![]() ![]() That’s quite an undertaking for a first outing, but Carrasco quickly proves she has enough imagination to fill whole shelves. Club wrote, “Katrina Carrasco’s gripping debut novel, The Best Bad Things, is essentially three books in one: a sexy noir, social critique, and historical fiction. Because Alma was just that compelling.Īll in all, this was truly a remarkable novel. It eventually made sense, but I kinda wish the story had stuck to Alma’s narration. ![]() The only thing that bothered me was the interludes of an interrogation - at first, I was so confused at how it fit into the narrative structure. I enjoyed how quickly the pace moved, and how surprised I was by some of the plot twists. ![]() As the blurb summarizes, “One wrong move and she could be unmasked: as a woman, as a traitor, or as a spy.” How fun!!! Alma is a deeply compelling and original protagonist - I can’t think of anyone to compare her to. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, I-Park, Jentel, Willapa Bay AiR, and Mineral School, and received a 2017 Grants for Artist Projects award from Artist Trust. Centering on Alma Rosales, a former Pinkerton detective who works for smuggling ring leader Dephine Beaumond, The Best Bad Things takes you into the world of opium and smuggling and cross-dressing and so much more. Katrina Carrasco’s debut novel is set in the 1880s. Historical fiction! Violence! Queer characters! Lust! This book has it all! ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments On Dublin Street by Samantha Young![]() ![]() So Braden suggests an arrangement no strings sex without any complicated feelings getting in the way. ![]() But Jocelyn isn’t interested in forming relationships as she is too scared of losing somebody else. Braden is a strong, passionate man, wealthy and successful and used to getting what he wants. Jocelyn becomes close to Ellie, the other occupant of the flat, and even closer to Ellie’s brother. When Rhian moves away to London, Jocelyn is left without a flatmate so she begins searching for somewhere new to live, instantly falling in love with a luxurious flat on Dublin Street. Never getting over the tragic death of her parents, Jocelyn keeps everybody at arm’s length and she doesn’t even confide in her best friend, Rhian. Once she turned 18, Jocelyn made a fresh start, moving from Virginia, US to Scotland. Jocelyn had a traumatic childhood, growing up in foster care after the death of her parents. This post was originally published at and is now at. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The Virgin Proxy by Georgia Fox![]() ![]() I do want to see what will happen next in the Conquerors series as the ending did leave me intrigued in that aspect. I did feel as if there should have been more to the story as the ending leaves you with the feeling of hanging off cliff. Jisella knows that she has one true love out thereher Ever Knight. More Books by Georgia Fox A Bolt from the Blue. Guy Devaux is delighted with the amorous virgin waiting for him on his wedding night. ![]() GEORGIA FOX ISBN: 9781926950617 July 2011 Evernight Publishing EBook 3.99 48 Pages Medieval Ménage Romance Rating: 3 Cups. 4.0 23 Ratings 4.99 4.99 Publisher Description. Fox portrays Jisella as this female who may have been put under lock and key in the convent while she awaits her future, but she still finds some way to change her own destiny. Book 2: The Virgin Proxy Book 3: The Craftsman. The Ever Knight gives us sex, passion, and magic all rolled into one. What if she does not have one…but two Ever Knights? But once she meets Renard, a new idea takes place. Realizing, after he has claimed her virginity, that he is taking her back to her intended, Jisella is not quite sure what to think. Jisella has decided to claim Remy as hers as well as heal the wound that is killing him. When he meets the sensual woman promising him passion, all thoughts of pain go away. Remy is in a lot of pain due to the wound in his leg. When she spots a man through the convent window, she thinks she has found him. Jisella knows that she has one true love out there…her Ever Knight. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Katie kacvinsky![]() ![]() She starts thinking that maybe there’s more to life than computers, that maybe she should be doing something more. ![]() Not only does she feel a buzz when she’s around him, but she begins to feel something when they’re apart, too. People aren’t meant to be alone, Justin says. He likes to physically see people and their reactions. Justin likes meeting people out in the open. ![]() She gets out every once in a while to play soccer with a team, but other than that, she’s OK with her digital life. Even dating has gone digital with couples visiting the ocean or hiking a mountain, each from the comfort of their separate homes.įor Maddie, this style of living is normal. People spend their whole days “connected” to devices. There are no paper books and food is more about ease and nutrition rather than taste and enjoyment. There are mind readers so people don’t even have to talk, chat rooms for almost anything and Digital School so kids can learn from the safety of their own homes. ![]() Maddie lives in a world where everything is run by computers. What if you never had to have face-to-face contact with the people you interacted with? That’s the question posed in Katie Kacvinsky‘s book “Awaken.” “AWAKEN,” by Katie Kacvinsky, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, May 23, 2011, $16.99 (young adult) ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Little miss chatterbox![]() Although Hargreaves wrote many other children's stories, including the Timbuctoo series of twenty-five books, John Mouse, and the Roundy and Squary books, he is best known for his 46 Mr. It, too, was made into a television series in 1983, which was narrated by John Alderton, who, with Pauline Collins, voiced the Men and Misses, respectively. In 1981, the Little Miss series of books began to appear. He initially had difficulty finding a publisher but, once he did, the books became an instant success, selling over one million copies within three years and spawning a BBC animated television series, narrated and voiced by Arthur Lowe.īy 1976, Hargreaves had quit his day job. But his original ambition was to be a cartoonist and, in 1971, while he was working as the creative director at a London firm, he wrote the first Mr. He spent a year working in his father's laundry and dry-cleaning business before starting out in advertising. ![]() ![]() Hargreaves was born in a private hospital at 201 Bath Road, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England, to Alfred Reginald and Ethel Mary Hargreaves, and grew up in High Lees, 703 Halifax Road, also in Cleckheaton, outside of which there now is a commemorative plaque. He is Britain's third best-selling author, having sold more than 100 million books. