The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. A game to win.Īfter being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. I don’t have the same edition of Caraval (I have it in paperback) so it’s missing from the image!Ī heart to protect. Rating: **** Waterstones editions of Legendary and Finale. I got Legendary as a gift last year but never got round to reading it (I’m terrible, I know) but as the release date for Finale drew closer, I knew I had to finish it!īe aware that there may be some spoilers for this book within my review but as it has been out for over a year, I might as well be the last human who has read it! I know there was a lot of hype around it, but I really felt immersed in that magical and dangerous world and thought the story was fantastic. Hello lovely humans! I don’t know about you, but I absolutely loved Caraval when it came out.
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This was great! First I do want to say that while I do not “know” Skye, she is a Goodreads friend of mine. When rebel attacks escalate and the king plans retaliation, Elsenna discovers that the fights for her love and her life are one and the same.Ī low heat sapphic science fiction romance novella with a guaranteed HEA.ĭetailed content warnings are available in the book's front matter and on the author's website.Ĭover Artist: Sarah Waites, Illustrated Page Book DesignĤ.25 Stars. Now Elsenna wakes up each day wondering what will happen first: her own execution, or that of the woman she could never stop loving. Her Highness has no idea Elsenna is leaking data to the revolutionaries bent on overthrowing the princess’s oppressive father. With uprisings in the streets, the nervous princess transfers Elsenna back into her service. It’s been two years since one ill-advised kiss in the garden pulled them apart. She should have known better than to fall in love with a princess. And the revolution is almost here.Įlsenna Hazen left spaceport security and ended up a royal bodyguard. Under Virginia law, that was enough for police to charge Culosi with running a gambling operation. Eventually Culosi and Baucum bet more than $2,000 in a single day. During the next several months, he talked Culosi into raising the stakes of what Culosi thought were just more fun wagers between friends to make watching sports more interesting. After overhearing the men wagering, Baucum befriended Culosi as a cover to begin investigating him. “None of us single, successful professionals ever thought that betting fifty bucks or so on the Virginia–Virginia Tech football game was a crime worthy of investigation.” Baucum apparently did. “To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,” a friend of Culosi’s told me shortly after his death. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game - but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. Excerpted from "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" Becoming Rhys’s lover would destroy both her career and her family, yet the investigation prevents her from avoiding him…and the Iron Duke’s ruthless pursuit makes him difficult to resist.īut when Mina uncovers the victim’s identity, she stumbles upon a conspiracy that threatens the lives of everyone in England. Horde blood runs through her veins, and despite the nanotech enhancing her body, she barely scratches out a living in London society. And when a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing Detective Inspector Mina Wentworth into his dangerous world, he intends to make her his next possession. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power - and fear - of his name. One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Romances of 2010, winner of All About Romance‘s Annual Reader Poll for Best Paranormal Romance, and a RT BookReviews Reviewers’ Choice Award Winner!Īfter the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. “With The Iron Duke, Meljean Brook has brilliantly defined the new genre of Steampunk Romance. Violet’s wits may protect her in the cutthroat court, but they can't change her fate. Violet faces her own choice: Seize an opportunity to gain control of her own destiny, no matter the cost, or give in to the ill-fated attraction that’s growing between her and Cyrus. Honesty is for suckers, like the oh-so- not charming Prince Cyrus, who plans to strip Violet of her official role once he’s crowned at the end of the summer-unless Violet does something about it.īut when the king asks her to falsely prophesy Cyrus's love story for an upcoming ball, Violet awakens a dreaded curse, one that will end in either damnation or salvation for the kingdom-all depending on the prince’s choice of future bride. Violet is a prophet and a liar, influencing the royal court with her cleverly phrased-and not always true-divinations. “Everything you want from an enemies-to-lovers fantasy starring morally gray characters.”