Trigger Warnings: murder (including graphic murder of children and murder of parents), death, misogyny, gore, terminal illness, abuse, arranged marriage, attempted rape. As long as it still counts as one sitting if I had to keep pausing it to pace in and out of the living room to yell about how stressed I was over this incredible Greek mythology based story. I was absolutely heartbroken when I didn’t get an ARC of this one (et tu Hachette) and so as soon as this one released I listened to the entire audiobook in one sitting whilst doing a particularly evil jigsaw. But how we are remembered is less important than what we do now. Perhaps there were some in Sparta who embodied those myths. They smooth over imperfections to tell a good tale, or to instruct us how we should behave, or to assign glory to victors and shame those who falter. It’s not always the truth that survives, but the stories we wish to believe.
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or even herself? Five Mercy Thompson novels have topped the New York Times best-seller list, and her premiere graphic novel Homecoming did the same. Now her two worlds are about to collide! Outnumbered and out-muscled, can Mercy possibly save the boy. 'till a boy, mauled by vicious werewolves and forever changed by the attack and on the run from those who committed the crime, appears at her door. Mercy warily straddles the fine line dividing our everyday world from that darker dimension. To the town's darker residents, werewolves, vampires, and fae, she's a walker, a last-of-her-kind magical being with the power to become a coyote. To the human inhabitants of the Tri-Cities she's an oddity, a female mechanic operating her own garage. Mercy Thompson inhabits two worlds without truly belonging to either. Collects Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson: Moon Called #s 1-4! Thrust onto the throne of Europe’s most treacherous imperial court, Sisi upsets political and familial loyalties in her quest to win, and keep, the love of her emperor, her people, and of the world. Franz Joseph reneges on his earlier proposal and declares his intention to marry Sisi instead. But shortly after her arrival at court, Sisi finds herself in an unexpected dilemma: she has inadvertently fallen for and won the heart of her sister’s groom. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry.įifteen-year-old Elisabeth, “Sisi,” Duchess of Bavaria, travels to the Habsburg Court with her older sister, who is betrothed to the young emperor. The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe’s most powerful ruling family. * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Discover the “captivating, absorbing, and beautifully told” (Kathleen Grissom) love story of Sisi, the Austro-Hungarian empress and wife of Emperor Franz Joseph-perfect for fans of the Netflix series The Empress! This review may contain spoilers, so fair warning, upon reading the review. Heat crackles between us with every look, desire flares into passion, and I fall hard, unable to resist.īut when I discover how he’s tied to the darkness in my past, I learn what happens when you fly recklessly into fire: The intensity of our connection is addictive, unlike anything I’ve ever felt before. Though I know he’s hiding something, I’m drawn to him like a moth to flame. Tall, dark, and dangerous, Kage is as full of secrets as he is sex appeal. Until a mysterious stranger arrives in town. All that remained were my broken heart and unanswered questions. The man I built my future on vanished like a ghost. Left me with the kind of scars that can’t be healed. He left me with a wedding dress I’d never wear. Geissinger.įive years ago, my fiancé disappeared. Genres: Contemporary Romance, Dark RomanceĪn explosive new novel of love, lies, and obsession from bestselling author J.T. Published by Self Published on February 19, 2021 Also in this series: Carnal Urges, Savage Hearts, Brutal Vows Nußknacker und Mausekönig | Nutcracker and the Mouse King - E.Droßelmeier | Drosselmeyer (The Nutcracker) (2).Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986) (18).But will her Godfather's dark past - and her parents' unwillingness to tell her the truth - obliterate any chance of future happiness? Indeed, will *he* stand in the way himself? Language: English Words: 53,143 Chapters: 17/17 Comments: 64 Kudos: 104 Bookmarks: 4 Hits: 1228 Their close bond blossoms into something far deeper as the years pass. No longer the enigma that he is so often portrayed as, Drosselmeyer is a kind, nurturing yet awkward man who has a deep connection with his Goddaughter whom he cherishes. In this version, Klara is not a child, but a beautiful, intelligent teenager when she receives the gift of the nutcracker on Christmas Eve in 1879. Hoffman's classic fairy tale, Klara Stahlbaum's relationship with her quirky, mysterious Godfather Herr Drosselmeyer is brought into a very different perspective. Graphic Depictions Of Violence, No Archive Warnings Apply.Hoffmann, Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (1986) Hoffmann was set to music by Tchaikovsky and originally choreographed by Marius Petipa. Alexandre Dumas Pre’s adaptation of the story by E.T.A. Faith_Hope_Love Fandoms: Nußknacker und Mausekönig | Nutcracker and the Mouse King - E. The origin of the Nutcracker, a classic Christmas Story, is a fairy tale ballet in two acts centered on a family’s Christmas Eve