![]() ![]() ![]() Because there are so many different stories in this one collection, it’s easy to get sucked into the stories and keep reading to find out what happens (or at least how they saw it happen). The novellas are broken up into chapters and aren’t long themselves (maybe 80 pages tops). I loved getting back into the world of The Selection and getting inside the heads of some of my favorite characters. He’s an enabler of my book obsession and I love him for it!) It was everything I hoped it would be. ![]() (Well, actually my husband bought it for me. I have been meaning to read this companion collection forever but finally bought it at a local bookstore a few weeks ago. Check out my reviews of the other books including a series review of the first 3 books, The Heir and The Crown. I may have read my favorite scenes in the other books after finishing this collection. If you’ve been here long, you know that I absolutely love The Selection I might even call it my favorite YA series and definitely my guilty pleasure series. Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass is a novella collection set in the world of The Selection Series. ![]() I’m excited to share my review of a collection that I have been hoping to read for a while. Loving the great weather we’re having lately. Hi everyone! Hope it’s spring at your house like it suddenly is here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() There’s shock and denial, anger and bargaining… she’s doesn’t describe them in such a way, but there it is. However, when Kate Bowler is smitten with cancer at the age of thirty-five, she finds herself confronted with the opposing logic: if you do not get what you want, there is something wrong with you and/or your faith.īowler takes us on a walk with her through, essentially, the stages of grief. ![]() In short: if you want it, you can have it, if your devotion to God is sufficient. This book follows quite naturally, though obviously unanticipatedly, on her book Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, which describes the history of televangelism and the teachings of prosperity. In her new book Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved (Random House, 2018), divinity professor Kate Bowler writes openly about her own confrontation with death. If you’ve been on the receiving end of this statement (and who among us has not been?) you’re aware that it can feel, in turn, as a much-needed call for perspective and as a hollow and impotent dismissal. It is a loaded phrase, both generically vague and universally meaningful: Everything happens for a reason. Everything Happens for a Reason by Kate Bowler (Random House, 2018) ![]() ![]() ![]() These two become unlikely friends for a while. ![]() And all the kids are from a different class, most are white. And he's trying to balance his old life, his old friends, his old neighborhood, with the new. If memory serves me, he's new to the community, new to the school. Walker's troubles seem to be with finding his place in a new school. "They stopped seeing my little sister, Kippy, and me, and they definitely stopped hearing what we said. No wonder Kirsten and her sister, Kippy, like to take refuge in the basement and watch tv and play with their pet rabbit. It seems Kirsten's mom is bent on making sure no one in the house has any peace or self-esteem. (Who wouldn't want to self-comfort with food after listening to her mother nag and nag and nag and nag and nag?) In addition to Kirsten's weight issues, Kirsten's parents seem to be having troubles of their own. Whether she's just a bit pudgy or actually bordering on overweight, her mother is on her case day and night 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. ![]() ![]() Kirsten is going through some personal drama. If A Tree Falls At Lunch Period has two narrators: a young girl, Kirsten McKenna, and a young boy, Walker Jones. Opening line: This is lame but I'm actually looking forward to school this year, because every day this summer was like crap: dog crap, cat crap-I even had a few elephant crap days. ![]() ![]() Only recently has fact begun to disentangle itself from fiction concerning these remarkable animals, and Schutt delves into the myths and misconceptions surrounding them. Schutt takes us from rural Trinidad to the jungles of Brazil to learn about some of the most reviled, misunderstood, and marvelously evolved animals on our planet: vampire bats. ![]() Using a sharp eye and mordant wit, Schutt makes a remarkably persuasive case that vampire bats, leeches, ticks, bed bugs, and other vampires are as deserving of our curiosity as warmer and fuzzier species are¿and that many of them are even worthy of conservation. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature¿s strangest creatures¿the sanguivores. For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though planted in the middle of the desert, the manor’s halls are ice cold and prone to strange manifestations like blood dripping from the walls and grasping hands that reach up from the floorboards. And Thorne Manor has the worst case of the Evil Eye that Andi has ever seen. Obviously, I’ve got to go down the list and read them all! I’ve already posted reviews of The Wife in the Attic and John Eyre, so Within These Wicked Walls was up next.