I had been on a reading slump for some time and this book made me realize that fantasy is the answer! This book is fun. There had been much talk about it on #bookstagram, especially after the Netflix series was released in April 2021. Shadow and Bone is my first Leigh Bardugo book and I am so so glad I picked this up. “What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.” Personal Reviews on Shadow and Bone But is that what she really wants? Alina has to confront the secrets of the Grisha, some dark secrets of the Darkling, and even some secrets of her own heart! Soon after, she is taken away from Mal, to the Little Palace, by the Darkling, the leader of the Grisha (practitioners of the small science), where she learns more about the power and how she is destined to save the world. When Alina’s regimen is attacked by the monsters of the Fold, she discovers her dormant powers that saves lives. Once a great nation, Ravka, is now war-stricken and torn into half by the Shadow Fold (the Unsea). She feels she is good for nothing, but she is oblivious to her real powers. Shadow and Bone is primarily based on Alina Starkov, a seemingly normal girl, a war orphan who loves spending time with her best friend Malyen Oretsev, aka, Mal. Unless you were born to be a hawk.” Summary of Shadow and Bone “And there’s nothing wrong with being a lizard either.
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Phamotse is the author of the BARE book series, which made for the most talked-about books in 20 and raked in some awards.ĪLSO READ: ‘RIP, cutie’: Musa Khawula warned about infamous ‘Hockey Club’ The new season will delve into controversial points of conversation, such as black spirituality, black pride, black mental health, black love, black storytelling and black success.ĪLSO READ: Jackie Phamotse bags Netflix deal for ‘Bare: The Blesser’s Games’ HER CONTROVERSIAL BOOKS Other media personalities on the show include comedienne Celeste Ntuli, musician Mqobi Yazo, actress Sophie Ndaba, sangoma Gogo Skhotheni, presenter Rorisang Thandekiso, power couple Tbose and Mapaseka Mokwele and Bishop Joshua Maponga. Phamotse is part of the panel of celebrities in episode one and season two of Black Conversations season two. “I was vomiting, sweating, had diarrhoea and I couldn’t sleep, to a point where I needed to go to the doctor.”ĪLSO READ: ‘Delusional and pathetic’: Jackie Phamotse SLAMS white farmer ‘BLACK CONVERSATIONS’ SEASON TWO She revealed that she had an idea of who might have poisoned her. It is fine pastoral country with hills and woodland, agriculture and dairying. According to the London-based Black Horse Western online newsletter in 2007,īrian Parvin, who writes his westerns as Dan Claymaker, Jack Reason and Luther Chance, hails from Shropshire, a county in the west of the English Midlands, bordering on Wales. Most information about the author mentions The Singing Tree only in passing as a book that he wrote before specializing in Western novels in 1992 ( Buried Guns, Trail-Scarred, Shoot to Live, The Gun Master, and forty-four others). This was not bad for a novel that was unknown in most American public libraries and was only briefly available from an obscure American paperback publisher. It is mostly forgotten today, but when The Singing Tree was published in England in the mid-Eighties, especially in its American paperback edition as The White Fox, early Furry fans told each other, “You’ve got to read this!” When the first Furry specialty publishers emerged at the end of the 1990s, some of the novel’s diehard fans urged that they try to bring out a new edition of The White Fox. Your rating: None Average: 4.3 ( 3 votes) Second, NO ALEX FUCKING DIDN’T READ IT ALLANSON, BECAUSE YIIK TAKES PLACE IN 1999 AND AFTER DARK WASN’T PUBLISHED (in English) UNTIL 2007, YOU EGG. Maybe a sentence would have been a reference not nearly an entire paragraph worth of words. So let’s talk about references, plagiarism, and homage.įirst things first: I honestly, truly believe that this is plagiarism. ( This is corroborated by NicheGamer’s writers.) But we’re going to be talking about the example from Murakami’s novel specifically, as some people have contested the idea that it’s plagiarism:Īs well, Allanson responded to the accusations with. It’s pretty obvious the latter examples provided by Brown are straight plagiarism. More examples of plagiarism were found by journalist Ryan Brown: u/malphasia on Reddit made this post with the title “"can i copy your homework" “sure just change a few things so it’s not obvious”: I’ve been sitting on this for a while and recently got reminded of this, and I feel this strong need to talk about this because of how many people don’t think that this is plagiarism.įor anyone not in the know, YIIK was recently accused of plagiarizing Haruki Murakami’s novel After Dark. Hot warning that this is going to be a rather short and very angry piece. YIIK and the Art of Plagiarism vs Sampling J'onn attacks, and the invaders are repulsed. The worldchains, holding the worlds the spaceship has abducted in a state of stasis so they don't explode, disintegrate, and the planets start to pull into each other. It seems that the spaceship is gathering worlds.įloating red eel-like entities attack the core of the spaceship. The sight is so massive that it causes them pain.įlash asks Batman to coordinate the calming of Earth's peoples. Manhunter, viewing the ship, telepathically gives the group a concept of what they're dealing with. Steel and Plastic Man attempt to calm the people of Earth while Aquaman, Supes, and Wonder Woman examine the gigantic spaceship. On the moon, the JLA rushes with the Flash to try and teleport after the Earth before it's too late.