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![]() ![]() I actually did have one main criticism about the book, though-and, aside from a couple of times that I wanted to shake the main characters, it’s really my only criticism-which is that it was lacking in actual sports. Who doesn’t, right? And, Layla Reyne’s newest release, Relay, is incredibly good. When Dane’s parents threaten reprisal and Alex is accused of doping, the two must risk everything to prove Alex’s innocence, to love one another, and to win back their spots on the team, together. Working together, their passion reignites. Ten years later, Dane longs to cut his parents’ strings, drop his too-bright smile, and beg Alex for another chance.Īlex, though, isn’t ready to forgive and forget, and Dane is a distraction he doesn’t need on his team, until an injury forces Alex to accept Dane as his medley relay anchor. Only once did he drop the act-the summer he fell in love with Alex. ![]() And despite his ex-lover, Dane Ellis-swimming’s biggest star-also making the Olympic Team.ĭane has been a pawn in his celebrity parents’ empire from crib to pool, flashing his camera-ready smile on demand and staying deeply in the closet. Elected by his teammates to helm the US Men’s Swim Team, he proudly accepts the role, despite juggling endless training, team administrative work, and helping out on the family farm. Who doesn’t, right? And, Layla Reyne’s newest release, Relay, is incredibly good.īlurb: Captain is not a title Alejandro “Alex” Cantu takes lightly. ![]() At a Glance: I love a good sports romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() And there’s a nice dash of the fantastical to make it all the more eerie. It’s a story involving a bunch of people that fate has thrown in together for a most extraordinary event, one they may not survive, one they are most likely not going to survive. There is also a “Twilight Zone” or “Lost” vibe. ![]() There’s a certain hint of the Apocalypse mixed in here. The story itself is right in tune with what we all seem to want to read these days while also having a timeless quality. How, for instance, are you expected to know for sure that the kids back in the first set of panels have somehow changed? You can create this uncertainty with other mediums for sure but drawings carry their own special energy. With drawings, you get an added sense of ambiguity. If the pacing is done right, you can easily slip into more than you bargained for. Your eyes rest on one panel, are pulled by one thing and then another. It would slice and dice the story into something just as spooky if not more so. I’d love to see a graphic novel version of “The Conjuring,” by the way. It fits right in with my current favorite summer movie, “The Conjuring.” It’s not set in a haunted house but it comes close. ![]() This graphic novel, published by SelfMadeHero, an imprint of Abrams ComicArts, lures you into quite a gripping tale. “Sandcastle” is a refreshingly creepy sci-fi mystery set to words and pictures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet she is willing for her brother to undergo almost a decade of study in a subject which is of no interest to him, purely to piss off their stepmother. Maeve is described as a wonderful woman, loving, loyal, kind. ![]() Surely he could have cost the trust plenty of money by doing one or more law degrees? The fact that he never has any intention of practising as a doctor makes this less than credible. At Maeve’s urging, though, he goes through all the years and slog of medical school in order to wring as much cash as possible out of an educational trust which is their only legacy. Danny’s lifelong wish is to work in property development, like his father. The siblings feel a bit flat and underdeveloped. The Dutch House is beautifully written and often tender, but the central characters aren’t vivid enough for this book to be among Patchett’s very finest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Abomination (Emil Blonsky) Avengers Banshee Baron Mordo (Karl Mordo) Beast Beetle (Abner Jenkins) Ben Urich Black Cat Black Panther Black Widow Brood Bullseye Captain America Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) Charles Xavier Cloak Colleen Wing Colossus Cyclops Dagger Daredevil Dazzler Doc Samson Doctor Doom Doctor Octopus Doctor Strange Elektra Eternals Falcon Fantastic Four Foggy Nelson Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) Gladiator (Melvin Potter) Gwen Stacy Hank Pym Hellfire Club Heroes For Hire Hulk Human Torch Inhumans Invisible Woman Iron Fist (Danny Rand) Iron Man J. ![]() ![]() My editor described the book as an answer to grief, and that made me so happy. ![]() This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Then her husband was diagnosed with cancer after he recovered and as the world went into lockdown in 2020, Shapiro traveled back to 2010, returning to this story and finding the key to telling it was in the chronology. Stuck, she put it aside and wrote memoirs instead, including the best-selling “The Inheritance,” which tells of how she discovered her late but beloved Dad was not her biological father. The author, who recently spoke by video, started the book more than a decade ago. 2, is now adapting the book into a TV series. Shapiro, who will be appearing at Diesel Books with Jamie Lee Curtis on Nov. There’s no past, present or future - these moments all exist in a poignant present as time loops and swirls, disconnecting and bringing people back together. This time Ben, the aging father of once-wayward teens Theo and Sarah, reconnects with Waldo, the brilliant but lonely son of his neighbor Shenkman.