![]() ![]() You have no idea what I seek, Little One. ![]() On Devil’s Night, the hunt will be coming to you. Because even though I struggle to hide everything I feel when you look at me-and have ever since I was a girl-I think maybe what you seek is so much closer than you’ll ever realize. You think I can help you find that secret hideaway and get to him, don’t you? You and your friends can try to scare me. The mystery of the dark guest who never checked in and never checks out. ![]() But you think it’s true, don’t you, Kai Mori? The story about the hidden twelfth floor. Ailing, empty, and dark-it sits abandoned and surrounded by a forgotten mystery. Buried in the shadows of the city, there’s a hotel called The Pope. DEVIL’S NIGHT is returning! Hiding places, chases, and all the games are back…īANKS. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A college friend of Helen’s, Adam exemplifies perfect manhood-and helpfully takes a liking to her, too. But it is only when Gorgeous Adam appears on the scene that Claire begins to recover a sense of purpose. And drunken anguish does have its rewards, for in no time Claire sheds her extra weight, thanks to a steady liquid diet and nights spent on the family rowing machine fantasizing James’s ruin. Wandering around her childhood home in her mother’s old nightgowns, a vodka bottle in one hand and the bawling Kate in the other, Claire tries to banish images of the frolicking James and his “other woman.” Her two younger sisters prove to be a comfort’sweet Anna, a hippie drug-dealer, loans Claire money for booze, and haughty Helen deigns to buy it for her. The stunned Claire, with new baby in tow, and feeling as big as a summer melon, hightails it back to her family in Dublin to sort out her life. ![]() Both elated and exhausted after giving birth to a daughter, the 29-year-old Claire is shocked senseless when her husband James comes to the London hospital not to celebrate, but instead to break the news that he’s leaving her for their dowdy downstairs neighbor. ![]() A grand first novel by Irish writer Keyes is a hilarious treatise on love’s roller coaster. ![]() ![]() The villains were brutally vicious and hard to conquer, but I knew they were be bested in the end so there's just wasn't enough tension to raise the rating. Promise is still kind of lackluster, but Robin is - as always - a fun character bomb that was tossed into the group. ![]() Niko still hasn't grown on me as he's too perfect and paper pure, but he's okay as a background and their brotherly bond is still fitting. ![]() He's a unique character and I like his sassy attitude, gritty outlook, normal hormones, and sense of loyalty. ![]() With this series, there's little mystery - most of what is unknown is discovered almost right away, leaving little pause and wonder (no surprise) - so it's basically connect the dots from one action point to the next.Ĭal isn't as emo as before, but he's still realistically conflicted, which is fine. I think the main issue is that most Urban Fantasies dip their genre toe deeply into the mystery pool, stimulating the thinking part of the brain as much as the action part. Sure, there's a cool plot about a restored and ancient serial killer that's tough to beat, but just like the others in this series so far - nothing feels frantic or particularly suspenseful about it. Other than the last few paragraphs that came out of nowhere and knocked me on the side of the head, the book was rather sedate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Often overlooked is the fact that until three days before Gettysburg General Joseph Hooker was still in charge of the Union army. Then Sears gets into the campaign preceding the main battle. The first couple chapters show where the Confederate and Union armies are at following the battle of Chancellorsville. Covering not just the three-day battle, but the campaign as a whole, Sears understandably has written a whopping 500-page book. Prior to Gettysburg, Sears did a great job tackling the Peninsular Campaign, Antietam, and Chancellorsville, the last of these being considered the definitive account of that battle. So the question is, what’s a good single book on the battle to check out? One answer is Stephen Sears’ simply titled Gettysburg. ![]() On the more extreme end there is literally a documentary about horses at Gettysburg and there are full-length books on small sections of the battle like the Railroad Cut. ![]() Some books only cover one of the three days of the battle, some books will focus on just one general or unit’s participation. The most well-known battle of the American Civil War, and seen as one of the great turning points, historians and history buffs cannot stop writing about it, and keep finding new sub-topics to the point of excess. At least hundreds of them have been focused on Gettysburg. There are plenty of books on the Civil War. ![]() |