My name is Embry Moore and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States…for now. And I should have known a love as sharp as ours could cut both ways. Only with Maxen and Greer does my world make sense, only between them can I find peace from the demons that haunt me. An Army captain and a Vice President.īut only with him am I a prince. A red, blue and white combo book covers would fabulous on my bookshelf! So here’s hoping! Anyway love this cover A++īasics: American Prince is the second book in the American Queen trilogy and it is 330 pages. Greer’s cover (American Queen) was blue and Embry’s (American Prince) is this gorgeous red and I am hoping American King will be white. The Cover: The American Trilogy series has some of the best covers in the romance genre I think and American Prince is gorgeous. This review will contain spoilers and ratings of a crazed book lover/reviewer, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. On top of that Sierra is a goddess with her amazing writing, CRAZY plot twists and sensual characters. Embry is literally one of my favorite male characters and I can relate to him a lot which I think is one of the main reasons I was so emotionally invested in this book. I love Sierra Simone and the American Queen series so much oh my goodness American Prince seriously ripped my heart out. Oh my goodness this book RUINED, WRECKED AND BROKE ME.
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Much as she wants to leave her past behind, she can't shake the ominous dreams that foretell destruction for her entire family. But Isadora's quickly finding that a "normal" life comes with plenty of its own epic complications-and that there's no such thing as a clean break when it comes to family. Isadora's sick of living a life where she's only worthy of a passing glance, and when she has the chance to move to San Diego with her brother, she jumps on it. After all, they are going to be around forever-and she's a mere mortal. She's also stuck with parents who barely notice her, and a house full of relatives who can't be bothered to remember her name. Of course, as the human daughter of Egyptian gods, that pretty much comes with the territory. Isadora's family is seriously screwed up. Published by: HarperTeen on September 10, 2013 Piaf rose every day at dusk, wrote, rehearsed, commanded, took pills and drank and sang until dawn. 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Evaristo penetrates uncomfortable subject matter with ease and allows the reader to live in the spaces of empathy within the most egregious characters. There were moments that worked, mainly the sections with Daniel and Maxine interacting with Barry. It pains me to say that I did not enjoy reading this. Evaristo offers her signature hybrid of prose and poetry underpinned with themes of intergenerational strife, family dysfunction, secrecy, sexual identity, depression, and the clash of assimilation and the preservation of culture. The book moves from Barry’s first-person perspective to a second-person perspective about Carmel. It’s about a “Caribbean queen” named Barrington “Barry” Jedidiah Walker, husband to Carmel Walker, father to Maxine and Donna Walker, grandfather to Daniel, and closeted lover to his childhood buddy Morris. Loverman was a perfect novel to start reading during Pride month. It is my mission to read the rest of her bibliography before I die, which shouldn’t be too hard seeing as I’m 27 and she’s written a total of 8 novels. With her 2019 Booker Prize-winning novel Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo immediately became one of my favorite living writers. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Of course, there has to be a love interest, and that shows up in the form of Alexander, the stubborn prince who ends up as a donkey for several chapters. It’s all very organized and delineated, which made me smile. There were clever asides to several fairy tales, as well as the categorization of characters. The Tradition is a powerful thing, and if one doesn’t think about what one wishes, or even says, dire consequences abound. The best part of the book, I think, was working with Elena as she learned about the magic and how to manipulate the stories. And it’s the Godmother’s role to direct, push, pull, prod and help people into, along in, or out of these stories. See, in the 500 Kingdoms, there’s this thing called The Tradition: magic that is pushing, pulling, forcing people into tales. 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The “Love” of the title is much more about love of mathematics than love of another person, as Frenkel provides a detailed story of what it is like to fall in love with mathematics, then pursue this deeply, ending up doing mathematics at the highest level. It’s a must-read for those who share the interests of this blogger, so go get a copy now. Edward Frenkel’s new book Love and Math is now out. |