5/23/2023 0 Comments End of Days by Susan Ee![]() ![]() One night when she comes across a fight between angels, she helps an angel which gets her sister kidnapped by the other angels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seventeen Year Old Penryn Young is one of the survivor who lives with a mentally deranged mother and her little sister paige who is wheel chaired. The story is set in a post apocalyptic world where earth is invaded by angels and humanity is struggling to survive while fearing the angels who are either keeping them as slaves or ruthlessly killing them with no mercy. This is my favorite epic scene in the whole trilogy! I re-read the first two books to refresh everything before going into the finale and it’s the best decision I’ve made because this made the story a lot more enjoyable to read. I’m very picky when binge reading trilogies or series and I’m so glad this turned out to be pretty entertaining. I have already read the first two books when it was released but I haven’t gotten around to read the finale yet so when poulami invited me for a buddy read, I couldn’t resist. Hello Everyone! It’s been long a time since I’ve binge read a series so last month I’ve decided to binge read the Penryn & the end of the days trilogy together with my blogger buddy Poulami books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His uncles tried to “reform” him by setting him up with a woman one night after a cockfight. His mother and stepfather couldn’t live with the thought that Gomez was gay. ![]() Much of Gomez’s memoir recounts his struggles to find guides to help him growing up, gay and Latinx in a world that often violently rejected gay men. Within such a culture, “men must marry, spawn children, and head their households.” If it weren’t for his queerness, Gomez writes, “which made many of the benefits awarded to men who uphold machismo unappealing, I would have likely accepted them without question.” With alternating notes of gut-wrenching emotion and humor, High-Risk Homosexual chronicles not only Gomez’s coming-of-age and coming out, but also his choppy navigation of a culture and family that refused to accept him. Growing up in Florida, with roots in Puerto Rico and Nicaragua, Edgar Gomez was confronted very early in his life by a culture of machismo-a glorified, aggressive masculine pride. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Catch 'n' Kiss by Rhian Cahill![]() Having West in her life again is thrilling, but Kelsey's guilt over her broken marriage to a man she didn't love enough, prevents her from believing she deserves happiness with West. ![]() Now that Kelsey is free again, West is determined to run the red, and do everything he can to convince her to give him a second chance, even if it means talking her into becoming his office manager so he can spend every day seducing her to his way of thinking. He was too young to know then what he knows now-that Kelsey is the woman he's meant to be with. West Mann's biggest regret is letting his best friend, Kelsey Thompson, marry someone else without first telling her how he felt. ![]() The guy you make a virginity loss pact with in high school isn't meant to be the love of your life, but Kelsey Newman has never gotten over West Mann, and a decade and a dissolved marriage later, she still wishes things had been different between them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() by Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall (Illustrator) Hardcover (Library Binding) 27.07. ![]() Ivy and Bean: One Big Happy Family: 11 128. If you've loved this series and are looking for similar books, check out other books about friendship here. Discover Ivy and Bean: One Big Happy Family: 11 by Annie Barrows, Sophie Blackall and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. Ivy and Bean's reading level is ages 6 and above. With a central message of friendship, empathy, and understanding, each book follows Ivy and Bean on their various adventures through adolescent life. WAAAA!įrom beloved children's book author Annie Barrowsand illustrator Sophie Blackall, The Ivy & Bean collection has been delighting preschool, primary and children of all ages for nearly two decades. Join these two very different yet equally fun characters as they tackle ghosts needing the toilet, fossil hunting, global warming and, yes, even whining babies. But when Bean plays a joke on her sister, Nancy, and has to quickly hide, Ivy comes to the rescue, and the rest is history. There was no doubt they'd never be friends. ![]() Ivy and Bean could not be more different. Whether they enjoy reading big books quietly like Ivy, or love shouting and running like Bean, every child will find a friend for life in this heartwarming and super funny book series! With over 8 million copies sold, a musical and now a Netflix original film. Are you looking your next feel-good friendship book series? Are you six years old (or older)? Do you LOVE adventure? Then let us introduce you to the dynamic (and ultra naughty) duo, Ivy and Bean! ![]() ![]() Ayo, to Aneka (from Black Panther: World of Wakanda, 2017) We will serve, but we will also think and act for ourselves, and what we think best.” You are so much more than your service…We will continue to serve, but from this day forth, our eyes will be open. They refuse to be defined only by their roles, their jobs, or the men they love: from an exchange between T’Challa and NakiaĪgent Ross, to T’Challa: “Does she speak English?”