![]() ![]() He has spent the last twenty years in exile under various names after leaving England in disgrace, and extracts a deathbed promise from Kit that she will seek revenge on those who he claims ruined him. The tale begins in the Dutch East Indies as Kit is caring for her dying father, who has been mortally wounded in a duel. "An Honorable Thief" by Anne Gracie tells the story of Kathleen (Kit) Smith. In one of these novels - I won't say which to avoid spoiling the story - one character finds that she actually is the person who she thought she was impersonating. ![]() In both novels the rightful place of the characters concerned may be higher than they realise themselves. If you're on that page please ignore references to "Miss Jesmond's Heir."īoth "An Honourable Thief" and "Miss Jesmond's Heir" have a common theme, that of central and supporting characters whose true identity may be rather different than at first appears to be the case. The two books it contains have also been published separately, and this review also appears on the page for one of the stand-alone editions of "An Honourable Thief" by Anne Gracie. This review was written for Volume 12 in the Mills and Boon "Regency Lords and Ladies" series, each of which contains two historical romance novels. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Given the nature of the plot, the crux of the novel, of course, is the romantic element among Selah and her suitors. From the elegant naturalistic structure of Arbor Hall to the ruggedness of Asgard, Bright’s world is one to relish in. And it’s those contradictions in her character that really propel the story throughout Selah’s voyage.Īs she sailed to and fro each distant land, and Bright introduced another piece to the world she concocted, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the imagination imbued to some of these places, struck by a hearty dose of wanderlust. ![]() ![]() Yet, at the same time, she has an enduring need to chart her own course and live not according to duty, but to choice. While a rather pragmatic character, her naivety, strong sense of duty, and desperation to return to Potomac compel her to do whatever it takes, even if it means her own unhappiness. The nature of the quest, coupled with her father’s deteriorating health, deposits a layer of urgency-an element that heavily influences Selah’s character. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an important distinction in the application of parenting. Tripp introduces this concept with defining the role of a parent not as an owner of their children, but as an ambassador to their children. See my full disclosure policy for more information. I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. (Make sure to read to the end.I'm giving away a copy, and you really want to win it!) Paul David Tripp does a fantastic job of summarizing this impossible task in his latest book: Parenting: 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family. Frequently we need to be reminded of the big picture why on earth we are even given charge over children. It's not that we just need a few tweaks here and there to our methodology. We still make mistakes, act selfishly, and vie for control. ![]() ![]() For the most part, we still are much like our children. We sure thought highly of ourselves though! We were just children ourselves. Raise your hand if you were perfectly patient and kind the day your child came into your life. Parenting is a job for which no one is ever truly ready. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the bitter truth that the two hadn’t spoken in two years, they were half-sisters. Yet Columbia grad student Lena-principled, headstrong, and allergic to the spotlight-knows that can’t be the case. When the body of reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her twenty-fifth birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. I found out she’d died from the New York Daily News. “I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. “A mystery that has everything I love most: an intriguing set up an absorbing storyline that kept me guessing a satisfying ending and, most of all, incredibly well-developed characters I kept thinking about long after I finished the book.” ―Jasmine Guillory, Today Show A CrimeReads Best Psychological Thriller of the Year.A South Florida Sun-Sentinel Best Mystery of the Year.A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year.A New York Post Best New Book of the Week.Lefty Award Winner for Best Mystery Novel.In this "crackling domestic suspense" filled with "wry humor and deft pacing" (Alyssa Cole), no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead-except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have any questions or want to know more, please shoot me a question. so, yeah, the pen name is a little bit of an honorific for my son, too we'll see, in time, if he thinks that was such a hot idea! I live in Toronto with my fiancee and our baby boy, Nick. It's a lean living sometimes, but it's by and large an enjoyable one. I cobble together a living with my pen, is what I'm trying to say-by hook or by crook. I've written for magazines and newspapers, too. One of them even got turned into a movie. Do you like horror books? Do you like Boy Scouts (not in a weird, Canteen-Boyish way, but in a nostalgic way)? Do you like seeing said Boy Scouts confront a vicious enemy on an isolated Island off the coast of Prince Edward Island? If you said yes to one or more of these questions, you may enjoy this book.Īs for me: I've written a few other books under another name (the one my parents gave me). Personally, I wanted to be known as Lemondrop Pennyfeather, but that suggested nom de plume was cruelly stricken down.Īaaanywhoo, I've written this book, The Troop. Not that I'm putting myself in their league, no way no how, but I'm just saying that was the idea behind the name. Horror writers should have crisp, punchy names. A cool, tough pen name! Your mileage will vary on whether you agree, but that was the thinking. ![]() I've been asked to set this up by The Powers That Be, and I'm more than happy to, although I can't really say much about myself seeing as Nick Cutter doesn't exactly exist-he's a pen name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance-and the one person she loves more than anything. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. ![]() Now she’s returned-to her old life, her family, her boyfriend-before she’s banished back to the underworld. ![]() Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Genres: Paranormal, Paranormal Romance, Retelling, Romance Published by Balzer + Bray on January 24, 2012 ![]() ![]() ![]() 'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery thirdly, the life of comparative freedom fourthly, the life of conflict and battle and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written byįrederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. 'It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery thirdly, the life of comparative freedom fourthly, the life of conflict and battle and, fifthly, the life of victory, if not complete, at least assured.'First published in 1892, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself is the final autobiography written byįrederick Douglass (1818-1895), a man who was born into sl. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book received rave notices when it first appeared. ![]() But this book finally gives me the opportunity I’ve wanted for years: to sample the full range of Moorcock’s storytelling craft in one compact volume, with some of his most famous stories - including his famous 1968 Nebula Award winning novella “Behold the Man,” the Elric tale “A Portrait in Ivory,” and the Jerry Cornelius story “The Visible Men.” Moorcock has an enormous back catalog of fantasy so vast I’ll never be able to read even a fraction of it. Tachyon Publications released The Best of Michael Moorcock, edited by John Davey and Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, back in 2009, and I finally bought a copy last month. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by musical dreams, Billy heads for Nashville. Promising at the outset that this is just the first of a series of adventures starring her beloved “god-dog,” Parton goes on to hit all the conventional thematic notes. ![]() In this picture book from singer Parton and co-author Perl, a small French bulldog goes to Nashville, joins a band, fends off bullies, and meets one of the queens of country music. ![]() ![]() ![]() And I almost forgot: it is one of the best produced and most unique reinvention of the vampire mythology. Not only is this book a big epic that spans decades and continents and waves of emotional upheaval, but it is a rather intimate story as well, one that creeps up on you with its ideas and themes, places you in the shoes of the characters and makes you think twice before you turn the light off to go to sleep at night. ![]() ![]() This is the kind of horror novel that makes other genre authors jealous with its perfection in both fields it excels at. But this is a different beast than I had expected, and that because it makes you feel all of its 767 pages. I did not look forward to this book, which is why I placed it toward the end of my reading list for the first half of 2017. I read Song of Kali a few years ago and it did not impress me all that much besides a few scares and a rather downbeat ending. The grand leap between two novels, as there is between Dan Simmon’s first novel Song of Kali and his second, Carrion Comfort, has never been as far and astounding as it is here, and completely changes how I feel about the author. ![]() |