Previously Published at TheQwillery.comA co-worker recommend this series to me seven years ago. I attempted to read the first book shortly after that but got caught up in another book and never finished The One Kingdom. Being the dedicated reader I am, I recently returned to the series and I'm gl...
The magnificent concluding volume of The Initiate Brother. This fantasy interweaves Asian culture, mysticism, and martial arts with magic in an epic story of war, deception, illicit passion, and mystery. Initiate Brother Shuyun, spiritual advisor to the military governor of the province of Seh, r...
I had high hopes for this book and trilogy, but am sorely dissapointed. From the desriptions I read, I was expecting some entertaining political intrigue, but the book's descriptions are really decieving. What I found was third-rate Martin meets third-rate Jordan in this jumbled fantasy bore. I r...
Bette Midler, also known as Divine Miss M—the indomitable and incomparable singer, actor, and musical theater extraordinaire, with a career spanning almost half a century—revisits her classic memoir, now with a new introduction. With her brassy voice and bold performances making the world finall...
For a moment he closed his eyes and felt the slight soothing this brought. Tuath flipped the cloth covering back on her work of horror. Immediately, Toren lifted his wineglass, feeling the wine, dry and slightly bitter, on his tongue. "There is no news to lift the heart," he said, lowering the gl...
He closed his eyes and drew a breath. It was the fragrance he always associated with Llyn—Llyn and her garden—and it had lost its sweetness in recent years. Llyn had, for most of Arden's youth, been one of his favorite aunts, though she was in fact some variety of second or third cousin. He was f...