celebration. Revealed as an accomplished journalist, who, at the pinnacle of herĬareer, gives it all up for the woman she loves. Husband and family and her role as the nation's First Lady. Human woman who is pulled in many directions by her obligations to her Reveals Eleanor Roosevelt as a complex, contradictory, and entirely Set during the chaotic years of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, Loving Eleanor Periods of enforced separation and competing interests, and warms intoĪn enduring, encompassing friendship documented by 3300 letters. Relationship begins with mutual romantic passion, matures through stormy The 1932 campaign, the two women become deeply involved. Reporter Lorena Hickok-Hick-is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in Source: Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours for review Here are some of the most harmful tropes (according to me). And objectively speaking, The Royals has A LOT. We knew what to expect when we started reading this book.īut does it make the tropes less harmful? Well… no, harmful tropes are harmful, no matter what the justifications are. For most of us, it wasn’t a problem because we didn’t take it seriously. But everyone who had read this series, including me, must have acknowledged the fact that these books do have some seriously harmful tropes. I was hooked ever since I read Paper Princess, it was so so so addictive! □ These books are major page turner, I finished each book in only one sitting and that’s how addictive it is. Plots are unoriginal and the characters aren’t the ones you want to bump into in real life.Īnd yet… I’m obsessed with The Royals series :’) This series is the epitome of a problematic fave. Today I’m going to discuss one of my favorite contemporary, The Royals by Erin Watt and I promise I’d be very careful not to spoil anything important □ The purpose is not to make us stop loving our favorites, but to look at them from more critical lens. This fabulous event was created by Aentee Read At Midnight where she encouraged us to discuss our problematic faves. But the manner in which wit brings about gratification is connected with special conditions from which we may perhaps gain further information. That such gratification is a source of pleasure is self-evident without further discussion. The pleasure in tendency-wit results from the fact that a tendency, whose gratification would otherwise remain unfulfilled, is actually gratified. We shall therefore commence with the former. It seems to us that the desired explanation can be more easily ascertained in tendency-wit than in harmless wit. What we now desire to ascertain is the manner in which pleasure originates from these sources and the mechanism of this resultant pleasure. We know that we can be easily misled to mistake our sense of satisfaction experienced through the thought-content of the sentence for the actual pleasure derived from the wit, on the other hand, the latter itself has two intrinsic sources, namely, the wit-technique and the wit-tendency. WE can now definitely assert that we know from what sources the peculiar pleasure arises furnished us by wit. The Pleasure Mechanism and the Psychogenesis of Wit With razor-sharp prose and mordant wit, Chantal V. Will she find a way to repair what matters most to her?Ī debut from a stunning talent, Post-traumatic is a new kind of survivor narrative, featuring a complex heroine who is blazingly, indelibly alive. But after a family reunion prompts Vivian to take a bold step, she finds herself alone in new and terrifying ways, without even Jane to confide in, and she starts to unravel. She lives in a constant state of hypervigilant awareness that makes even a simple subway ride into a heart-pounding drama.įor years, Vivian has self-medicated with a mix of dating, dieting, dark humor and smoking weed with her BFF, Jane. Privately, Vivian contends with the memories and aftereffects of her bad childhood-compounded by the everyday stresses of being a Black Latinx woman in America. To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story-a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at a New York City psychiatric hospital. A debut about a young Black Latina lawyer finally confronting her dark past Gradually, Peter works out some of the details. This year, one newcomer stood out on the increasingly crowded shelf of memoirs written by Jews who have left the ultra-Orthodox world. “All Who Go Do Not Return,” by Shulem Deen, distinguishes itself with its mesmerizing lyricism - which is all the more remarkable when you consider that Deen’s rigid upbringing in the insular Skverer Hasidic sect never exposed him to the great works of literature. His was also the first major “off the derech” story to be penned by a man.ĭeen, now 41, had to give up a lot. His gradual, searing journey away from the confines of New Square, New York, began with furtive listens to the radio and clandestine visits to the public library before it blossomed into a full-scale crisis of faith - in which he was banned from the community and forced to forgo all future contact with his five children.ĭeen’s foray into the broader, forbidden world was occasioned by the frightening realization that, with such a poor secular education, he had little chance of providing economically for his family. But his personal exodus was driven by something deeper: an honest reckoning with his own lack of faith. |