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Please see your browser settings for this feature. EMBED for wordpress. Find me, call me. Jacey knew Colin was the love of her life—until her rescue boat went under. A Love Symphony In Five Parts For the unemployed, under-employed or employed and All Truth Seekers of every faith and cultural tradition The Healing Adagio is a new book written by Melony McGant where small poetic thoughts become big ideas that offer compassion, hope and inspiration in difficult and challenging.
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There is a widening health care information gap between health consumers and care providers. The material presented here bridges the gap between laypeople as health care consumers and medically oriented health. In the city of Craewick, memories reign. The power-obsessed ruler of the. There are comics involved But not how you would think. It is so sweet how it all ties in together, but I can't really tell you without letting the "cat" out of the bag. I'm just having a hard time trying to put into words what I Holy crap, where to begin without just mindlessly babbling about all the good parts and giving up all the goodies?
I'm just having a hard time trying to put into words what I felt after reading this. It was like I get so excited whenever I think of getting someone to read this series. I want them to go through the awesome-sauce of it all like I did and still do when I think of it. So I will start at the beginning. Joanna is the daughter of one of the big gambling bosses.
Her sister Olivia, is the exact opposite of her. Where Joanna is dark haired she is light. Where Joanna has a sharp wit and biting tongue, Olivia has a bubbly personality. The story starts 24 hours before her next birthday. The birthday that will change her forever. Whether she likes it or not. She can either live up to her destiny or die. The night before her birthday she runs into the one and only man she has loved, Ben Traina.
They had parted on very bad terms. However, seeing him again makes her realize how much she has missed him and loved him. The make a date to go the next night. On her way home she hits a "bum", or whom she assumes to be. The guy heals amazingly fast and starts talking how he is a super hero. Not only is he a super hero, but he is the command leader of Zodiac troop The good guys.
His "cover" allows him to meander around overlooked. Just another homeless nutter out on the streets of Las Vegas. He tell Joanna her next birthday will bring with it her super powers. If she manages to stays alive he will meet with her again.
She meets the next day with her "father", Xavier. She learns that she is in fact not his biological daughter, much to her relief. There is no love lost between the two. She will be allowed to keep her house, car and will be given a small allowance. But, she will loose in place she may have had in the family business. Fortunately for Joanna, this distresses Olivia more then it does her. After the meeting, she is on her way to her date with Ben. Things go very well and if she didn't have to meet up with her sister Olivia they would probably have spent the night making hot, mad, monkey lovings.
She meets up with Olivia at so that when it turns midnight Olivia can give her her birthday gift. Olivia's ex-boyfriend drops by to pick up some of his things and that is when the shit hits the fan. The boyfriend recognizes who she is about to become in the matter of seconds. Joanna feels the building first tremor and sway and then feels like she is hit with a bolt of lightning. As it starts to recede she quickly reaches for a knife she had put in her boot after her conversation with the crazy bum.
She flips it open and throws it in the boyfriends chest. Why you may ask? Because he's one of the bad guys and was coming at her with a scimitar. She falls to her knees exhausted with what she had just went through and when she looks up again it is to see the body of a dead man in front of her and her sister trembling in a corner asking her if she is OK.
As the girls are recovering from what just happened, they don't see the boyfriend until it's too late and he has a hold of Olivia as a hostage. Joanna is willing to do anything to protect her sister. She tries to get him to let go of Olivia and take her instead. He begins cutting Olivia and Joanna yells for him to stop. He does And that my friends is just the beginning. Apr 24, Pat Patterson rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
I loved this book at the start. A third of the way through I almost went out and bought the rest of the series. Now I'm glad I waited. An interesting premise, decent writing and good battles are ruined by the "bibmo transition" and waaay too much chat about heels and fashion.
Maybe it's just my bad luck, but this is the THIRD book I've read in the past 6 months where a normal woman wakes up to find herself transformed into Barbie. Massive boobs, tiny waist, long flowing hair. If you want to writ I loved this book at the start.
