Annabeth was a bitch almost throughout the book. I just do not get her loyalty to Luke despite everything, and I wonder why Percy even puts up with that.
Annabeth was a bitch almost throughout the book. I just do not get her loyalty to Luke despite everything, and I wonder why Percy even puts up with that.
Ready Player One is a unique story set in a dystopian world with a virtual utopia, the only respite from the wrecked world.
I might add that several elements of The Darkness That Comes Before call to mind those of Paul Kearney's Monarchies of God
Daniel T. Jackson pummels, stuns, and enthralls in a debut so good it could've come from the most seasoned pros and legends of Epic Fantasy.
One thing that hit me in this book was how the minds of the black people living in the UK at that time were conditioned. It was like they were made to believe that they were lesser humans and that the white person was better than them.
Love, cheating, heartbreak, domestic violence, family, police brutality were some of the themes covered in this collection of short stories because this collection is infused with the magic of evocative storytelling you might be drawn to or haunted by a character or two.
A man sleeps with the maid and impregnates her, deceives the wife he claims to love, and this same wife, Ezi, is required to apologize to the husband because she has only a daughter for him while the maid has a son.
Why did I have to carry this shame like a second skin? And every day for a month after the incident, I would usually find myself whispering to myself, "I am ruined."
This book centers on contemporary issues like masculinity and the dangerous consequences of rage and improper decisions. It also touched on issues like barrenness and the perceived notion of women being second-class citizens.
Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire's capital - her fate: to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village's tithe has been the same woman. Gilene's sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her […]
It's a strange story. Very unpredictable. The plot is regularly taking the most improbable of turns. In this tale of great betrayal, the author reveals humanity in all its gory glory.
Dina Demille runs an inn for the supernatural. Part of that is to keep the supernatural events from normal humans. So when some creatures start turning up ripped apart and dead in her neighborhood, she knows it is not normal and takes matters into her hands to solve the situation by enlisting the help of Sean, her werewolf neighbor.