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers. ![]() Charles Roger Hargreaves was an English author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Mr. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The Summer Bride by Anne Gracie![]() ![]() ‘Tall, dark, and as beautiful as an archangel.’Bella couldn’t move a muscle. ‘Can’t you guess?’Mystified, Bella shook her head.’An Englishman.’Bella froze. You have a visitor!”A visitor? Who?’ In eight years, Bella had never had a visitor. ![]() She was the youngest and prettiest of the nuns, merry and lively and dedicated to her vocation. ‘Isabella,’ Sister Josefina repeated as she entered the door. Life isn’t a fairy tale.”Isabella Ripton,’ said a voice from the doorway. I won’t stay here, waiting forever for someone to rescue me. What will you do? How will you support yourself? Who will protect you? It’s dangerous ”I will support myself, ‘ Bella said. ‘I’m leaving anyway.”I don’t believe you. ‘Nobody is coming for me, Paloma.’ Bella glanced at Sister Beatriz, who was still asleep, and said in a lowered voice. ![]() Here’s a short excerpt:’I’m leaving the convent.’ Bella’s announcement was followed by a stunned silence. Now those dreams have withered and Bella is taking charge of her life… She waited like a princess in a tower dreaming of her prince for eight years. He placed her in a convent school, and left. Lieutenant Ripton, tall, dark, and as beautiful as an archangel. At the age of thirteen, in the middle of a war, Isabella was saved from a forced marriage to a man she hated when handsome young English Lieutenant Luke Ripton married her. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The mister el james series![]() ![]() Reticent, beautiful, and musically gifted, she’s an alluring mystery, and Maxim’s longing for her deepens into a passion that he’s never experienced and dares not name. ![]() It’s a role he’s not prepared for and one that he struggles to face.īut his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic young woman who’s recently arrived in England, possessing little more than a dangerous and troublesome past. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family’s noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. T he thrilling new romance from E L James, author of the phenomenal #1 bestselling Fifty Shades trilogy. 10 Books to thank your favorite teacher. ![]() The Mister (The passionate new romance from E L James, author of the phenomenal #1 bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogy) – BookaliciousMY ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments I Heart Paris by Lindsey Kelk![]() I Heart Paris is the 3rd book in the I Heart series and should be read in order of publication. ![]() She's a freaking alcoholic! I don't know how many times Angela has a bit too much to drink, and naturally, regretted it the next day while nursing a massive hang over.Īm excited to read the next book! Angela and Alex are very much in love, and I look forward to reading more about them! while still being a klutz, making foolish decisions, etc. But then again, none of are perfect, so maybe this is a positive part of the book? That someone can still be pretty, sexy, loveable, etc. I have a hard time believing the characters when they describe her as being beautiful. If I saw my boyfriend heading out of a bar with his ex-girlfriend, I would certainly follow them out OR have a seriously discussion about it later. Introducing Alex's band mates to the reader more. The drama of ex girlfriends being drawn into the mix made for an interesting plot. They are obviously crazy over one another. ![]() The progression of Angela and Alex's romance. ![]() I got completely caught up in Angela describing how beautiful Paris is, and it has made me want to go there even more. Probably has something to do with the fact that I'd love to travel to Paris someday. This is my favorite book in the series so far! ![]() ![]() ![]() It was reprinted in 1989 under his given name. This novel was originally printed in 1981 under Dean Koontz’s nom de plume, Leigh Nichols. She goes on a quest to find out if her son has truly passed away. One day, she goes into his room to find a message written for her on his chalkboard, NOT DEAD. A year after his untimely demise, she starts dreaming of him. The Eyes of Darkness is about Tina Evans, a grieving mother who cannot get over the death of her son, Danny. When you think about it, it doesn’t seem farfetched but it may just be a coincidence. Why would a 39-year-old book suddenly be in the public eye again? Well, apparently some fans think that Koontz may have predicted the onset of the virulent virus strain. Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, the writer has become a topic of discussion on social media because of the plot of his 1981 effort, The Eyes of Darkness. What I liked the best about his stories was the way he interjected shadowy government organizations into his narratives. Was it a prediction or just a coincidence?ĭean Koontz was one of my favorite horror novelists when I was growing up. By Susan Leighton 3 years ago Dean Koontz, the popular horror novelist, may have warned us of the Coronavirus in The Eyes of Darkness in 1981. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Code Girls by Liza Mundy![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to breaking enemy codes, they also tested American codes, ran complicated office machines, built libraries of intelligence, and worked as translators. Almost 70 percent of the Army’s codebreaking force was female, and at least 80 percent of the Navy’s. During the war, writes former Washington Post reporter Mundy ( The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family, 2012, etc.), some 11,000 women served the war effort by working as codebreakers. That women have, during times of national crisis or fervor, bypassed that exclusion has not been so well-known. That women have long been excluded from professional and intellectual life is well-known. When Hidden Figures-both the book and the movie it inspired-reached popular audiences, many Americans were surprised to learn that women played an instrumental role at NASA in the 1960s. A previously untold history of the American women who served as codebreakers during World War II. ![]() |