![]() ![]() Trigger warnings: Violent deaths, ghosts, domestic violence, brief reference to severe self harm by a child pet death.Age range: This is an adult book but suitable for mature teens age 16+.And then, her best friend shows up to investigate her murder. Compelled to spend eternity observing her neighbors, she realizes that any one of them could be her killer. An aging trophy wife whose husband strays. As she rides the elevator up and down, the lives of the residents intertwine. ![]() ![]() She finds herself in the afterlife, tethered to her death spot, her reach tied to the adjacent apartments. On her way to the garage, she is murdered in the elevator. She never leaves her safe haven in an anonymous doorman building, until one night a phone call sends her running. Rachel Drake is on the run from the man who killed her husband. Today I am sharing my Feature Post and Book Review on the Blackthorn Book Tour for THE GHOSTS OF THORWALD PLACE by Helen Power.īelow you will find an about the book section, my book review, an about the author section and the book’s purchase link. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Technically, only the driver is guilty by law, but the others carry their own guilt. ![]() I really liked the idea of this book: an accident involving lots of drunk/stoned people in a car that hits and kills a young girl. It's pretty much focused on Carmen, Alice and Nick and Alice is the main character featured. The book is a little boring and was just a look at the life of these messed up people. I was expecting this book to be more about how the death of the young girl affects their lives and how one incident can change someone for life but they all were already on the paths they were headed before the accident. Or even the book said "2 years later" other then that it was an "oh, we've jumped ahead." You don't really grasp time passing along unless you catch an age of someone or a major event. The book then goes through there lives over the next 20 years. Their sisters Maude and Alice get in a car with Alice and Carmen's brother Nick, who is high and his girlfriend Olivia who is also high and gets behind the wheel. It starts out with a wedding between Carmen and Matt. It didn't suck me in like most books I like. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s Zack’s chance, at last, to play the hero. And his skills-as well as those of millions of gamers across the world-are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it. As impossible as it seems, what he’s seeing is all too real. He knows that here in the real world, aimless teenage gamers with anger issues don’t get chosen to save the universe.Įven stranger, the alien ship he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada-in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders. ![]() Dreaming that one day, some fantastic, world-altering event will shatter the monotony of his humdrum existence and whisk him off on some grand space-faring adventure.īut hey, there’s nothing wrong with a little escapism, right? After all, Zack tells himself, he knows the difference between fantasy and reality. Dreaming that the real world could be a little more like the countless science-fiction books, movies, and videogames he’s spent his life consuming. Zack Lightman has spent his life dreaming. ![]() ![]() This is the first of, to date, eight in a series of Captain Lacey mysteries, and yet again, it’s another Kindle cheap buy – I’m having great difficulty resisting the recommendations list when the book is a bargain and it’s got good reviews – which this one has. What on earth is the Puzzle Doctor, reviewer of novels of mystery and mayhem, doing reading a book with a cover like that? Can Lacey get to the bottom of the mystery? Or will he end up at the bottom of the river?īut of course, we are missing the most important question. On investigating, he comes across tales of other missing girls, but not before Horne is brutally murdered in his home. It seems that the girl disappeared weeks previously, but she had been sighted apparently entering the house in question, the home of Horne, a Member of Parliament. Captain Gabriel Lacey, wounded in the Peninsular Wars – those blasted Frenchies again – stumbles upon the beginnings of a riot outside number 22 Hanover Square, where a man is demanding the return of his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s desperate to escape all of this, and is definitely scaring himself by encountering the familiar Path at night in a mostly closed museum. A family wedding is held in his favorite part of the Natural History Museum, the “Path of Time.” Unfortunately his mother is drunk and sobbing over everyone she can find, while also trying to get him to recite his award-winning interpretation of the famous William Blake poem. In “ The Tyger” by Tegan Moore, Jules is a 12-year-old boy whose parents have divorced. After many harrowing encounters and only a little bonding, they make it to the Turk’s compound and we learn the secrets within. The thief (there are few proper names here) hires a guide to take him to the Turk after the thief’s wife disappears/leaves him. ![]() From Richard Kadrey, we get a tale of a post-plague apocalyptic cityscape in “ Across the Dark Water“. In the subsequent year they all