![]() ![]() All I know is, I plan on living until the end of time because this angel won’t go where I’ll go when my lights go out. Some might say it changed for the worse, but she says it’s for the better. The night I first saw her was the night her life changed forever. I’m not a man who feels guilt or remorse, but I’ll spend a thousand years trying to repent if it means I can have her in my arms. For her, I would fall on the sword, even if she was the one holding it. I will drop to my knees and confess my sins so that she can cleanse my soul. ![]() Her eyes are the center of my world and somehow she’s become my angel. I have to look at her every night and tell this innocent angel why I’ve walked down the path I have.īut I’ll do it, because I have no other choice. And now, for the first time in my life, I have to explain why. With every dark deed, I knew the weight of my actions, but I never had to justify it to anyone. ![]() That’s the way it goes when you’re the boss. There are a few areas I don’t fuck with, like women, children, or drugs, but for the most part my hands are covered in dirt. I’ve stolen, I’ve blackmailed, I’ve even killed people. What I’ve done in my life, I’ve done for my own reasons. People say karma’s a bitch, but she’s been nothing but good to me. To everyone that fell in love with The Breeding Series… But we were never prepared for the Kingpin. ![]()
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![]() The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Is Ender the general Earth needs?īut Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut - young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.Įnder's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. ![]() ![]() A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like so many New 52 books, Wonder Woman went out of this world with a sad, wet fart.īut DC’s struggles go far beyond creative missteps. This isn’t dismissing Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s run on the book, but Meredith and David Finch’s Wonder Woman was, frankly, awful – almost immediately and so poisoned the water that DC needed to dig a whole new well. The New 52 Batman was able to essentially cruise along same as he ever was (which, of course he did – he’s Batman), and while some of us yearned for New 52 Superman to be more like his pre-Flashpoint counterpart there’s no argument either icon suffered as hard or as long at the hands of ineffectual creative decisions as Wonder Woman. Of DC’s key Trinity, Wonder Woman is the character most in need of a Rebirth. ![]() Mark: Who is Wonder Woman? What defines her? Today, Mark and Taylor are discussing Wonder Woman: Rebirth 1, originally released June 8th, 2016. ![]() ![]() Gone) works his dark sorcery from the shadows. Norrell) in the realm of Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, as Clive Barker ( Mr. Krampus the Yule Lord is Gregory Maguire ( Wicked) meets Susanna Clarke ( Jonathan Strange & Mr. Set in Appalachia, Krampus the Yule Lord is a twisted fairytale about a failed West Virginia songwriter who gets ensnared on Christmas Eve in an eternal war between a not-so-saintly Saint Nick and his dark enemy Krampus, aka Black Peter, an ancient trickster demon. So what does this innovative fantasist do for an encore? He tinkers darkly with the beloved mythology of Santa Claus. ![]() Here's hoping that he will continue to share his dark and often beautiful dreams with us for many years to come." -Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of EragonĪcclaimed author and artist Brom raised eyebrows and pulse rates with The Child Thief, his grim, brilliantly audacious, gorgeously illustrated reimagining of the Peter Pan legend. "Brom is that rare breed: a person who is skilled in more than one area of artistic expression. ![]() It hooked me and I couldn't put it down." ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile he's working on a roof when he meets Crystal Glick, who's a bit younger than Duane and yet never married. A future between them would be one of friendship-not romantic love. While Duane likes the woman as a friend, he doesn't feel anything more. He hopes Duane will marry a widow with young children and spend his life caring for her. ![]() Now pushing fifty and certain he's done with romance forever, he has thrown himself into running his roofing company and being the best father he can be for his three grown sons.īut the bishop in Duane's Amish community has other plans for the widower. In Foundation of Love, the first installment of bestseller Amy Clipston's Amish Legacy series, an Amish widower with three grown sons discovers that another chance at love may be waiting for him.