Riyria revelations review5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are- or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn’t. “The abbot once told me that lying was a betrayal to one’s self. I will keep my thoughts on my first read intact for newcomers to the series, and I will also elaborate on why things worked so much better on reread. This review will be different and longer than usual. And just from reading Theft of Swords, the first omnibus in The Riyria Revelations, I can already confirm the accuracy of my prediction. ![]() After I finished the first two books in The Riyria Chronicles, I immediately knew I MUST read The Riyria Revelations again because I knew that my experience of it will be improved significantly. And I ended up reading through The Riyria Chronicles, the prequel series to The Riyria Revelations, which I enjoyed immensely. Last year, out of nowhere, I suddenly missed Royce, Hadrian, and the characters of The Riyria Revelations. ![]() ![]() It’s been five years (January 2017) since I first read through The Riyria Revelations, and I honestly didn’t expect I would ever read through this series again. Series: The Riyria Revelations (Book #1-2 of 6) ![]()
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I've heard lots of good stuff about this author though and when I saw this book go up on Netgalley I about broke my finger requesting it. ![]() Haunted Castles by Ray Russell5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. ![]() For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Engrossing, grotesque, and completely entrancing, Russell's Gothic tales are the best kind of dreadful. Horror legend Ray Russell's haunting and macabre stories, including "perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written" (Stephen King), with a foreword by acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro Haunted Castles is the definitive, complete collection of Ray Russell's masterful Gothic horror stories, including the famously terrifying novella trio of "Sardonicus," "Sanguinarius," and "Sagittarius." The characters that sprawl through Haunted Castles are frightful to the core- the heartless monster holding two lovers in limbo the beautiful dame journeying down a damned road toward depravity (with the help of an evil gypsy) the man who must wear his fatal crimes on his face in the form of an awful smile. ![]() Books with yertle the turtle5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Could she have killed him? If not, who did?Ĭhris Bohjalian is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 books. Soon it's too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. ![]() She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first class cabin. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van. Afraid to call the police-she's a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home-Cassie begins to lie. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, already counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
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