The plot is predictable and the outcome obvious, but in this case, Stella and Michael are so likable and interesting, it turns into a very entertaining story. Plus, he has a rule never to get involved with clients. Michael is afraid if Stella knows who his father is, she will think he is not good enough for her. Stella is afraid if Michael finds out she is “autistic,” he won’t like her. But neither one of them knows what to do with that fact. The only problem is, in spite of having just a contractual arrangement, Stella and Michael are immediately attracted to each other, not only physically but emotionally. From online pictures she selects Michael Phan, a half-Vietnamese, half-Swedish escort who looks a Korean martial arts movie star from her favorite film genre. To this end, she signs up with an escort service so as to have a “professional” teach her how to manage the physical end of a relationship. The premise of this story is that Stella Lane, a 30-year old attractive and smart woman with Asperger’s living in Palo Alto, California, caves into pressure from her mother to find a man and generate some grandchildren.
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With director Robert Harmon back on the case, pic again masters a slow-rolling noirish tone though very little actually happens. He also immediately begins a quickie affair with City Attorney Abby (Polly Shannon), which doesn’t prevent Hasty’s wife (Stephanie March) from propositioning him, promising something “very nice, and very uncomplicated.” The prequel also affords Stone a chance to begin breaking in his staff, which must grow accustomed to his little eccentricities, from bringing his dog to the office to settling a domestic dispute call by giving the pugnacious husband (Stephen Baldwin, with maybe the worst hairdo ever) a swift kick where it will do the most good. That suspicion grows when his predecessor turns up dead, suggesting some shady doings have preceded him. He’s still a wounded soul, smarting from the dissolution of his marriage, though he and his ex indulge in latenight conversations filled with melancholy.Ĭruising into Paradise, Stone shows up half-stoned for the interview, which makes him a little perplexed when the town’s heavyweight businessman, Hasty Hathaway (Saul Rubinek), hails him like a conquering hero. “Night Passage” goes back to Stone’s arrival, having been booted off the L.A. Parker’s novels, the first pic involved a stunning murder spree in the quiet little hamlet. You can read the blurb for yourself, so I’m going to skip summarizing the plot today. And what better book to choose then Tribute to do so? It has dub/non con, a bit of torture and a whole lot of humiliation, D/s and creepy, abusive fuckers in abundance. Since dating cruel bastards with little to none redeeming qualities would kind of interfere with this wholesome, little life I lead these days, I will just have to still my cravings through my reads. I was so thrilled to read Tribute! It fits perfectly into my master plan to.*cough*.‘professionalize’ my depravity. And, to be the tribute that Brasius wants him to be, Kynon will have to defy all the traditions of Segasa and risk the wrath of the senate that really holds his chains. On an enforced journey of self-discovery, Kynon learns that being the warlord’s tribute isn’t just about submission. The warlord might just want the man underneath: the prince, the soldier and the tribute, if Kynon can figure out who that is. He can live with the shame it’s the mind-blowing pleasure that frightens him.īut the warlord wants more than a tribute who will respond eagerly to whips and bondage. If his slavery will save his father’s kingdom, then he will be a slave and submit to every indignity the warlord and the senate of Segasa require of him. BLURB: When the fearsome warlord Brasius chooses Kynon as his tribute, Kynon tells himself it’s the price of peace, and that he can endure anything. Nobody remembered nobody, you understand?’ He say that four more times before I catch what he mean. This is the tenth time I am talking to you, and the fourth city too. Sogolon is found later by her great-great-granddaughter and a water sprite who explains what happened to her via long-forgotten griot: “‘Here is truth. Both temporal irruption and narratological uncertainty are present within Sogolon’s story: after her showdown with the Aesi, when she kills him but loses a child in the process, a gap in her memory becomes apparent during this interval, she leaves her family and spends roughly 170 years with a community of apes, where she develops notoriety as an ageless witch. Moon Witch, Spider King is an origin story, one that takes us through Sogolon’s trials and tribulations as she struggles her way from her abusive family to a brothel, to work in the court of royals before falling onto the wrong side of a dynastic dispute, developing a conflict with the king’s chancellor, the Aesi. Crucially, Sogolon - the Moon Witch - our focus and protagonist for this second installment in the Dark Star trilogy, provides (at times) a steadier, more linear narration. MARLON JAMES’S Moon Witch, Spider King is a worthy sequel to 2019’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf, redolent of similar themes, from the lascivious, irruptive narrative to smatterings of torqued violence and deterritorialized spatiality. Wick said that the book was "about what could happen when women talk to each other, sharing knowledge, building community" and that "Harrow likes a secret society in the best way, and Witches is riddled with secrets, honeycombed with groups working toward overlapping or opposing goals." Amy R. The fight for women’s rights becomes a fight to restore their magic." Reception Harrow has described the book as "suffragists, but witches" and that "it’s the story of three sisters joining the American suffrage movement, in a world where there’s no such thing as witches, but there used to be. After one of them accidentally performs a spell and the three begin advocating for witching rights as well as the