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![]() Did I say Intense, make it a multiple times. ![]() I didn't even realise when I was done, I was so into them, just like they couldn't find a breather in their chemistry, I just couldn't stop. ![]() Drew me crazy.īook 1 & it was definitely a wild ride with Jameson and Tate. Happy 5 years to the Kanes!Ī maddening crazy ride with Jameson and Tate □□□ I love how the author always does something special for the bookversary. I would seriously sacrifice my children to the zombies for his story.Įven though I have every book in this series individually I still had to own this box set because this is my all-time favorite series which then meant I had to do a re-read in honour of this special edition. ![]() I know the author has tried to get Sanders to speak to her but to no avail. I would love to see Angier and Sanders get a story. The dialogue and banter is some of the best that I have ever read. The steam and chemistry between these two is off the charts. I think he acts the way he does half the time because he has figured out how to get Tatum to be open. ![]() Yet, like Tatum He gets better every time I read him. She gets better and better with each book. Jameson "Satan" Kane has been my number 1 book boyfriend since I met him. I have read it more times than I can count. There are not enough words to express how much I love this series. ![]() ![]() It’s a thriller designed to shock and awe, so of course there are some occasionally eye-roll-worthy moments. So, I approached Alex Finlay’s The Night Shift, which also mines ‘final girl’ territory, with a solid helping of trepidation. An excellent concept for sure, but the stilted writing and its flat-out absurd (and at times, problematic) conclusion left a really sour taste in my mouth. after the credits roll and the serial killer is unmasked and/or locked up and/or pushed out of a sixth story window and yet still survives and/or. ![]() the sole (female) survivor of a massacre in the style of Hellraiser’s Kirsty Cotton, Scream’s Sidney Prescott, I Know What You Did Last Summer’s Julie James, etc. The clunky, hokey horror-thriller promised a look at life for a ‘final girl’ - i.e. I can’t recall being as disappointed by a book as I was by Riley Sager’s debut, Final Girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot is full of action, betrayal, and romance. “This debut novel is quite compelling and features a plot that moves at breakneck speed. ![]() ![]() When one of the dead delivers a letter from her brother, she enlists the assistance of The. Those who enjoy Cassandra Clare’s the Infernal Devices series will be spellbound by Dennard’s macabre and impressive debut.” - Shelf Awareness Eleanor Fitt's brother has gone missing, and the dead are rising. “From the first page, readers will be awakened to an 1876 Philadelphia replete with animated corpses, irresistible romance, and a game of intrigue. “Mystery, romance, humor, action, a sure-fire setting: Dennard delivers.” - Kirkus Reviews Eleanor serves as a highly entertaining guide and readers will find themselves settling in among the undead just fine.” - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books “A wonderfully brisk pace sweeps readers into an intriguing mystery. A roaring-and addictive-gothic world.” - Publishers Weekly When you look on Facebook or Twitter or my website or ANYWHERE, it will say Something Strange and Deadly. No more working title of The Spirit-Hunters, when you take a gander at Goodreads, it will say Something Strange and Deadly. “Debut author Dennard deftly weaves together a vast plot blending historical fiction, horror, romance, and mystery. Yes, that is the OFFICIAL TITLE for book 1. Praise for SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY - New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard adds a never before in print e-novella and a gorgeous new cover to the first book in the Something Strange. “An emotionally honest, well-earned denouement brings this lively historical zombie trilogy to an honorable end.” - Kirkus Reviews ![]() ![]() Set imprisons Dr Kane in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie must run for their lives. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Set, the evil god of chaos. ' CARTER AND SADIE KANE'S dad is a brilliant Egyptologist with a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. 'I GUESS IT STARTED THE NIGHT OUR DAD BLEW UP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Can the Kanes destroy Apophis before he swallows the sun and plunges the earth into darkness. Because first they must search the world for the three sections of the Book of Ra, then they have to learn how to chant its spells. And in order to battle the forces of chaos, they must revive the sun god Ra - a feat no magician has ever achieved. If Carter and Sadie don't destroy him, the world will end in five days' time. But now a terrifying enemy - Apophis, the giant snake of chaos - is rising. ![]() As descendants of the magical House of Life, they command certain powers. ![]() Now the Gods of Egypt are waking in the modern world.Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed on the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister, Sadie, have been in big trouble. The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles) The Kane Chronicles: The Throne of Fireģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His cat has disappeared and after a few days, so does his wife without giving him any hint of her intention. Our hero has left his well paying job for no relevant reason, is happy being jobless and is a cog in a failing marriage. The story of ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle revolves around the protagonist-narrator, Toru Okada. And off we go on a strange journey with this 30- something man in this giant book split into three parts. The book opens with the protagonist cooking spaghetti for brunch, finding contentment in the repetitive tasks that go into making a meal when an unknown woman with lewd intentions calls him on the phone, disrupting his routine. If lazy mornings, slow pleasures of cooking and savouring your meal in a warm kitchen are your thing, then pick up this book. Yes, I prefer the surrealist in Murakami, not the realist in him. