![]() ![]() ![]() We get to see a lot of Karim's family as well as more of his best friend, Nestor's family. Ginn Hale has created a wonderful world that's familiar until it's not. At the same time, our main location moves from the Sagarda Academy to Kiram's home in the Haldiim part of his home town. That being said, this half of the story of Kiram and Javier and the Hellions and Kiram's family seemed to me to move along a little faster and be a little more action-packed than volume one. ![]() I kept having to pause and try and remember the whys and wherefores and whos of the narrative. I read Book One back in January and I found, especially with the amount of reading that I do, that I could have used a bit of a reminder on certain things in the beginning of Book Two to make the first couple of chapters more comfortable for me. If I can offer any advice to folks that want to read it, read them back to back in one complete experience. ![]() Seriously, this wasn't a duology by any means. And there are!īut, to concentrate on this one. Enjoyed it enough to go checking right away to see if there were more books in the same world. Fun, fun, fun! I really enjoyed this second half of Lord of the White Hell. ![]()
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![]() The amount of detail and research that the author has put into this book is astounding. Their friendship grows and they fall deeply in love. It spans their lives from when they meet as young boys, training to become soldiers, through various campaigns in adulthood. This is a breathtaking and intensely emotional epic saga detailing the lives and love of two Spartans Axios and Eryx. ![]() Don't buy the book if that's a problem for you. I hesitate to even mention this, but, just in case someone misses how this book is listed, there is M/M sex in the book lovingly rendered many times. This is not your traditional lalala- little-bit-of-conflict-then-HEA book. ![]() The story is long, but you realize why later when you realize you have been brought into the story so fully and know everyone so well and care about them immensely. Then when I returned I didn't want to listen to anything else. The book seemed to be repetitive to me some time after the halfway mark, so I paused to listen to other books. ![]() ![]() The narrator ruined me for my immediate next lesson because I either have to hear him again or someone of his caliber, otherwise I can't be satisfied. The writing was so adept and the narrating so excellent and emotive that the end has continued to resonate with me and in me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though a little reminiscent of X-Men & the Percy Jackson series in minor details, the author has created really fresh content - an unusual occurrence in ya lit (and it promotes reading Ray Bradbury - way to go Derting!). Lo & behold, once I started reading, I couldn't stop! I *loved* this book!! Derting created characters I connected with (Tyler is so swoon-worthy) and a plot line that, albeit out there (pun intended), was absolutely riveting. ![]() This book just happened to be readily available at the library one day, before I had to sit down and wait for my car to be fixed. I am not at all remotely interested in science. Review 2: This book deserves 4 1/2 stars. Together, they go on the run and it's one twist after another until the very end.Fast-paced, interesting, with some Sci-Fi, but that's not the main focus of the story. She has no memories past the argument with her father and the ensuing light.But with the NSA after her, her parents divorced, and her boyfriend and best friend now together, the only other person Kyra can trust is the boy next-door. Kyra has been missing for five years, but to her, it seems like five minutes. Really worried.But the abduction isn't dwelled upon - the results of it are. Review 1: I was worried when I saw alien abductions were a part of the storyline. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This blindness, Ayi Kwei Armah reveals, led to a corrupt government that prosecuted morally upright civil servants. The author exposes the naivety of the people who cheer for the politicians regardless of the damage the government is doing. The events of the novel are set in the historic period of the Passion Week in 1965 and the 25 th of February, 1966, the day after Dr Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown.įocusing on the life of the unnamed protagonist who never compromises his moral values, readers will get to appreciate this man of integrity as their eyes and ears in the novel. It ponders on the corruption and oppression that did not end with the white man but was replaced with the same or maybe worse capitalist regime when the people took over from the colonial masters in 1957. The novel is divided into fifteen chapters contained in 183 pages. ![]() ![]() YOU CANNOT MISS THIS ONE OR MASTER OF THE GAME & MISTRESS OF THE GAME! IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE, START WITH THESE 3 (I'm sure the sequel to "The Other Side of Midnight", "Memories of Midnight" will be just as great, but I haven't read it yet so I'll let you know soon! Happy Reading, It was like reading it for the first time all over again and it was glorious! Interesting complicated characters, many twists and turns fill the story line from the very beginning to the very end! Next I will purchase "Memories of Midnight ", which I have not yet read, then one by one I'll re-read EVERY Sidney Sheldon masterpiece followed by Danielle Steel, Dean R Koontz, etc until I've listened to my entire original library from so long ago. Now, some 35 or so years later,being retired, I have time to listen to all of his books through Audible and the first one I listened to was "The Other Side of Midnight". Then, of course, my attention turned to school and I just didn't have time to read fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I read (in book form) every book he'd, and 5 other authors, had written up until I started college. Admittedly, Master of the Game is, and probably will always be, my personal favorite as it was the first novel I read (back in the early 80's) and thus began my love of reading fiction. ![]() |