From there we are then introduced to Lillian and Arietta who both have experienced life changing events. After the death of their parents, and Millie’s husband comes up missing, Ruth invites Millie to live with her and her family at the Springfield Armory. As they grow up, their relationship becomes almost non existent. They are complete opposites of each other in all aspects of the word. This story mainly follows two sisters, Ruth and Millie. Having read and enjoyed Loigman’s debut novel, The Two-Family House, I was very happy to see that she was about to publish her second novel AND it was a historical fiction! Definitely something different for a WW2 novel. I am thankful that the author chose this for her setting. This was a place that I had never heard of before and after reading this story I definitely want to learn more about it. The main setting of this story is at the Springfield Armory during WW2. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives. Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII.
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Apparently, several characters and places from the series have similar names as in the book, and the main character needs to deliver a letter to a king in the book. Maybe the book uses a less heavy hand, and elaborates better on some of these confusing points? Maybe the book could help me appreciate the screenwriting better? Within the first five minutes, I already knew what this was going to be, and was ready to just turn it off. You can call what will happen twenty minutes before it does. It plays like A Tough Guide to Fantasy Land put on the silver screen. The series is nothing but cliche after cliche. And it stays there resolutely until the final scene of the final episode. It opens with whispered prophecies of dark lords and the chosen one, then cuts to some angsty dark prince doing his best teenage Anakin impersonation. That also shows through.įrom episode one, the series is on fantasy autopilot. It shows through.īut some other people didn't put any effort in. A lot of people clearly put a lot of effort and thought and care into the series. The costumes and props and sets were great. I can't say the same about whoever it was playing the puppy-kicking prince, but the others made great performances. That out of the way, let me list some positives of the series. I looked up the book later on Wikipedia, after watching the first episode. I should preface all of this by stating that I have never read the book. I recently watched The Letter for the King on Netflix, and thought I'd offer a small thought on the series. We see the rise of a fossil fuel power network linking mining companies, mining oligarchs, the big four banks, right-wing think tanks, lobby groups, the conservative media and all sides of Australian politics. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in the conflict over coal. 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BOOK THREE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES "More secrets are exposed and old enemies learn to forgive as this family faces, together, what life throws their way. "Expertly illuminates the wacky world of the devout and devoutly devilish." - Publishers Weekly on Reverend Feelgood And when Hope's best friend, Stacy, must decide if a money-making scheme with her ex will fix her rocky marriage, the consequences will have the saved, maybe-saved, and the hardly-saved begging for deliverance. But now a long-lost love is requesting an act of Christian charity that for Cy could be a second chance at temptation. The sizzling blessings she's getting from her primed-and-ready 25-year-old lover are too divine to resist.until one too many secrets threaten to ruin this bad girl's heaven on earth.įrieda's more sensible cousin, Hope Taylor, was sure she and her spouse, Cy, were solid-in-the-spirit. 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"As the plot rumbles on, the flat, functional prose is occasionally illuminated by a strange lyricism.Warning: The squeamish shouldn't check this Out." - Lori L. "What follows, as the women try to outwit the police and a mysterious stranger bent on revenge, is as much a character study of disaffected housewives as a knuckle-clenching thriller.Not quite a consensus, but most impressed by aspects of it Out was made into a film in 2002, directed by Hirayama Hideyuki an American remake, to be directed by Nakata Hideo, is scheduled for 2006ī : elaborate thriller, decent slice-of-life stories.Out won the Japan Mystery Writers' Association Prize in 1998. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Mythology doesn’t have much of a role except for the Gods having a hand in the process of what is playing out in the world. I cannot rave about this book enough, it has become one of my favorites and not just because I have an obsession with Greek mythology. You go through different perspectives between Aphrodite, Hades, Apollo, and how they each have a hand in the two romances which are heartbreaking and heart-melting at the same time. The first couple is Hazel and James and the second is Colette and Aubrey. Lovely War is a historical romance book based during World War II and you follow two romances told by the perspective of Aphrodite the Greek Goddess of love. He promptly changed his major from computerscience to journalism. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as a Christmas gift. His love affair with fantasy, and with literature in general, began during his sophomore year of college when he was given a copy of J.R.R. Since that time, Salvatore has published numerous novels for each of his signature multi-volume series including The Dark Elf Trilogy, Paths of Darkness, The Hunter’s Blades Trilogy, and The Cleric Quintet. Salvatore’s first published novel, The Crystal Shard from TSR in 1988, became the first volume of the acclaimed Icewind Dale Trilogy and introduced an enormously popular character, the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden. His books have been translated into numerous foreign languages including German, Italian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Turkish, Croatian, Bulgarian, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Czech, and French. Salvatore’s original hardcover, The Two Swords, Book III of The Hunter’s Blade Trilogy (October 2004) debuted at # 1 on The Wall Street Journal best-seller list and at # 4 on The New York Times best-seller list. His books regularly appear on The New York Times best-seller lists and have sold more than 10,000,000 copies. Salvatore enjoys an ever-expanding and tremendously loyal following. As one of the fantasy genre’s most successful authors, R.A. Alex, on the other hand, with his dangerous swagger and gang tattoos, is someone to be feared. Brittany exemplifies middle-class perfection: blonde, popular, athletic, smart, and decked out in designer clothing. The names themselves are suggestive enough, but Elkeles deliberately places them as far apart on the social spectrum as possible in order to emphasise the gap we know will be eventually negotiated and bridged. Perfect Chemistry, Simone Elkeles's young adult tale of star-crossed love, takes up the old adage that opposites attract and suggests that such attractions, in fact, may be less to do with the differences per se and more to do with the similarities that lurk beneath apparently divergent exteriors.īrittany Ellis. But the closer Alex and Brittany get to each other the more they realise that sometimes appearances can be deceptive and that you have to look beneath the surface to discover the truth. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. Forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, Brittany finds herself having to protect everything shes worked so hard for her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend and, most importantly, the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Blurb: When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created perfect life is about to unravel before her eyes. |