Jackson ("The Cask of Amontillado"), Stephanie Kuehn ("The Tell-Tale Heart"), Emily Lloyd-Jones ("The Purloined Letter"), Hillary Monahan ("The Masque of the Red Death"), Marieke Nijkamp ("Hop-Frog"), Caleb Roehrig ("The Pit and the Pendulum"), and Fran Wilde ("The Fall of the House of Usher"). Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and how they've been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways.Ĭontributors include Kendare Blake (reimagining "Metzengerstein"), Rin Chupeco ("The Murders in the Rue Morge"), Lamar Giles ("The Oval Portrait"), Tessa Gratton ("Annabel Lee"), Tiffany D. Each of the anthology’s contributors revamp or totally reinvent 13 of Poe’s best-known stories and poems, imbuing most of them with a much-needed dose of feminism, LGBTQ representation, and racial diversity. ISBN: 1250302773 (hbk.) ISBN: 9781250302779 (hbk.). The YA story collection His Hideous Heart takes that challenge and runs with it. And why wouldn’t they From Tell-Tale Heart to A Cask of Amontillado, his stories contain themes that are still relevant today: Loss and love. His hideous heart : thirteen of Edgar Allan Poes most unsettling tales reimagined / edited by Dahlia Adler. Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Įdgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Edgar Allan Poe might be ‘nevermore’, but his deliciously horrific tales continue to hold our hearts hostage over a 150 after his death.
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A Hawaiian seaside tiki bar that feels like Hawaii’s answer to Cheers. She also has that every woman quality that lets the reader insert herself into the story. This lets both her and the inevitably hunky police detective she’s helping seem smart and efficient. She lends insight that it makes sense only she would have, such as being able to infiltrate the halau competition. On the other hand, when she does help, she’s good at it. She only helps when asked and even then, she’s a bit reluctant to disrupt her life. She’s smart and willing to help but isn’t running amok destroying the police department’s days. They’re all entertaining in their own way, but this series is also unique and engaging enough to keep me coming back for more, and thankfully those unique elements stayed strong in the second entry.Įm is a good cozy mystery heroine. I’ve dipped my toe in a few cozy series, but this is the first one that’s managed to call me back for a second helping. Before she knows it, she’s entering the geriatric Hula Maidens halau into the biggest hula competition on the island to help her get in where she can snoop. But when the hunky fire dancing detective Roland Sharpe asks for her help looking into some suspicious deaths in a high-profile, competitive halau (hula group), she just can’t say no. Em Johnson, manager of the Tiki Goddess Bar on Kauai, never intended to get involved in one murder investigation, let alone two. Yeah!! I know, what in the world does eh mean?! You tell me that! I know I didn't hate the manga. Up until this year when I started reading manga again I typically rate manga 5 stars that I love and then I have another shelf I throw all other rated manga onto because they were so rare! So I was flummoxed to get to the end of this manga and just find it eh. I heard so much about this series that I have been waiting with bated breathe for my library to FINALLY get it in!! Talk about petitions to buy manga!! So I was super excited to get this off my TBR and onto my read shelf. Haine now attends the exclusive Imperial Academy as a bronze and accidentally is appointed to the student council where she will face the emperor of the school, Shizumasa Togu, and her childhood crush. The head of the prestigious Kamiya family sells his daughter for a paltry 50 million yen to the head of the Otomiya family. Check out more manga and graphic novel reviews Perspective of a Writer.Īrina Tanemura introduces her newest manga, The Gentlemen's Alliance †. The last time this happened, we were given forms that asked us to rate various values on a scale of 1 to 5: our desire to lead a team the importance of work-life balance. It’s a world where your culture and the company culture are one and the same, job descriptions are an energy-drink admixture of “HR’s idea of fun and a 23-year-old’s idea of work-life balance”, you can’t tell whether getting together over drinks is dating or networking, and FOMO hangs in the air like the city’s famous summer fog.Ī MEETING IS DROPPED MYSTERIOUSLY onto our calendars, and at the designated time we shuffle warily into a conference room. If you’re looking for some smart Sunday reading about the oft-neglected people aspect of technology, start with Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley, where she writes about her experience working that alternate reality known as San Francisco, circa 2013. The RipStik gets a mention in Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley. It felt very real and natural, and certainly something that concerned parents may do. He visits the school and speaks with Miss Garcia and the school’s principal. Deja’s dad is extremely uncomfortable at first when he learns that the school is teaching his daughter about the terrorist attack. For the most part, I think the topic was handled with extreme care. Her questions and research lead her to a harder realization: a connection between her father’s anxiety and respiratory illness and the terrorist attack that caused the collapse of the towers.īefore I picked up this novel and still now that I’ve finished it, I can’t help but admire the author for tackling the topic of the September 11 attack as the basis for a middle grade story. The material covered in the classroom is gentle and oblique, but Deja feels there’s a much more gruesome truth that no one dares to tell her. As their teacher, Miss Garcia, begins a unit about history connecting to the present, the class learns about the World Trade Center towers falling on September 11, 2001. Instead, Ben, also a new kid, and Sabeen, a sweet girl who covers her hair with a scarf, become Deja’s new friends. She’s embarrassed by her family’s situation and braced for judgment from the other kids. When Deja’s family loses their home and are forced to move to a shelter, she starts fifth grade at a new school. Available JAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads I like the idea of the “series” not being a “series”. I picked this up to re-read on a Sunday because I have book mail coming Tuesday that I will be reading immediately and I thought this was a cute book! Makes me want to pick them up and read them.