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![]() ![]() The Bon Temps police suspect Sookie's brother Jason and arrest him because he has been romantically linked to two of the victims. ![]() In the meantime, there are several murders in Bon Temps, and people believe that Bill is behind the murders because many of the bodies have fang marks. Bill returns the favor the next day when the Rattrays attack Sookie. In his first visit, Sookie saves him from the Rattrays, who are vampire drainers. ![]() ![]() Amazingly, vampires' minds are 'silent' to Sookie, which is a different but amazing discovery for Sookie. Sookie falls in love with a vampire, a Civil War veteran named Bill Compton. Sookie lives with her grandmother Adele Stackhouse and has an older brother Jason. True Blood makes it possible for vampires to live in the open without the need to hunt humans for a living. Sookie Stackhouse is a telepath who lives in a world where vampires have come out to the public and become legal citizens since the Japanese developed a synthetic blood. In Dead Until Dark, Sookie begins a romantic entanglement with her vampire neighbor and is faced with a series of murders in town. In this first installment, the author introduces the character of Sookie Stackhouse, a young telepathic waitress from the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, and her world, an alternate history where vampires, shapeshifters and other supernatural beings coexist with humans. ![]() ![]() This is great introduction to the series, indeed. I dunno why, is it because of the school that will teach you about and how to fight daimon or the forbidden relationships or the daimons eating disorder? Well at least its not about vampires. I reminds me a little of Vampire Academy. Every step that brings her closer to safety is one more step toward death… because she's being hunted by the very creatures she'd once trained to kill.ĭaimon is surprisingly good despite its pages. A horrifying attack forces Alex to flee Miami and try to find her way back to the very place her mother had warned her she should never return-the Covenant. ![]() and that she'll never be prepared for that duty.Īccording to her mother, that’s a good thing.īut as every descendant of the gods knows, Fate has a way of rearing her ugly head. At seventeen, she's pretty much accepted that she's a freak by mortal standards. ![]() L ove in my world usually ended up with someone hearing “I smite thee!” as she was cursed to be some lame flower for the rest of her life.įor three years, Alexandria has lived among mortals-pretending to be like them and trying to forget the duty she'd been trained to fulfill as a child of a mortal and a demigod. ![]() ![]() His books are peppered with technology acquired from his vast experience in advanced computers and audio/video systems.Īrquette is also the Editor in Chief of the Court Technology Forum, Contributing Editor for eWeek Magazine, columnist for ComputerWorld and SmartComputing magazines, all of which has helped to create a loyal fan base and lots of traffic on his website. In 2002, Computerworld Magazine selected Arquette as one of the “Premier 100 IT Leaders” in the world, describing him as a “visionary” in reference to the cutting-edge technology. Brett was raised in New Mexico and moved to Florida on his 30th birthday.Īrquette spent most his career working as the Chief Technology Officer for one of the largest Circuit Court Systems in Florida. During her career, his mother Lois has written over 32 best selling young adult books, some of which have been made into movies, including the movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Hotel for Dogs". ![]() ![]() Brett was anointed with his mother’s pen name “Duncan”, given to him by Mystery Writer's of America Grand Master award winner, author Lois Duncan. ![]() Dubbed, "the father of the drone thriller," by his fans, the middle child of five, Brett Duncan Arquette was born in 1960 in Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, there are points when it feels like Colonyside is retreading old ground. On the one hand, it makes sense that Butler would face the same sort of situations time and again, having proven himself an expert at resolving them. The familiarity of the plot is a drawback. ![]() From there, he investigates in a typically confrontational style, uncovering a conspiracy and getting shot at along the way. Butler is in retirement (two years after the climax of the previous novel), until an old friend offers him a job that isn’t really optional. Structurally, Colonyside follows the same pattern as its predecessors. With Colonyside, Mammay rounds off his trilogy of Carl Butler investigations with another tale of government cover-ups, grizzled veterans, and boots-on-the-ground action. The sequel Spaceside similarly just popped up on shelves one day, and again it was a brilliant book. It was a great little military SF/crime hybrid that received very little buzz in the UK and slipped under the radar of every other blog I followed at the time. ![]() Īs I’ve said before, Michael Mammay’s debut novel Planetside was one of the two books (along with Christopher Ruocchio’s Empire of Silence) that made me take up blogging. This time, it might just be the last time. But then a CEO’s daughter goes missing, and Butler finds himself called on again to solve the mystery. – Hold up, this is a sequel! Find my review of the previous book here–Ĭarl Butler – the man who committed genocide – has finally settled into retirement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Palfrey meets her fellow 'inmates' at dinner, and announces that she has a grandson who will be calling on her at times. Once settled into her barely navigable room, Mrs. Burton (Georgina Hale), and a strange old couple, the De Salises (Millicent Martin and Michael Culkin). Post (Marcia Warren), the nosy matchmaker Mrs. Arbuthnot (Anna Massey), a would-be suitor for Mrs. The Claremont is a crumbling old edifice that serves as a retirement home for a small but