ĭani Shapiro’s sixth novel, her first in 15 years dances between the years: 1970, 1985, 1999, 20. ![]() Then, just a few pages later, we are again at the site of the tragedy but it’s now a touching scene taking place a quarter-century later. ![]() “Signal Fires” opens with a small, familiar moment of teenage recklessness, but one that takes a girl’s life and casts a long and looming shadow. ![]() ![]() ![]() The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the polite law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. ![]() Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers-and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public-she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross’s deadliest case since Along Came a Spider. ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, one chapter ended with the phrase ". There's even a good bit of unintentional humor here too. Meanwhile, it never once talks about the consequences of its world. Sometimes, it mixes it up a bit and has stuff happen, then characters explain out loud what you just read. Characters declare their intentions, then events happen. While obviously ghostwritten, you'd be forgiven for thinking this was penned by The Shat. Toss in double crosses and robot double, and stir. Plot: People use disposable computer chips as drugs, scientist creates device that can destroy all drug chips. It's that special kind of genre book that has all the flying cars and moving sidewalks of science fiction, but without any of the interesting thought that made that stuff interesting. It's obviously Ghost written, with The Shat sitting behind the scenes tossing out words that start in Plas- or Laz. Think noir detective story with shades of Regan-era drug war, and painted in faux-SciFi. ![]() Well, I wanted an easy break from all the heavy reading I usually do, and this actually fit the bill. It smells like must and cigarette smoke, and it likely has a garage sale sticker on the front that won't come off. The tracking might be a bit off too, and the audio's a bit fuzzy. Throughout this short read, I imagined I was watching a bad 80's sci-fi flick on VHS, complete with laughable special effects. ![]() ![]() ![]() As it was, the driver behind her did nothing to stay her steps. Had Miss Lydia Whitfield of Roseberry Hall been of a skittish nature, the sound of a rapidly approaching carriage would have caused considerable anxiety. It also leads up to the carriage accident, caused by her uncle, which is where she first meets Mr. You get a nice taste of Lydia’s character. Lydia’s a delightful heroine and it’s lovely to watch her figure out she might think romance is a good thing, after all. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newton’s friend got himself embroiled in a duel. Meanwhile, Lydia’s drunken uncle is guardian of her estate together with a lawyer who’s showing signs of senility. But whoever it was wants to destroy Lydia’s reputation with knowledge that she was out all night in the company of a young man. Together they seek to investigate who was behind the nefarious plot. He is shortly thrown out, but after Lydia is imprisoned in an abandoned barn, Mr. Lydia wants to draw up a contract about the arrangements between them – and gets kidnapped! Her carriage is diverted, while the handsome young law clerk is in it. Before he died, her papa picked out the man she should marry, Lord Aldershot, so their estates could be joined. Lydia thinks of herself as not romantic at all. Oh, these Cindy Astey Regency romances are so much fun! In this one, we meet Lydia Whitfield, a friend of our heroine from Love, Lies and Spies, but you don’t have to read the first book to enjoy this one. Swoon Reads (Feiwel and Friends), April 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Rice boldly probes the significance of death, belief in the afterlife and other spiritual matters, one wishes that she had found a way to address them through the experiences of human and near-human characters, as she has done so brilliantly in the past. Meanwhile, the ever-fascinating Lestat, whose poignant personal crisis of faith is mirrored in Memnoch's travails, becomes a passive observer, dragged along on trips to Heaven and Hell before being returned to Earth to relate what he has witnessed. God and the Devil periodically put on the flesh of mortals, and too often end up sounding like arguing philosophy majors. Rice grapples valiantly with weighty questions regarding the justification of God's ways to man, but their vast scope overwhelms the novel's human dimensions. The bulk of the novel is a retelling of the Creation story from the point of view of the fallen angel, who blames his damnation on his refusal to accept human suffering as part of God's divine plan. Having survived his near-fatal reacquaintance with human mortality in The Tale of the Body Thief (1992), the world-weary vampire Lestat is recruited by the biblical Devil, Memnoch, to help fight a cruel and negligent God. Rice has made a career out of humanizing creatures of supernatural horror, and in this fifth book of her Vampire Chronicles she requests sympathy for the Devil. ![]() |