Īudience: YA, language, a few love scenes (including intense make-outs), no violence Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan The Shadow and Bone Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo I love the bright, bold colors that these cover redesign went too. I didn’t even realize this was a cover change when I started reading them.Īnna and the French Kiss Series by Stephanie Perkins I loved seeing every new design (especially the backs with those dresses!). I love the eyes and think it’s really creative! OH I’m ecstatic these changed before I even started reading them. Showing Vin in a better light and more realistic is so much better! These first covers were all just…odd haha. Maybe a nod to her nobility, but the new covers actually show Kestrel for what she is. The Winner’s Curse Trilogy by Marie Rutkoski I love the addition of putting the characters on the cover! They deserve the spotlight and while I wish I could get all of the other covers (one day!) I love having the third (and fourth soon!) in this new design. An Ember in the Ashes Series by Sabaa Tahir The woman was pallid like the child on the steps, with the same expressionless eyes, the same lank hair. It just happens that I am the instrument of fate sent for this purpose.’ Instead, he smiled. The impulse was strong within him to say, ‘I have come to strangle you, You and your child. On a whim – he walks down a different street and selects a door to knock on. One day James Fenton can’t take it anymore – and decides he must vary the routine. The collection opens with The Alibi – the Fentons are a dull middle-aged couple – their lives are unchanging, a walk every Sunday afternoon, drinks with the Alhusons, who are just as dull. The residential streets of London, to the wards of a nursing home, to Venice, aįictional European state, Hollywood and the Devon moors. In these stories, we seeĬharacters who have reached their breaking point. Quite know what she’ll throw at you, that’s exciting. It’s an excellent collection.Įight stories of suspense that often cross theīoundaries of reality, Du Maurier’s imagination is extraordinary – so you never I decided to begin with The Breaking Point – a collection of short stories is always a good choice for a busy week. Daphne Du Maurier reading week started yesterday, but I began my reading last week – mainly because I am quite busy, and I wanted to read and review at least two books. "The Man-Eaters of Zamboula" is a story which hearkens back to earlier Conan style pitting him against mysterious ancient threats with a plotting girl by his side. Conan seemed a bit out of character to me, but there's no shortage of action. I wanted to like this story more than I did. Conan is a pretty murderous chap in this complicated story and his wits seem to fail him more than once so that the story can continue. "The Black Stranger" is a pirate yarn with hidden treasure, maps, dueling rogues and the lot. Conan's companion in this one is not the obligatory chick, but a young warrior who comports himself with significant honor. This is a story set in a sprawling wilderness where Conan is a scout trying to save the lives of Aquilonian settlers who have penetrated a bit too far into Celt country. It's really a Western in Hyborian dress with the savage Celts filling in for wild red Indians. "Beyond the Black River" is a good solid Conan story, considered the best by some but not me. I love the way that Lemony Snicket describes some of the weird people he meets, like Stew, Theodora Markson (don’t ask what the S stands for) who is not as competent or highly skilled as she portrays, the mysterious, coffee-drinking Ellington Feint, the shadowy Hangfire, and even Lemony Snicket himself. Nobody in this story is quite who they first appear to be. It’s set in a strange little town, containing ‘a sea without water and a forest without trees,’ and it’s full of bizarre events and curious characters. Who Could That Be at This Hour? is uncanny, peculiar and outlandish, all words which here mean ‘quite strange.’ It’s the first book in Lemony Snicket’s new series, in which he gives an account of his apprenticeship in a secret organisation, ‘in a town overshadowed by a sinister conspiracy, culminating in some unnerving and troublesome truths that lay buried for a number of years, while people were busy doing somthing else.’ The story is addictive and once you start, it’s very hard to put down. Do you really think that’s any of your business? Why? What kind of a person are you? Really?.Do you want to know about a stolen item that wasn’t stolen at all?. Now, Mia must find and expose the killer before they take away the last home that she has and her only chance at vengeance. But then, members of the Church start dying one by one. Here she learns how to wield weapons, poison her victims, and perform hand-to-hand combat to avenge her father’s cause. Mia has the power to talk with the shadows, and they lead her to the Red Church, a deadly group of assassins. Nevernight by Jay KristoffĪfter Mia’s father is executed for treason, she flees to the streets to avoid dying with other members of the rebellion. In a world where speaking out against injustice can cost your life, Kestrel struggles to align her duty with her conscience. The more time Kestrel spends around Arin, the more dangerous her newfound beliefs become. Seventeen-year-old Kestrel is the daughter of a prominent general in Valorian, a hostile empire who enslaves everyone who crosses its path. As she comes of age, she is faced with two options: enlist as a soldier or marry. But Kestrel has no interest in marrying or going to war. When she encounters a young slave named Arin from the conquered country of Herran, her perspectives on war change drastically. |