows and loves, she must work with the enemy, a runaway blood mage named Malachiasz, in a dangerous plot to turn the tide of the war and infiltrate the heretical country of Tranavia. In the land of Kalyazin, cleric Nadezhda (Nadya) Lapteva is a rare being–able to commune with the Gods of her land directly and destined to save the country from an all consuming war. ![]() ![]() ![]() City of Night introduced readers to a world inhabited by marginalized characters who are dealing with confusion of identity, sexuality, and gender. ![]() What grabbed the attention of the general reading public in 1963 was the story of a gay, male prostitute - obviously modeled on Rechy himself - on a journey of self-discovery and acceptance in a society that was not ready to accept him. IN HIS FIRST NOVEL, City of Night, John Rechy achieved what most authors strive for their entire career. John Rechy and Charles Casillo will appear at Skylight Books on Sunday October 20 at 4:00 PM for a conversation and event to celebrate the anniversary. Charles Casillo, author of Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy visited him at his home in Los Angeles. ![]() in a splendid new edition with bonus material, including a letter endorsing the novel from James Baldwin and facsimile pages from the original galleys corrected in Rechy’s own hand. This year is the 50th anniversary of the publication of City of Night, which is being released this month by Grove Atlantic, Inc. ![]() ![]() We get updates on all the guys and we definitely get to see some characters get what's coming to them. Let's just say I would gladly have a man like that in my life, watching my back and every other part of me *Wink, Wink*.įrom a plot perspective, this one definitely picks up the pace compared to the last book, in my opinion. We also learn more about Dante, how he came to be in her life and how he really feels about her. This book was so freaking good and I feel like more and more pieces are coming together! We learn a lot about V in this book, especially her past with her dad and what he's done to her over the years. When her dad's business deal crosses her line, she's forced to act not only in her best interests but also of her many men. She's biding her time and trying to form a plan with her temporary ally, even though she knows they could double cross her at any moment. V is home with her dad, forced to follow his rules and do his bidding. ![]() Talking about the plot of this one is almost impossible since we are so deep in the story but I will do my best to be spoiler free. ![]() hitting the cliff hanger at the end of this one hurt though. ![]() I have no idea how the author came up with this story line but I'm so hooked at this point. ![]() ![]() The narrator’s deliberative mode of describing her life feels, by the end of the novel, like the only way this story could have been told. ![]() And yet, in tone and emotional register, Sashi’s storytelling is a perfect fit for the delicate balance she is forced to walk by virtue of living in a society where running afoul of the dominant forces, saying the wrong thing, leveling too impassioned a rebuke, can prove a capital offense. Occasionally a precious exclamation mark finds its way into an especially cataclysmic scene, or the narrator might feel the air rushing out of her lungs or her hand involuntarily covering her mouth at the news of a loved one’s death but otherwise the prose is almost unsatisfyingly steady. ![]() Ganeshananthan is a writer of remarkable restraint. Perhaps Ganeshananthan’s finest achievement in Brotherless Night is showing, with meticulous accuracy, what it feels like to inhabit a day-to-day life onto which someone else, from the privilege of great distance, can throw a word like 'terrorism,' and be done. ![]() ![]() 2 Nearly 20 years ago, writer Geoff Johns (Batman: Earth One, Shazam) took over The Flash and redefined a comic book icon for a new generation During his unforgettable five-year run on the series, Johns would enrich the world of Keystone City and humanize both Wally West and his enemies like no one. 1 978-1-4012-8299-8īatman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol. About The Flash by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. This second volume of the newly extended recut of The Flash by Geoff Johns Omnibus collects The Flash 192-225 and Wonder Woman 214 plus bonus content from The. ![]() ![]() I just saw a few posts from people saying that DC one million was bad.Are any of these in my DC list ones I should avoid? (when it says 'vol 2' that means I already have vol 1) Many thanks - I've enjoyed reading the posts.ĥ2 Omnibus (2022 edition) Grant Morrison 978-1-77951-543-8īatman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol. Hi, I've bought a lot of omnis lately and have a list of ones I'm thinking about but don't know anything about them. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Did I ever mention that, when I was in elementary school, the neighborhood kids, my siblings, and I used to play pirates on our back porch almost every day? Well, that major obsession came back vividly while I was reading this □) The world was so cool and unique, and I love how much of the plot took place on ships! The complex political and moral questions that the story explored left me glued to the pages, so that I somehow ended up more sleep-deprived on January 6th than on January 1st. I simply loved everything! The characters were amazing, and I have rarely come across character development done as well as it was done here. The series consumed me, heart and soul, and I see no faults with it whatsoever. The romantic subplots drove me to absolute frustration, and the ending wasn’t exactly overwhelming, either.īut The Liveship Traders? One word: Perfection. But, despite me loving it, I can’t deny that the Farseer Trilogy also has its flaws. I absolutely adore this series, beyond the bounds of normal adoration □ Of course, this may not come as a big surprise, seeing that I already love the Farseer Trilogy so much. ![]() That much amazingness just doesn’t strike all at once. ![]() If you had told me that I would ever start a new reading year with three five-star books in a row, I would have laughed and said you were crazy. ![]() “Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There's a spy in this group, though Otherland's operating system is becoming unstable the Nemesis program that hunts down software anomalies seems murderously out of control. Opposing them is the enigmatic "Circle", plus a handful of ordinary folk who've penetrated Otherland and are trapped there, floating from world to world on the digital river of the title. ![]() Otherland is the playground of the monstrously rich and unscrupulous Grail Brotherhood, who hope for on-line immortality and are abducting children's souls into their VR system. This episode features a deadly nature reserve of giant insects, a poisoned Oz, a madcap cartoon reality, London as in The War of the Worlds, 16th-century Venice, Xanadu, ancient Egypt, the Odyssey's Ithaca and the Drones Club. His "Otherland" quartet, opening with City of Golden Shadow (1996), is mid-21st-century SF set in an ultra-sophisticated software universe containing countless worlds. DAW BOOKS PRESENTS THE FINEST IN IMAGINATIVE FICTION BY TAD WILLIAMS TAILCHASER'S SONG THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS BOBBY DOLLAR THE DIRTY STREETS OF HEAVEN HAPPY. ![]() Tad Williams made his name in fantasy with the immense "Memory, Sorrow and Thorn" trilogy (1988-93). ![]() ![]() ![]() a top-notch narrative of the unlikely encounter between one of Germany's leading fighter aces, Franz Stigler, and the rookie crew of an American bomber in the frigid skies of Germany in December 1943 - upon engaging the already damaged American plane, Stigler had mercy on his enemies and escorted them to safety. As was noted of this widely acclaimed book in Publishers Weekly: "Military historian and aviation enthusiast Makos, along with WWII biographer Alexander. ![]() Makos is likewise the co-author of the bestselling nonfiction account, "A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II," which is just recently out in paperback. On this edition of ST, we speak by phone with Adam Makos: a longtime journalist and military historian who's also the editor of the military-themed magazine, Valor. ![]() |