If it is the end, I think it does a good job of capping off the series, ending it with Jane in a different place than she was as a character, but just as gritty and powerful as she was in the first book. I think, but am not sure, this is the last book in the series, based on how it ends I could be wrong. I’ve been reading this series at least since college, if not earlier. She’ll find it in her city, her friends, her found family, and, of course, the Beast inside of her. With the Heir and all the forces of darkness he can muster arrayed against her, Jane will need all the help she can get. That includes the Heir, the vampire sire of the Pellissier bloodline, which gave rise to Leo Pellissier himself-Jane’s old boss and the former master of the city. She has enemies at every turn, because vampires live forever, and they keep their grudges alive with them. Jane Yellowrock is the queen of the vampires, and that makes her a target as she fights to maintain control and keep peace in the city of New Orleans. The stakes couldn’t be higher in the newest novel in the New York Times bestselling, pulse-pounding Jane Yellowrock series. Urban fantasy released by Ace on September 6, 2022 Final Heir (Jane Yellowrock #15) by Faith Hunter
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But when every memory of their romance vanishes, they work to uncover the mystery of what’s happened to them, and begin to question why they were ever together. Charlize Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends forever and in love since they were 14. What it's about: The author of “It Starts With Us” and the author of “The Wives” team up for an original romantic thriller. 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It's easy to convince her superiors that the countryside needs unity more than ever, and who better than an immortal girl to stir pride and strength into the people? When the tour goes wrong, however, everything Rosalind once knew is thrown up in the air. The only way to leave the city and rescue Orion is under the guise of a national tour. But with her identity in the open, the task is near impossible. Though their marriage might have been a sham, his absence hurts her more than any physical wound. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she's barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course of action after Orion was taken and his memories of Rosalind wiped. Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. Winter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of a Japanese invasion. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends comes the second book in the captivating Foul Lady Fortune duology following an immortal assassin in 1930s Shanghai as she races to save her country and her love. Regardless of one's position on the controversy, the half Pakeha /half Maori Duff provides a compelling and insightful glimpse into the overwhelming struggles faced by the disenfranchised poor of any urban society-including America's own inner cities. Part-Maori director Lee Tamahori, who turned this novel into the widely-acclaimed homonymous film, has a more balanced view of the Duff case. Duff's choppy sentences, repeated phrasing and use of Maori slang may require some adjustment for American readers, but ultimately his staccato prose style is ideally suited to a world of not-so-quiet desperation. Most vulnerable is Grace who dreams of escape into the Pakeha (white) world and whose brutal rape triggers the downward spiral of events. With a gritty, realistic eye, Duff portrays Jake and Beth, who because of alcoholism, abuse and poverty can provide little protection against the gangs, drugs and violence that menace their children. In a Maori ghetto of urban New Zealand, Jake and Beth Heke battle entrenched poverty, racism and other ills that overwhelm their traditional Maori culture. Part of Hawaii's TalanoaContemporary Pacific Literature imprint, this first novel won the 1991 PEN Best First Book Award amid controversy over Duff's perceived condemnation of Maori society as largely responsible for the hopelessness plaguing its communities. Expanding on the Apartheid-era themes of blackness and whiteness, Duiker incorporates elements of sexual identity. Two months after his release in 2000, he wrote the novella Thirteen Cents. However, after enrolling at University of Cape Town, Duiker began taking drugs and was expelled and institutionalised at a psychiatric hospital. At Rhodes Duiker collaborated with other poets in starting Seeds poetry society and earned a degree in journalism.ĭuring these years, he worked in advertising and wrote scripts for the television show Backstage. He also studied at Huntington School in England, before attending Rhodes University in Grahamstown to study journalism and art history. In high school during Apartheid at the elite Redhill School, Duiker was one of two black students and expressed his awareness of his country’s political climate. Son of soccer player Judah Duiker, Duiker was born into a family that was educated and somewhat wealthy. South African novelist and screenwriter Kabello “Sello” Duiker, best known for his novel The Quiet Violence of Dreams, was born in Orlando, Soweto, South Africa. This is one I would highly recommend to fans of inspirational historical romance, particularly with a comedic thread. The characters were delightful and the story line intriguing. Turano does such a splendid job of that! This one also had a solid faith thread as Gabriella came to see how God had not abandoned her, but had actually been with her through the years. My favorite type of romance novels teach me about history, make me laugh and include a good mystery. I had my suspicions on who the villain was, though I was still surprised by how everything played out. What ensues is a great deal of mystery, fun and laughter as they attempt to continue seeking after the recurring thief. Gabriella's past talents as a safe-cracker are called upon and in the process, she comes back in contact with Nicholas, her former "partner in crime" (literally). Though she made a respectable living, when another member of her boardinghouse was accused of theft, the ladies of the Bleaker Street boardinghouse put their heads together to catch the actual thief. This book follows Gabriella, a girl who grew up on the streets and an orphanage. Another great historical novel from Jen Turano! As is typical with her books, the hilarity was ever-flowing. Showing a humility that suggests his sobriety is the real thing, he includes the damning recollections of his old drug buddies. Hosoi talks candidly about his drug use and the disastrous effects it had on his family and career, and unlike most celebrity memoirists, he gives plenty of hideous details. Readers interested in Hosoi's addiction, his related criminal behaviors and his eventual 5-year prison term will also appreciate this book. If you toyed around on a skateboard in the Reagan era and enjoy 1980s nostalgia to a healthy, non-obsessive degree, Christian's anecdotes about skate tournaments, Tony Hawk and the "Two Coreys" era of Hollywood will be an amusing guilty pleasure. Hosoi nobly attempts to satisfy them all but the limitations of the first-person genre, namely, the sporadic input of others and the subject's selection of events to prioritize, results in a book that is wide in scope but slim in substance. As far as memoirs go, "Hosoi" has perhaps the most divergent mix of target readers out there: skaters, 1980s enthusiasts, recovering drug addicts, and new school Christians. The book is not quite what I had expected, and it is truly different in a few key ways from his first publication.įirst, Broken Roads appeared in May 2020, nine years after the publication of Growing Up Amish. After all, he’s been to my university twice, and over the years, I’ve got to know and appreciate him. And if I am honest, I have to admit that I was somewhat concerned about what I would do if I didn’t like Ira Wagler’s new book. Some writers never make it past the first book, while others end up wishing they had only written one. A writer whose first book makes that list has much to live up to. Growing Up Amish, Ira Wagler’s New York Times bestseller has sold some 185,000 copies since it first appeared in 2011. I understand why people go there.Īnd I understand why people chose to stay there. I understand, because I poked my head through that door and looked around a bit.Īnd I gotta say, it’s not a terribly scary place. I’ve heard those voices calling in the night. I know, because I deal with my own demons I know the monsters that lurk in the recesses of the mind and in As her friendship with Sumire develops, Sumire begins dressing in nicer, more feminine clothes, quits smoking and develops writer's block. Miu is a rich woman who owns her own wine import business and is accustomed to a finer way of life. Even though she's 17 years older than her, Sumire finds herself sexually attracted to her in a way that she hasn't been attracted to anyone before. As the story begins, Sumire has met a Korean woman named Miu at a wedding. Narrator K is a 25-year-old schoolteacher who's unrequited love for Sumire, an aspiring writer, is at the center of the story. Kodansha first published the novel in Japanese in 1999 and then an English version in 2001. Sputnik Sweetheart is a Japanese novel that follows the narrator "K" as his love interest falls in love with someone else and disappears under mysterious, perhaps magical, circumstances. |