I loved Margaret George's the Memoirs of Cleopatra so I immediately picked this book up ready to be immersed in the world of ancient Egypt. Much to my surprise I found a type of Fantasy surrounding the stories of Cleopatra. The story loosely follows the historical narrative, but then goes hard-c...
The premise is very interesting: a young women decides that her standards for dating are too high (and thusly leading to her overall unhappiness and lack of love). She decides that, for a year, she will abandon all of her ideals and simply say 'yes' to every man (and woman!) who asks her out.The ...
There’s nothing. Milekt is in my throat, binding my song. Milekt himself. A suicide mission? An endsong? He’s taking me down with his own body? I feel like I’m choking, but there’s enough room for me to breathe, a tiny bit. Not to sing. I’m mute. Not the way I was on the prison ship. A new way. N...
In the night, awakened by the sound of letters falling in the hall, I rifled through the desk in the bedroom. Something insisted I look there. Top drawer, beneath the drawer liner. How quickly I’d grown used to envelopes filling every passage, to a house feeding me and putting me to sleep like ...
He’d long looked forward to paying his respects at his hero’s burial place, nearby as it was to Alexandria. It was the heroic thing to do, after all, a scene that might be written about by the poets of Rome, the young emperor standing beside the tomb of his predecessor, inheriting his power. Augu...
Zal informs me, “you’ll be given a hero’s farewell, quite unlike this one.”She hands me a wood and brass spyglass, and within a moment, I’m looking through it, and down at my high school’s parking lot. I lift my head when she says that.“It sounds like my funeral here is already planned.”“Living’s...
You know the story. In the town where they’d both grown up, they could look across the river to Mexico. Both of them had seen cheapo Catholic candles lit in the bedrooms of people they’d worked on, and both of them had been called miracle workers. Back in the beginning, Lorna Grant and Vix Beller...