![]() ![]() ![]() 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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![]() ![]() Exploring issues including morals, manners, self-indulgence, malevolence, and social machinations, the relatively short novel is sure to fascinate with its atypical form.Ĭomprised of forty-one letters, the novel introduces Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful recent widow in her thirties, who is allowed to stay with her brother-in -law Charles Vernon and his wife Catherine in their family home. Disregarding anything but her own selfish goals, Susan employs her charms to lure men and draw them into her web of deceit, no matter their age or status. The short novel focuses on the self-serving eponymous anti-heroine, as she cunningly maneuvers her way through society in search of a wealthy husband for both her daughter and herself. An epistolary novel, Lady Susan is an early work by Austen that was posthumously published in 1871. ![]() ![]() ![]() In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. ![]() But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around. Try as he might, he can't forget what they once did to him. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Īna da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. ![]() They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. ![]() ![]() Illuminate is a compelling story about destiny, good versus evil, and the path we take to come into our own. She has an important part to play, but she is not the only one. The pages empty at first, they slowly begin to fill with words and guide her journey. Haven’s journey is guided in part by a mysterious book she finds. Evil can not survive without food after all. She is surrounded by a posse of minions known as The Outfit, a group of strikingly beautiful teens who seem to possess a sort of docile hive mind they know their place and they stay in it for reasons that slowly unravel and are part of the core of Illuminate’s mystery. She commands a room and holds its attention. ![]() She is a modern day Maleficent, assured and possessing a strong, evil grace that is difficult to ignore. ![]() She schemes, she plots and she does not appreciate it when things don’t go her way. Aurelia is the type of villain who ripples with an evil malice just under the surface. ![]() Haven is being mentored personally by the hotel owner Aurelia. ![]() ![]() Other than the fish, all the animals were acquired through rescue organizations, something Koz wholeheartedly supports. In the past, they have also had parakeets and a snake. Being trained as a veterinarian, it's not surprising that Koz and her husband were recently told they have a mini-zoo with their two dogs, fish, cockatiels, and foster cats. Next in line are auto mechanics and cake decorating. When she's not creating online training for pharmaceutical companies (her day job) or writing, Koz can be found at the local community college taking courses on various topics ranging from digital art to HTML to desktop publishing. She enjoys traveling, camping, hiking, photography, reading, spending time with foster kids who call her house home, and learning new things. SM Koz was born in Michigan, but moved to North Carolina for college and never left. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And an elephant’s faithful, one hundred percent!” Then one week shy of a year the egg begins to hatch and who should make her way back into the story but Lazy Maysie. He exclaimed, “I meant what I said and I said what I meant. ![]() However, despite every insult and every adverse circumstance he encounters, Horton continues to sit on the egg. They yelled ‘How Absurd! Old Horton the Elephant thinks he’s a bird!’” Then some hunters trapped Horton the Elephant and sold him to a circus where he traveled the world. He endures a freezing winter and insults from his friends. Horton waits and waits for Lazy Maysie to return. Horton is persuaded to sit on an egg while its mother, the good-for-nothing bird, Lazy Maysie, takes a semi-permanent vacation to Palm Springs. Seuss’ book was the faithfulness of Horton the Elephant in doing, despite adverse circumstances, what he said he would. ![]() In Theodor Geisel’s (Dr Seuss) book, “Horton Hatches the Egg”, we find many similarities and character traits between Horton the Elephant and Jesus. As you read the title of this week’s column, “Horton Hatches the Egg – an Easter Story”, I’m sure you probably thought something like, “Huh? Has he lost his mind?” Well, to answer your question, no I haven’t lost my mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() These intrude into the world of reality rather than the other way around so that the book is sometimes categorized within the genre of magical realism. While the novel is a work of realistic fiction, it does contain elements of the supernatural or unexplained. Even though she was good-looking, nobody dared to court her because it was clear that Misshepeshu, the water man, the monster, wanted her for himself. Men stayed clear of Fleur Pillager after the second drowning. It also sets a precedent for a tonal theme that will recur again and again throughout the book which demonstrates an intricate and inextricable link between tribal people and weather-and the possibility of actually having control over the weather. The quote does more than merely situate the fiction of the novel within a backdrop of historicity, however. ![]() The book opens with tribal elder Nanapush relating the history of the Anishinabe tribe (more familiarly known as Chippewa to most). Nanapush, narrationĬentral to the narrative is the historically factual account of an influenza epidemic which devastated the Chippewa tribe with pneumonia in the early decades of the 20th century. We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Arthur, the gentle soul that he is, doesn't pout and doesn't retaliate, and I loved him for that. But Gabe is defensive, prickly, wearing his aloneness like armor, and he hurts Arthur. ![]() Gabriel is drowning in insecurities and shame he craves what only Arthur can give. ![]() He does not appreciate being pushed to spend time with the "ruddy, roguish" bear. Gabriel and Arthur do not like each other, and it takes Gabe much longer to come around. I loved the slight enemies-to-lovers trope. This book was gorgeously written and drowning in FEELS. Arthur, the short bear, is temporarily out of work and lonely, so his mom decides to play matchmaker by forcing Arthur to play Santa at a library fundraiser.Įven worse, Gabriel, the town librarian, an uptight, lanky intellectual with a head full of crazy curls and geeky glasses, is going to be Arthur's sidekick Elf. Paul and Arthur (Marcus's BFFs from book 1) were never going to make it as a couple, and Paul finally decides he's had enough of being Arthur's convenient fuck-buddy and moves out of Arthur's cabin. ![]() ![]() ![]() I know I shall be told that this is incredible-but it is incredible to be as spiteful and stupid as I was it may be added that it was strange I should not love her, or at any rate, appreciate her love. Though I do not maintain positively that she understood all this distinctly but she certainly did fully understand that I was a despicable man, and what was worse, incapable of loving her. She realised that my outburst of passion had been simply revenge, a fresh humiliation, and that to my earlier, almost causeless hatred was added now a PERSONAL HATRED, born of envy. ![]() But she did not go away, and that irritated me. She was sitting on the ground with her head leaning against the bed, and must have been crying. A quarter of an hour later I was rushing up and down the room in frenzied impatience, from minute to minute I went up to the screen and peeped through the crack at Liza. ![]() ![]() But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair.Īmerica is at a crossroads. In the years from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin - the great creative artist, often referred to as 'the poet of the revolution' - became a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. ![]() ![]() The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump, a president whose time in the White House represents the latest failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race.įor James Baldwin, a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America's racism came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, and was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() |