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is my second Murakami and I am swept off my feet by the read. Though considered a big favourite of many readers, I wasn’t impressed. My first Murakami was Norwegian Wood ( read review). ![]() ![]() In The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Murakami we follow a man’s ordinary life - spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and drinking beer at the kitchen table - which turns unapologetically interesting as he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided by various characters, each with a peculiar story. Phone calls from an unknown woman, visits from psychic ladies in dreams, a screeching bird aptly named The Wind-Up Bird and a dry well. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Holy cow! Woods! Wow! I thought I knew Woods, but I didn’t. The carefree girl who spoke her mind and didn’t care what the world thought of her was more breakable than he could ever imagine… My Review What he didn’t know was she was as fragile as they came. A night full of naughty fun had been exactly what was on his mind when he’d laid eyes on the hot little number that didn’t know how to pump gas and needed some help. He wasn’t in it for the work just the pleasure. Woods Kerrington had never been one to be attracted to fragile females. There was always a chance she’d go crazy sooner than they expected… No one would ever get close enough to find out. The dark secrets of her past weren’t something she ever intended to share with anyone. Life outside of her house was a new experience for Della Sloane. Related Posts: My review of Simple Perfection (#2, Perfection) Abbi Glines Series Reading Orders 2013 Favorites.Possibly my favorite Abbi Glines book to date! The chemistry between Woods and Della is scorching and the story is real and emotional. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the legal arena throughout the world the proposition was earlier that justice delayed is justice denied but with the lapse of time attitude of people has been changed and now any delay in the disposition of justice is regarded as injustice to persons seeking justice before the court of law. The researchers found that even if all the courts ranging from the court of the magistrates to the Supreme Court stop accepting any new case from today then also it will require another 50 years to clear up the backlogs. The situation is not different in the district courts of various jurisdictions where number of pending cases is around two millions. ![]() In Bangladesh in the Supreme Court alone more than half a million cases of different nature have remained pending for years. ![]() Court congestion resulting from delay in disposal of cases is a serious problem for the countries like Bangladesh as well as other countries of the world. Where it should take one to two years for the disposal of a civil suit, a case is dragged for 10 to 15 years, or even more. Praying for justice, the parties become part of a long, protracted and torturing process, not knowing when it will end. Delay in our judiciary has reached a point where it has become a factor of injustice, a violator of human rights. ![]() ![]() ![]() They long to see their Mer friends Faro and Elvira, and swim with the dolphins once more.īut a crisis is brewing far below the ocean’s surface, where the wisest of the Mer guards the Tide Knot. Sapphire and Conor can’t forget their adventures in Ingo, the mysterious world beneath the sea. ![]() The wind hits me like slaps from huge invisible hands. Diving down into Ingo, she discovers a world she never knew existed, where she must let go of all her Air thoughts and embrace the sea… Then, the following summer, Sapphy meets Faro, an enigmatic and intriguing Mer boy. ![]() When he is lost at sea she can’t help but think of that old myth: she’s convinced he’s still alive. Sapphire’s father told her that story when she was little. He swam down into the sea to be with her, and was never seen again… Once there was a man who fell in love with a mermaid. ![]() ![]() ![]() When US magazines first took notice of her blackly comic prose, the rumour in the German capital’s literary circles was that “Nell Zink” had to be a JT Leroy-style hoax, or a pseudonym for an already established author such as Jonathan Franzen, the US novelist who championed her. If Tom the shaman is right and all these people were merely hanging around on the surface of her waking mind, waiting to be harvested into short sharp novels, it would explain the speed of Zink’s rise to fame: Doxology is the fifth book in five years from the 55-year-old writer who until 2014 was living in complete obscurity in a small town outside Berlin. In her latest, Doxology, the party gets even louder: the novel’s main protagonists are a post-punk three-piece propelled by an unlikely Top 10 hit into a world of music videos, free drugs and signature dance moves. Her follow-ups, Mislaid, Nicotine and Private Novelist, filled the room with all varieties of modern misfits: feminist squatters, smokers’ rights activists, white lesbian mothers who self-identify as black, Israeli spies, mythical seal-women. ![]() ![]() Her debut novel, The Wallcreeper, moved from birdwatching to anal sex within the opening seven pages. A wild party in your mind, crammed with colourful characters and no taboos: as an introduction, that’s also a good description of Nell Zink’s fiction. ![]() |