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Trail Magic: Going Walkabout for 2184 Miles on the Appalachian Trail

Trevelyan Quest Edwards and Hazel Edwards

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Trevelyan Quest Edwards wore out two pairs of boots in five months. He walked THRU the Appalachian...

Cosmic Paradoxes

Julio A. Gonzalo

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Beginning with the famous Olber's paradox, paradoxes such as the missing mass, dark energy, baryon...

Illuminate: Contemporary Craft Lighting

Hannah Nunn

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The expressive potential of light captures the imagination of makers and designers from all sorts of...

Small & Smart Interiors

David Andreu

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The projects in this book convey the ingenuity and skill of architects and designers who create...

Getting Started with the Micro: Bit

Wolfram Donat

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The micro:bit, a tiny computer being distributed by the BBC to students all over the UK, is now...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Night Embrace (Dark-Hunter #2) in Books

Jan 6, 2021

Well I loved the first book, I think I gave it five stars. This one, not so much. Unfortunately for it, the romance was based on reincarnation which is not something I enjoy reading about. I think it's because I don't get to really see the relationship grow, more like scenes of them now and then when the feelings are already there and I feel a little cheated.

Nevertheless, I still love the secondary characters and can't wait to read more. Zarek certainly has me intrigued and I can't wait to see who makes him turn all warm and gooey.

Not just yet, though. I appear to have lost interest in paranormal books right now, but soon.

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Rachel King (13 KP) rated Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2) in Books

Feb 11, 2019

This book picks up where Shiver (Wolves of Mercy Falls) left off, with Sam supposedly healed. One of the new wolves is introduced as a point of view in the book, Cole, who casts an intriguing element into the plot-line as he has a completely different perspective on being a wolf than Sam does. Cole is a contradiction in other ways as well, as he is a druggie rock star wanting to escape life who also happens to possess a genius intellect thanks to a scientist father. He has immediate chemistry with Isabel, too. At first I was baffled by this pairing, but based on personality and intellect, these two mesh well.
Isabel also features heavily in this book. Even though she has attitude to spare, I rather like her, both for her sarcasm and for her brains. Sam and Grace never really seem too curious about the science and mechanics behind the wolf-human changes, but neither Isabel nor Cole can stop obsessing over it, though for different reasons.
As for Grace, now it's her turn to be the focus as she gets sicker and sicker, living in denial of what this illness relates to. Her and Sam both seem to have the mindset that if one ignores the problem, it will just disappear. I never liked that sort of approach - it seems cowardly. Really, their "epic romance" would just be another tragedy if it were not for the practicality of their friends, Isabel and Cole. In the case of this series, the lesser characters seem to carry the plot instead.
As for Sam, I found I enjoyed his random song lyrics and poems most of all. They lent a certain lyrical element to the book and added in the strength of emotion to pull me into the plot. Though poetry is not always the easiest thing to understand, his few simple lines interspersed throughout the text conveyed much more of what the characters were experiencing than a lengthy description could. I look forward to the conclusion of the series, Forever (Wolves of Mercy Falls, Book 3).