If you want to write about Barbie then why not have one of these women just go for surgery? The involuntary "beautification" process is bad enough, but then these books invariably force the subject to dress like a hooker.
Fighting and running in heels and miniskirts. I promised that I'd never again read one of these and here I was, fooled again. The dead sister that she watched being terrorized, tortured with a knife, then flung out a penthouse window. I almost couldn't keep reading.
But the story kept me plugging along. I blew through more than half the book in a weekend and then it's taken me a week to drag through the rest of it. Every time she mentioned a designer or heel size I put it down.
And it got worse as the book continued. When the heroes are in their sanctuary, after waht was supposed to be a training session, two of the women's "heels clicked as they went down the hall". OK, we've been told why our heroine is wearing heels. Why is the other fighter in heels? What kind of mortal danger are they in where they don't mind sounding like a machine gun as they walk?
I never did get a decent physical description, just that she "looks like a man", a "hermaphrodite", and the star of the book calls Chandra "She-Man" during an argument. WTH is that about? First we get the bimbo makeover, then she derides an unattractive female at every opportunity. Seems like someone has issues.
My favorite mess was the catsuit stuff towards the end. Oh, thanks for filling me in! Just the info I needed to know as they're preparing for a suicide mission. Then when she drops Hunter and sticks one of his guns in the waistband. Lycra Catsuits have waistbands?? And the whole pile of stuff she lugs: her mini crossbow, his 2 guns, baton, and a 12 foot whip with barbs.
Who knew they made lowcut lycra catsuits with cargo pockets? Lastly I didn't get the feeling that she's even been a comic book fan. The comic store folks were too superficial and were all stereotypes. Or any of the attitudes: towards the comic folks, towards ugly women, and frankly towards sisters. I'd slaughter anyone that made me over into my dead sister. How could someone function under those circumstances? Interesting story. Good battles and writing. But too many off notes to make this an enjoyable read.
I'm going to re-read a Showalter or Kresley Cole to clear my head. View 2 comments. Jun 18, Haralambi Markov rated it it was amazing Shelves: uf-pnr. It can be described as gritty, dark, violent and one of the more captivating Urban Fantasy titles on the market. A lot can be said about the book, the ideas it conveys and the quality of the writing. By my rating standards this novel exceeds the maximum ten points and skyrockets far in the distance.
She is a strong character, which is typical for the genre and has a colorful biography to boot. From being messed up by a trauma in her childhood that led her train herself to be a modern age amazon Joanna finds herself thrown into the great battle between Light and Shadows agents, where her fighting skills, short temper and her aptitude to violence come in handy. The other face of Las Vegas hidden behind the neon lavish is a battlefield between the Shadow Zodiac and the Zodiac of Light, where twelve agents from both sides are meant to fill a star sign on each Zodiac.
Each agent has his conduit, which is their special lethal weapon. Armed, dangerous and trained they have one purpose: fight. Seems like a standard good vs. Vicki creates a sub-society of superheroes, who can heal fast and possess their own special mythology. Another amazing factor is the sense of smell, which is taken and elevated to new and incredible heights.
A whole new world is opened up with this acute and powerful sense of smell, which can detect all smells and their remnants and it even connects people to each other. Vicki builds on top of that a whole science relying on genetics that is concentrated on how to mask and change smells and characteristic scents. Also killing a star sign with his own conduit your own scent is erased and you become invisible to the senses of the people around unless you make contact.
For me all these little details that get revealed part by part without info-dumping and by sensible dialog is enough to hook me alone, but what made me purely addicted to her work is her style of writing. Judging by my own experience with writing, first person POV could never quite mix with wondrous paragraphs of deliciously long sentences of descriptions.
It just shows how much I have to learn to extract the maximum of both techniques together and for that I simply bow down before her skills. She is destined to do a lot and she can choose to be on either of both sides. As a bonus she possesses special skills from both sides as well. Joanna, although playing for the good guys, is vulnerable to all the energies and defenses against the dark, although we are not sure as of yet if vice versa applies as well.