right to vote, they are kicked out of the movement and form their own activist group to reclaim women's rights and the power of magic. In New Salem, United States, in 1893, the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragist movement. Harrow, the second novel released by Harrow. The Once and Future Witches is a 2020 fantasy novel by Alix E. Telling him they need him to research American prison reform, they ship Olivier to the States with Parrot, a gruff Englishman they've convinced to accompany, and spy on, their son. Olivier is an aristocrat his family came close to being killed in the French Revolution, and his parents, sensing more political trouble ahead, are anxious to get him as far away from France as possible. Genius, however, can find the humor in almost anything, and in Parrot and Olivier in America, Australian-born author Peter Carey manages to craft a funny, unlikely and slightly bizarre comic novel around the life of the influential political thinker.Ĭarey's novel follows Olivier de Garmont, a very thinly disguised version of Tocqueville, and his initially unwilling traveling companion "Parrot" Larrit from France to a still-young United States. The French historian is associated with many things - his classic two-volume book Democracy in America, for starters - but comedy is not generally one of them. Did you hear the one about Alexis de Tocqueville? She sets her sights on gorgeous and rich Dmitri Sevastyan. Despite a history tainted with violation and betrayal, he will stop at nothing to possess her.ĭescended from a long line of con artists, twenty-four-year-old Victoria, a.k.a Vice, needs the score of a lifetime to keep her loved ones safe. In the City of Sin, Dmitri Sevastyan finds her, Victoria Valentine-sexy, vulnerable, and in need of a protector. In this searing stand-alone installment of the erotic Game Maker series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole brings readers a tale of a man wracked with dark desires and the beautiful young woman who could sate him at last. Posted on 12 April, 2016 by momsread in Kresley Cole, Review / 0 comments The Player by Kresley Cole Subscribe Review: The Player (The Game Maker #3) by Kresley Cole Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. How accurate, well-supported, and well-regarded is this book? There are other factors, but it's at least a well-written book, and superficially plausible. Wheat is a better grain than corn, in terms of nutrition supplied per unit effort. Eurasia extends more east-west, and America more north-south, as does Africa. It's easier for a civilization to expand in a roughly east-west direction than a north-south direction, since climate is more similar east-to-west (an example would be the lack of horses in South Africa until imported by sea, since they couldn't go by land through the tse-tse fly zone). Diamond places great importance on diseases in human development, and likens the results of making contact with a more diseased civilization to being digested. This had advantage for animal-powered farming and transportation, as well as infecting the Eurasians with numerous diseases the Americans had no resistance to. In Eurasia, there were several large domesticated animals, including the cow and horse. It has several explanations for the development of Eurasian civilization rather than American civilization. Jared Diamond wrote a fascinating book that purports to explain, in a very broad way, the development of civilization. They defied impossible odds and taught me that we are capable of so much more that we can even imagine.” The Wild Boars are both extraordinary and totally ordinary at the same time. Many stories focus on the brave divers who pulled the boys out of the cave, but I also want to tell you about the thousands of Thai people who were pivotal to saving the boys’ lives. The flap cover quotes the author, Christina Soontornvat, “It is the heroism of regular people that made this rescue possible. Even people who I love with all my heart who I never tell to read a book because it isn’t something they enjoy like my husband, younger son and my mother. But, when I started reading All Thirteen at 1 AM on a Saturday morning and didn’t put it down till I finished at 4 AM, I knew this was a book I would be telling everyone about. I don’t know about you but hope and awe aren’t feelings that I’ve experienced much of in these past ten months. All Thirteen is a narrative nonfiction text that shows when we are willing to collaborate together with people from all over the world from every “walk of life” that impossible is only a construct in our minds.Įach page filled me with tons of hope and awe. Yes, that is what I wrote, and I stand behind my words. You may be thinking, ‘Wait! What? Did she just write, “Every human being should read All Thirteen?” ‘ Every human being should read All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat. I also have boards for other characters as well. Lately for characters, I have been putting together Pinterest boards to collect ideas, mostly images, about the character.įollow Timothy's board Tanith on Pinterest. The name is a nod to both the novel "Tanith" by Jack D. Yes she was also "Cindy Lou Who" in the live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie. I am basing her look a little off of Taylor Momsen, the actress and lead singer of The Pretty Reckless. Like all of the Winters witches Tanith is pale, with white hair and favors darker clothing. She might be the powerful one yet, no one is sure. Tanith Winters is a member of the ancient Winters family of witches. Something like the Mayfair witches from Anne Rice, but a lot less incest. She is a witch (of course, but so are my projects), but comes from an ancient line of witches. In particular when creating a character I might have some archetype or even some stereotype I want to explore.Ĭurrently, the character I am working on is an NPC for various project. In your opinion, what do you need for a satisfying character?Īll I need is a good concept I want to explore. |