It sent my mind into a spiral – thinking about all the possibilities and I originally thought it would be amazing to follow a number of characters and how this technology affected their lives. When I started working on Disruption I was initially drawn to this amazing concept of a technology that could read our pheromone reactions with other people. Maggie was originally part of a larger story focusing on M-Bands – why did she end up being the focus of the novel? Were there any particular songs you listened to while writing Disruption? Maybe someone like Lyndsy Fonseca (cause she kicks butt!) or even Rooney Mara (who seems incredibly versatile) could be an option.įor Quentin …maybe Jeremy Irvine (though he would have to cut his hair very very short!).įor Gus, I guess I think of someone like Dan Dehann (that kind of stylish, yet evil genius look:) She has so much strength and hidden vulnerability so finding someone who could portray her so perfectly is had to imagine. I think casting Maggie’s character would be a big job. This is such a hard question and to be honest this is the first time I have really thought about it for this book. If Disruption was made into a movie, who would you cast as the leads? (Also who would play Gus, cos we love Gus) Here we try shamelessly to pry secrets from superstar author Jessica Shirvington. We can’t WAIT for Corruption – due out November 2014. Disruption is the futuristic thriller of the year.
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(Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Murphy excels in depicting their passion, but readers looking for romance will be shocked when Belinda incites and abets Javier's rape of another woman, and the talky political intrigue frequently comes at the expense of much-needed action. When Javier encounters Belinda while she's on a spy mission in Gallin, he falls hopelessly in love with her, a devotion that deepens when they discover they're both witchbreed magic users. While Belinda is Lorraine's unacknowledged bastard, young Prince Javier of Gallin was secretly adopted by Lorraine's dangerous rival, Queen Sandalia, when her husband's untimely death caused her to miscarry the child who was to be Gallin's heir. Belinda Primrose is a lovely young woman whose mysterious father, Lord Drake, has trained her to be an assassin serving Lorraine, the queen of Aulun. From Publishers WeeklyTaking a break from urban fantasy, Murphy (_House of Cards_) turns to this uneven opener for a Reformation-inspired fantasy series. King follows the path of the novel with very few deviations. Though a visual feast, the verbal portion of the story is solid as well. So much detail is paid to the look and motion of the characters that they seem to glide across the page and through the landscapes. Tse’s art is so stunning it leaps off the page, even in Black & White. I loved seeing the delicate facial features, wide expressive eyes, blushes and comedic chibi figures move through the story I, and many other fans know by heart. It was so much fun seeing Darcy, Elizabeth, Jane and Bingley in full manga form. The main draw to me for this book was the art. When the fine folks at Netgalley offered this book as a digital download, I added it to my reader immediately! When I heard of Udon Entertainment’s Pride & Prejudice Manga adaptation I knew I had found my must read book for the 2014 event. Happy August! Since discovering the Austen in August Events few years ago, I’ve loved planning what Austen themed reads I will immerse myself in for the month of August. Review: Manga Classics: Pride & Prejudice by Stacy E. Today's guest review of the very recently released (as in, just a few days ago!) manga retelling of P&P comes from Kai of A Fiction State of Mind! Kai is a long-time contributor to Austen in August / Jane in June, and an ardent Janeite, as well as manga & graphic novel lover, so she's pretty much the perfect person to share this book with us.Ĭlick through to see her thoughts on this one, and to share yours in the comments! The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. "A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." -The New York Times A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Different body types that women see when they look in the mirror, not in Photoshopped ads from shopping magazines. “It’s the portrayal of realistic-looking female characters. There were review quotes on the back cover of the book and I just want to quote from one, because I completely agree with it. I do not read comics very often, so my knowledge of this genre is not very good, but sometimes I am interested and “Rat Queens” could not have come at a more appropriate time, because I really loved it. Reading a paperback was a much more enjoyable reading experience for me. I was introduced to “Rat Queens” as part of my Hugo reading packet, but let’s just say that I could not enjoy it fully as a PDF file and ended up going to the bookstore and buying a good old-fashioned paperback. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack! Collecting the first five issues of the sold-out hit series at the special introductory price of $9.99! It’s also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they’re in the business of killing all god’s creatures for profit. Sirius B Reviews Comics / f/f romance / Fantasy 10 Comments SeptemREVIEW: Rat Queens (Volume One – Sass and Sorcery) by Kurtis J. Her stories and poems have been translated into other languages, such as Danish, German and English.Ĭommunication, stories and glass: Kristín Eiríksdóttir Imagery of transformation Kristín translated to Icelandic the book Hundshaus (A Dog’s Head) by Danish author Morten Ramsland.