īatman finds a burnt up corpse that stinks of the Penguin. It grabs the earth too fast for anyone to react, and flies off. Something massive is approaching earth, fast enough so that Superman can't even keep up with it. A rumble drags him out of Manhunter's body, and Manhunter asserts that no, it's not chili. Reviewed by: Neal Bailey ( repairs a micro-virus in the Martian Manhunter's DNA. Mild Mannered Reviews - Specials JLA: Heaven's LadderScheduled to arrive in stores: October 18, 2000 If you’re looking for more books written by authors of colour, check out 69 new books by Black and POC authors here. If you want to shop online, check out, where your book spending will be split evenly between independent bookshops. While we’ve linked to Amazon, you can also get these books at the hundreds of independent bookshops around the UK. Whatever your background, these titles will expand your understanding of what it’s been like to be brown from the 1800s to now. Some of these books also shine a light on the tougher parts of the South Asian experience, like Partition, racism and Islamophobia. Interfering Aunties? Figuring out a mixed-race experience? Navigating the line between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation? Tick, tick and tick. From books on South Asian history to South Asian romance novels, there’s a tome for every TBR.īeing mixed-Punjabi and white British myself, I relate HARD to so many of the stories in this gallery. Nishat doesn’t want to lose her family, but she also doesn’t want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. For bookworms, there’s no better way to get stuck in than with these books by South Asian and Indian authors. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this romantic comedy about two teen girls with rival henna businesses. South Asian Heritage Month is here, celebrating South Asian heritage in all its forms. For all of that focus, however, the extended setup does result in some fairly flat characterization out of the gate. Aside from Batman and a late appearance by the Flash, issue #1 is almost entirely Ranger-centric, with the book's presumed threat also coming from the Ranger side with foil Lord Zedd. Much of that initial appeal comes from the Rangers themselves, as they dominate the total page time over their Zord-less counterparts. Having already proven adept at universal crossovers with his work on Injustice, Taylor immediately finds the most enduring aspects of both properties and delights in pitting them against each other. It's when the two teams meet that the fun really starts, both in overall investment and sheer entertainment. The resulting instance leads to Black Lantern Zack meeting the wrong end of a transporter malfunction, setting the stage for a strange shift in scenery from Angel Grove and an even stranger set of protectors. Even the triggering of their meeting is handled with a degree of gravitas, Taylor utilizing the ever ay-yi-yi-ing Alpha 5 as a Trojan Horse of sorts. Writer Taylor wastes no time in bringing the two titular teams together, delivering a strong and surprisingly gripping opener that evokes the more mature tone currently in place with BOOM!’s signature series. The Sword of Kaigen’s setting more closely resembles Japan, and blended tradition and modernity in a way I’ve rarely experienced. My interested was piqued by the setting, so radically different that the medieval Europe-esque setting of so many fantasy novels. “Better to die sharp in war than rust through a time of peace.”īecause my friends love this book so much, I have to admit that I approached it with trepidation. And I’m thrilled that their love for this book is now one more thing that we share. I can’t think of a stronger endorsement than that. The Sword of Kaigen is one of the best examples of this, and not one but three of my co-bloggers absolutely adored it with their entire being, so much so that they had trouble finding the words. Because of these backstage experiences, I know when a book truly blows one of my friends away, what book makes them struggle for words strong enough to express the love they have for it. Often we polish up our opinion and make it as tactful as possible before sharing it with the world through our reviews, but behind the scenes we get to share exactly how we feel with each other, no matter how raw our viewpoint. Whether we love the book or hate it, we’re going to share our opinions with each other. I am so incredibly thankful to have made some wonderful book friends, and to be able to blog with those friends about the books we read. Because of their unique abilities to go into people’s minds and extract their memories and share those memories with others, Justice-Psy are usually conscripted to work within the justice system, usually to go into the minds of the accused, typically dealing with the most heinous crimes imaginable. This book also introduces us to a brand new Psy designation, that of the J or Justice-Psy. Despite the fact that neither Max Shannon nor Sophia Russo are changelings and I tend to gravitate more towards the pairings where at least one of the MCs is a changeling, this book still worked for me, maybe partially because of Max’s connection to DarkRiver. I’m super thrilled to say that upon rereading, this book totally holds up. Melanie: I was a little worried when I started this book because I had very little recollection of it other than Goodreads telling me I had given it a 5 star on my initial reading of this book. I haven’t seen a reviewer mention this yet, so I’ll be the first. It was an opportunity for the author to further a personal agenda and lecture us and I didn’t like it.īUT, the worst offense was the writing style. Plus, the scenes with the OB/GYN had no bearing on the story at all. When I found out what happened to the missing women my eyes practically rolled out of my head.Īnd the ending, all tied up in a pretty bow, with a character who has been severely traumatized for YEARS (given the location, that it had been going on for years without detection was laughably ridiculous) goes on to live a completely normal and happy life as if nothing had happened. A CHILD could have seen what he missed.Ī police officer hides a key piece of evidence, but since when is only ONE PERSON in an entire department privy to a key piece of evidence in a very high profile case (or any case)? It made me laugh, but it was supposed to be serious. I can’t give details as they would be spoilers.īUT, the physician who performs an autopsy on a victim is a complete moron to miss obvious signs that it didn't happen the way he said it did. If I listed all the implausible actions, reactions, events, scenarios, and conclusions I would re-write the entire book. Sorry, that's it, there's only one positive that I can come up with. Most of my friends here enjoyed it, but I did not.įirst the positives: I loved the beginning. |