![]() ![]() Who was helping Gwen, who was hindering her, who she'd end up with? Hell, would she even survive? The pace was perfect: gave me just enough detail to satisfy my need to create an image in my head while keeping me on the edge of my seat, needing to turn the page. Throughout the story, I was never sure what was coming next. Her motivations for her actions are unselfish as she struggles with a full on spiritual attack. Most books I don't like result from unlikeable heroes or heroines but Gwynneth is a girl after my own heart. Johal created realistic, likeable characters. Throughout, I rooted for the good guys and kept an eye out for the bad guys. Heart pounding, breath holding, fist clenching scenes made shivers run up and down my spine more than I care to remember. Johal grabs you by the fears and immerses you in her boiling cauldron of seething spiritual oppression. What I will say is I read this in one day, with several unwilling breaks. I won't summarize, that's what the rest of the post is for, and I don't want to spoil the read. ![]() This story gets in your head and every shadow becomes so much more than a shadow. ![]() Oh, and maybe don't finish it right before bed. Don't read this when you have anything pressing because you will not want to put this book down once you start it. ![]()
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Ellice has been keeping a cache of dark secrets, including a small-town past and a kid brother who’s spent time on the other side of the law. ![]() ![]() A debut perfect for fans of Attica Locke, Alyssa Cole, Harlan Coben, and Celeste Ng, with shades of How to Get Away with Murder and John Grisham’s The Firm.Įllice Littlejohn seemingly has it all: an Ivy League law degree, a well-paying job as a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta, great friends, and a “for fun” relationship with a rich, charming executive-her white boss, Michael.īut everything changes one cold January morning when Ellice goes to meet Michael… and finds him dead with a gunshot to his head.Īnd then she walks away like nothing has happened. Morris crafts a twisty mystery about a black lawyer who gets in over her head after the sudden death of her boss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then he meets Simon, a clumsy human who asks way too many questions and is-unfortunately-a total demon-magnet, and he starts breaking his own rules. Cursed with Wrath, he’s hot-tempered and spends his days fighting demons and trying not to kill his six brothers when they irritate him. Galen is charged with protecting humanity from dark forces. Now demons are after him and his only hope is to trust the tall, muscled, combat-boot-wearing thief who claims to be the son of a fallen angel. ![]() Galen, 1 | Simon just wants to run his antique shop in peace.īut then he finds a small mysterious box that’s (probably) haunted, and his shop is broken into by the hottest man he’s ever seen who then steals said creepy box. She has written contemporary, medieval fantasy, paranormal, and historical. All types of genres in the gay romance world interest her. Writing is her passion and she’s thankful for each day she’s able to live her dream. The men in her head never leave her alone, but she doesn’t want them to. Overview: When not writing, Jaclyn can be found binging anime and reading manga. ![]() Sons of the Fallen (#1-2) by Jaclyn Osborn / Narrated by Nick J. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the past McGregor has been criticized for favoring form and style over emotion. Its rapturous, otherworldly heights fit perfectly within the classical grandeur of the Manchester Opera House. The piece glides from upbeat calypso drums and collaged synthesizer motifs, through brooding bass and then desolate piano balladry. His trademarks as a producer remain obvious, though. In this instance, he’s joined forces with Jamie xx and Danish-Icelandic installation artist Olafur Eliasson on a piece that took over two years to complete-testament to its complex tapestry of dance, set, and soundtrack. The festival is a beacon for cross art-form collaboration, which comes naturally to McGregor-he’s previously worked with the likes of Jon Hopkins, the White Stripes, Thom Yorke, and Mark Ronson. This is Tree of Codes, a new contemporary ballet by Stockport-born, multi award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor commissioned as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival (MIF). These ‘stars’ are attached to the bodies of the black-clad dancers as if in orbit, their limbs intermingle as they swiftly morph in and out of formation in tandem with the emerging euphoria of the beat. ![]() Stark, rhythmic clapping herald pinpricks of light inside the pitch black stage, which cluster and refract like a constellation in time-lapse. The lights in the house don’t go down instead a gradual yellow glow saturates the audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the hundred ever want to call this dangerous planet home, they'll need to put aside their differences and fight to protect themselves and their world. Unless the rescue party arrives soon, the teen captives will face a fate more terrifying than anything they could imagine. Meanwhile, in captivity and scared for their lives, Glass falls under the spell of the cult's magnetic message, and Wells has to learn how to lead again. ![]() 1 She attended Brown University, studying English and History, and later earned a Master's at Oxford in 19th century literature. Bellamy has a different plan he won't let anything-or anyone-get in the way of saving the people he loves. Kass (born July 21, 1984), better known by the pen name Kass Morgan, is an American author and editor, best known as the author of The 100, a dystopian science fiction book series for young adult readers. It should be a time for celebration and togetherness, but a new threat appears before long: a fanatical cult determined to grow its ranks and "heal" the war-ravaged eliminating everyone else on it.