![]() But it also turns out that Jacks is a witch, using magic to release the souls of roadkill back into nature, and Snap is desperate to find out if she can also channel magic. Gruff but nurturing, Jacks takes Snap under her wing, teaching Snap her work of using bones from roadkill to build and sell anatomically correct skeletal systems. And it’s true: The town’s “witch” is actually Crocs-wearing, white-haired, one-eyed Jacks. ![]() She eats roadkill and casts spells with the bones.” Snapdragon knows the rumors, but after the “roadkill witch” rescues Snap ’s beloved dog and agrees to foster abandoned possum babies, Snap starts to think all may not be as it seems. ![]() Lumberjanes comic books collaborator Leyh expertly blends fantasy and realism in her energetic debut solo middle-grade graphic novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I am a big fan of Kresley Cole’s Immortal After Dark Series but I was a bit weary of reading her historicals – I was concerned that her sizzling style and heavy sex scenes that tend to start right in the very first pages of her paranormals would not be fitting in a historical setting. Why did I read the book: I love Cole’s IAD series but wasn’t much inclined to read her historicals until I read: Kmont’s review and Rip my Bodice’s review. But Pascal vows that he’ll hunt the two, never stopping until he’s destroyed them both. Can there be love between them? From the moment Court discovers that Anna’s prim façade masks a fiery, brave lass, his heart’s ensnared, and he dares to defy the curse that has shadowed his life - to walk with death or walk alone. But nothing will stop her from returning to Pascal - for if she doesn’t wed him, she signs her brother’s death warrant, as well as her own. Her inexplicable attraction to the Highlander only fuels her fury. ![]() ![]() Can she deny her passions? Lady Annalía Tristán Llorente despises her towering, barbaric captor almost as much as she does Pascal. When Court turns on the evil general, Pascal orders him killed but Court narrowly escapes and exacts revenge by kidnapping Pascal’s exquisite Castilian fiancée. Summary: Can he exact revenge? High in the Pyrenees, a band of mercenaries led by Courtland MacCarrick wages war for General Reynaldo Pascal. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Gaston (Reprise)"' sees Gaston hatch a plan with the help of Le Fou to send Maurice to an insane asylum in order to force Belle to marry him in order to stop him. Gaston, however, is portrayed as somewhat unintelligent, or at least as a relatively poor chess player. Gaston's talent ranges from fighting, to spitting, to eating excessive quantities of eggs with no apparent negative health impacts, to interior decoration. The musical number shows Gaston and the village people singing about how great he is, in an effort to cheer him up after Belle's rejection. ![]() The song also appears in the 2017 live-action remake, where it is again performed by the characters of LeFou and Gaston, this time played by Josh Gad and Luke Evans, respectively. It is sung by Jesse Corti and Richard White in their voice roles of Le Fou and Gaston, respectively. A short reprise is performed later in the musical. " Gaston" (from the character of Gaston) is a song from the 1991 Disney animated film Beauty and the Beast. 1991 song by Jesse Corti and Richard White "Gaston" ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page. 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This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() This second position is not much better than the first – the Murray girls are selfish and thoughtless and the only thing that makes Agnes’s life bearable is her friendship with Mr Weston, the village curate.Īgnes Grey has an autobiographical feel because Anne Bronte herself had worked as a governess and was able to draw on her own personal experiences to show how servants were often treated with cruelty and contempt by their employers. ![]() When her short, unhappy time with the Bloomfields comes to an end, Agnes finds another situation with two older pupils, Rosalie and Matilda Murray. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately Tom, Mary Ann and Fanny Bloomfield are three of the most badly-behaved children imaginable. It’s the story of a young woman in 19th century England who goes out to work as a governess when her family fall on hard times. Although I didn’t think it was as good as The Tenant and it didn’t have the feel of a must-read classic like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights, there was still a lot to like about Agnes Grey. However, I was pleased to find that I enjoyed the book. I approached it with trepidation having read some quite negative reviews of it. After reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall earlier this year, I wanted to read Anne Bronte’s other book, Agnes Grey. ![]() ![]() Even the most disorganized of publishers would be able to differentiate between the two.