![]() The names they gave themselves are on par with Ian M. The cat is the most cat-like character I’ve ever seen. At which point things get horribly wrong. ![]() ![]() This of course, works great right until the last job they plan to do. They all became sentient, gave themselves names and learned to speak.Īnd because Maurice is a cat, he convinced them to find a dim boy with a flute, have the rats visibly infest a city and then the boy will show up and lead them away - for a fee. The fantasy equivalent of a radioactive spill. Except the rats and Maurice (the titular cat) got contaminated by the latent magical field seeping out of the garbage of Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University. The premise is of course your classic Pied Piper story. Which is not quite true, but the animals definitely take the stage. So first, the boy plays very little role at the beginning and is more of a figurehead for the cat & rats troupe. I dunno, the setup just didn’t capture my imagination. ![]() It’s about an 11-ish year old kid, a talking cat and some rats. I didn’t have high expectations of this book. This review was originally posted at Goodreads and imported here later with next to no spell/grammar checking. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett - Aimlessly Going Forward Aimlessly Going Forward ![]()
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![]() ![]() With House of Flame and Shadow, the Crescent City series reaches new heights as Bryce and Hunt’s world is brought to the brink of collapse – with its fate resting on their shoulders.” House of Flame and Shadow synopsis ![]() “Hunt is trapped in a dungeon, stripped of freedom and without a clue as to Bryce’s fate. This had many fans excited at a Maas connected universe finally coming to fruition.īloomsbury released a brief synopsis to accompany this announcement. The very realm that characters from Maas’ other series A Court of Thorns and Roses is set in. At the end of House of Sky and Breath, Bryce found herself in a new realm. Mild House of Sky and Breath spoilers are aheadĬrescent City: House of Flame and Shadow will continue the story of Bryce Quinlan, the half-human and half-fae series protagonist. 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Eliza and Alexander fall in love instantly and get married in the middle of the war. Hamilton is an immigrant without family and means, but he has given himself a name as the aide-de-champs of General Washington. Eliza Schuyler meets young Alexander Hamilton at a soldier’s ball in the early days of the American Revolution. ![]() ![]() When teenage Mark begins exhibiting some of his father’s superpowers, rather than making a clean break from his dad (via death or alienation), Invincible sticks with the messier discomfort of their changing relationship. Simmons) is a Superman-inspired all-powerful superhero named Omni-Man. Its central story is about a teenager named Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven Yeun) whose father Nolan (J.K. Invincible flirts with many of these approaches. 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This is only a fraction of the costumed heroes you will meet in Invincible. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire and violence. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum and a cheery account of child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes. From a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter, Things We Say in the Dark is a powerful contemporary collection of feminist stories. You won't put it down' Sunday TelegraphĪ shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction.Īlone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unnerved by her isolation another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was not a huge fan of the first book in this spin-off series, ‘First Drop of Crimson’. This is the second book in Jeaniene Frost’s ‘Night Huntress World’ spin-off series. Yet sending her away is unthinkable.īut with danger closing in, Mencheres must choose either the woman he craves, or embracing the darkest magic to defeat an enemy bent on his eternal destruction. Though her burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life. Then Kira appears - this fearless, beautiful.human who braved death to rescue him. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares.Īt the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he'd seen it all. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even though it made my stomach tighten when I looked at her and thought of Father, I couldn’t help but think, in spite of it all, we were here.”įive Little Indians is the debut novel by poet, lawyer and political activist Michelle Good, and a member of Saskatchewan’s Red Pheasant Cree Nation. “Indian School seemed like a hundred years ago, but with Lucy in my living room, it seemed like yesterday. ![]() We join them as they try to deal with years of neglect and trauma in a world that has no place for them, never mind any understanding. From their prison-like residential school on Vancouver Island, they are turfed onto the streets of Vancouver with no support, money, family connections or life skills. Five Little Indians follows the lives of five young adults as they grapple with life after ‘Indian School’ in the 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Additionally, she had opened a pop-up studio in Avalon in the summer of 2019 and had every intention of returning in 2020, but COVID squashed that plan. When the studio was forced to close that first year, Promislo rented out over 50 bikes - and personally dropped many of them off at riders’ homes via U-Haul. Like many businesses, Revel Ride was faced with several challenges during the pandemic. Founded, owned and operated by Grad Hospital resident Jamie Promislo, the indoor cycling boutique offers rhythm- and power-focused classes (and a hybrid class perfect for simply enjoying the ride) that are upbeat, a healthy blend of challenging and supportive, and community-centered. Photography by Jenn Rosenįor nearly five years, Revel Ride has been a quintessential neighborhood spin studio. Revel Ride, an indoor cycling boutique, will bring its signature spin classes to Margate this summer and beyond. ![]() ![]() Where did the giant vegetables come from then? Wiesner waits until the last pages to deliver the punch line. ![]() In fact, she is forced to conclude that none of the enlarged specimen sightings are a result of her initial seedling launch. Artichokes advance on Anchorage." TV news channels announce that arugula has covered Ashtabula, which puzzles Holly, because arugula is not part of her experiment. A hiker in Montana finds giant turnips in the Rocky Mountains. On June 29, 1999, curious things start to happen all over America. She expects the plants to stay aloft for a few weeks, allowing her to study the effects of extraterrestrial conditions on their growth and development. About a month earlier, on May 11, 1999, young Holly Evans launches vegetable seedlings into the sky from her home in Ho-ho-kus, New Jersey-on seed flats with Acme weather balloons. This wacky Wiesner creation chronicles an astonishing cross-country phenomenon on June 29, 1999. If you liked David Wiesner's surrealistic 1992 Caldecott Medalist Tuesday, then Jwill send your spirits soaring like a frog on a flying lily pad. ![]() ![]() Maybe here he will find a community he can trust. Gregory Leicester, the headmaster, promises to train Seph in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards. The people he most trusted have been lying to him.Īfter causing a tragic fire at an after-hours party Seph is sent to the Havens, a secluded boy's school on the coast of Maine. Worse, as the magical accidents that plague him grow in intensity, Seph makes a discovery: the stories he's been told about his parents' life and death are fabrications. Seph is a wizard, orphaned and untrained and his powers are escalating out of control. ![]() And it's not his attitude that's the problem: it's the trail of magical accidents - lately, disasters - that follow in his wake. ![]() Seph McCauley has spent the past three years getting kicked out of one exclusive private school after another. War is coming and magic is spiralling out of control. ![]() |