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![]() ![]() ![]() It weaves in elements of Nashit’s Bengali culture and family traditions, and her complicated sense of identity from being the child of immigrants, so naturally. (I wholeheartedly second my suggestion from last April that it would make a great high school English read!)Īs a queer and South Asian girl myself, I was so excited to read this book. I think this simple read will be great for people looking to understand more about a culture that they might not understand. ![]() This was such a light, quick, and heart-fluttery read-despite also touching on important issues like racism, homophobia, and, of course, cultural appropriation.īecause of the way it’s written, The Henna Wars holds the door gently open for outsiders to understand a South Asian’s experience-in this case, the experience of a young lesbian Bengali girl growing up in Ireland. I felt at home from the first pages of The Henna Wars and their mentions of love marriage, parents moving to find a better life, the feeling of being tied to tradition, salwar kameez, and big family gatherings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as characters in this story, we never live any certain period of time during their “reigning” moment over their section of the world. Yes, obviously, we know the basics of that which comes to pass during each season because we live these seasons in our every day lives. ![]() Because, unfortunately, we don't really get a lot of information on how things occur. That's the gist that I got from what the book told me before things started to develop. They're immortal after Gaia gifts them with the power of their season at the moment of their human death. They go through a cycle of hunting each other so that they may take over as the standing season at that moment, and send the one before them “home.” The season that is then eliminated is kept sleeping in stasis, after which time they awaken again, train, and then go out into the world to find and kill the season before them and repeat the cycle. As their respective seasons, Jack, Fleur, Julio and Amber “manifest” them. Our world has four seasons, each waning and renewing depending on the time of year. That's my main bone to pick with this novel: things are never quite concrete. If someone of flesh and blood embodied the concept of a season, what would that life entail? I don't think that I ever got an answer to that simple question. "Winter's crown may be heavy on your head.īut you hold eternal spring in your heart." Thank you Edelweiss and HarperTeen for this ARC. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If there’s something you need to erase, they can assist. If there’s something you want to forget, a binder can help. Within each one, they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. Under the old woman’s watchful eye, Emmett learns to handcraft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. ![]() He is to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder - a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice among their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.įor as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. ![]() Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. "A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Proclaimed as “truly spellbinding", a “great fable” that “functions as transporting romance” by The Guardian, the runaway number one international best seller arrives in America. ![]() ![]() Cover for Rina Kent Tempted by Deception: A Dark Marriage Mafia Romance (. This book is part of a trilogy and is not standalone. Tempted by Deception: A Dark Marriage Mafia Romance By Rina Kent Cover Image Tempted by Deception: A Dark Marriage. NOTE: This is the special edition print of the book Tempted by Deception. My husband will either destroy me or I’ll destroy him. We started with games and carnal pleasure.Īdrian and I shouldn’t have been together. /rebates/2fp2fTempted-Deception2fRina-Kent2f9781685450373&.com252fp252fTempted-Deception252fRina-Kent252f978168545037326afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. Rina has truly done her best work and I’m excited to see how the story ends. Each character has his or her purpose and I love how the picture unfolds as the story progresses. This story is intricate and mind blowing and It’s fantastic to see how the pieces all fit together as the story plays out. On top of all the carnal hotness, I’m also in awe of how Rina’s mind works and fits the overall plot puzzle together. We finally get a closer look at their relationship from the very beginning and the web of deception that begins to weave. I don’t know how Rina continually ups the hotness factor in her writing, but kudos to her keyboard never starting on fire or perhaps having several on hand as they ignite while writing cause Adrian and Lia set the pages on fire in this second part of the trilogy. Whew! Up the heat factor cause Tempted By Deception is blazing at 10,000 degrees!! ![]() Review Rating: 5 Gold Stars Review/Synopsis: Genre/Tropes: Antihero/Dark/Mafia Romance ![]() Tempted By Deception Deception Trilogy #2 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's my mantra until we're sharing a sunset too beautiful for life.Īlone with wandering lips, whispered secrets, and disaster in the making. It's not even the pesky way he makes me blush every flipping time we're together. It's not the fact that he's snarly, demanding, horribly rich, and chiseled. It's not the impossibly long hours working under Grump-zilla. I picked the stallion on a one-way trip to hell. Then-for some unholy reason-Magnus Heron offered me a job.Įven his name sounds like a piece of work.īut when you're single, broke, and barely surviving in Chicago, you hop on the gift horse offering a six-figure salary and ride. I retaliated with a spray of cinnamon latte all over his Italian shoes. ![]() He picked the worst day ever to chase me off my favorite park bench. My “interview” with bosshole supreme was anything but normal. Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow returns with a fierce and hilarious office romance where two sworn enemies make undeniable lovers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival and a tiny and wooden hut that is Everything.ġ985: Peggy has returned to the family home. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end that is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano. Book Summaryġ976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. ![]() ![]() The spine is slightly cocked but the binding is tight and the pages are clean, crisp, and unmarked. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller is a 292-page hardcover published in 2015 by Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() After graduating Berkeley Law in 1989, she represented low-income tenants and homeless families for eight years before returning to get her PhDin history. ![]() Rebecca Hall, JD, PHD, is a scholar, activist, and educator. But Rebecca decides to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captain’s logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the “negro burying ground” uncovered in Manhattan. The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. ![]() Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts free or with book! Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts ![]() ![]() ![]() Jedi: Battle Scars sends Cal and his buddies on a tense adventure and infuses them with new depth. We also get to see city planet Hosnian Prime long before its destruction in The Force Awakens. In contrast, Maggs' descriptions of the Stinger Mantis make the ship feel incredibly homey and familiar (especially if you've played the game). Some of the environments our heroes explore are a little dull as well the bases and prisons lack much color. 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