![]() ![]() ![]() So after devouring all four available books, I absolutely loved this series, and I'm going to try and keep spoilery information to a minimum as I tell you exactly why I loved it. Richelle Mead did such a good job with VA, crafting a well fleshed-out world with interesting stories and wonderful touches, like a unique take on a typical UF plot line, that I was confident enough to go into Bloodlines blindly. I knew which characters were moving into the next series, but that was about it-I didn't even know who the main pairing was going to be-and I was happy to be clueless. Having been spoiled, badly, for major VA plot points I was diligent about avoiding anything that might give me clues about the Bloodlines events. There was enough left up in the air, and I enjoyed the world so much that I moved right on to the Bloodlines series, a spin-off of VA featuring characters that we had already met. As I told you recently, I broke my Young Adult boycott by reading the entire Vampire Academy series in just a few weeks. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This book is definitely going on my list of favorites and would make a fantastic book for your next Book Club. The author does an excellent job of painting a fabulous picture of life in 1922 Russia, and his unique writing style is on point and a pleasure to read. Some of the scenes in the book are hilarious while others are quite heartwarming. He is a quirky, sarcastic, clever character you can't help but fall in love with him as he navigates life in the Metropol hotel. This sets the scene as Rostov makes the most of his new situation and carves out a life for himself. ![]() The protagonist, Count Alexander Rostov is a former Russian aristocrat sentenced to live out his life in the luxurious Metropol hotel rather than spend his life in prison or worse yet, death.Īccording to the author's website, this was quite common in Russia. The many nuances and details each character brought to the story helped to transport me to 1922 Russia and stay there for the 30 years the book spans. What pulled me into this story were the vividly drawn characters and their relationships with each other. ![]() ![]() I did start reading this book after reading a pretty heavy new adult college romance with the same trope of brother’s best friend, but aside from that, the two stories couldn’t be more different. This novella has more of a young adult feel to me, although I can’t quite pinpoint why. She has a crush on her brother’s best friend and that is where the book gets soooo good! I loved this! Brothers best friend is a top trope of mine and this was it to a T! So good! She is fun, a Christmas enthusiast and so sweet. The story was adorable and put me in the holiday spirit. ![]() This was soooo cute!! I haven’t read this author before and I don’t know why. The one with her nose stuck in a book and quoting every word of Elf, not the one getting attention from guys like Teddy.He’s cool and smart and so handsome I could die.The only thing that could make things worse is if I got snowed in with him.Alone. ![]() ![]() My brother’s best friend and my secret crush.I’m the shy sister. It was supposed to be a weekend of holiday cheer.Just me and my twin sister, watching Christmas movies and baking cookies.My brother was absolutely not supposed to show up with half the football team.Including Teddy. ![]() Snowed In with the Player (Holiday with the Players Book 1) By Rebecca Jenshak ![]() ![]() Harpy and Pheniox myths are not used often in stories. How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter? This book was about strength both phyiscal and emotional No sappy love or weak women in this story. The contrasted between confidence and doubt in both main charaters was a good mix. The byplay between Strider and Kaia was wonderful. Kaia really only wanted to be loved and wanted.to be recognized as a skilled fighter and forgiven for her past mistakes.she knew she had her sisters love, but she wanted her mothers and her peoples forgiveness.she made a huge mistake when she was had been centuries and people still wanted her to suffer.Harpies are cruel and vicious!!! But she sure showed them, and got the respect finally that she deserved! Good Story!! I like Strider and Kaia's story, he really didn't make it easy for her.but it all turned out the way it should. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? ![]() Max has been great this whole series so far! ![]() ![]() What does Max Bellmore bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? What other book might you compare The Darkest Surrender to and why? It was a good story, this is a great series! Where does The Darkest Surrender rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far? ![]() ![]() ![]() In the beginning it was ``only'' about the freedom to program, which a minority of people needed when computers were not widely available. ![]() The grouping of the essays shows how Stallman himself and the movement in general have been forced to evolve over time. For example, laws and legal briefs are Free as in Freedom. Lessig's introduction provides the right start by pointing out that if the Free Software movement is new, radical or revolutionary, it is because it brings to software the freedoms already present in the pre-software world. Second, having all the essays in one place, with cross-references, updates and notes from Stallman himself, helps readers see the big picture. Most of this material is available on-line, but there are a couple of reasons to buy the book: First, the profits go to the Free Software Foundation. The introduction is by Lawrence Lessig, Professor at Stanford Law School. Stallman between 19 ranges from historical milestones, including the GNU Manifesto, to transcripts of some recent speeches. This collection of 21 essays written by Richard M. Book Review: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now for the first time, this luscious human female has him longing for a mate and a family.