She reminded me, in little ways, of Jade, the main character in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and that’s high praise coming from me. She’s damaged, but has hidden reserves of strength and bravery even she doesn’t know she has. Still, it’s Mack that I fell in love with and found myself rooting for. There’s not a single cardboard cutout here. White excels at creating memorable characters. The other competitors are a varied lot, and we get to know them all. She blames herself for pretty much everything. She blames herself for her sister’s death. Our main character, Mack, is a victim of violent trauma-her father slaughtered her mother and younger sister while she hid. The amusement park is in ruins, overgrown with trees and vines, laid out in a maze meant to confuse and disorient. The winner, the one who can spend a week without getting caught, wins $50,000. The premise of Hide is deceptively simple: A group of 14 people from all walks of life, all of them young, are invited to participate in a competition, a game of hide and seek set in an abandoned amusement park. My friends and family members, and possibly total strangers, are going to get tired of me talking about this remarkable novel. Now it’s happened again, with Kiersten White and her novel Hide. It happened to me last year with Catriona Ward (to be fair, with her it was two novels, The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial). You know what I love as a reader? When I discover an author new to me, and on the basis of just one novel I’m hooked.
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While listening to the audio I was instantly sucked in from the beginning all the way to the end. Tyler Darby did an amazing job voicing Jace, Appolo, Wolfe, and the other male characters in this audio. Kora is such a strong character and Addison Barnes did an amazing job bringing her to life in audio. I love audio where the female does all the female parts and the male does the male parts. This is a dark RH romance so if you have triggers read/listen at your own risk. The narrators brought life and depth to each character no matter the importance. I am so in love with this series!!! This is the second book in this series and with the audio, it is even more captivating than the book alone. When deprived of food, Vampiris creates its own proteins, and can thus infect and turn corpses as well as living hosts. Hosts also develop a strong, bulletproof adhesive that can only be penetrated by other weapons such as stakes. 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But he packs his bag and heads to Surrender anyway. He almost turns down the invitation from his good friend Cooper MacKenzie to stay as their guest for a few weeks while he’s deciding what to do with the rest of his life. He’s gotten a number of job offers-one from MacKenzie Security-but he's burned out and jaded, and the last thing he wants to do is carry the burden of another badge and weapon. Which includes the corner bakery that’s been a staple in Surrender for more than fifty years.Īfter twenty-five years on the job, Lieutenant Grant Boone finds himself at loose ends now that he’s retired. It’s been twelve years since Liza Carmichael stepped foot in Surrender, but after her great aunt’s death she has no choice but to return and settle her estate. Vivian Liao is a wildly successful inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur. It’s certainly just as complex and thought provoking, and it’s even faster, tighter, and more intense. He has to turn his pen to science fiction, and with his first novel-length foray, turn out something brain-meltingly excellent.Įmpress of Forever may, in fact, be an even better novel than any of his fantasies. It was nominated for one of the first Hugo Awards for Best Series, an honour that it fairly deserved. It’s not enough that his Craft Sequence series is a complex, twisty, delightfully playful and deeply thought provoking set of works that take on themes of power, the tension between progress and conservatism, social dynamics, colonialism, and social responsibility. Reviewing his Empress of Forever is a bloody intimidating undertaking, because it’s just that damn good. This comes in a chapter on the rise of Hitler. Modern theoretical anti-Semitism was a derivative of Marxism. hate-theories and it has continued to provide a foundation for all paranoid revolutionary movements, whether fascist-nationalist or Communist-internationalist. On the other hand: Marx's invention of the 'bourgeoisie' was the most comprehensive of. He is partial to Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, whose public philosophy appeared to possess a degree of concordance with the actual facts of life which was rare in human experience-in this case, laissez faire combined with enrichissez vous. The British author of Enemies of Society (1977), a diatribe against Freudianism and Marxism, has cast his likes and dislikes in a historical narrative. Neglect her duty to her family, Oedipus's determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide, and Electra's unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent `hero'. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles's reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. Printing Pages: Printing pages is completely disabledĭescriptionLove and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Copy Selections To Clipboard: Copying content to the clipboard is completely disabled Near-constant allusions to fairy tales adds nicely to the spookiness - “I read the Orphans a fairy tale once called Giant, Heart, Egg” "He was like the great horned owl with bloody talons in The Witch Girl and the Wolf Boy" - as does the setting: "The light was now an eerie twilight blue, and the forest had gone dark" "I ran my hand down the wall, and felt the velvet flowered wallpaper pucker under my palm. The spookiness is created skillfully, in part by odd details such as Wink's shorthand (such as calling her younger brothers and sisters "the Orphans") and best friends who dress alike in black skirts and striped socks, finish each other's sentences, and talk in unison. The ambiance vacillates nicely between soothingly calm and spooky, so that the calm sections almost lull readers (and characters) into a false sense of security. The novel also plays with ideas of gender. The points of view are so well formed, we almost don't need the characters' names at the beginnings of chapters to know who's narrating. A fun romp for readers who like a good scare, this eerie novel is also a beautifully told story, and, like most fairy tales, it’s a bit unbelievable in places. |