![]() ![]() Emma finds herself in the midst of a personal crisis: Her birth mother, Becky, is back but she's not all there. Read moreĬross my Heart, Hope to Die is the penultimate chapter in the Lying Game series. I love this series and I'm sad that the next book is the last one, but I'm sure everything will wrap up and I'll find out everything by then. I'm giving this book 5 stars because I love the way it was written, and not only is Emma's character interesting, but so are Sutton's flashbacks she has when something triggers a part of her memory. ![]() I get so into the story that I flip through the pages, forgetting the world behind me. I love the way this series is written because even though there is 336 pages, it feels like there's about 100. Yet again Emma has crossed of another name on her list of people who she think killed Sutton, but when someone special comes back to town suspicions start to rise again.Taking right off from the 4th book, Cross My Heart, Hope to Die grabs your attention from the very beginning. Only a few people know that Emma is not Sutton Mercer, her sister, but if the murderer finds out that she told someone bad things could happen to them. Yet, there's one problem, her sister is dead. A couple months ago, Emma Paxton was forced to pretend to be her twin sister. ![]()
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"Author Sagan's prose is as disciplined as her characters are not.A Certain Smile was made into a film in 1958, directed by Jean Negulesco, and starring Joan Fontaineī : quite well done, but rather limited novella.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Interview with April Daniels (Author of DREADNOUGHT)". ![]() In 2018, the series was optioned for film to Wayne Brady's production company, Makin' It Up Productions. Ī third and final installment in the Nemesis series is currently in development. ![]() ĭaniels' second book, Sovereign, introduces a genderqueer superhero named Kinetiq, continues to explore the moral and mental health implications of Danny's fights with villains, and has her file for emancipation from her abusive family and find love. Nemesis series ĭaniels' first book, Dreadnought, introduces a girl named Danny Tozer who inherits the mantle of her world's foremost superhero -the eponymous Dreadnought-which gives her powers like flight and the feminine body she has wanted ever since she realized she was transgender, and thrusts her into confrontation with a trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) witch and other supervillains. Daniels is also a contributor to The Mary Sue. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in literature. She was homeless in San Francisco for a time, and currently lives in Portland, Oregon. April Daniels is an American author of the Nemesis superhero trilogy.ĭaniels lived in Ashland, Oregon until she was ten years old, where she was exposed to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, before her family moved to Los Angeles, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() A rival with a secret, a huntress without a past, and a kingdom’s fate hanging in the balance.Īyleth and her shade move like one, always hungry for the hunt. ![]() “Daughter of Shades” is the first novel in the “Venatrix Chronicles” series and was released in the year 2019. Mainly, however, she’s writing.Īfter having a short career in traditional publishing (under a different name), she decided she’d take the plunge into the indie publishing world and has been enjoying every moment of it. And in between all that, she reads a healthy diet of fantasy books. ![]() When she’s not writing she is running around trying to catch her little girl, cleaning glitter up, attempting to plan out healthy-ish meals, and wondering where she put her phone. Author Sylvia Mercedes makes her home in idyllic North Carolina countryside with her many children, handsome husband, and Gummy Bear the Toothless Wonder Cat. ![]() ![]() ![]() With both plot descriptions, it sounds like we've got a very interesting horror movie in the works. And IMDb has a different take, too: A paranormal expert discovers a house that is at the intersection of so-called "highways" transporting souls in the afterlife. ![]() As their erotic relationship develops the line between the worlds of the living and the dead become blurred and finally collapse in a stunning and astonishing climax. ![]() The plot is described as: Paranormal researcher Mary Florescu's investigations lead her to Simon McNeal, a college student who appears to be channelling messages from the dead. Thanks to our friends at for getting a larger version of the teaser poster that's currently being shown to buyers at the European Film Market. While there are numerous volumes and numerous stories contained within the Books of Blood, director John Harrison is adapting just one about a paranormal researcher and a college student. His collection of short stories, known as the Book of Blood, is currently being adapted into a feature film. He has written some incredible horror stories and provided plenty of inspiration for many horror movies throughout history. I might say Clive Barker is insane, but I'd rather call him a genius. There are a few very brutal and disgusting photos that only true horror fans should be interested in seeing. I'm warning you now - don't read ahead if you're the slightest bit squeamish. ![]() ![]() ![]() We began lighting beacon-fires across the aether, reaching out to my sword-brothers from the old Cimmerian blog and to DMR veterans like Howie Bentley and Jon Zaremba. Having a bunch of friends and peers guest-post on the DMR Books blog seemed a good way to celebrate a solid year as a fully-operational weird fiction journal and to usher in a new year of even more cool content. Here's my tip of the helm and mead-horn to all of the stalwart bloggers who made it possible.