![]() ![]() “Mama,” she sa id, keeping her voice light. Daisy wondered, briefly, if her mama had even bothered to look at the Caller ID before answering. It was, apparently, impossible to catch the woman in a good mood. “Yeah,” came Sue Cutter’s perpetually haggard voice. Daisy tapped her foot as she listened to it ring, wondering what kind of mood the woman would be in as though she had any other kind of mood aside from ‘irritated’. She scrolled down and chose her mama’s number. He was the whole reason she was here in the first place. If she loathed calling her mama at this moment, she absolutely refused to call Matt. She stuffed her wallet back into her jeans pocket and pulled out her cell phone. ![]() She didn’t have enough for a bus ticket back to Nebraska, just as she hadn’t eight months ago. When they didn’t, she sighed and looked up at the Arrival/Departure screen on the monitor in front of her. She counted out the $52 as though by some miracle more bills would appear. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.įor being a kickass group of ladies and helping whip this book into shape.ĭaisy Cutter opened her wallet even though she already knew what she’d find. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This series is definitely, without a doubt, one of my favourites.'. ![]() With themes of action, mystery and mild romance, this novel suits older readers who enjoy reading a good fight and tales of survival. Borderlands carries on with the story seamlessly and makes the reader feel like they never put the last book down. THE CHASING THE VALLEY SERIES: BOOK 1: CHASING THE VALLEY BOOK 2: BORDERLANDS BOOK 3: SKYFIRE PRAISE FOR BORDERLANDS: 'The ultimate blend of an oppressive rule, a post-apocalyptic landscape, adventure, survival and a touch of romance, beautifully woven into a heart-stopping storyline.' 'An epic sequel to the first novel, Chasing the Valley. What has he seen through the eagle's eyes? The answer can be found in an alchemy charm and a smuggler's tale, and will lead Danika and her friends to an electrifying, unputdownable showdown. Title: Skyfire Author: Skye Melki-Wegner Genre: YA Fantasy Opening line: The sky catches fire at midnight Blurb: - What if you achieve everything youve. ![]() ![]() It is Lukas, however, who hides the most dangerous secret. When one of the crew is badly wounded, Danika turns to the smugglers for help - and accepts a bargain that might prove deadly. But the borderlands they must cross to reach the Valley are smugglers' territory: lawless, wild and steeped in ancient magic. The action-packed adventure continues in the second book of the Chasing the Valley trilogy! Danika and her crew of escaped refugees are seeking the safety of the Magnetic Valley - and trying to evade Sharr Morrigan, the king's most lethal hunter. ![]() ![]() If she let her novel descend from the air more often, or if she'd chosen to cover time in chunks rather than swaths, the ideas and characters in Infinite Country might have coexisted more fully, and better amplified each other as a result. Nuanced, dimensional characters exist to provoke emotional responses, not intellectual ones, which tells me Engel is out for both. ![]() But these ideas aren't abstractions, and Engel's characters aren't flat. Its fragmented, summary-focused form clearly prioritizes ideas - how do we define home? Family? Safety? - above all else. ![]() To be clear, Infinite Country is not meant to center on character. This is an unusual choice, and an impressive one. Engel sometimes lingers in her characters' inner lives, but only Talia gets a scenic outer one. Infinite Country relies more on detailed narrative summary than on conventional scenes. Engel packs a lot of event and emotion into a slim novel. In swift chapters that bounce between characters and chronologies, Engel moves from Talia's parents' courtship to their emigration to their forced split, and traces their fight afterwards to survive as individuals, and as a family. ![]() Infinite Country is less concerned with Talia's quest to reunite with her family, though, than with the choices and circumstances - and cruel immigration policies - that led to their initial separation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why on earth would a black man write about what white people think about black people? It may seem an unfortunate premise considering that there are already plenty of published books written about what white folks think of black folks, and even more unpublished weighty opinions. ![]() One question could be: “Was Kelley right about white people?” It depends on who is reading the book.Īfter all, Kelley’s first novel, “A Different Drummer,” published in 1962 when he was just 24, is told by a black man, about black people, through the eyes of white people. You could say there’s a certain symmetry to the fact William Melvin Kelley, the black “lost giant of American literature,” as The New Yorker called him earlier this year, was “rediscovered” by a white writer. An inscrption in the book by author Langston Hughes, shown here speaking before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, sent writer Kathryn Schulz on a search for Kelley. ![]() ![]() Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. ![]() His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. ![]() |