Her role in the superhero society is met with mistrust as Light is equal to Shadow inside of her and the equilibrium between the both can and has been tipped easily. Her character is the most exact brought-to-life metaphor of the struggle between good and evil inside the human being and that is what makes her as real as any other human being can get.
Coupled with the challenges to live the life of her sister Olivia, who was murdered the day, she went through the metamorphosis that unlocks her powers, Joanna has to adapt to being this new person. Exactly with this purpose in mind Vicki has her going through a drastic plastic surgery to become her sister. All I can say is that Vicki Pettersson has arrived, plans to stay and there is nothing stopping her. Scent of Shadows has some intriguing ideas. The book pits comic book hero type characters in a battle between Light and Shadow using the symbols of the Zodiac.
Each Zodiac sign has a corresponding fighter in both Light and Shadow. There is a prophecy that the Kairos will come, and the Shadow forces are hunting him or her down. The Light and Shadow heroes track each other by scents. They each have their own specialty weapon exclusive to themselves. If they are killed by their own weapon, the kille Scent of Shadows has some intriguing ideas.
The setting for this book is in Las Vegas, which was perfect for this type of book. I can just imagine a TV series made with this book in mind. It could work. She was tough, but not the most likable character out there. Her merry band of Light Zodiac heroes were not the most welcoming out there, although I did like Hunter and Warren the best. I had a few things that I disliked about this book.
I did feel lost at times, waiting for an explanation, a clarification, or further development of a plot point. There were large expanses of slow moving activity.
I never did understand the principle of metamorphosis or why it happened. The last or so pages did get exciting. I may look into the second book, but not right away. View all 19 comments. Mar 07, Jim son of Jim formerly PhotoJim rated it liked it Shelves: reads , fantasy-sci-fi , jim-swap-shelf , paranormal. Finished this today. There are some definite cool parts.
There are some definite not so cool parts. The scent thing? The comic book shop kids? Not cool. The characters are pretty good. The plot is decent. The world makes no sense whatsoever. A decent character face-off with decent dialog is followed up with a scene where a characters bones are melted and eyes bleed when they Finished this today.
A decent character face-off with decent dialog is followed up with a scene where a characters bones are melted and eyes bleed when they passed through a portal. But then someone gets a great idea and she can pass through the portal again with no adverse affects if she just wears these cool shades?
Hit and miss like that across the board. Enough good stuff to order the second book. Enough bad stuff to not get anxious if it doesn't show up for awhile. Feb 25, Felicia rated it liked it Shelves: urban-paranormal , vaginal-urban-fantasy. Not the best execution, but I want to read the second. View all 4 comments. Rating: 2.
Nov 17, Anastasiaadamov rated it really liked it Shelves: own. I had some issues with getting into this book. It might have gone smoother if any of the zodiac signs were personally interesting to me. The story and the idea is interesting and intriguing. For most part I thought the book was just OK but there were some really good moments and lines and it bumped up a star in my rating.
I like stories with survivors and fighters and this one was really good in that department! Jul 09, Steph rated it liked it Recommended to Steph by: Sharon. Overall: 3. We meet her sister Olivia, who is the epitome of the Paris Hilton-type wealthy heiress to the outside world, but she has a big heart and is Joanna's best, and only, friend. While Olivia is loved and pampered by their father, Joanna and he are like oil and water.
They tolerate each other, but only just. She's spent every day since then making herself stronger, so that she can never be taken advantage of ever again. She spends much of her time alone, wandering the streets of the city, taking pictures of the homeless and seedy parts of town. Since her childhood trauma, trying to do the opposite of what she feels happens to most survivors, she never says no when asked out on a date.
That's why she ends up on a date with a not-so attractive dude. The date starts out as most do, but then things get weird. Their reunion was like CPR for her character. I was shocked when the author makes it so that they cannot should not end up together. She's drawn into the world of the light and shadow Zodiac. Like in comic books? They have their own comics!
For now, I'm firmly planted in the middle, neither ranting or raving. View all 14 comments. What's up with rape and UF.
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