ĭave Ritzlin and I concocted the idea for it in late December. All good things must come to an end, and the whole phantasmagorical saraband finished with the posting of David J. ![]() Well, the New Year's Guest Bloggerama is officially over. That blogged with us during the DMR Guest Bloggerama. ![]() Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,Īnd hold their fanhoods cheap whiles any speaks ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Tomek disappears, Maria is determined to find him, but the only person who might be able to help is a young Ukrainian prisoner and the last person Maria trusts-even as she feels a growing connection to him that she can’t resist. He is now a “Silent Unseen,” a special-operations agent with an audacious plan to resist a new and even more dangerous enemy sweeping in from the East. To Maria’s shock, the local Resistance unit is commanded by her older brother, Tomek-who she thought was dead. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the Polish Resistance and Ukrainian nationalists. ![]() A mesmerizing historical novel of suspense and intrigue about a teenage girl who risks everything to save her missing brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'll pretty much read anything she writes. She understands what seems to escape some other writers - that there's a point at which that becomes unattractive. But the one thing I will say about this book that deserves highlighting: Delaney knows how to write strong, assertive, painfully attractive and even aggressive men who NEVER cross the line into the territory of the cartoonishly Aplha male (ugh, so many of those in romance today, its ridiculous) who, though sexy, probably needs to have a restraining order served on him. Since I've spent many long hours rhapsodizing about how Delaney writes romance, I won't do so again. ![]() I could go on and on, quoting the passages that made me smile, laugh and the ones that made me look over my shoulder to ensure no one saw what I was reading, but suffice it to say that I was incredibly pleased, but not at all surprised by how much I loved this book. Smiled, laughed, even got a little hot and bothered at points and then it was over, dammit. This is, in my opinion, Delaney Diamond's best. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is told in alternating voices by Delilah and Logan, and in a way the reader can sympathize with both of them. ![]() Add in drugs, issues of class around a day student going to an elite boarding school, and the fact that Delilah is half Indonesian with a crazy white boyfriend, and you have a lot going on to build the suspense. Of course Delilah doesn’t confide the truth to the pesky detective investigating the case of Brandon’s death, nor does she tell her best friend or her mom. ![]() Revealing the extent to which he was stalking her, Logan explains that he actually has a video of her causing the accident which killed Brandon, and Delilah realizes that she is being blackmailed into a relationship with a boy who is mentally ill and as controlling as her stepfather. Around this time, she realizes that Logan is too good to be true and tries to break up with him. Assuming that no one will believe that it was an accident, Delilah invents a story to explain that she was not there when he died. Then comes the accident, when she inadvertently kills Brandon, her nasty stepfather. It seems like they are made for each other. When she meets Logan, one of the most handsome and popular boys in her class, it’s like he’s a ray of sunshine. What did you like about the book? Delilah has to walk on tenterhooks at home because of her abusive stepfather. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 3 ![]() ![]() ![]() Wang is about to add another advantage to his life – a wife. Hope that, if his savings can accumulate, he can even increase his holdings and become relatively wealthy. Hope that, if there is a little spare, he can save money as a second security against poverty. Hope that, with good rain, he can work for his own food and avoid starvation. But his greatest advantage is that he has his own land. He wishes for little more in addition to his current life than a family with sons to continue his line after him. Secondly, Wang is very ambitious, though his ambitions remain modest at this stage in his life. He rises early, cares for his father, tends the land, works late and, under the watchful eye of his father, is extremely frugal and does not indulge any luxury. ![]() The first is his immensely strong work ethic, deeply instilled within him by the only way of life he has ever known. Fortunately, Wang has a few advantages to him. Though not poor for a peasant, real poverty and starvation is only one bad harvest away. ![]() Wang Lung is a young man living in a small village in rural China in the early 20th century with his elderly father. ![]() A book I could recommend to anyone, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, its author won the Nobel Prize just six years later, and it is now a safe favourite with me. I knew I would love The Good Earth when I first came across it. ![]() |