īesides her work in writing, Kristín has partaken in art-exhibitions and performed artistic acts together with Ingibjörg Magnadóttir, in Iceland and abroad. She has also written two play scripts: Karma fyrir fugla (Karma for Birds), together with Kari Ósk Grétudóttir, premiered in February 2013 in the National Theatre of Iceland, as well as Skríddu (Crawl!), premiered in April 2013 in Borgarleikhúsið (The City Theatre). Her short story collection, Doris deyr (Doris Dies) came out in 2010, and in the autumn of 2012 Kristín‘s first novel, Hvítfeld – fjölskyldusaga (Hvítfeld – A Family Story), came out, followed by more novels. Kjötbærinn was followed up with Húðlit Auðnin (Skin Coloured Wasteland) in 2006, and Annarskonar sæla (A Different Kind of Bliss) in 2008, both poetry books. Her poems had previously been published in local newspapers and magazines. Kristín’s first collection of poetry, Kjötbærinn (Meat Town), came out in 2004. in Fine Arts from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. Kristín Eiríksdóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1981. Longing to experience Wonderland again, a now 18 year old Alice spends much of her time seeking things that remind her of Wonderland. Returning to the place of nonsense from her childhood, Alice finds herself on a mission to stop the Queen of Hearts' tyrannical rule and to find her place in both worlds. And as Alice develops a self-portrait, she finds the most disturbing image of all-a badly-injured dark-haired girl asking for Alice's help. She's also interested in learning more about the young lawyer she met there, but just because she's curious, of course, not because he was sweet and charming.īut when Alice develops photographs she has recently taken about town, familiar faces of old suddenly appear in the place of her actual subjects – the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter, even the Caterpillar! There's something eerily off about them, even for Wonderland creatures. Alice is happy to meander to Miss Yao's teashop or to visit the children playing in the Square. She'd rather spend golden afternoons with her trusty camera or in her aunt Vivian's lively salon, ignoring her sister's wishes that she stop all that "nonsense" and become a "respectable" member of society. What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late?Īlice is different than other eighteen-year-old ladies in Kexford, which is perfectly fine with her. He writes that Edward was "a keen heterosexual swordsman" and "equipped with standard wedding tackle". His oddly dated prose style borders on the offensive. He begins the book by noting that his father, in his first Christmas mail as Prime Minister, addressed the Duchess as Her Royal Highness, a title deliberately withheld by the Palace. In his writing about the Windsors, Whitlam seems overawed by the pretensions of monarchy. If there is a hero in these pages it is Jesse Owens, the black American sprinter, who was treated shabbily by his own country as much as by Hitler's Germany. I learnt a great deal about the early stages of the Spanish Civil War and the elaborate kitsch of Nazi Berlin. Indeed, no detail is omitted we are offered menus of lavish diners and real-time descriptions of numerous Olympic events. Whitlam has read assiduously, though only in English, and his book describes in detail the brutal seizure of power by Franco, the Nazi spectacles of the Games and the King's Adriatic yachting holiday. Four Weeks One Summer, by Nicholas Whitlam. The Flexibound Editions, on the other hand, are pretty much completely faux leather. So yes, most B&N book covers are comprised of about 20% real leather. Basically bonded leather is to leather what chipboard is to wood. In some cases, a second coating of polyurethane can be added and embossed to create a texture closer to real leather. This is basically a mix of both real leather (leftover scraps and fibres from processing genuine leather) and fake leather (typically a polyurethane binder), rolled together using an adhesive glue and bonded onto a paper backing. The majority of the books in the collectible classics series are covered in ‘bonded’ leather. Visit this page on the Barnes & Noble website to see everything they currently have available in the series. In 2005, they released a highly decorative edition of The Complete Works of Lewis Carrolland its popularity sparked the beginning of the ‘Collectible Classics’ as the series is better known today. The contents were mostly omnibus editions (with several titles by the same author in a single book) and the bindings were very traditional, with dark (bonded) leather covers featuring plain gold text and simple foiled borders, along with raised bands on the spine, gilt page edges, decorative endpapers, and a sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Barnes and Noble brought out their original series of collectible ‘exclusive’ leather-bound classic editions in 1992. Our church prayers get reduced to a tool for transitioning from one activity to the next. Unfortunately, our prayers in the church too often feel like prayer before a meal: obligatory and respectable, but no one really gets much out of it. And it’s this emphasis that brings so much conviction to its reader.Īre we really a praying church? Does our church really value prayer? Or is it just something we do in between the more important things? But more than all of this, what holds the reader’s attention most is his contagious belief that God is most glorified in the robust prayer-life of His local church. is a gifted teacher, who does such a great job both of explaining what prayer is and isn’t and its overall importance in the life of the early New Testament church. Many leave you feeling guilty, that you’re a horrible Christian because your prayer life is so poor. Too many books on prayer come across as dry and mechanical, theoretical and technical. Simply said, the book is extremely encouraging. It’s so good that it now sits at the top of my list for great books on prayer. I’ve read many books this past year, but this by far has been one of the most enjoyable and edifying books I’ve read in a long time. |