īecause, obviously, Okoye can speak for herself. “I would make a great queen because I am stubborn…if that is what I wanted.” “If you were not so stubborn you would make a great queen.” They are not afraid to state exactly what they want: from an exchange between Shuri and Agent Ross, after Agent Ross wakes up in Shuri’s lab. Ayo, to Aneka (from Black Panther: World of Wakanda, Volume 1, 2016) “But let us be clear: what is between us is not new. ![]() Okoye, in reference to her wig: “I want to get this ridiculous thing off me.” ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments To Catch a Wolf by Lynn Red![]() ![]() ![]() but she’s fallen hard for Erik’s rough charm.Įrik wants to claim her forever, marking Izzy as his honest-to-goodness mate. ![]() Curvy, tough and with more than a little bit of a naughty streak, Izzy has long since gotten used to the weirdness of everyday life in Jamesburg. Isabel Taylor was more than a little frustrated when she answered a very vague job ad to be the personal assistant of a mayor in a town she didn’t know existed. Sometimes a girl needs romance and wine and sweet kisses. He’s down to his last nerve, but he’s willing to fight one last time. But underneath it all, he’s just a muscled-up, rough-shod bad boy of a werewolf with a tattoo that goes all the way up his chest and sticks out the collar of his shirt. But Erik? He just needs a mate.Įrik Danniken is the alpha of Jamesburg, a small town hidden from the world and full of shifters of all stripes. Sometimes a wolf’s gotta fight and growl and bite. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Xenocide by orson scott card![]()
5/22/2023 0 Comments Ett litet liv by Hanya Yanagihara![]() The sober New Yorker became uncharacteristically breathless in describing it as a book that could “drive you mad, consume you, and take over your life”. ![]() The reviewer in the Los Angeles Times felt herself unqualified to offer a judgment on the book at all beyond the fact that it was the only novel she had read as a grownup that simply “left sobbing”. The novel, which is both a dislocating meditation on the trauma of child sexual abuse, and a moving tribute to the possibilities and limitations of adult male friendship and love, was widely greeted as a book of landmark honesty – “the most ambitious chronicle of the social and emotional lives of gay men to have emerged for many years” – on publication in America in the spring (though some critics found its graphic descriptions of sexual violence both voyeuristic and too much to bear). It is hard to imagine anyone reading the 734 pages of Hanya Yanagihara’s novel, A Little Life, without being curious about the life of the writer who created it. But then the fact is,” she suggests, “our bodies don’t care about us at all.” “But I love discovering how far a body will go to protect itself, at all costs. ![]() ![]() That is never an abstract process, though, I say to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story of a girl who tries to finds herself when she thought it was all lost.Ĭharlotte Blackwell, author of The Embrace Series, is delighted to have the opportunity to follow her dreams of writing. The excitement of this story wraps mortals, vampires, witches, and more all into a romantic tale of young love, friendship, the meaning of family. ![]() This is Sophia’s story, a story of a girl who finds herself, love and everlasting friendship. Will Sophia be able to resist the sweet scent of her beloved’s blood? That is until something tragic happens and blood is spilled. This is where Sophia finds her soulmate, Nathanial and life as she knows it is about to change.Īs a vampire, Sophia has always kept to herself, but as a high school student, will she learn to step out of her comfort zone a little? Sophia has found a best friend in a powerful witch and a love to call her own. ![]() Her and her siblings have been ordered to protect their little sister, and must return to High school. ![]() That is until her family decides to move to Wenham, Massachusetts. Sophia has suffered since her brother left, and is unsure if she will ever get over it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And she can't resist cursing her enemy with the "kiss of hate". Now she has not only one unconscious Jacobite rebel at her mercy, but two. Martha Wantage wears every reason she hates the Scots on her body-in the scars from a violent, fiery attack that killed her family. It's just a matter of time before Jack is turned over to the Crown as a traitor, but Fraser's attempt to rescue his friend is met with the blunt end of a candlestick. But when a kindly English family takes Jack in to be cared for by the governess and healer at their Derbyshire estate, Fraser can only watch helplessly. ![]() Stranded in the heart of England after Bonnie Prince Charlie's hasty retreat, highlander Fraser Lachlan has sworn to stay by his injured friend's side. A passion that burns away centuries of hate. ![]() |