fascinating group of tenants: the fastidious but cranky Mrs. ![]() Palfrey (Plowright) is recently widowed and decides to move to a small hotel in London to spend her last years as a lady of independence. ![]() It is a showcase for the extraordinary talents of Dame Joan Plowright who owns the title role and of relative newcomer Rupert Friend, surely an actor to watch rise. PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT is an adaptation by Ruth Sacks of the book by British novelist Elizabeth Taylor (1912 - 1975) and directed with consummate skill by Dan Ireland. ![]() ![]() If it can be considered “micro” when a werewolf is snarling at you… It’s definitely not “micro” when your own husband is distant and your mating bond is silent. Smoke Bitten does nothing to change my wish, opening on yet another in a series of Christy-initiated micro-aggressions against Mercy. I have so very often wished ill of Adam’s ex-wife Christy, if only so she’d stop being such a thorn in your side. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. Not if I have anything to say about it.Purchase at IndieBound | Amazon | The Book Depositoryĭisclosure: I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. It can make you do anything–even kill the person you love the most. It can look like anyone, any creature it chooses. Without the fae to mind them, those creatures who remained behind roamed freely through Underhill wreaking havoc. They abandoned their prisoners and their pets. ![]() ![]() They left behind their great castles and troves of magical artifacts. ![]() It looks like I’m going to need them.Ĭenturies ago, the fae dwelt in Underhill–until she locked her doors against them. But I have friends in odd places and a pack of werewolves at my back. My only “superpowers” are that I turn into a thirty-five pound coyote and fix Volkswagens. Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, faces a threat unlike any other in this thrilling entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to this, readers learn that Betty (the daughter of Reverend Parris), another young girl, is suffering from a mysterious illness. When they are discovered by Reverend Parris, Abigail lies about what they are doing and tells him they were only trying out some “silly sport.” This causes Reverend Parris to become alarmed and suspects that witchcraft is occurring in Salem. ‘ The Crucible‘ by Arthur Miller opens with a group of young girls, led by Abigail Williams, dancing in the forest. Warning – This article contains important details and spoilers As an allegory for McCarthyism, it serves as an important reminder of the dangers of prejudice and mass hysteria. It is a powerful story of individual conscience in the face of oppressive authority and public hysteria, as well as a lesson in the consequences of intolerance. The play follows the townspeople as hysteria and paranoia slowly spread, ultimately leading to the trial and execution of innocent people accused of witchcraft. ‘ The Crucible‘ by Arthur Miller is a classic play set during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Many were executed, including some of the major characters in this play. The main themes of the play, mass hysteria, and religious intolerance, are revealed as paranoia and fear spread. It’s best known as a fictional documentation of the Salem Witch Trials in which young women, and some men, were judged by their Puritan peers. ![]() ![]() ‘ The Crucible‘ is a world-renowned play that is read in schools and universities. ![]() ![]() ![]() His young shoulders are soon to bear an immense burden. Will’s life is about to change for ever – for he will become caught up in an ancient battle between the forces of the Light and those of the Dark, which are always strongest at midwinter. Rooks are behaving strangely, dogs are suddenly afraid of Will, a blizzard is coming, and “a shadowy awareness of evil” is building. ![]() ![]() But in the wintry landscape around, something is very wrong. Inside the house, all is pre-Christmas chaos, baking smells and familiarity. It’s 20 December: the eve of both the winter solstice and the 11th birthday of Will, the youngest of the Stanton children. It opens in the domestic clamour of the Stanton family house, in a quiet English village in the upper Thames valley. A core power of Cooper’s novel lies in its counterpointing of the homely and the unhomely. The eerie lives in the same family of feelings as Freud’s “uncanny”, which in its original German, unheimlich, means “unhomely”. Eeriness thrives in edge-of-the-eye glimpses horror is full-frontal. I read it by torchlight under the bedclothes, not because of parental curfew or power cut, but because that seemed the safest place to read what was, unmistakably, the eeriest novel I’d ever met.Įeriness is different in kind to horror. ![]() I first read Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising the summer I turned 13, the year the Berlin Wall came down. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s set in Phuket, but could so easily be Australia, the Med, or wherever you feel your own dream lies. In Catching the Sun, the Finn family – Tom, Tess and twins Rory and Keeva – leave a troubled UK existence, perpetually looking to make ends meet (something so many of us can empathise with), for a new life in the sun. It’s been 22 years since my last visit to Thailand, but there’s something of that world I briefly tasted on Ko Samui here, in a beautifully-penned tribute and something of a love note to the hard-working locals who labour around the clock to make these South-East Asian resorts tick. Not to an all-inclusive honeymoon-friendly world of five-star travel though, but the reality of the everyday struggle for those wishing to ‘live the dream’, and a window on the hard life of the Thai in this island idyll. I guess the best fiction takes you on a journey, and in the case of Catching the Sun, Tony Parsons has you making an 8,500 mile trek to Phuket, Thailand. ![]() Shelving options: along the writewyatt bookcase ![]() |