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Essays on Paradoxes

Terence Horgan

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This volume brings together many of Terence Horgan's essays on paradoxes: Newcomb's problem, the...

A Handful of Herbs: Inspiring Ideas for Gardening, Cooking and Decorating Your Home with Herbs

Louise Pickford, Barbara Segall and Rose Hammick

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A gloriously illustrated celebration of herbs in all their beauty and variety, featuring chapters on...

High School Cheerleader 2 - Dating a Superstar

Games and Entertainment

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Vanessa is an excellent high school cheerleader, she met a very good football quarterback captain...

Cyn Armistead (14 KP) rated Mirror, Mirror (includes In Death, #37.5) in Books

Mar 1, 2018

The J.D. Robb story, "Taken In Death," was enjoyable - a nice thing, since it's the reason I bought the anthology. In it, Dallas takes on a kidnapper in a rebelling of Hansel and Gretel. I skipped the stupid coin story by Mary Blayney. I read one of her coin stories once and it was just too clichéd and predictable for me to ever put myself through that again. I do wonder, though, if she ever writes anything else? I went ahead and read "Beauty, Sleeping" by Elaine Fox, to see if the rest if the book would be worth reading.. While Fox's piece was okay, it was more romance than anything else. It had a supernatural twist, and it was a reworking of Sleeping Beauty, but in the end it was a romance. And to be honest, I just didn't trust the editors any more at that point. They chose Blayney and then the Fox piece, and one Robb story didn't outweigh them. I suppose if I'm ever truly hard up for something to read, I might try the other two stories in the book - but I would probably read one of the many free novels available before then.

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Leah (: (569 KP) rated Wolves and Roses (Fairy Tales of the Magicorum book 1) in Books

Sep 15, 2018

I really enjoyed this book. It follows the story of Bryar Rose a human girl who should be following a Sleeping Beauty life template, however Bryar has different ideas.

This book is not a re telling of Sleeping Beauty it has lots of different elements that make the story unique. The story has quite a few secrets and mysteries which was good as the reveals were often a surprise. The story was quite fast paced which kept it engaging and the ending was not rushed.

I liked Bryar’s character as I found her a realistic teenage girl. She gets a bit boy crazy but not to the point that she loses her character. She likes to ignore/ put off some of her problems and pretend she is normal when things get a bit too crazy. I enjoyed seeing her friendship with Elle as it did show her more mature side.

This book is part of a series so most of Bryar’s story is resolved there is a novella and another book left of Bryar before we move onto Elle’s story. So I imagine the big storyline which effects other characters will still take a while to finish.