Deathstalker #08 - Deathstalker Coda
From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Green's wild conclusion to his Deathstalker saga picks up moments after the cliffhanger ending of Deathstalker Return (2004). Unjustly outlawed Lewis Deathstalker has just brought his ancestor Owen back from the dead to battle the multidimensional, planet-devouring Terror. Meanwhile, Lewis himself tries to assemble and lead a space fleet against the vile minions of usurper Emperor Finn Durandal. In addition, in chapters interrupting Owen's pursuit through time and Lewis's jaunts through space, former Emperor Douglass Campbell must pull himself together to mastermind a rebellion in Finn's capital city. This listing of major plot threads doesn't begin to suggest the full story's feverish complexity. Fortunately, when the stage gets too crowded, the author kills off a few supporting characters, not to mention millions of faceless extras. In some ways, this SF novel resembles mid-grade anime—much better on explosions and mortal combat than characterization; however, it does tie up the series' loose ends coherently. Moreover, even if the major characters are legends, larger and stranger than lifesize, Green's ingenuity and sarcastic prose style keep readers from getting grossed out by the bloodshed or bored by tired space opera theatrics. He knows the action is so far over the top that it almost slips into farce, but he usually manages to keep his balance, arms waving frantically, right on the edge.
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From Booklist
The apparent conclusion to a long-running series involves not one but two Deathstalkers. Owen Deathstalker discovers that his true love, Hazel d'Ark, is actually that great stalking menace, the Terror. So he has to enter the Madness Maze again to go back in time and prevent the experiences of two centuries ago that turned her into the Terror--a task fraught with no little difficulty, not to mention a great deal of suspense. Meanwhile, Lewis Deathstalker faces his own dilemma, and without his mentor, Owen, to help him resolve it. Emperor Finn Durandal slaughters Lewis' whole family, putting him on a vengeance-driven quest for Finn's blood. This kind of quest is never as easy as a would-be avenger thinks when he sets out, and Lewis Deathstalker's experiences prove no exception to the rule. To the very end, the saga chugs along at the same high level it maintained before, with action, characterization, and ethical dilemmas all balanced and mingled in a way to keep readers turning pages. Roland Green
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Desire
Review
5 out of 5 Stars -Very sweet, lovely story about an eighteen year old girl Kama who lives in a perfect, settled future with a perfect boy, Liam... However, her world turns upside down...* Xandra Van Welder, News Anchor, TV Zemst*
"If you love the girls in Amanda Hocking's and Suzanne Collins' novels, it's time you discovered bestselling YA series author Kailin Gow!" - Steve Windwalker, #1 Amazon bestselling author and Kindle Nation Magazine founder.
The first book in a fantasy romance series featuring a heroine who must choose between two very different men and two very different destinies. [Desire will] entertain romance lovers. Kama Johnson, a high school senior living in the utopian town of Arcadia, couldn t ask for more; beautiful, well-liked and intelligent, she has nothing to regret and everything to look forward to. As teenagers on the verge of adulthood, Kama and her friends eagerly await the discovery of their Life s Plan, a document issued to them on their 18th birthday that will determine who and what they will become in Arcadian society. Kama happily anticipates learning that she will graduate with honors, attend a top school and become the wife of her long-term boyfriend Liam Seer. However, all these future plans are put into doubt when Kama encounters a mysterious young man named Torrid. To make matters worse, when Kama finally receives her Life s Plan, the unthinkable occurs it s blank. Gow s -Bitter Frost, 2010, etc.- narrative straddles the line between romance and fantasy as Kama gradually learns the horrifying truth about the seemingly perfect Arcadia while she also struggles to understand her feelings for Liam and Torrid. --Kirkus Reviews
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
SUMMARY: As Sherlock Holmes once conceded to Dr. Watson, 'If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.' And with such a spirit for investigation and discovery does David Grann set out in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes to unravel the truth of twelve great, real-life mysteries. Although Holmes is the subject of just one of the mesmerizing stories in this collection, all twelve contain elements of intrigue. Many of the protagonists are sleuths: a Polish detective trying to determine whether an author planted clues to a real murder in his post-modern novel; an arson investigator racing to prove whether a man about to be executed is innocent; a legendary French con man questioning whether he is the one who is suddenly being conned; and scientists stalking a sea monster. Unlike the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, these tales are all true. The protagonists are mortal and pieces of the puzzle often elude them. Some of the characters are driven to deception and murder. Others go mad. But ultimately the stories contained in The Devil and Sherlock Holmes shed light on the human condition, and why some people on this earth devote themselves to good and others to evil. As Holmes put it, 'Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent'.
Don't Cry: Stories
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, March 2009: Mary Gaitskill has a reputation as the chronicler of bad relationships, but that label doesn't do justice to the stories she tells. Her relationships turn bad, or turn good, or just turn (and turn and turn). In every exploitation there's an attraction, or at least an accommodation; in every hostility there's a yearning for, or at least a memory of, connection. You see the intensity of people--friends and family as well as lovers--drawn together, and the often equally intense emptiness when the magnet flips and repels. Gaitskill is one of our best short story writers (that's a label that's fully just) and the prickly, sad brilliance of her last book, Veronica, confirmed her as a master of the novel, too. Don't Cry is just her third story collection in 20 years, after the modern classics Bad Behavior and Because They Wanted To, and it reminds you immediately of why you've been longing to read her again. Once more, there are former lovers and ex-friends and parents and children who have not quite made a hash of things, but there's also a broadening in this collection, especially in the title story, which looks at the ties of family and friendship when they are stretched across the global distance of privilege and poverty. --Tom Nissley
From Bookmarks Magazine
Ranging from gritty realism to fanciful allegory, the stories in Don’t Cry push the boundaries of fiction in several directions. Populated by peculiar but always authentic characters with bizarre dreams and fantasies, Gaitskill’s stories lack conventional plots, timelines, and mounting suspense, but she keeps readers rapt with the promise of exposing the darkest recesses of human nature. The subtle balance between her spare, clinical prose and the uncomfortably private thoughts and feelings she brings to light give these stories their edge; yet intermittent moments of grace and hope keep her work accessible. Though critics disagreed over which stories were the best, they all praised her pitiless eye, psychological insight, and unsettling ability to turn readers into voyeurs.
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Doom Weapon
In the third and final installment of this thrilling western series, federal military investigator Noah Ford is sent to a small town to investigate the disappearance of one of his own. It seems that fellow Federal Agent Arnold Grieves hasn't been heard from in awhile –– and he's supposed to be investigating an important case in Junction City, Colorado. So the feds send Noah to do a little sniffing around.
It seems that Grieves, with his arrogant ways, hasn't made too many friends in this peaceful town. And when Noah connects the dots and realizes that Grieves may very well be absconding with the very grenades he was sent to retrieve, the stakes get a whole lot higher.
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