![]() ![]() In her former life, Avon wrote fanfiction at her desk while ostensibly doing work in non-profit fundraising for public radio and women’s liberal arts education, and worked on her books in between haircuts and highlights as a stylist. She loves writing about quirky people who might not be perfect, but always find a place where they belong. As a queer author, Avon is committed to providing happy endings for all and loves to tell stories that focus on found families, strong and open communication, and friendship. She likes road trips by car, rock concerts, thunderstorms, IPAs, Kentucky bourbon and tattoos. In her former life, Avon wrote fanfiction at her desk while ostensibly doing work in non-profit fundraising for public radio and women’s liberal arts education, and worked on her books in between haircuts and highlight Avon Gale lives in a liberal Midwestern college town, where she spends her days getting heavily invested in everything from craft projects to video games. Avon Gale lives in a liberal Midwestern college town, where she spends her days getting heavily invested in everything from craft projects to video games. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Rose of Versailles starts of rather slow - it took me about a volume to get into it. The female characters are particularly beautiful! The eyes are very prominent with the emphasis of sparkle in them. While some might call it dated – it is gorgeous to look at. One of the most beautiful aspects of this work is most certainly the art. Being a major manga classic, it is easy to see how it has influenced later works both in art and story-telling. The Rose of Versailles is simply beautiful. While loyalty and friendship grow between the two, Oscar worries for the ever-suffering lower classes of Paris. ![]() After years of training her skills, Oscar becomes the captain of the Palace Guard and is tasked with guarding none other than Marie Antoinette – the Rose of Versailles. Oscar de Jarjayes, also known as Lady Oscar, is raised as a man after her mother gave birth to three girls in succession. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s important to me to get the discussion of splatterpunk out of the way up front. While some might argue the splatterpunk style never died, my personal take is that the movement itself died an uncharacteristically quiet death around 1995. The term caught on, for better or for worse for these authors, since they would forever be regarded as a part of this movement, which ended fairly definitively in the mid-1990s - along with everything else horror-related that were direct offspring of the tumultuous, fear-mongering, devil-worshipping, video store-scented, Headbanger’s Ball-watching, PMRC-stamped 1980s. A handful of other authors were considered a part of the movement. Skipp and Spector ended up as central figures in what came to be known as the “splatterpunk” movement, a term coined in jest by author David J. The publication by Bantam of their first novel, The Light at the End, in 1986, ushered in a new wave of horror fiction with sharp edges and deep hurts. John Skipp and Craig Spector are American horror authors who rose to prominence in the mid-1980s after breaking into Twilight Zone magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose and Connor face seemingly impossible odds as they do any and everything necessary to Protect their family. ![]() Their characters, dynamic, the plot, well-developed thereby giving us another compelling read! The twins insight into life once again, astounds. The writing in this book was, as always, phenomenal. “How do you measure love? Is it by the things we’re willing to do? By the sacrifices we’re willing to make?” However, if you choose not to read Addicted After All before Fuel the Fire, there will be a time jump. It's highly recommended to read the books in the recommended reading order, which is in tangent with the Addicted series. ![]() It's possible to only read the Calloway Sisters spin-off series without reading the Addicted series, but you MUST read Hothouse Flower (Calloway Sisters #2) before reading Fuel the Fire (Calloway Sisters #3). New Adult Romance: recommended for readers 18+ for mature But when his love is threatened, when his greatest dreams with her are compromised - what is the cost then? ![]() It’d take the impossible to hurt Connor Cobalt, even for a moment.Īt twenty-six, his narcissistic tendencies have made room for the people he loves.Īnd he loves Rose. Spin-off book in the Addicted series | Book #3 in the Calloway Sisters series Fuel The Fire by Krista and Becca RitchieĪlso in this series: Hothouse Flower, Kiss the Sky, Long Way Down ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper. ![]() Many of our modern depictions of fairies can find their origins in this fascinating and historically important work that continues to entertain and inspire readers the world over. While Kirk died before his collection of otherworldly encounters was published, it is widely regarded by scholars as one of the most important and significant works on fairy folklore and the Scottish belief in second sight. He believed that these tales of fairies, witches, and ghosts, as well as stories claiming that many Scots were gifted with second sight, or extrasensory perception, were proof that the stories in the Bible were in fact true and supernatural phenomenon in fact existed. Most famous during his own lifetime for publishing one of the first translations of the Bible into Gaelic, Kirk spent much of his professional life collecting the many folklore tales native to Scotland. Written before he died in 1692, the work was not published until 1815 after many legends had grown around Kirk's death, which imagined that he was secreted away by the fairies themselves for revealing their secrets. "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies" is the famous and mysterious treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, second sight, and ghosts by Gaelic scholar and minister, Robert Kirk. Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners’ many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns. ![]() |