![]() ![]() Tessa just wants to find solutions and the kind sailor from across the sea seems to promise it all. Tessa and Corrick’s relationship has deteriorated, worn down by palace politics and the reality of Corrick’s role and choices. But it will mean Tessa and Corrick must leave Kandala, leave King Harristan and must face the growing tension between them.ĭefend the Dawn has no shortage of action and tension. When a ship arrives from a long-forgotten neighbouring land, it seems it might have the solutions they are looking for. Everywhere they turn they are met with anger and blockades to a solution. ![]() Now, in Defend the Dawn, Tessa and Prince Corrick have managed to dispel the uprising – for now – and are striving to find a solution to the Moonflower shortages. But Wes was hiding a massive secret and rebellion was rising. In book one of Defy the Night we met Wes and Tessa, outlaws working to secret medicine to the poor. Defend the Dawn is the second book in the Defy the Night series and all I can say is I definitely need book 3, right now. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As we travel to Milan and Rome on trains and buses, then later to Cambodia on tuk tuks and boats, we witness both the mundanity of travel in an inaccessible world, and the search for purpose through the trips themselves. The story quickly moves from Brooklyn to Italy, as Cooper Jones embarks on a research trip to visit the ancient monuments that will perhaps inform her next academic endeavor. ![]() The memoir opens, “I am in a bar in Brooklyn listening as two men, my friends, discuss whether or not my life is worth living,” and so sets the scene for the rest of the author’s experiences moving through the world as a person living with sacral agenesis, a rare condition that, among other complex things, causes her to live with chronic pain. It is as complex as she is, and the stories told connect the dots between what appear sometimes to be disparate parts of her life. Easy Beauty is a memoir of many things: Chloé Cooper Jones’s experience as an academic, a traveler, a mother, a partner, a tennis fan, a film critic, a disabled woman. ![]() ![]() well I can't say that I'm particularly taken with any of them. ![]() One of my biggest worries was that reading The Heir was going to be just like reading The Selection, but America and Eadlyn have very different minds.Īs for the guys. She's a complicated character and I liked reading her. Personally, I perceive her as misunderstood and a little lost and out of her depth. But then I didn't write her so I don't know - maybe she is just a brat. I hated the moments when was acting like a spoilt brat to her parents, but as for all of the 'I'm going to become queen' talk, I honestly think she's sprouting all of that crap because she's insecure and needs to remind herself of her place in the world. And whilst she is all of those things, I don't hate her for it. If you've read pretty much any review of The Heir, you'll have probably heard about how whiny, self-centered and generally rude Eadlyn is. ![]() Older than her twin brother by a mere 7 minutes, Eadlyn is next in line for the throne and is well on her way to becoming queen. The Heir is set 20 years after The Selection and we are introduced to Eadlyn Schreave - America and Maxon's daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zauze” was inspired by my study of Chester Brown’s production method on his Yummy Fur comics. Zauze,” a name that comes up in Sokolov’s story, made it into my dream world nearly a decade later. It had a profound impact on me as a writer, and so it was no surprise that “Dr. Sokolov’s novella is told in the enjambed voice of a narrator who might have formerly believed he was more than one person-the entire narrative is characterized by multiple layers of reality and the malleability of time and identity. I was inspired by Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools, which I had read in Professor Daniel Rancour-Laferriere’s Soviet Literature course. Zauze’s Xylophone” began as a postmodern prose piece in one of the many notebooks I kept while I was doing my master’s work at the University of California, Davis, back in the early 1980s. ![]() ![]() I say this because it’s important to understand that Sherman Alexie’s life and heartbreaking stories are not atypical of Native life. Like Alexie, my father was a Rez Indian turned Urban Indian estranged from his mother. His work - featuring Natives who are caught defining their identity in a modern, white world - is so deeply personal to me. To preface, I am an unabashed Sherman Alexie fan. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie ![]() My Father, the Pornographer, telling the tale of both a literal and metaphorical cleaning out, is a raw, candid, and striving work that offers as much about its progenitor as it does its complicated subject. Offutt's memoir, moving and expertly written, is the tale of a single family, but the unhappiness endured, however singular, may well resound for anyone with a less-than-savory upbringing of their own. ![]() ![]() Verbally abusive and "maniacal," the greater the elder Offutt's reputation grew, the more distant he became to his family. Raised in rural Kentucky, Chris was forever seeking the attention, affection, and approval of his father, all the while fearing the former insurance salesman who left his business behind to stake his claim to authorial immortality. Offutt - noted science fiction/fantasy/porn/erotica author. My Father, the Pornographer by Chris OffuttĬhris Offutt’s My Father, the Pornographer is a father-son memoir that finds its author searching for clarity and insight following the 2013 loss of his dad, Andrew J. ![]() ![]() Her lyrical imagery brings to life the town and its people readers can imagine enjoying tea with Autumn in her homey kitchen at Demeter’s Grove, and can laugh along with the mischievous Justy, whose shoe-making wizardry can turn a seemingly shy and invisible person into a songbird… When Autumn Leaves is a sweet fable of life’s twists and turns which reminds us of the wonders of life and death, friendship and love, disappointment, and failure.” - Rebeca Schiller ![]() ![]() “Foster captures Avening in delightful prose, putting the reader right in the center of the quaint Northwestern town. I love this book.” -Toni Kelner co-editor of the New York Times bestselling Wolfbane and Mistletoe Lyrical writing, moving story-lines, and the most engaging of characters. ![]() “ When Autumn Leaves is pure enchantment. “This a fantastic debut full of the things I love best in a good fantasy, but I especially appreciated the fully-realized, quirky characters and the big sense of wonder that spills from every page.” – Charles de Lint ![]() |