There was never a time where I was bored or felt that it slowed down. The plot, conflict, and build-up was nicely employed throughout this book. When they finally come together, the reader is as fully invested in the romance as the leads because there was so much depth that had been created before they decided on making it a "forever" kind of love. The romance developed very felt natural and each moment built off of the previous. When Iris describes Dex you can't help but feel that his body language was screaming for her. Iris has her own story filled with heartache and tragedy, but OMG she's definitely got fight in her, and I loved that! Iris's thoughts are funny because she can be so crude and tends to hyper-focus on the feeling of throwing up or passing gas during stressful situations.a bit immature, but so funny! I liked the hero, Dex Locke, he had great sex appeal.masculine, brooding, moody, but very interested.I loved how Iris and Dex clashed at first, but that's where all of the body language came into play. The story is told through Iris's POV and she is an interesting character. This was a really fun and enjoyable audiobook! I thought Callie Dalton did a great job narrating and representing the heroine, Iris Taylor well.
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My apologies, I'm forgetting for the moment who coined the concept, but one way of looking at the Roman Republic/Empire is as an earlier version of the Internet-as a communications network that served to distribute ideas. Rodney Stark, Introduction to How the West Won For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain backward and impoverished. I use the term modernity to identify that fundamental store of scientific knowledge and procedures, powerful technologies, artistic achievements, political freedoms, economic arrangements, moral sensibilities, and improved standards of living that characterize Western nations and are now revolutionizing life in the rest of the world. But with even bigger threats on the horizon, are Karou and Akiva strong enough to stand among the gods and monsters? The New York Times bestselling Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy comes to a stunning conclusion as-from the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond-humans, chimaera, and seraphim strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people. Dreams of Gods & Monsters Rating: 8.3 / 10 from 24 ratings Author: Laini Taylor Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy Published: 2014 Series: Daughter Of Smoke & Bone 3 Chapter list Read now Two worlds are poised on the brink of a vicious war. When the brutal angel emperor brings his army to the human world, Karou and Akiva are finally reunited-not in love, but in tentative alliance against their common enemy. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera's rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. 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They don’t always mesh or make a satisfying design, but they are held together by the tone of the narrator’s voice: light, musing, curious, and somehow wonderfully sturdy. The dog, the suicide, the writing life: These are the three strands of thought and feeling that make up the weave of The Friend. I don’t know whether or not The Friend is a good novel or even, strictly speaking, if it’s a novel at all - so odd is its construction - but after I’d turned the last page of the book I found myself sorry to be leaving the company of a feeling intelligence that had delighted me and even, on occasion, given joy. Thompson, fresh from the spooky gig with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, agreed to cover the late presidential campaign for Rolling Stone from the primaries on, armed only with an eye for gnostic drill, an ear for byzantine bullshit, and a pen aimed pointedly at the political gonads of every event and aspirant who crossed his mad path from New Hampshire (mainly watching McGovern "do his thing - which was pleasant, or at least vaguely uplifting, but not what you'd call a real jerk-around") to Florida where he was barred from the Muskie camp over the Boohoo incident which is so unbelievable it must be read (later Dr. |