Love Me (Keatyn Chronicles book 4)
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My mom says that you can’t love someone until you learn to love yourself. So even though Vincent...
The Boy Most Likely To
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Surprises abound and sparks ignite in the highly anticipated, utterly romantic companion to My Life...
RedLine Radio | The Car Podcast For Everyone On the Modification/Tuning/Racing/Showing of Automotive Vehicles |
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The Podcast for the Car Curious, Fanboys, and Automotive Enthusiasts alike. Have you ever sat at...
Head Gardeners
Ambra Edwards and Charlie Hopkinson
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What is Britain's greatest contribution to world culture? Ambra Edwards suggests it is the garden....
The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology
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The history of the commons -- jointly owned land or other resources such as fisheries or forests set...
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Contexts, Criticism
Mary Shelley and J. Paul Hunter
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Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Rise of the Fallen (All the King's Men, #1) in Books
Jul 29, 2020
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Rise of the fallen (All the kings men book 1)
By Donya Lynne
In the streets of Chicago exists an uneasy, centuries-old truce between vampires and their distant cousins, a race of shifters called drecks. Vampire enforcement agency, All the King's Men (AKM), is charged with maintaining the truce, but when volatile enforcer Micah Black loses his mate and falls into the biological agony that results from the broken bond, he tests the boundaries of the truce by seeking out Apostle, a leader in the dreck community. Micah wants Apostle to kill him, a request Apostle is more than happy to fulfill.
When ex-Army medic-turned exotic dancer Samantha Garrett inadvertently disrupts the plot and saves Micah's life, a chain reaction sets Micah's heart on a collision course with hers, but he will have to protect her from Apostle and her obsessive ex-husband if they will have a chance at forever.
It was good and I did like the writing style of this author. I have read a few of these books with the hot tortured supernatural men finding themselves and their life mates and as it goes this was a solid book. I do like the fact it’s not just female life mates or love interests we are seeing!
Jessica - Where the Book Ends (15 KP) rated Leah on the Offbeat in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Actual rating: 1.5 -- I have the unpopular opinion.
I was super excited to read this book when it came out especially after I read and loved Simon vs. the Homosapiens Agenda. A lot of people read this and were sharing their love of it on Bookstagram and Booktube. With all the hype I decided to put off reading it a bit so that it would be fresh and new for me and I could form my own opinion and not be swayed by the masses. I'm glad I did but at the same time kind of wish I hadn't waited.
Honestly, I didn't like this book. I loved Simon vs. the Homosapien's Agenda, and I gave that book 5 stars. I loved Leah in that book and I really related with her (the little bit we had of her), and I was super pumped when I found out she was getting her own book. To be honest, I didn't like Leah in this book. I thought she was bitchy and bratty. I didn't like the way she treated people and I especially didn't like the fact that this book was just sooooooo predictable.
Lets first start with her love interest Garrett. I thought he was great! He obviously liked Leah and I thought their interactions were wonderful. I know Leah was trying to figure out her feelings and where she stood with her sexuality, but honestly, I would have been happier if she'd ended up with Garrett, the relationship seemed more real to me and less forced.
Her second love interest and ultimately who Leah chose to be with... Abby Suso. Don't like her... at all. Disliked her completely in Simon's book and couldn't stand her in this book. If we're keeping score I called this relationship back when initially reading Simon vs. I thought about how Abby and Leah interacted and about how "straight" Abby was and I just knew these two would be forced together. I don't like Abby. She doesn't seem genuine her interactions seemed forced and she just doesn't fit with the other characters. Most importantly I feel like this was an insta-love relationship. It was like one minute Abby was straight and in love with Nick and then when she realized that her and Nick would have to do the long distance thing or break up due to going to different colleges; Leah was suddenly an option and she was suddenly good enough. This whole relationship just infuriated me.
All in all, I am extremely disappointed in this book. I love Becky Albertalli and her writing, but this book was a big miss for me. It seemed rushed and almost like she threw it together because she needed a sequel to Simon. I will read her future books but I just can't side with the masses on this one.
Lenard (726 KP) rated Gloria Bell (2019) in Movies
Mar 27, 2019
Luciano Giubbilei: The Art of Making Gardens
Fergus Garrett and Luciano Giubbilei
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Luciano Giubbilei is known for his award-winnning gardens at the Royal Horticultural Society's...