Īfter scores of their friends are captured, Clarke sets off to retrieve them, certain that she can come to an understanding with these strangers. The teens, once branded juvenile delinquents, are now leaders among their people. It's been a month since the new dropships landed and the rest of the Colonists joined the hundred on the ground. Book four in the New York Times bestselling series The 100. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a sense, these people were the vanguard of a well-to-do and well-educated proletariat of the future, boxed up in these expensive apartments with their elegant furniture, and intelligent sensibilities, and no possibility of escape. Visiting his neighbors’ apartments, he would find himself physically repelled by the contours of an award-winning coffee pot, but the well-modulated color schemes, by the good taste and intelligence that, Midas-like, had transformed everything in these apartments into an ideal marriage of function and design. Royal detested this orthodoxy of the intelligent. In short, to that whole aesthetic sensibility which these well-educated, professional people had inherited from all the schools of industrial design, all the award-winning schemes of interior decoration institutionalized by the last quarter of the century. ![]() The building was a monument to good taste, to the well-designed kitchen, to sophisticated utencils and fabrics, to elegant and never ostentatious furnishings. The story describes the disintegration of a luxury high-rise building as its affluent residents gradually descend into violent chaos. Above all, he looked down on them for their good taste. High-Rise is a 1975 novel by British writer J. ![]() “Reluctantly, he knew that he despised his fellow residents for the way in which they fit so willingly into their appointed slots in the apartment buildings, for their overdeveloped sense of responsibility and lack of flamboyance. ![]() ![]() ![]() This trope is not merely an Action Girl who shows "female" emotions or likes girly-girl dresses there is no rule that a heroine cannot have feelings and express them and neither is there a rule against kicking ass in a skirt or partaking in girlish pastimes. The character who was once comfortable and competent has been Chickified. Her plotlines become increasingly centered around romance, dating, and fears that she isn't married yet. She exchanges her armor for outfits that show off her figure. ![]() Gradually, the Action Girl starts seeing significantly less action. So the writers, either on their own or because of Executive Meddling, soften her tough edge. And it doesn't seem to be playing well with the 18-35 male demographic. She rocks.īut she's probably the only female in the main cast, or at very least, the most openly tomboyish in the female cast. You have an Action Girl, who may also be One of the Boys. ![]() Master Roshi to Goku about Chi-Chi, Dragon Ball Z ![]() ![]() ![]() Away from his TV presenting David has also published a whole host of books on similar topics solidifying his position as one of the UK’s most respected voices on black British history.īorn in Nigeria he moved to the UK when he was just five years old. ![]() The show was hugely popular with audiences and he went on to release a number of others including A House Through Time, Black and British and the BAFTA award-winning Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners. David hosted his first documentary in 2014, The World’s War, focusing on the often-overlooked Indian, African and Asian troops who served in World War One. Previously named as one of the most influential black Britons, David was awarded an OBE in 2019 for his services to history and community integration. Also, an accomplished BAME speaker, he regularly draws on his own fascinating life experiences to demonstrate to audiences the systematic racism that is still very much prominent in society today. David has studied a number of hard-hitting topics including the Windrush scandal, slavery and the British Empire writing a number of books and hosting documentaries on the issues. ![]() David Olusoga is an award-winning author, historian and TV presenter who has made invaluable contributions to black history throughout his career. ![]() ![]() They either emphasize the pure objectivity of the world, or deny the world as an illusion or as something the mind or spirit can overcome. ![]() The fault in other philosophies as de Beauvoir sees it is that they try and deny this ambiguity by denying one of the two aspects of existence. ![]() He is a subject in a world of objects, but also “nothing more than an individual in the collectivity on which he depends.” In a word, his condition is ambiguous. He can both assert himself and be crushed by the weight of other things. A human is freed from being a pure object in the world through his consciousness, and yet can never escape the world fully. ![]() “The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning,” and so Simone de Beauvoir devotes the first chapter of Ethics of Ambiguity to describe the board, players, and rules of this game.ĭe Beauvoir first starts off by describing the human condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. 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