![]() The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.Īs Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.īut Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. ![]() Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. ![]() With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. Goodreads Synopsis: Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny. Genre: YA Fiction/Fantasy/Romance, Fairy-Tale Retellingįormat: Hardcover, checked out from my local library ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, 1994.Reviews Ī review in the Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury praised King's books about the sinking of the Andrea Doria and the Lusitania as works of historical non-fiction which provide the reader with a "clearer understanding of the causes" of these tragedies. Greg King (born 1964) is an American author, best known for his biographies of prominent historical figures.īorn in 1964, King first became interested in royal history, particularly the Romanov Dynasty, at the age of ten. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately. This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They say there’s a thin line between genius and madness. As the genius son of an eccentric billionaire, his off-putting behavior is often blamed on his high IQ. Can Jericho convince Atticus that, sometimes, the couple who kills together stays together? Sigue leyendo »Īugust Mulvaney has always been exceptional. But no amount of brute force can show Jericho how to scale the walls of a psychopath’s heart. And, truthfully, Atticus doesn’t want him to.Īs Jericho’s mission begins to bleed into Atticus’s life, two separate but equally brutal families will need to learn how to fight together to take out a common enemy. Atticus is a buttoned-up closeted scientist and Jericho is a man on a mission, determined to find and punish those responsible for the death of his sister. When Atticus and Jericho come face to face over a shared enemy, their accidental meeting ends in an explosively hot hookup neither can forget. But to a ragtag group of social misfits, he’s Peter Pan, teaching them to eliminate those who prey on the weak with extreme prejudice. ![]() Jericho Navarro is no psychopath, but he is a vicious killer. Unlike his brothers, he’s not very good at it. Like his brothers, Atticus is a psychopath, raised to right the wrongs of a broken justice system. Atticus Mulvaney is the eldest son of eccentric billionaire, Thomas Mulvaney-a role he takes very seriously. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I received this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Miriam might just have to come out of the supernatural closet to save the world. Miriam isn’t a registered supernatural and for a good reason, she’s hiding something big from the authorities above and below.Īll of the commotion threatens the veil hiding the separating the mundanes and the supes. When a gorgeous alpha of the shifter pack starts sniffing around her hedges, Miriam fears the news might go all the way to the archangel that she isn’t a latent but a full-blown witch. The banishment also alerts the supernatural cops. Miriam doesn’t only have trouble brewing from below. When a hellhound shows up in her neighbor’s begonias, and Miriam banishes the stinky mutt back to where it came from, she let her evil ex know she’s still alive and kicking…and likely in possession of something she stole from him. Pretty average and totally boring, and Miriam likes it that way. She serves on the parent teacher association, bakes for her daughter’s cheer squad, and is an all-around champion stay-at-home mom. Miriam Diaz has lived as a suburban mom on Seattle’s Eastside for the past seventeen years. ![]() ![]() ![]() * Condemns as irredeemably vulgar those who call "habitual drunkards people with alcohol problems, madness mental illness, drug use drug abuse. * Claims "The Boy Scout Handbook" is "among the very few remaining popular repositories of something like classical ethics, deriving from Aristotle and Cicero" ![]() * Applauds the atom-bombing of Hiroshima, says those who don't are pathetically misinformed and admits that when he heard the news as a soldier in Europe, "we cried with relief and joy" yet insists that whatever side you're on, modern war "is all mass-criminality" But in terms of sheer industrial-strength affrontery, Fussell is just warming up. It's not easy to make Louis XIV look like Huey Long. ![]() In another 100 years, there will be no visible difference between the Soviet Union and the United States." But what about the enhanced comforts of the fabled Common Man? "Well," Fussell snorts, "his advantages are bought at my cost." Even the better classes have to wait in long lines, the quality of food degenerates, airline seating grows more cramped. "It used to be a great center of wit," says Fussell in mid-stroll, glowering at the placid streetscape, "but now it's subject to prole-drift." Prole drift? "Everything in the modern world drifts prole-ward all the time. And run for cover, Uncle Sam: Paul Fussell, the nation's newest world-class curmudgeon, is taking aim at The American Experiment.įor the 58-year-old don, author and omni-pundit, that includes even the leafy collegiate charm of Princeton. ![]() ![]() ![]() Enter Damon, Stefan's brother and the resident bad boy he really stirs things up and makes things interesting. ![]() She meets Stefan at school and connects with him however, she looks exactly like Stefan's former flame, Katherine. Elena doesn't have it easy though she is dealing with the reality of her parents death. Collected here in one volume for the first time, volumes one and two of The Vampire Diaries, the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them."Įlena is the blonde Queen Bee of her school and town of Fells Church. Determined to have Elena, he'd kill to possess her. Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him. Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt his past. Goodreads says, " Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now these colour short stories offer a great way for young new readers to discover the adventures of Silky, Moon-Face, the Saucepan Man and all of their friends in the Enchanted Wood. ![]() ![]() The stories about the Magic Faraway Tree have been entertaining children for more than 80 years. Description Prepare to escape to the land of make-believe with The Complete Faraway Tree Adventures 10 Stories Collection by legendary and classic author. It's the perfect place to find something to make Mother feel better. Discover the magic! The Land of Magic Medicines has come to the top of the Faraway Tree, and it's full of curious bottles and sparkling potions. Print The Land of Magic Medicines (A Faraway Tree Adventure) (Colour Short Stories)Ī full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. ![]() ![]() VERDICT An excellent addition where early reader graphic novels are popular (that is, everywhere). Back matter includes step-by-step instructions for how to draw Rot. Five short chapters, followed by “Spudtacular Facts and Fun,” introduce readers to Clanton’s new characters, who are just as silly and appealing as Narwhal and Jelly. Enthusiastic early riser Rot is medium-sized and brownish, grumpy Snot is larger and greener, and “super chipper.” Tot is the smallest, with yellowish skin and a blue and white polka-dotted bow (which matches the endpapers). ![]() Potato puns abound in “spudtacular” fashion, and Clanton’s characters have many more expressions than Mr. When neither a potato sack race nor a game of hot potato produces a winner, they have a laugh-off, with an unexpected result. ![]() Mutant potato brothers Rot and Snot have a competition to decide who is the greatest in the world, to be judged by their little sister, Tot. ![]() ![]() These warriors are, in reality, a handful of superheroes and villains who have been possessed by Asgardian hammers, morphing into powerful slaves for Cul. ![]() The god is aided by the Red Skull’s daughter, Sin, and a group of warriors known as “the worthy”. Cul, the Asgardian god of fear, invades the mortal plane and stirs panic around the globe. The events of Fear Itself are fairly straightforward. Seeing Bendis put his own spin on an event which he didn’t write puts Fear Itself within the context of Avengers/New Avengers. Indeed, the Fear Itself tie-in comics are great at incorporating this massive event into Bendis’ existing Avengers narrative. ![]() ![]() Additionally, the classic street-level hero, Daredevil, joining the New Avengers, keeps the scale small while ramping up excitement for future New Avengers comics. Bendis shrinks the focus of these issues, spending time with lesser-known characters like Squirrel Girl. It’s this sense of intimacy which made the New Avengers issues particular favorites of mine. The insider perspective on the Avengers’ biggest battles which these issues provides makes Fear Itself feel more intimate. ![]() Even though it was fairly unorthodox, Bendis’ approach to these issues of Avengers/New Avengers had its charms. The central gimmick, featuring the Avengers talking to a camera in a mockumentary style, is certainly something Bendis hadn’t done in his previous Avengers comics. In hindsight, the Avengers/New Avengers tie-ins for Fear Itself are some of the weirdest comics I’ve read. ![]() |