![]() ![]() This novel was the expansion of a novella Brite had written before titled “The Seed of Lost Souls,” which is basically an incredibly compressed version of Lost Souls. ![]() Older vampires can walk in the sun as long as they cover their skin and eyes, naturally have fangs, and rely solely on blood for nourishment. Brite also makes an interesting distinction between young and old vampires: younger vampires can eat like humans, can walk around in sunlight, and have to sharpen their teeth. They are similar enough to humans to crossbreed with them but otherwise are completely different. ![]() Unlike your traditional vampires where humans die and are transformed with a bite, these vamps are a separate race entirely. Lost Souls is a clever spin on the coming-of-age story with a focus on the character Nothing, who comes to discover his mixed heritage (human and vampire) and realizes that, after years of feeling like an outcast in the human world, he can live as he pleases in good company with vampires.Īs someone who has been obsessed with vampires since the age of seven, I absolutely loved this new take on the supernatural creatures. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Huang Pei-jia as Pan Li-lan, the ghost bride.In 1890s Malacca, Li-lan finds herself in the afterlife and becomes mired in a mystery linked to the sinister, deceased son of a wealthy family. Desperate to escape the situation, she soon finds herself wrapped up in a murder mystery and embroiled in otherworldly affairs far bigger than she could have imagined. ![]() Set in 1890s Colonial Malacca, a Malaysian Chinese woman accepts a marriage proposal from a wealthy family to be the " ghost bride" to their deceased son - an opportunity that would save her family from a lifetime of debt, but require her to spend the rest of her days haunted by a ghostly spouse. It is based on the novel The Ghost Bride written by Malaysian writer Yangsze Choo, and stars Huang Pei-jia, Wu Kang-jen, Ludi Lin, and Kuang Tian. The Ghost Bride ( Chinese: 彼 岸 之 嫁) is a 2020 Taiwanese-Malaysian Netflix original series co-directed by Malaysian directors Quek Shio-chuan and Ho Yu-hang. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With more players, more clues, and involving higher levels of British Intelligence than ever before, this mission is one of the most complex that the group has faced to date. And while the team follows the deciphered messages to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead to discover who is behind the attacks and why, Kat soon realizes that there's another layer to the mystery. So when a series of cyberattacks hits key locations in London while the spies are testing security for the British Museum, it's clear that Kat's skill for finding reason in what seems like randomness makes her the perfect candidate to lead the job. Codename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite eight-digit number, and can spot a pattern from a mile away. In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "They talk every night, deep into the darkness. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.” He saw the starsĪbove his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. At first he only dipped below the surface of sleep, and skimmed along like a salmon in shallow water, so close to the surface that he fancied himself in air. ![]() “The boy slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. ![]() ![]() Sonnet 43 is one of the most popular sonnets in this collection. ![]() With references to Rialto, a marketplace, and a theatre district, it shows how the poet has the innocence and naivety of the countryside but the grooming and refinement of a city. This can imply to Murano glass which was manufactured in Venice. ![]() In one of her sonnets, she calls a mirror as Venice-glass. ![]() This comes in contrast with the pastoral setting of the countryside to a city buzzing with activity. Venice is considered a romantic city rich in culture. He developed the concept of a pastoral setting.Īnother place discussed in the sonnets is Venice. Another reason her sonnets can be considered to have pastoral settings is that of her reference to Theocritus who is an ancient Greek poet. This can be because it is considered that the purity of nature can be equated to love. She invokes nature in the majority of her poems. Browning has achieved what any woman in the Victorian era yearns for and that is love. There is no stylization of herself as the male as it is often the case with female writers. hence the speaker and the listener can be imagined. ![]() The Petrarchan Sonnet resonates with a pastoral setting with the voice of the poet speaking to her husband. ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. This adventure takes readers to a world where technology and magic have blended together, where monsters have been created and then set loose as the world fell apart. They know he has seen the truth behind the broken world, and, if he survives, he may have the power to shatter it. 