5/31/2023 0 Comments Read the risk by elle kennedyHe’s one of the best hockey players in the country, and he knows it. I’m a sucker for an arrogant hero, as long as his arrogance is either earned or used in a way that doesn’t feel icky. Jake is so different from how I thought he’d be. She is the kind of heroine I am always anxious to find and happy to love. She doesn’t take things lying down, is always ready to throw her two cents into the mix, but also knows when to leave well enough alone. From Brenna’s bravery when dealing with misogynistic gatekeepers, to her easy affection for Summer, and her relationships with all her hockey player friends, she’s one of those heroines whose story you can just sink into completely. There is so much to love about this story. Every time a scene starts, you just sort of wait with baited breath until they address the elephant sized ball of tension in the room. That the room sort of shifts axis a bit until they address each other. That when they are in the same room, they can just feel each other’s presence. Jake and Brenna have that thing that only romance has mastered.
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"Plotting how I could accidentally hit Trent with a tennis racket". "I accidentally on purpose kicked Bryce in the shin". "I thought about hitting him over the head with my lunch tray". Do you see now? I was going to give this 3 stars, but the casualness of physical violence throughout the entire book, is still bothering me enough upon finishing, that I have to drop it down to 2. If you think that is okay, try reversing the roles, so it is the male kicking the female in the shin. Kicking a guy, punching him in the arm, poking him in the ribs, threatening him with violence from your brothers - that is not okay. The one big thing nagging me about this book is that - it is teaching young girls and boys that it is okay to throw tantrums and threaten/use physical violence, in order to get your way or in reaction to something that displeases you. Supporting couple = better than the actual couple 5/31/2023 0 Comments The midnight lie seriesNirrim lives in a world controlled by what she can’t have or do. The Midnight Lie is a compelling book and will leave readers desperate to get their hands on the next book in the series. Intrigue and romance (LGBT) drive the plot and the world feels a little like being in a Hunger Games novel – the High Kith world is very reminiscent of the Capitol, while behind the Wall is a little like District 11. My thoughtsĪs a fan of Marie Rutkoski’s Winner’s Curse series, I was really looking forward to The Midnight Lie, which is based in the same world as the Winner’s series. She must place her trust in this sly stranger who asks, above all, not to be trusted. But to do that, Nirrim must surrender her old life. Sid tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself. Nirrim keeps her head down and a dangerous secret close to her chest.īut then she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possesses magic. You either follow the rules, or pay a tithe and suffer the consequences. People of her low status are forbidden from sampling sweets or wearing colors. Where Nirrim lives, crime abounds, a harsh tribunal rules, and society’s pleasures are reserved for the High Kith. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Night pleasures bookKyrian and Amanda are released, but are told that their captor, Desiderius, is giving them until night to come hunting them knowing that Kyrian will do anything to keep her safe even if it costs him his life. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T.” Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn’t usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together. “Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Amanda is assaulted when she walks in the door and wakes up in someone’s basement handcuffed to the most handsome man she’s ever seen, Kyrian. While Tabitha is out on one of her vampire hunts she calls Amanda to ask her to go to her house and let her dog out. They pulled out all the stops to show him how nuts they could be and he dumped her because of it. She was recently engaged to Cliff until she finally took him to meet her family. Amanda tries to stay away from all things paranormal and to just be an average Jane kind of girl. From her sister Selena that runs a psychic booth telling others their fortunes to her twin, Tabitha, who hunts and kills vampires with her boyfriend, her family has always been strange. Amanda is trying to be the “normal” person in a family of crazy. The tempestuous tale fast-forwards to the year 1990 when Ruth's soaring writing career is faring far better than her lackluster love life. His womanizing habits prove he's "as deceitful as a damaged condom," but he remains the only stable figure in Ruth's life. Ted Cole is a semisuccessful writer and illustrator of disturbingly creepy children's novels. The death of Ruth's older brothers (years before she was born) turns her mother, Marion, into a zombie who is unable to love her surviving daughter. We first meet Ruth Cole in the summer of 1958 when she walks in on her mother having sex with 16-year-old Eddie O'Hare, the assistant to Ruth's alcoholic father. The interaction between characters is both conversational and believable. Guidall portrays each character with a convincingly distinct voice, accurately impersonating the characters' intonations and verbal habits. The unabridged audiobook, narrated by George Guidall ( The Cat Who Sang for the Birds, The Inner Sanctum, The Legacy) draws the listener in with a crisp, methodical vocal presentation. John Irving's A Widow For One Year is the epic story of a family, dysfunctional at best, unable to cope with tragedy-or with each other. |