- BuzzFeed A darkly enchanting fantasy about a lying witch, a cursed prince, and a sinister prophecy that ignites their doomed destinies-perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince. Now available in paperback, it offers insight into the worlds of art and education, and how they interact in particular settings. It charts the rise and demise of a particular academic art "scene," an occupational utopian community that recruited its members by promising them an ideal work setting. This classic ethnography, based on fieldwork and interviews carried out at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1980s, analyzes the day-to-day life of an organization devoted to work in the arts. As these artists lose the social marginality and independence associated with an earlier, more individual aesthetic production, much cultural mythology about work in the arts becomes obsolete. With the growing academization of art instruction, young artists are increasingly socialized in bureaucratic settings, and mature artists find themselves working as organizational employees in an academic setting. Universities have become important sources of patronage and professional artistic preparation. Some of Xander’s shortcomings certainly have their origins in typical pre-teen insecurities, but as he compares himself to his classmates, Xander comes out lacking – in almost every field. I love the story of an unlikely hero – and I can’t imagine a more unlikely hero than Xander (at least in the way he has presented himself to us). I was thoroughly entertained throughout this entire book. Maybe Xander should have listened to Mr Stedman about the weather after all. To win at this deadly serious game they will have to rely on their wits, courage, faith, and especially, each other. They are about to be thrust into the biggest adventure of their lives-a journey wilder than any Xander has ever imagined, full of weird monsters even worse than Lovey. Little does either boy know that the comic is a warning. Xander tosses it aside, but Peyton finds it more interesting. Xander's father briefly distracts him with a comic book about some samurai warrior that pops out of a peach pit. When spring break begins at last, Xander plans to spend it playing computer games with his best friend, Peyton. If Xander could do stuff he's good at instead, like draw comics and create computer programs, and if Lovey would stop harassing him for being half Asian, he might not be counting the minutes until the dismissal bell. Stedman, drone on about weather disasters happening around the globe. Xander Miyamoto would rather do almost anything than listen to his sixth grade teacher, Mr. The funny is considerable, the sadness and softer emotions are amply represented, and the brilliance is ubiquitous throughout. Seriously.how does one not love on Oscar Wilde when he's throwing down the snarky.in this case, and in proper British fashion, against cocky, adolescent-cultured Americans and their starched-lip, tradition-trapped English cousins?Ī bounty of clever from start to finish, Wilde's tale is charming, engaging and pitch-perfect.įor a story less than 30 pages long, Wilde accomplishes so much, using scalpel-like precision in both his language and his plotting to tell a story with a little bit of everything. It took until 2011 for carmakers in the US to start using crash test dummies based on the typical female body (although this does beg the question of whether there is such a thing as a “typical” female body, and whose body carmakers consider “typical”). One in three women in the world lack access to safe toilets. Women in the UK, Criado Perez notes, are 53% more stressed at work than men. The book offers endless nuggets to chew on. Seeing imbalance in percentage terms gives the process of understanding and combating it an important dimension. But it’s nevertheless useful and sobering to have it listed in this way, to have numbers to quantify our pain and misery. We already know that we’re paid less, that we do far more unpaid labour at home, that the queues for our loos are longer, that we are the disproportionate victims of domestic violence. These aren’t facts that will shock all women. We acclaimed Atticus in the process, though, we claimed him. The Atticus who, at some hazy point in American history, made the epic leap from “literary character” to “legend”-smoothed of edges, lightened of humanity, diffused into literature and life as a kind of universal father figure. “You never really understand a person,” Atticus once said, “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”īut that is the Atticus of To Kill a Mockingbird, the beloved novel and movie and meme. The man who taught many people-young people, in particular-that most fundamental of life lessons: that justice must find its basis, if it is to have any hope at all, in empathy. The man to whom many practicing lawyers have attributed their interest in legal work and who, over the years, has lent his name not only to children and pets, but also to production companies and vintage shops and clothing lines and nonprofits and bookstores and bars. Ever” and “ the greatest hero of American film,” the man whose wisdom concerns everything from “ manliness” to “ leadership” to “ life” itself. The man who has been dubbed one of the “ all-time coolest heroes in pop culture” and the “ Best. |