![]() If you thought you loved Magnus’s sass and comments from the TMI series, you might want to hang on to your hat and read this one, this is starting to sound like I got promo rights or someone asked me to do this, that didn’t happen. ![]() A vacation we knew from The Mortal Instruments, and we wanted to know what happened so badly. And so it will be with The Last Hours, after being so pulled with Chain of Gold, I know how my heart will shape with the others.īut enough of that, this one is about the first book in The Eldest Curses, The Red Scrolls of Magic. My opinion of the Shadowhunter world has not changed in years, you can go back to my first review of a book of this series, and you will find me rambling about it as well, I, perhaps, was not as eloquent, maybe I did various reviews into one, and it could be that I had a low start with The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices, but The Dark Artifices? Welcome to the Shadowhunter Academy? The Bane Chronicles? Or The Ghosts of the Shadow Market? Oh, no, those I read with a passion, and so it was with the first of this series in this wonderful world of Raziel’s children, Downworld and fairie magic. ![]() Genres: Awesome, YA, Supernatural, Shadowhunter, Magic, Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Drama, Vacationįinally, but how I wished it would continue.īecause when in doubt or in a reading slump turn to the shadow world, and they will make your life better. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now a mysterious cult-fronted by a white ninja whose skills may outmatch even Black Canary's-is determined to dig them up.Īnd if that means digging them directly out of Dinah's soul? So be it. Her mother went missing, and took the secrets of Dinah's own past with her. Dinah Drake is all these things and more-and she's got the legions of fans, friends and foes to prove it.īut there's a part of her life she's never been able to get a handle on, a role she's never been able to play: daughter. And she just might have to-for some reason, the newly rechristened band Black Canary seems to be a magnet for trouble.and Dinah's not gonna believe it when she finds out the reason why! Rock star. Dinah Lance hits the road! After years as a soldier and vigilante, the last place Dinah saw herself is on stage.but she's quickly learning she'd die to protect the gang of misfits she's fallen into. ![]() ![]() "Uses a series of vignettes to chronicle a girl's time working at Mr. ![]() But thanks in part to Masayo, Hitomi will come to realize that love, desire, and intimacy require acceptance not only of idiosyncrasies but also of the delicate waltz between open and hidden secrets, in this novel from the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo that "captures an untranslatable Japanese mood" ( The New York Times). Unsure of how to attract his attention, she seeks advice from her employer's sister, Masayo, whose sentimental entanglements make her a somewhat unconventional guide. ![]() Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register, has fallen for her coworker, the oddly reserved Takeo. If examined carefully, they show the signs of innumerable extravagances, of immeasurable pleasure and pain, and of the deep mysteries of the human heart. But like those staff and customers, they hold many secrets. ![]() The objects for sale at the Nakano Thrift Shop appear as commonplace as the staff and customers who handle them. This "gentle, humorous novel" follows a young Japanese woman as she yearns for the love of a reluctant coworker ( The Wall Street Journal). ![]() ![]() ![]() A player's face flashed up on the Jumbotron. ![]() Just before the buzzer, one of the teams scored, and the entire arena went crazy. ![]() Disappointed again, I decided to leave at the end of the period. When I arrived, the seat next to me was empty. ![]() So on my way home, I decided to take a chance and stop by the game. I tossed the ticket into my purse and went about trying to enjoy the man I was supposed to meet.īut my real blind date and I had no connection. Before he left, he slipped me a ticket to a hockey game a few blocks away, in case things didn't work out on my actual date. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. He only pretended to be until my real date showed up. Turned out, Max wasn't who I was there to meet. He also had the biggest dimples I'd ever laid eyes on.Įxactly what I needed after my breakup.Or so I thought.Until my real date arrived. Max was insanely gorgeous, funny, and our chemistry was off the charts. The first time I met Max Yearwood was on a blind date. A new, sexy standalone from #1 New York Times Bestseller, Vi Keeland. ![]() ![]() Enter G-, whom she's called in to find the letter for her. So, now he's using the letter to make the queen grant some vague but no doubt nefarious political wishes. The lady can't stop him, because she's afraid D- will show her letter to the royal man. Right in front of everyone, D- switches the royal lady's letter with one of his own and walks out. He notices who the letter is from (the readers aren't told), notices that the royal lady is acting funny, and realizes she wants to hide the letter from the royal man. ![]() Instead, she puts it on the desk, with the address showing. She wants to hide the letter from him, but she can't get it into the desk drawer fast enough. She's in her sitting room reading it when another royal person walks in (probably the king). ![]() Do they want to hear a mystery? Do they ever! So G- tells a story:Ī few months ago the royal lady (probably the queen) gets a letter. Suddenly, G-, the head of the Paris police, enters. Auguste Dupin are smoking pipes in the dark, thinking their thoughts. ![]() On a windy, fall night in Paris, sometime in the 1800s, the narrator and C. ![]() |