Īndromeda has spent her youth training as a debtera-an exorcist who constructs amulets to cleanse people and places of the Evil Eye. Last year I posted about the surprising number of Jane Eyre retellings that all came out in 2021. Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood reimagines Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel within an Ethiopia-inspired fantasy setting. Rochester had, not a wife, but a deadly curse. 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Soon Shannon is wondering just what it would take for John to want her the way she wants him. The man is grumpy and nearly impossible to work with, but his brand of masculinity appeals to her on a basic level. Shannon Murphy wasn’t really looking for love when she hired on at LNF, but finds herself hopelessly attracted to the sex-on-wheels former Marine, John Palmer. Before long, John finds himself wondering if he could ever be the kind of man Shannon needs. When Shannon Murphy is hired on as the new office manager, life suddenly gets a lot more interesting. ![]() Though not content with his new life, he is mostly adapting, just like the other vets at the Lost ‘N’ Found Investigative Service. John Palmer hasn’t felt like a real man since he was injured during combat in Iraq. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When 16-year-old Ali Bell's family dies in a car accident, she suddenly gains the ability to see the creatures that haunted her father: spirit-eating zombies. (My willpower in these matters is not strong.) I finished the book in a couple of hours and immediately zoomed out to pick up the two sequels: Through the Zombie Glass and The Queen of Zombie Hearts. until I saw a “specially priced” copy of Gena Showalter's Alice in Zombieland at my local Target, and that red-and-white 20% off sticker was enough to overcome my embargo. You were abysmal.) After years of buying-and regretting-these novels, I swore off them for good. (I'm looking at you, Frank Beddor's The Looking Glass Wars. I am a huge Alice in Wonderland nerd, but I've had some bad experiences with Alice-inspired rewrites. ![]() ![]() In 2019, their album "By The Way, I Forgive You" won best Americana album of the year. She met the Hanseroth twins, Tim and Phil, and they formed a band together that has stuck together. And she fulfilled her childhood dream of becoming a successful singer-songwriter. She felt like a misfit.īut things got better. She was bullied and was a bully in school. She had a lot of tough times growing up, periods of poverty, moving around a lot with her family. ![]() My guest, Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer and guitarist Brandi Carlile, has written a new memoir that gets off to a dramatic start with her near death from meningococcal meningitis at the age of 4. Her new memoir, Broken Horses, is about her early life and the family she's built. The six-time Grammy winner got her start as a kid, singing backup for an Elvis impersonator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fueled by Celtic folklore, the novel is packed with unusual minor characters, including an eccentric queen obsessed with a single color at a time. Jarred adds a second familial quest to his first in order to thwart the curse, and the lovers are soon involved in years of convoluted if fairly convincing adventures. While on a journey to discover more about his mysterious antecedents, Jarred, the book's handsome hero, meets the beauteous Lilith, who's cursed by "a malediction of the bloodline" that dooms one spouse of a pair to an early death while the other is "driven mad by some delusion of being followed." She cares for Jarred too much to wed and hurt him and their offspring. ![]() ![]() If Tolkien wrote romance, the result might be something like the first volume of Australian author Dart-Thornton's new fantasy trilogy (after the Bitterbynde trilogy, which began with The Ill-Made Mute). ![]() ![]() Readers meet new members of the Black Dagger world who find their lives entwined with the brother Rhage. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood: Prison Camp series. ![]() He finds Nyx and realizes that a little humanity has remained as he helps her but even he cannot protect her from the truth. The Jackal was wrongly accused and has spent so many years in the underground camp that he has forgotten what life was like on the outside. And the Black Dagger Brotherhood might be the only ones who can help her end the carnage. Her journey to the underground horror leads her to the Jackal and a very painful truth. Little does the young woman know that the truth is sometimes hard to face. Nyx finds a clue that will help her rescue her sister. ![]() The location of the horrible place was lost after the raids that practically destroyed the glymera. Nyx had always believed her sister Janelle had been wrongly accused and sent to the glymera's prison camp. Romance Paranormal | Romance Suspense | Fantasy Urban "She finds a way to free him and bring him home." The Jackal ![]() |