![]() ![]() ![]() The issue is that as a result the author fails to take advantage of all the suspense and tension that lead up to that point and combat feels lack luster.Ģ. In some of what should have been the most important points for character development, plot, and intense combat scenes the author glosses over them and "tells" the readers what happens or what the characters are feeling instead of showing them. These novels lack the most basic rule of writing. Although, honestly I think many of the problems have been covered by other reviewers, with that said I'll be brief.ġ. I will be as spoiler free as I can so it may be vague in parts. ![]() I read all three novels and listened to the audible counterparts. I wanted this series to turn out well as it had promise so I decided to wait until I had finished all three books before giving a review. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Midnight Kiss by Robyn Carr![]() PARADISE VALLEY "Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq-his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield." with Walt & Muriel and Cameron & Abbey's storys also! 7. SECOND CHANCE PASS "In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son-breaking her heart while tilling it with a whole new kind of love. This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him." 5. A VIRGIN RIVER CHRISTMAS "Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her hesband, Bobby. Marine reservist, LAPD officer Mike Valenzuela was badly wounded in the line of duty, but has found hope and healing in Virgin River." 4. SHELTER MOUNTAIN "John "Preacher" Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of the wet October night." 3. ![]() VIRGIN RIVER WANTED: MIDWIFE/NURSE PRACTITIONER "When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees this ad she quickly decides that the remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache, and to reenergize the nursing career she loves. ![]() Lot of 23 THE VIRGIN RIVER SERIES COMPLETE + by ROBYN CARR 1. ![]() ![]() “I decided to publish this novel first as a serial on my Patreon because honestly, we all need treats to brighten up our weeks in this year of ongoing pandemic and more. Maybe, just maybe, she’ll even be impractical enough to win her own true love and a happily ever after…with the unpredictable and dangerous “help” of the magical creature who has adopted her.Ī frothy Regency rom-com full of pet dragons and magical misadventures, Scales and Sensibility is a full-length novel and the first in a new series ![]() Now Elinor will have to find out just how rash and resourceful she can be when she sets aside all common sense. However, even the most brilliant scholars of 1817 England still haven’t ferreted out all the lurking secrets of rediscovered dragonkind…and even the most sensible of heroines can still make a reckless wish or two when she’s pushed. And she never dreamed that she would have to enter into an outrageous magical charade to save her younger sisters’ futures. ![]() She never expected to fall in love with the shameless – but surprisingly sweet – fortune hunter who came to court Penelope, either. She certainly never meant to kidnap her awful cousin Penelope’s pet dragon. Sensible, practical Elinor Tregarth really did plan to be the model poor relation when she moved into her aunt and uncle’s house. ![]() ![]() Office is not a heavenly place, nor is it hell he's spent Life: rotten lie! No one was born to process insurance claims. Sometimes he tells himself that he leads a happy He's spent the last thirty-five years there, processing theįile of his own life. Insurance company-claims department-and gave up being Enric to become When he reached adulthood, for noĪpparent reason Enric abandoned his great aspirations. Marlborough, and becomes famous after he's decorated.īut that's not how it was. Or a soldier who goes to war and assassinates men, like the duke of ![]() Women, like Henri Desire Landru, and been famous before he was executed. Have been a murderer who pops up in a marketplace and assassinates Or he could have invented the H2Ītomic bomb that exterminates children as if they were beetles. He could have invented the H1 ecological lightbulb that protectsīutterflies as if they were children. When he was a young boy of promise, Enric aspired to great things. One of the great artists of human mediocrity, as a matter ofįact. Mediterranean, he realizes that he's been devoting his time to Have a revelation: as Enric Sanoi swims beneath the waters of the In a thousand-millionth of a second, you can Thousand-millionth of a second, you can recapture a memory. What can you accomplish in a thousand-millionth of a second? In a Between Heaven and Hell." Retrieved from ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. ![]() A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.įor much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently-and far less seriously-than its male counterpart. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Author deb spera![]() The inclusion of interesting and varied secondary characters strengthens the story and provides readers with an interesting read that focuses on these three women whose love for their children, despite their differing experiences and hardships, push them onward. The book has a slower pace and while the plot was somewhat predictable, readers will find the ending quite satisfying. Despite their differences in social status, these three women find strength, loyalty and a degree of friendship in each other. Courtesy of The Library Channel & WYPL FM 89.3. Their voices are strong and distinct, allowing them to share their different points of view as women living during this uncertain time as well as illustrate how the men in their lives greatly influence their experiences. In this weeks podcast, Stephen Usery talks to author Deb Spera about her debut novel, CALL YOUR DAUGHTER HOME (Park Row Books). Reeta, a first generation freed slave, Annie, a rich business owner and Gertrude, a poor mother of four girls, each take turns narrating the story. Only 50 years since the Civil War, and still a few years away from The Depression, author Deb Spera shows how these issues influence the lives of three women with vastly different backgrounds. Call Your Daughter Home is a Historical Fiction novel set in 1920’s South Carolina in an area which recently suffered a devastating boll weevil infestation leaving cotton crops decimated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miriam and her companions finally reach Montreal, a city of shifting loyalties filled with the intrigue of war, and here, by a sudden twist of fortune, Miriam meets the prominent Du Quesne family, who introduce her to a life she has never imagined. Mingled with her thoughts of Phineas Whitney, her sweetheart on his way to Harvard, is the crying of her sister’s baby, Captive, born on the trail. At the end of the trail waits a life of hard work and, perhaps, even a life of slavery. Miriam can only force herself to the next stopping place, the next small portion of food, the next icy stream to be crossed. ![]() Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, caught up in the ebb and flow of the French and Indian War. In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments The Whisper Man by Alex North![]() Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. ![]() Featherbank.īut the town has a dark past. ![]() A new beginning, a new house, a new town. In this dark, suspenseful thriller, Alex North weaves a multi-generational tale of a father and son caught in the crosshairs of an investigation to catch a serial killer preying on a small town.Īfter the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. will satisfy readers of Thomas Harris and Stephen King." If you like being terrified, The Whisper Man has your name on it." ![]() **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Schooled gordon![]() Now it’s just Rain and me.” I tried to edge my way toward the nursing station. There were fourteen families at Garland then. “Rain used to be one, back in the sixties. “It’s an alternative farm commune,” I explained. If people didn’t know us, they couldn’t find us, and we could live our lives in peace. That was the whole point of the community-to allow us to escape the money-hungry rat race of modern society. “It belongs to the community,” I told him. So I barely noticed the handcuffs the officer slapped on my wrists. ![]() I wasn’t too clear on what being arrested meant either.īut by then they were loading Rain onto a stretcher to rush her in for X-rays. At the time, I didn’t even know what a license was. ![]() He was arresting me for driving without a license. I was thirteen the first time I saw a police officer up close.
5/12/2023 0 Comments Beyond belief miscavige![]() ![]() ![]() Along the way, he has faced countless criticisms and negative media reports, including legal proceedings, but he has continued his journey of expanding the organization internationally. He assumed power after Hubbard's death and steered the organization with an iron fist. Ron Hubbard's confidant at the age of 16. According to his father, a tough and smart kid, he rose up the ranks quickly to become Scientology founder, L. An ailing child, he became a follower of Scientology along with his family after a miraculous treatment that cured him. The story of his rise to power is on par with classical drama featuring politics, intrigue and betrayal. David Miscavige is the leader of the Church of Scientology and is presently the Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center (RTC), an American non-profit corporation that controls the trademarks and copyrights of Dianetics and Scientology. ![]() |