īut Abby has to get her girls back to Earth, and Hrebec may have one last chance to save his race. The Cires lost their females to a plague many years ago. Read online free A Son For The Alien Warrior ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Until his ship intercepts an illegal Vedeckian trader, Captain Hrebec is resigned to spending his life alone. Download A Son For The Alien Warrior full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. She finds herself unexpectedly drawn to the captain who treats both her and her daughter with unwavering devotion. When they are rescued by a massive alien and his crew, desires she has long suppressed start to surface. Aliens Cookie Jar Alien Warrior 30 cm Cookie thieves mostly come out at night, mostly, so make sure your cookies are safe with this detailed ceramic cookie. But she certainly never expected to find herself and her girls abducted by aliens who intend to sell them as breeders. ![]() Mama and the Alien Warrior (Treasured by the Alien #1) by Honey Phillips, Bex McLynn – Free eBooks DownloadĬan a weary warrior and an abducted mother save each other?Ībby Wentworth never regretted abandoning her corporate career to adopt her orphaned niece and run a maternity home. ![]() ![]() ![]() This anthology is a treasure of brilliant, entertaining SF stories, and a tribute to Pohl#x19 s stature in the field. These are the seminal writers of the modern SF field, whose works are of dominant importance and influence. ![]() Having written more than two million words of fiction and edited the groundbreaking Star anthologies and Hugo Award#圎2 #xAC #x1C winning magazines and books, Pohl is an SF icon. Frederik Pohl, an eminent figure in science fiction, has been authorized by the SFWA to edit an anthology in three big volumes featuring substantial selections of the work of all the first fifteen Grand Masters. In a career dating back to 1939, Pohl has won all the awards science fiction has to offer: Hugos, Nebulas, the SFWA Grand Master Award. They all have enviable careers and they all respect and admire Frederik Pohl. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, and a poem by Neil Gaiman,Gatewaysis a science fiction event that will be a must-buy for science fiction readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting-edge from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny. An anthology of new, original award-caliber stories by bestselling SF authors inspired by SF great Frederik Pohl It isn#x19 t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that#x19 s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe, at last, the troubled past can be laid to rest while something new and wonderful rises from its ashes. But Willa has lately learned that an old classmate-socialite do-gooder Paxton Osgood-of the very prominent Osgood family, has restored the Blue Ridge Madam to her former glory, with plans to open a top-flight inn. No easy task in a town shaped by years of tradition and the well-marked boundaries of the haves and have-nots. And Willa herself has long strived to build a life beyond the brooding Jackson family shadow. The Blue Ridge Madam-built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s grandest home-has stood for years as a lonely monument to misfortune and scandal. Goodreads says, " It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite Logan's struggle to adjust to being in a relationship and John's inexperience, they're moving toward something good when John's faced with a choice. The sex is sizzling but it's the sense of fulfillment John feels when he yields control to Logan that he craves. It doesn't take much to persuade Logan to teach John how to be a sub, but the experiment in submission quickly turns into much more than John ever dreamed of. ![]() He can't stop thinking about what it would be like to be the one on his knees. John doesn't expect Logan-younger, pierced, tattooed-to be anything more than a monthly rent check, but he accidentally overhears Logan's steamy BDSM session with a casual partner and he's turned on like never before. ![]() It's not working out too well when Logan, a local professor looking to rent the apartment over John's garage, enters his life. Moving on after his wife leaves him, middle-aged John explores a side of himself he'd pushed aside since college, and dates men. Coming soon! August 8th! No cover yet, but here's the blurb: ![]() ![]() ![]() The long and short of it is that her Mom dies young, she's raised by her Mom's siblings (two aunts and two uncles) in the upper scale area of Philly. Okay it wasn't the book that I wanted, but it ended up being a really good read. In Tempest Rising, McKinney-Whetstone richly evokes the early 1960s in west Philadelphia in this story of loss and healing, redemption, and love. ![]() As Ramona struggles with Mae's abuse and her own hatred for the foster children, she also tries to keep at bay a powerful attraction she has for her boyfriend's father. Though Mae lavishes affection onto her foster children, she is abusive to her own child, Ramona, a twenty-something stunning beauty. The girls are wrenched from their mother and dumped into foster care in a working-class neighborhood in the home of Mae, a politically connected card shark. When their father disappears suddenly, he is presumed dead, sending their mother spiraling into an apparent breakdown. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. ![]() Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. Class, race, and sexuality converge in this page-turning story of desire, jealousy, and survival. ![]() |