![]() ![]() ![]() Or try the first and see if you don’t get hooked. ![]() If you only buy one, you’ll want the next. For the lazy crowd, however, I have prepared a summary of summaries below and I have given an overall recommendation at the end of all the reviews-surely you can scroll down and read the end, yes? If you can’t, just buy the books. I will discuss and review each book individually. Everyone gets their happy ending, of course, but not without several machinations of their own or of others’-just like a chess game. The series is interspersed with several chess matches as, like chess itself, a game of intrigue, coquettishness and desire is played out between the characters of each novel. Her return to England allows her to renew her friendships with her contemporaries-most of the other duchesses in this series-and due to her love of chess, begin a friendship with the Duke of Villiers, her husband’s ex-best friend. Jemma was a well known social butterfly in Paris and had somewhat a scandalous reputation. Elijah had what seems like a heart attack while at parliament, and he has asked Jemma to return so they can begin the process of begetting an heir, while he still can. This series begins with Jemma, the Duchess of Beaumont, who returns to England from France in the late 1700s (during the Georgian period) to be with her husband, Elijah, from whom she has been estranged for several years. Like the games of chess that run through this series, the romances are filled with strategy, intrigue and surprise moves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() True: Sam is missing, and before he disappeared, he left cryptic messages about someone threatening him-someone who has been threatening Charlotte, too. ![]() She got out, though: divorced Sam, started fresh.įalse: She left him before things went too far. She married the wrong man, got caught up in his con artist games, took what wasn’t hers. It’s an offer she can’t refuse…and can’t escape. This post contains affiliate links, see disclosures for more detail. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book, all opinions are my own. I find her books to be pure escapism and sometimes that is exactly the book I need to read. This is the second book I’ve read by this author, the first one, The Perfect Girlfriend, was a wild ride, and this newest one was no exception. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, but this breathtaking maid makes him weak with wanting her. ![]() Who was that extraordinary woman? Ever since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other-except, perhaps this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid's garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. Will she accept his offer before the clock strikes midnight? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters speak in an informal conversational style and use many colloquial expressions. *Please note that the French language that is used in this book is French Canadian and not the same as the language of France. Share yours at Cassidy’s Confessional and you may end up inspiring the next steamy Cassidy London book! Until now.Įvery Cassidy London book has been inspired by a steamy truth that comes directly from the pages of Cassidy’s Confessional. Inspired by steamy truths more outrageous than fictionīecause some of our best stories are the ones we can never tell anyone. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.Ĭhristmas Magic: A Billionaire, Single Dad Romance The author holds exclusive rights to this work. All trademarked items included in this novel have been recognized as so by the author. Names, places, and characters are figments of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance of the characters to persons living or deceased is purely coincidental. ![]() ![]() Societies with a written language were able to accumulate knowledge and pass it on from generation to generation, giving them an advantage over societies that relied solely on oral tradition.ĭiamond also discusses the impact of disease on human history. ![]() Diamond contends that societies with access to domesticable plants and animals had a greater chance of developing agriculture and settling in one place, while societies without these resources remained hunter-gatherers and moved around more frequently.Īnother key factor in the success of some societies, according to Diamond, was the development of writing and the ability to store and transmit knowledge. One of the main arguments of the book is that geography played a significant role in the development of human societies. According to Diamond, the availability of certain resources and environmental conditions led some societies to develop faster and become more successful than others. ![]() ![]() "Germs, Guns, and Steel" is a book by Jared Diamond that explores the reasons behind the differences in human development around the world. ![]() ![]() I have a chance to start again, and this time, I make the rules. A very dangerous adventure that will change my life forever. ![]() Thankfully forty isn't too old to start an adventure, because that's exactly what I do. Breene (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 8,106 ratings Book 4 of 7: Leveling Up See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited 6. That is, until I learn what the house really is, something I never could've imagined. Breene Magical Midlife Love: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Leveling Up Book 4) Kindle Edition by K.F. I'll be taking care of a centuries old house that called to me when I was a kid. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path.Įager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills. This time, though, I plan to do things differently. ![]() But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes. "Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. A cape wearing butler acting as the world's worst life coach. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their love for each other and seeing them all together is so amazing. Sometimes he simply disappears and no one knows where he is until he appears again.Īt one point things get out of hand, so King calls his family to help him protect Leo. He’s been hurt a lot in the past because he was smarter than some kids. He is in a situation he doesn’t want to be. ![]() Everyone has been treating Leo the worst, so King takes action to make Leo’s stay there better and healthier. When King arrives at the site where Leo is being living/held, things are not good. Leo has been tasked by the government to create a program that could be dangerous to the world. King is sent to protect the General’s son, who he only has been hearing the best and how clever Leo is. King was such an amazing character and Leo complemented him so good. I was also scared cause King had me intrigued from the beginning and I could not wait for his story but this was very good! I was surprised cause it was better than I expected and better than the others in the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() God designed and gave us our taste buds, adrenaline, sex drives, and the nerve endings that convey pleasure to our brains. What’s true is that our desire for pleasure and the experience of joy come directly from God’s hand. Our belief that Heaven will be boring betrays a heresy-that God is boring. ![]() Conversely, outside of God’s presence, there is no joy. David wrote, “In Your presence is fullness of joy at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore” ( Psalm 16:11, NKJV). Without God, there’s nothing interesting to do. Everything good, enjoyable, refreshing, fascinating, and interesting originates with God. Hell is a place of torment and isolation, where friendship and good times don’t exist. That could happen on the New Earth, but not in Hell. People sometimes say, “I’d rather be having a good time in Hell than be bored out of my mind in Heaven.” Many imagine Hell as a place where they’ll hang around and shoot pool and joke with friends. ![]() ![]() I think this novel provides a powerful and joyful navigation of what it means to become posthuman - perhaps by activating the suspicion that we might have never been human in the first place. In this article, I want to explore how the concept of “becoming-insect”, as developed in Lispector’s novel, puts into motion new ways of thinking about the posthuman condition. to immerse herself in the process of becoming the cockroach, coming to affirm the unity of all living matter from which she is only a minimal expression. This encounter with the insect leads G.H. This process of estrangement is triggered by G.H.’s discovery of an enormous cockroach creeping inside the wardrobe in the room where her housemaid used to sleep. Through a series of encounters with disruptive elements of what she used to think of as her identity, she enters a different domain of existence - one that goes beyond anything she had previously considered her self, and also beyond the traditional conception of the human - which is the domain of life, realizing that “the life that, in one, does not bear one’s own name is a force that connects one to all other living matter” (Braidotti 118). ![]() ![]() ![]() is the narration of a woman that loses herself and, in doing so, disorganizes the entire human world. If I confirm my self and consider myself truthful, I’ll be lost because I won’t know where to inlay my new way of being - if I go ahead with my fragmentary visions, the whole world will have to be transformed in order for me to fit within it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. 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