The hitching post, like the stage, is all black and all metal. And instead of pulling out a brand, Yancey pulls a pair of silver handcuffs from his leather jacket, which he uses to bind the prospect to a hitching post. And my father is waiting for the young wolf prospect with a sawed-off shotgun, not a patch. Painful, yes, but well worth it in any young wolf’s mind since after getting burned, he’d be an official member of the Dark Wolf MC, the outlaw motorcycle club at the heart of our Detroit state pack.īut in this case, the pack’s hooting and hollering is a call for blood. Patches would be bestowed or a brand pushed into the prospect’s naked back. Normally this would be an honor for a young wolf. Two days before Christmas, I watch Yancey, my dad’s Beta/Sargent of Arms/Future Danny Trejo Impersonator If He’s Ever Hard Up For Money, haul a prospect up on stage.
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That may be just me, but I think the explanations were a little bit too confusing. My head is spinning from the different types of time travel which come into play here, to be honest. Perhaps due to my complete hopelessness at science, it has to be explained pretty clearly for me to understand it. I should add a disclaimer here – I tend to find time travel books hit and miss. Intrigued? I certainly was, from the opening few chapters. Somehow, Jackson needs to try and find a way to get back to his own time and save Holly, but it’s quickly apparent that there is an awful lot that he needs to learn about himself before he can get to grips with this. Panicking, he jumps back in time 2 years, far further than he’s ever gone before. And then everything changes… armed men burst into his girlfriend’s room, and attack the pair, leaving her dying. His friend Adam, who he’s trusted with this, is trying to get him to record every time he does this so they can find out more about the mysterious ability he developed eight months or so ago, but Jackson looks on it as little more than something fun. He can just pop back a few hours, observe things, and not change anything. Jackson has a secret – he can travel through time. Summary: This time-travel story is a very enjoyable one for the most part - unfortunately, an ending which I found very disappointing soured me on it somewhat. This book is even endorsed by Uri Geller. I don’t watch horror films or that television programme where they go ghost hunting, but I read this book because I know the author online and she’s a serving police officer so I know whatever is in it is going to be truthful and not blown-up and exaggerated. Described as one of the best-documented cases of paranormal activity, this page turning book will stay with you long after you have finished reading it. Paranormal Intruder is the true story of one family’s brave fight against an invisible entity. The family struggles to cope, and Caroline grows concerned for her husband’s failing health as he withdraws from the world. Police, fire services, mediums, priests and investigators all become embroiled in the mystery. It might be easier to believe temporary insanity, if not for the vast amount of witnesses. The biggest question looms over them like a dark cloud … who is going to help us? There are emergency services for many things, but not of this nature. Caroline and her husband Neil search for answers as they try to protect their family from the unseen entity that seems determined to rip them apart. A knife embedded in a kitchen cupboard, crockery smashed by invisible hands, and blood-chilling growls emit from thin air. An innocent family finds itself completely helpless against the sudden onset of paranormal activity in their quiet rural home. It’s also been a long time since I ugly cried while reading! My emotions are still sitting in the bottom of my heart in a tangled mess. This author made me feel emotions I haven’t felt in a long damn time when reading. Heart, heat, and an inevitably epic happily ever after. It legit had everything I looked for in a 5 star read. It’s been a couple months since I could say this, but I finally found my first 5 star read of 2022!! It has been a long time coming, and I’m so happy to find I loved this one as much as I did. Holy Hell, what did you do to me Meagan!! But here I am, still sobbing like a kid who had her favorite toy ripped from her hands. I wasn’t expecting to feel this deep connection with fictional characters. I wasn’t expecting the joy and the laughter to flow from my eyes or the tears to run down my face. Meagan Brandy brought it all to the table with Say You Swear! I wasn’t expecting the incredible heartbreak I felt. Now I’m a shell of who I was, on a path too blurry to follow, and I see no way out. It didn’t matter how wild I allowed my imagination to run, it always led me to the same place in the end. If she isn’t mine in the end, I’ll still be hers.įrom USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Meagan Brandy comes a new, angsty standalone romance about love, loss, and the path to forgiveness.įor years, I’ve dreamt of what college life could bring and while some things changed, there was always one constant. Trope(s): Second Chance, Angst, Sports (Football) Romance These sagas told people about their history, mythology, and religion in a way that’s exciting and memorable. Many cultures, from all over the world, have their own epics. Heroes had to overcome almost impossible obstacles to fulfill their destinies. Some of them were as long as chapter books. Wait! You’re probably saying: Did I just say poems? I did! Actually superheroes and epics have been around for thousands of years, and the first epics were performed as very long poems! These poems told of dangerous journeys, fantastical monsters, and grand battle scenes. These kinds of films, TV shows, and poems are extremely popular. If this sounds like you, you’re not alone. Do you like superhero movies, like Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and The Avengers? Or maybe you can’t wait for the next Star Wars movie, where you’ll get to see people go on dangerous voyages and fight in epic battles in order to fulfill their destinies. It's your unrecoverable hour and a half of your life. I doubt if anyone will revel in this masterpiece, but try it if you like. I don't like either of those things, so for me the movie sucked hard, like dried concrete hard.