'Cameron Dayton has met the challenge of blending science fiction and fantasy with Silicon Covenant.' Christie Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Dark Disciple 'A heady stew of genetic engineering, Mesoamerican myth, techno-utopianism, and post-apocalyptic dreaming, with a dash of quest fantasy and a liberal helping of. Without knowing it, he has triggered the ancient Hunt, and now legendary monsters are hungry for his blood and bent on his extinction. ![]() ![]() When Enoch accidentally awakens a powerful Artificial Intelligence, he discovers the truth behind his peculiarity-Enoch is an Etherwalker, the last in a long line of powerful technopaths who can control machines with their minds. The once powerful machines that ruled over land and sky have died, leaving humanity in a primitive age of swords and monsters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's rooted in the scientific aspects of space travel, astrophysics, neurology, and biology (though I can't speak to the accuracy of said science), but written in such a way that said science is never harped on too long or too deeply for the typical speculative fiction fan to enjoy. Everything about this f*cking book is so, SO good.ĭespite the series name and the title of Book 1, We Are Legion (We Are Bob), this story is so far from an absurdist or cartoonish read. ![]() His purpose: to be uploaded to a space-bound, "autonomous" ship and explore the universe for the benefit of human civilization. ![]() Summary (minorly more information that the back of the book):īobiverse tells the story of Bob Johansson, a 21st century 31-year-old computer engineer who wakes up after an untimely death and a century spent in a cryo-frozen state to discover his consciousness is the property of the "modern" government. I am sitting here, trying to find something other than "They're too short!" or "There's not enough of them!" and I just. Gonna keep this short, because I frankly have nothing remotely bad to say about the Bobiverse series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Losing their source of income, fishermen took up piracy for sustenance, and while they conducted their “transactions” without ever killing anyone, they were nevertheless represented as terrorists by the media. With the ambitious approach of revealing the country’s challenges through the lives and actions of its pirates, he brings to life the humanity and the complexity of a nation plundered by foreign vessels illegally depleting its rich natural maritime resources. ![]() On the heels of his Academy Award nomination for Asad, director Bryan Buckley revisits Somalia through the eyes of a Canadian rookie writer risking it all to break through as a journalist. ![]() This film is a far cry from the dichotomies of Captain Philips and the media’s ennobling of Americans in stark contrast to the barbarism of the Somalis. Based on the writings and adventures of best selling journalist Jay Bahadur, Pirates of Somalia is an enthralling ride into the reality of Somalia’s pirates, seen from the shores of a nation pillaged by foreign corporations. ![]() ![]() The captivating Kunigunde de Heusch is anything but a damsel in distress, and the last thing she wants is Graham's help.Īll her life, Kuni trained alongside the fiercest Royal Guardsmen in her family, secretly planning to become her country's first Royal Guardswoman. But his quarry turns out not to be a princess at all. So when he deciphers a series of coded messages in the scandal sheets, Graham's convinced he must come to a royal's rescue. His massive collection of intelligence is invaluable to his family's mission of aiding those most in need. Nothing happens in London without Graham Wynchester knowing. A fun and feminist Regency romp from a master of the genre hailed as "a delight" by Bridgerton author Julia Quinn. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like many owners of Cyberpunk 2077, the Edgerunners anime on Netflix and then started playing the game again (too much, actually). It will not be heavy on the game mechanics, it’s more about actually role playing in an RPG than about becoming an uber-powered gamer. It’ll mostly be about what goes on in a virtual reality, online RPG, but there will be scenes in the real world with the players. I think I’ve got it worked out this time, but I’m not far into the development. I’ve tried to get this LitRPG idea going a few times, both as pure LitRPG and isekai. I know, the answer is both, but give me a push toward one or the other and it’ll get written first. Really, both are probably good, so I’ll explain them and you can let me know which you’d like to read. ![]() I sort of have a preference, but I also find myself considering plot elements and world designs for both at random. Okay, I have two book ideas in the works, and I can’t decide which to go with. ![]() ![]() If I had a plot for the next book in an existing series, I’d be writing that, not this post.I’ll try to go with your preferences, but if I can’t make it work, I’ll switch.This is your chance to influence me over the next book I write! ![]() |