![]() ![]() The chapters can be repetitive, with Leo saving Yuiko from a wild dog or a rapist or a knife-wielding jealous schoolgirl, people expressing concern over his violent reaction, and her having faith in him. The supporting cast, as created by by Kyousuke Motomi, includes Leo’s guardian, an ex-mercenary, and some kind of neighborhood “boss”/gangster. Everyone treats him as a wild animal and her as his tamer, but there are hints that she’s beginning to think of him as something more than a pet, finding him “kind of cute” and noticing his manly scent. To cope, she becomes a cross between his keeper and his mother. ![]() Leo blanks out while he’s attacking those who threaten him or her, and the results can be traumatic and bloody. Her lack of fear sometimes approaches an insane lack of self-protection, but she does seem to recognize the tendency and learn from it. She’s teaching him to be “civilized”, even if it means throwing herself in front of him to prevent him attacking someone else. ![]() Her experience being hurt by her pets makes her unafraid of him, and he responds to her as the only person who’s nice to him. Together, they’re the perfect couple, even if their story is somewhat like the Tiny Toons’ Elmyra meeting a cross between Tarzan and Wolverine. He has violent berserker rages, but she notices how well animals respond to him, making her jealous of his affinity with them. Leo is a freaky-looking feral exchange student with wild black-rimmed eyes. ![]() Yuiko loves animals, but they don’t respond well to her smothering affection. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Serpent and the Wings of Night is the first book in a new series of heart-wrenching romance, dark magic, and bloodthirsty intrigue, perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses. And Raihn may understand her more than anyone – but their blossoming attraction could be her downfall, in a kingdom where nothing is more deadly than love. War for the House of Night brews, shattering everything that Oraya thought she knew about her home. Yet, what terrifies Oraya most of all is that she finds herself oddly drawn to him.īut there’s no room for compassion in the Kejari. ![]() He is a ruthless vampire, an efficient killer, an enemy to her father’s crown… and her greatest competition. To survive, Oraya is forced to make an alliance with a mysterious rival.Įverything about Raihn is dangerous. 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Could there be other mistakes? “Good story, he thought. ![]() ![]() The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book. But danger stays one step ahead of them as Elsa realizes her sister isn't quite what she seems, and an old enemy with a secret about her family's past could overturn everything Elsa's ever believed. The Bloodstone is the secret to Elsa's superhuman powers, and a shard in villainous hands is seriously bad news.Ĭue globetrotting adventures full of monster-smashing. ![]() When Elsa returns home, she discovers an unexpected guest claiming to be her long-lost sister, seeking her own stolen Bloodstone shard. It's nothing a good grenade can't sort out though. She's barely finished shutting down a hive of ratmen when a special ops squad turns up guns blazing – and they're shooting at her! Smart-mouthed monster hunter extraordinaire, Elsa Bloodstone isn't easily fazed, but a shocking family revelation sends her down a bloody path, in this witty and action-soaked Marvel Heroines adventure.Įlsa Bloodstone just can't catch a break. ![]() ![]() It is really important to read this book as historical fiction, not historical fact. Who can ever know what was going on in someone’s mind? Especially someone as complex as Cixi. The book is written in first person, which always makes me dubious when writing about a historical person. (Min’s sequel, The Last Empress, picks up and covers the rest of Cixi’s life.) Both authors sounded interesting and I couldn’t decide who would be better to read, so I got one historical fiction book from each (the Lisa See book I will review next).Įmpress Orchid (in a nutshell) follows the life of the last empress of China, Cixi, from her teen-years, just before she became a concubine to the Emperor, until the death of the Emperor when she was about 30 years old. At Page One bookstore in Hong Kong in the Chinese writers section, Anchee Min and Lisa See dominate the shelves. ![]() I first read Empress Orchid by Anchee Min. ![]() ![]() ![]() And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. Thanks to the gene, Cal is part girl, part boy. 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