“For me, change is difficult. It is paralyzing. It makes me feel vulnerable…I love in fear of making the wrong choice, because I have seen how badly that can go,” (Shannon 122). Marosa Vetalda awaits the day of her wedding to her betrothal Abrecht Lievelyn, of Mentendon, as she is a prisoner in her own home …
“She appreciates morbid humour, but most people don’t. They don’t get that life can be funny AND tragic at the same time, like in those old Road Runner cartoons my dad loves, where an anvil falls on Wile E. Coyote’s head and you’re supposed to laugh even though obviously it’s not funny for Wile E. …
“Truly lucky people have a lot of bad things happen to them along with the good…and yet, even the worst of them always seem to lead somewhere worth going,” (Stevenson 338). Viola and Wilmur have been waiting for their parents to return to them, but after fifteen years of waiting it seems less and less likely …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “I’d rather be me now, than me any age prior. But there is this heaviness to aging. Who I am was built on the shoulders of the person I was last year, and the year before, and before, and before. I’m not …
“No matter what, you will always be loved. You cannot mess up so badly that you will not be loved,” (Anders 161) Twenty-something Jamie is working on her PhD dissertation, in a strong relationship with their partner Ro, processing their generational trauma, and is a practicing witch. She has a fraught relationship with her mother, Serena, …
“Stella Wallace met her family’s god when she was nine years old. Later, she couldn’t figure out why she didn’t run when she saw it. It wasn’t fear that pinned her to the spot, staring up at it, or even shock. It was something else. Awe, maybe. Wonder so deep it was almost adoration,” (Gregory 1). …
I received this book from The Next Best Book Club in exchange for an honest review. Darrin Doyle’s short story collection The Dark Will End The Dark features an array of strange and horrifying stories. Doyle does an excellent job of creating tension, especially the slow build of it to create feelings of dread and horror. There are many …
“‘Kabahiko is an amazing hippo. People say that if you touch the area of his body that you want to make better on yours, he’ll provide a cure,’” (Aoyama 13). Multiple residents at the new Advance Hill condominium find themselves at the children’s playground Hinode Park where an old hippo ride named Kabahiko can apparently …
“He would die for her, and he would kill for her. More importantly, he will live for her,” (Hazelwood). Serena Paris is the first Human-Were known to the world. Orphaned and without a pack, Serena thought that her existence might have repaired the rift between Humans, Weres, and Vampyres but if anything it’s only put …
“‘My dear Prue, we are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise we are the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos,’” (Meloy 380). After her little …
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