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Q: Have you broken up with a series? If so which one and why.
Oh, there are too many book series to mention but first on the list is Sookie Stackhouse, after the 10th book, I stopped reading. Another one is the Anita Blake series, book 8th or 9th? I forgot. When Anita started having sex with all the supes in the book it got yuccckyy...
How about you? Happy Friday!
The Island
Author: Jen Minkman
Kindle Edition
File Size: 231 KB
Print Length: 138 pages
Publisher: Patchwork Press (May 29, 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
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Synopsis:
‘I walk toward the sea. The endless surface of the water extends to the horizon, whichever way I look.
Our world is small. We are on our own, and we only have ourselves to depend on. We rely on the Force deep within us, as taught to us by our forefathers.
If I were to walk westward from here, I would come across a barrier – the Wall.
Behind it, there are Fools. At least, that’s what everyone says.
I have never seen one.’
Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across this Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The Fools living behind it are not amenable to reason – they believe in illusions. That’s what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors.
But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face, her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the Island really true?
Or is everyone in their world, in fact, a Fool?
LET IT BE
by Chad Gayle
Paperback: 220 pages
Published by Bracket Books
Synopsis:
LET IT BE is a novel with a soundtrack, a story that is intimately linked to the music of the Beatles.
When Michelle Jansen moves to Amarillo to get away from her abusive husband, she struggles to meet the emotional needs of her two children as she continues to rebuff the demands of her overbearing ex, but she finds love and support in the arms of a coworker who is as much of a Beatles fan as she is, and she begins to gain the confidence and the strength that she needs to stand on her own. Michelle's ex can't bear to see her happy, however, and she's blindsided by an unexpected betrayal as her ex turns her very own son against her; when this family that has already been split down the middle is thrown into chaos, it's up to Michelle to find a path toward healing and forgiveness, a way to right the wrongs that have hurt them all.
With chapters named for and influenced by songs that appear on the Beatles final album, LET IT BE is a mesmerizing novel filled with true-to-life characters, a touching tale of loss, longing, and forgiveness that chronicles the breakup of a marriage, the destruction of a family, and the struggle to come together in the aftermath of what remains.