īut as I say, concrete and adultery lovers might chance this one. Locke, I wonder about that.Īnyway if you like concrete - about half the picture heï¿ 1/2 1/2 1/2(TM)s answering and making phone calls about concrete - and adultery, then you might enjoy this movie. Oh, and by the way, he does not love this other woman, nor has he had, he says, extramarital sex other than this one time. Obviously they saved a lot of money using just a car for the setting - memories for me, and not good ones, of the nightmare that is My Dinner with Andre. Locke's car while he's driving into London to witness the birth of this other woman's baby. Instead he screws a woman other than his wife. If he could screw a concrete pie, I bet he'd jump at the chance. Values concrete and what the resulting building is - as he calls them "his" buildings - more than his freaking family. It's the name of the major character - like what you get when you get out of your car to secure it, in a mash up with the name of the 18th-Century British Empiricist philosopher John Locke? Lock + Locke? Maybe not. Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows 1 Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez 4.31 533 ratings10 reviews Prologue: 'The Haunting of Keyhouse. With an incredible rating of 90%, I feel the urge to put in my two cents's worth regarding Locke. She entered the State Institute for Cinema Arts in 1924 to study screenwriting. When Rand and her family returned from the Crimea, she entered the University of Petrograd to study philosophy and history, graduating in 1924. Her love for the West - especially America - was fueled by the Viennese operettas and American and German films, which the Soviets temporarily allowed to be shown. When introduced to American history in her last year of high school, Rand immediately took America as her model of what a nation of free men could be. The final Communist victory brought the confiscation of her father's pharmacy and periods of near-starvation. In order to escape the fighting, her family went to the Crimea, where Rand finished high school. In February of 1917, Ayn Rand witnessed the first shots of the Russian Revolution, and later that year she witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution as well. Hugo's writing helped arm her against the fatalistic view of life that dominated Russia, a country she later described as "an accidental cesspool of civilization." At the age of 9, Rand decided to become a writer, inspired especially by Victor Hugo's novels. Having taught herself to read, Rand, at the age of 8, became captivated by the heroism in a French-language serial adventure titled The Mysterious Valley. Rand was raised in an upper-middle-class, European-oriented family, in the midst of the mysticism and nationalism of Russia. Ayn Rand was born Alissa Rosenbaum in 1905 in St. Her mother and her sister, Esther, weren’t meant for life on the mountains, they said. Ellie lost the family that she once knew. And what the Great Depression didn’t take, the mountain did. They moved to property on Echo Mountain to start over and rebuild. The Great Depression took many things from Ellie’s family–her parent’s jobs, their house, and their comfortable lives. Following her heart, and the lead of a scruffy mutt, Ellie will make her way to the top of the mountain, in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as “the hag.” But the mountain still has many untold stories left to reveal to Ellie, as she finds her way forward among a complex constellation of strong women spanning generations. Urgent for a cure to bring her father back, Ellie is determined to try anything. An accident for which Ellie has accepted the unearned weight of blame. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as they all struggle with the sorrow and aftermath of an accident that left her father in a coma. Though her sister Esther, especially, resents everything about the mountain, Ellie has found more freedom, a new strength, and a love of the natural world that now surrounds them. They have started over, carving out a new life in the unforgiving terrain of Echo Mountain. After the financial crash, Ellie and her family have lost nearly everything-including their home in town. If Pete was what I’d always wanted, Jack was what I always needed. My elusive dream of a lifelong love began. Then, an unexpected kiss at a county fair on a perfect English summer’s day changed everything forever. Jack O.Savage, The Poet became my friend. The rock-star-with-words was even more damaged than I. I wrangle an invitation to the art gallery where he is reading. Savage will make a rare public appearance. I was lost and lonely in a flat in Kensington. My life was a kaleidoscope of stabbing shards of pain. It all went tragically wrong once I learned Pete’s secret.Īs September ends I jet to London, England with an unstable mind and a broken heart. Savage, It was like The Poet was drawing us together through his blogs and poems, like he had a message for my life and my love with Pete Hendrix. Pete introduced me to the works of modern English poet, Jack O. One hot summer I fell hopelessly in love with successful attorney, Peter William Hendrix III, from Chattanooga, Tennessee. My name is Liz Snow, from Atlanta, Georgia, and this is my story. I hid inside a black cave deep in my soul, numbed for a decade on meds, booze, and bad love, married to my glorious career. She seriously considered a 44-acre plot in Winthrop, Washington, before finally settling on a rugged 120-acre Colorado ranch near the headwaters of the Rio Grande, which she bought for 5 percent down plus a signed copy of her book. She drove north from San Francisco, all the way to Bellingham, before heading east across Washington, Idaho and Montana. When Pam Houston was 31, fresh off the success of her first book, “Cowboys are my Weakness,” she drove across the American West, giving readings, living out of her car “and looking for a place to call home.” |