Ĭharlotte’s notoriously poor management of her sisters’ literary estates after their deaths bordered on malicious. But how could this be, when the letter was specifically addressed to Ellis Bell, Emily’s pen name? Anne’s was Acton Bell. Some scholars speculate that this letter was actually meant for Anne Brontë, who also had a second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, in progress. I would not hurry its completion, for I think you are quite right not to let it go before the world until well satisfied with it, for much depends on your new work if it be an improvement on your first… I am much obliged by your kind note and shall have great pleasure in making arrangements for your second novel. ![]() The letter is a part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s collection of the family’s correspondence. A letter from Emily’s publisher Thomas Cautley Newby, dated February 15, 1848, shows as much. ![]() Emily Brontë, the author of the English literary classic Wuthering Heights, did die tragically young, and she did leave a second novel unfinished. This forlorn, Victorian scene is not entirely a work of fiction. ![]() ![]() A seeker is always more compelling than a know-it-all. Some turn to search engines to learn about the city, but the best New York books are by those who enter New York with awe and humility. Is a sewer line going to speak up about the immigrant experience? Probably not.īuilding a book with the words of New Yorkers is painstaking work. (If you’re into sewers, lose yourself in Kate Ascher’s The Works: Anatomy of a City.) They’re interesting but don’t convey the New York I love – a city of voice and interruption, full of those ready to chachareando the days away. ![]() Plenty of books have been written about New York’s systems. ![]() I’m still in conversation with them you never leave a New York project behind. When Covid-19 erupted I spent months speaking to nurses and survivors. My latest, New Yorkers, contains interviews with nearly 80 residents, including Black Lives Matter protesters and an Occupy Wall Street veteran, as well as 9/11 first responders. My favourite New York books are about people. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Death Masks is his most assured book yet, a smooth melding of inventive story lines, dark supernatural themes, edge-of-your-seat adventure, strong characterizations, and irreverent humor. ![]() This imaginative series continues to surprise and delight with its inventiveness and sympathetic hero.” “Butcher maintains a breakneck pace in Harry’s exciting fifth adventure. “Filled with sizzling magic and intrigue as well as important developments for Harry, the latest of his adventures will have fans rapidly turning the pages.” “A mix of the supernatural and bounding adventure. “Horror fans with a sense of humor will be pleased.” “Butcher’s latest maintains the momentum of previous Dresden outings and builds the suspense right up to a rousing conclusion.” “Jim Butcher’s Harry Dresden series has consistently been one of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.a great series-fast-paced, vividly realized and with a hero/narrator who’s excellent company.” ![]() It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.” ![]() “What’s not to like about this series?.I would, could, have, and will continue to recommend for as long as my breath holds out. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, real! The friends are transported to the Shadow World, where Julian – the lethally hot Shadow Prince, he of the ice-white hair and piecing, otherworldly blue eyes – has a challenge for them. Then they draw their worst nightmares onto scraps of paper and dot them around the house. The game is a paper house, which the friends build, and they have to colour in little figures who represent them as players. Sweet, kind Jenny and her group of friends decide to play an innocent-looking board game that Jenny bought in a strange shop downtown (a shop which seemed to disappear again when she looked back at it). There are no words for how deeply I fell in love with this book in my teens. THE HUNTER ( The Forbidden Game – Book #1) by L. ![]() So this week’s FF was a pretty easy choice – we’ve divvied up the choice and picked three books each. ![]() Emily Kitchin (fellow book lover and editor of many a Chapter 5 – our YA community – novel) and I recently discussed our teenage love of the Point Horror novels, they were pretty much the gateway books to adult horror and they were so bad that they were good. Welcome to a throwback, but not on a Thursday. ![]() ![]() That’s the moment the past catches up with her with terrifying consequences. ![]() But as the months pass, she gradually begins to forge tentative relationships and starts to believe that perhaps it is possible to continue living. At first she stays inside the remote cottage she’s rented, not engaging with the community, and reliving the horror she’s been through, unable to see a way through her grief. Jenna has left everything behind to make a new life for herself in Wales. Opening with a hit-and-run incident which leaves a five-year-old boy dead, this hard-hitting psychological thriller grabs you by the throat and keeps you pinned until the very last page. A sensational front-page trial becomes the centerpiece of the second half, and a menacing new character emerges.” Slowly she starts to cope with her grief and-inspired by the sand and waves-begins to explore the art she gave up with her past life, even beginning to consider a better future. But then the shocking twist comes, and the reader no longer knows what to believe. Jenna flees-her life, her trauma, and her grief-catching a bus to Wales where she starts a solitary life in a seaside village.There, she keeps to herself in a ramshackle cottage, working to heal and hesitantly befriending the neighborly townspeople. ![]() By the side of the road, a boy, dead from a hit-and-run. ![]() |