The narrative voices are distinct-Midnight’s deeply emotional and direct, Poppy’s aggressive and fierce, Wink’s mystical and dreamy-and ultimately blur the line between the teens’ reality and invention. Read by Michael Crouch, Caitlin Davies, and Alicyn Packard.īends, inverts, and breaks fairy-tale patterns. Three voices that burst onto the page in short, sharp, bewitching chapters, and spiral swiftly and inexorably toward something terrible or tricky or tremendous.įor fans of Holly Black, We Were Liars, and The Virgin Suicides, this mysterious tale full of intrigue, dread, beauty, and a whiff of something strange will leave you utterly entranced. Midnight is the sweet, uncertain boy caught between them. Poppy is the blond bully and the beautiful, manipulative high school queen bee. Wink is the odd, mysterious neighbor girl, wild red hair and freckles. The intrigue of The Raven Boys and the "supernatural or not" question of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer coalesce in this young adult mystery, where nothing is quite as it seems, no one is quite who you think, and everything can change on a dime.
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Following the path of the Underground Railroad, they find themselves caught up in a vicious battle that could dash their hopes of love-and freedom-before they ever cross state lines. When the revelation of a stunning family secret places Marlie's freedom on the line, she and Ewan have to run for their lives into the hostile Carolina night. Seemingly a quiet philosopher, Ewan has his own history with the cruel captain of the Home Guard, and a thoughtful but unbending strength Marlie finds irresistible. Unbeknowst to those under her roof, escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in her laboratory. Her formerly enslaved mother's traditions and the name of a white father she never knew have protected her-until the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations in the guerilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause. įor all of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor-but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together. I love a nerd, but I think the nerds I love more are the quiet ones. A man who has no social grace, who by all accounts is extremely awkward in social situations, yet the heroine adores that about him and wants him in bed. When Ivan hears his project might not get funding and that he might actually have to charm up donors to keep things going, he turns to Cami for etiquette behavior. He is demanding of people and his manners leave something to be desired. They have a friendship of sorts, but Ivan has a personality that is hard to crack. She has a crush on her reclusive, cranky neighbor. His next door neighbor is Cami, who is a computer programmer. He lives in a townhouse complex that is highly populated by computer scientists and other physicist types. A nerd who has a secret BDSM side…let’s discuss.ĭr. How could I resist a book like this? I wish more books were published with this theme. When the review request for Theory of Attraction came my way, the author described it as a BDSM Nerd-mance. The Theory of Attraction by Delphine Dryden Lisicky does not explicitly lay out the feeling of a long friendship, he does not try to essentialize it to a paragraph or an aphorism - how could he? The Narrow Door brings out his long friendship with Gess over the run of 200 pages, as background, as the mood of the whole work. It resists narrative structure, even with death, and is stretched over years where the presence of the thing is more substantial than the activity. Friendship is a difficult subject, more difficult to write about than love. I will join with every other critic I can find in that. "A memoir of friendship" deceives by sounding simple. But The Narrow Door only goes back as far as their meeting, only goes on through the consequences of her death. Lisicky and Gess are sometimes closer and sometimes not. The Narrow Door is an account of both losses, an account of the friendship most of all. In 2009, Lisicky was recently married to the poet Mark Doty. Paul Lisicky was her best friend of 20 years. The basic facts of the book: In 2009, the writer Denise Gess, most famously of Good Deeds (1985) and Firestorm at Peshtigo (2003), died of lung cancer in Philadelphia. 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Side note, you can’t really tell because the background isn’t in focus, but that’s the Golden Gate Bridge in the background of the above photo. I read the whole book that weekend between the flights and little bits of downtime I had at the hotel before getting ready for the wedding/going to sleep etc. Since the other things I was currently reading were physical books, I decided to buy the Kindle version of Ugly Love to read on the plane to/from California last month. I had heard of Ugly Love for a while now, but never really know what it was about – just that it was one of Colleen Hoover’s most popular books. I mentioned it in my post the other day of my top 10 books so far this year. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover is hands down my favorite book so far in 2022 and probably one of my favorite ever. |