Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
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Pola Negri (1897--1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of...
Motherland: Growing Up with the Holocaust
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated A Shade of Vampire (A Shade of Vampire, #1) in Books
Oct 9, 2019
She is kidnapped to The Shade, an enchanted island where the sun is eternally forbidden to shine - an island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains.
Sofia's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is selected out of hundreds of girls to take up residence in the tree-top harem of Derek Novak, the dark royal prince.
Despite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood, Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to survive even one more night.
Will she succeed? Or is she destined to the same fate that all other girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?
<strong>Mmm it was ok</strong>
I've wanted to read this for a while. I finally get round to it and I quite enjoyed it. Only thing is it seemed a little rushed I like the sound of these characters but they felt so rushed through but I suppose with so many books in mysteries I'll see development of them.
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"10000+ Diabetic Recipes" has about 10000 trusted diabetic recipes with full nutritional info and...
We Shall Not All Sleep
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Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and...
The Prophets
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A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a...
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The Guinevere Deception (Camelot Rising #1)
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From New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes a new fantasy series reimagining the...
Charm Wars (Charm Wars #1)
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Welcome to Caldon, a land of mages and magic, where the noblesse possess massive political and...
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This book is narrated by the former queen, whilst she’s living in the convent, reflecting on her time as a queen two times, as the wife of Lear, and a mother to her three daughters. Even though she has been exiled from her former life and forbidden from seeing her daughters for a very long time, when she hears of their deaths she’s devastated. She imagines that she can see their ghosts. She comes close to madness herself. This is a very human woman, not just a queen. In fact, most of the other women living in the convent, don’t know that she was once their queen. They do know that she was a woman of status, and they defer to her - not least because of her steely demeanour. She’s a formidable woman.
This did take me longer than usual to read, but there were several factors involved in this: taking in the gorgeous prose, and the fact that I desperately needed reading glasses (which I now thankfully have! 🤭). It really is beautifully written, and I think that it’s going to be one of those rare books that I’ll read again.