suffer terribly and psychotically. “ Shards” by Ian Rogers is a cabin-in-the-woods story in which four friends violently murder the fifth friend, due to a demonic artefact. The stories in Tor.com I read this month leaned heavily toward horror, with three edited by Ellen Datlow and the fourth a vampire story edited by Jonathan Strahan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Themes that emerge throughout these commentaries include core Sufi theological, philosophical and metaphysical traditions, such as the teachings of Prophet Muhammad as the insan al-kamil, divine attributes of Allah and the Prophet Muhammad, and much more. For instance, throughout her discussion, she draws on the teachings and literary traditions of Jalaluddin Rumi, Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi, Ahmed Rifai, Ken’an Rifai and many others. The book is organized around these 83 verses, in which Sargut provides stunning in-depth commentaries on each verse by drawing from Sufi, Turkish and Islamic traditions. The compilation consists of a robust commentary of Surah Ya-Sin or the 36th chapter of the Qur’an and its 83 verses. ![]() O Humankind Surah Ya-Sin (Fons Vitae, 2021) is compiled by Cemalnur Sargut, who is a Sufi teacher based in Turkey and has been translated into English by Victoria Rowe Holbrook. ![]() ![]() As days tick toward the Seanchan attack she knows is imminent, Egwene works to hold together the disparate factions of Aes Sedai while providing leadership in the face of increasing uncertainty and despair. As he attempts to halt the Seanchan encroachment northward-wishing he could form at least a temporary truce with the invaders-his allies watch in terror the shadow that seems to be growing within the heart of the Dragon Reborn himself.Įgwene al'Vere, the Amyrlin Seat of the rebel Aes Sedai, is a captive of the White Tower and subject to the whims of their tyrannical leader. Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, struggles to unite a fractured network of kingdoms and alliances in preparation for the Last Battle. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. ![]() Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. ![]() The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Dark, edgy, and wickedly funny, this debut for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, Kristen Arnett, and Kelly Link takes our coziest, most beloved childhood stories, exposes them as anti-feminist nightmares, and transforms them into a new kind of myth for grown-up women. What really brought them here? What secrets will they reveal? And is it too late for them to rescue each other? Though the women start out wary of one another, judging each other’s stories, gradually they begin to realize that they may have more in common than they supposed. And Raina's love story will shock them all. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy tale ending. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. One of NPR's Best Books of the Year: This darkly funny and provocative novel reimagines classic fairy tale characters as modern women in a support group for trauma. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a politician now, elected to the city council in the late 1990s and to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2009. McQuinn was raised in Richmond, the capital of Virginia and the former capital of the Confederacy-a city crowded with monuments to the Old South. “And I think something like that has happened over and again, symbolically.” ![]() ![]() “The intent was to keep that history buried,” McQuinn says today. Now, whether the papers were trivial or actual plantation records, who knows? But he stood in the door, in front of my grandfather, and lit a match to the papers. “The man went into his house and came back out with some papers in his hands. “My grandfather went to the folks who had owned our family and asked, ‘Do you have any documentation about our history during the slave days? We would like to see it, if possible.’ The man at the door, who I have to assume was from the slaveholding side, said, ‘Sure, we’ll give it to you.’ He said his own father knew the name of the people who had enslaved their family in Virginia, knew where they lived-in the same house and on the same land-in Hanover County, among the rumpled hills north of Richmond. ![]() When Delores McQuinn was growing up, her father told her a story about a search for the family’s roots. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gantos has won a number of awards, including the Newbery, the Newbery Honor, the Scott O'Dell Award, the Printz Honor, and the Sibert Honor from the American Library Association, and he has been a finalist for the National Book Award. Jack Gantos is an American author of children's books renowned for his portrayal of fictional Joey Pigza, a boy with ADHD, and many other well known characters such as Rotten Ralph, Jack Henry, Jack Gantos (memoirs) and others. The seeds for Jack Gantos' writing career were planted in sixth grade, when he read his sister's diary and decided he could write better than she could. ![]() Gantos was born in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania to son of construction superintendent John Gantos and banker Elizabeth (Weaver) Gantos. ![]() |