ĭuane Bontrager was devastated when he lost his beloved wife eighteen months ago. ![]() ![]() She gets panic attacks that make her scream at the top of her lungs, filled with the grim certainty that someone near her is going to die. In short, she doesn’t stand out in the crowd, and that’s fine with her because Kaylee has a very serious problem. She’s bright, but not at the top of her class. She isn’t popular, but she neither is she a pariah. ![]() On one hand, she’s a normal high school junior. Kaylee was inspired by the girl I was in high school, and by the girl I could never have been, even if I’d had her abilities. So what was my inspiration for creating Kaylee herself? That one’s not such a simple answer. Who Kaylee is and what she can do-those are the things that inspired and shaped her story. ![]() You want to know what inspired my YA debut, My Soul to Take? That’s easy enough. Hey Book Smugglers! Thanks for having me! We invited the author to be part of our YA Appreciation Month by writing a piece on her Inspiration to write the series. Her first book in her new Young Adult Soul Screamer series has just hit the shelves and Ana reviewed it here. Rachel Vincent is a popular UF novelist, author of the Shifter series. ![]() ![]() ![]() In emotionally resonant prose, award-winning author Jennifer Clement tells the story of the passion that swept Suzanne and Jean-Michel into a short-lived, unforgettable affair. Thus began a tumultuous and passionate relationship that deeply influenced one of the most exceptional artists of our time. During the years before his death at the age of 27, he shared his life with his lover and muse, Suzanne Mallouk.Ī runaway from an unhappy home in Canada, Suzanne first met Jean-Michel in a bar on the Lower East Side in 1980. It was where Jean-Michel Basquiat became an avant-garde street artist and painter, swiftly achieving worldwide fame. A hotbed for hip hop, underground culture, and unmatched creative energy, it spawned some of the most significant art of the 20th century. New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing, wild place. ![]() The beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat's partner, her past, and their life together ![]() ![]() ![]() Protecting him is another, and it may cost his life. So Below (An M/M Demon Angel Romance): (The Fallen Book Secrets (An M/M Fantasy Romance): A Novella of Alternate Earth Thrall (A paranormal MM fantasy romance). Finding Riley is an easy promise to keep. Grandfather want’s Riley for his ability, and Eren can’t disobey the one who’s been pulling the strings since before he was born. Refusal brings punishment, and Grandfather knows Eren’s worst fears. The first of his line, known as Grandfather, still lives, and he only sees Eren as something to feed from and use. A nephalem has no place with the demons, but when Riley discovers the angel’s dark secrets, he might not have a place with them either. Riley and Eren might have been together once in a different life, but with Eren’s toxic personality and obsession in this one, there’s no hope for anything between them. ![]() His new ability to pull others into his lucid dreams and view the past is powerful, but it might not be enough to save him as the war continues and the demon’s victory approaches. ![]() Riley While healing from Eren’s betrayal, the first nephalem in centuries will have to learn to feed, do magic, and navigate a different way of life. ![]() Riley was his, and he better remember that even if he was currently in an angel's bed and shouting someone else's name. ![]() ![]() I am not sure the author intended it this way, and I can see that I am pretty much alone in this view. ![]() To sum this up? This is the most delicious ridiculous piece of WTF’ery I have ever read I think. We follow Dales life with Mark, Master, heirs, friends and new pets for 40-50 years. Human pets are very well looked after, used as sex toys and incubators by their owners. Here he meets Mark, who have been living as a pet for 2 years in the household. He is taken as a POW and sold as a pet to an important man of the “enemy race”. ![]() LOL.ĭale is drafted into the military in a post-apocalyptic human society, where there is breeding laws and wedding bans – to ensure that young men are sure to fight in the intergalactic war instead of setting up homes.ĭale doesn’t believe in the war or the governments spin on it and hates his life in the military. Was looking for slave fic, had this one recommended and starting reading it, without reading any reviews or anything. Acquainted with the Night by Tymber Dalton ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The illustrations and settings of Bannerman's books are all about Indians and their culture. She was the grandmother of the physicist Tom Kibble, who discovered the Higgs–Kibble mechanism and the Higgs boson. She died in Edinburgh in 1946 of cerebral thrombosis. 1896), and sons James "Pat" Patrick (b.1900) and Robert (b. During their 30 years in India they had four children: daughters Janet (b. The couple then moved to India, taking up residence in Madras (modern-day Chennai), capital of the state of Tamil Nadu on the southeastern seacoast, populated mostly by the Tamil ethnic group. She then married William Burney Bannerman, a physician and an officer in the Indian Medical Service (IMS). Andrews, attaining the qualification of Lady Literate in Arts (LLA) in 1887. Because women were not admitted into British universities, she sat external examinations set by the University of St. ![]() |