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stygian-omadas-epic-chronicles · 4 months

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My thoughts on Sabotage (Shadows of Fire 1)

After months since it was released, I finally read it!! (hence my return to this side blog after virtually abandoning it for years 😅) But before I did, I reread all the chronicles of Nick books because it had been soooooooo long since last time I read those that I was sure there were details I'd forgotten. Oh boy! How right I was about that!

Anyway, back to Sabotage. I love it so much. It felt good to be back with the whole gang. I've missed them. The book is a nice set-up for the next chunk of the overall story, but it was too short for my liking! It was over just when it was getting interesting 😞 But after waiting so long for it, I take what I can get!

❗ spoilers ahead ❗

One thing I'm grateful is that we finally had Kody's original name spelled out for us. I know it's silly and Sherri had confirmed it a while ago, but it's the biggest pet peeve I had with CoN. I drove me crazy, absolutely insane, that her name kept changing basically with every new book that was released. I know it's a me thing, and most people couldn't care less about it. I know!! Don't @ me.

My baby Styxx was in it!!!! And for what I can guess he'll continue to be in the series for a bit. i have no words for how happy that makes me!!! But I resent that we didn't see a father-daughter hug!! We had uncle-niece's reunion, but not daddy-kid's?! How's that fair? 😣

And I cannot believe Cyprian's entitlement! OMG! Seriously dude! I mean, I get that as Malachai, he's an angry guy and craves to be loved the way Nick is loved, but like take it with your mother who was the one who sexually assaulted your father in a dream and then she hid you from him. and treated you like garbage. You shouldn't take with the guy that never knew of your existence until like half an hour before you killed him. just saying!

And yes, everyone should be smothered with love as Nick is, but you can't demand it. It sucks when the ones who should love and cherish you don't (i can't even imagine how bad bc I've been lucky enough to have a loving family), but you can't throw a 4-year-old-like tantrum, so massive that transcends time.

"If I don't have it, he can't either... I have to kill him" like what?!! 🤨

My question is, Was Cyprian conceived before or after the curse was broken? Because if was before, it could explain his attitude somewhat, but if it was after, dude! you have no excuse!!!

And now *sighs* I get back to the waiting for the next book.

#book review #chronicles of nick #shadows of fire #sabotage #cyprian malachai #dark hunter world #dark hunter series #sherrilyn mcqueen #sherrilyn kenyon

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lisamarie-vee · 7 months

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#vintage magazine #the kenyon review #1960s

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riddlemethispoetry · 1 year

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mildly excited for the collapse of twitter because i hope it will shift paradigms around (what was) lit twitter

#looking at you kenyon review #alt lit

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ellie88-blog-blog · 2 months

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Sailor Beware

With a blend of humor, romance, and physical comedy, "Sailor Beware" weaves a delightful narrative filled with lighthearted moments and unexpected twists.

I have not reached one of my favorite Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis films, though not my all-time favorite of their collection. Their second military film, the 1952 Hal Walker directed “Sailor Beware” is a movie black and white musical comedy, I’ve watched many times over, usually when I’m feeling down, though it has been a while. This film is adapted from a 1933 play written by Kenyon Nicholson and…

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merp-blerp · 5 months

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Rating Annie On My Mind Book Covers AGAIN Because I Found More Covers

I did a part one of this some time ago, but I have since found more Annie On My Mind (related) covers, so here’s another rating list! Just like before, my ratings only apply to the covers, not the book itself. I love the book and recommend it not only as an important part of sapphic and queer media history, but just as a good, sweet little read. It’s not super… “adventurous” (if that’s the word I’m looking for) in terms of the what happens, but it’s very serene. I guess I’m saying it’s more character driven than plot driven and more “slice-of-life”, but not mundane in my opinion. I don't own any of the photos, I found them online.

⚠️ Light Spoiler Warning on the discussion of the last cover, but nothing too bad. I tried to keep it as vague as possible.

Okay, let’s start!

The Legacy Project - 5/10

This one seems very new. I don’t know the date of this or any covers on this list, but it screams modern YA romance novel cover. It looks like the thrilling sequel to Red, White, and Royal Blue (no shade to that book). I don’t find this style of cover very creative on any book—it’s a bit too common and boring for my taste, but I kinda like this one okay. Not groundbreaking, not awful. I like Annie’s little scrunchie in her black hair (Annie’s the one up the highest, I’m pretty sure. That one looks the most like her), though I don't think she ever wore that. Liza’s hair looks longer than it’s usually implied on the covers and in the story. But exact character description accuracy is by no means everything, I’m being picky and a bit hypocritical as someone who always imagines Annie with bangs for no canon reason. I like how Annie’s head is right by her name and she’s sitting on the “On”. And how Liza’s right by the “My” and sitting the “Mind”. It somewhat tells you who’s who, another reason why I assume. I don’t know, I just don’t have much to say about this one. It’s pretty by the numbers, but nice enough. Definitely not the worst I’ve seen, but not the best. It’s in the middle, which isn’t bad.

Hanbook Korean Cover - 2/10

It’s… pretty uneventful. It’s kind of enticing that you can’t see any identifying features on who I assume are supposed to represent Annie and Liza. When I first saw it I thought it might be treating Annie and Liza both being girls as a “plot twist” of some kind with this cover. But then I threw this cover into Google Translate out of curiosity and apparently the biggest text on the page reads, not the title, but “Girl, Love Girl” (which is hilarious) so I guess not. Google Translate isn't always super reliable, so take that with a grain of salt, but I will be taking a point away from the 3/10 I would've given this cover due to the “incorrect” title. Maybe the reason for the pretty inoffensive cover has something to do with how queerness is taken in Korea, I wouldn’t know what it’s like to be queer there. But again, the “Girl, Love Girl” spells it out pretty blatantly so maybe not? The yellowy-green filter over it is a little random and weird. I can’t help but think of… pee when I see it. So likely the worst one I've seen.

David Bruce Guide - 3/10

So I’m aware the next two covers—maybe even the third cover—are somewhat cheating, as they’re not Annie On My Mind covers really, but I wanted more than two meh covers on this list, so I pulled some strings. My list, my rules. I don’t know what’s actually said in this guide, especially since it’s some, I’m assuming, guy writing about some fictional teen lesbians. The contents could be great, could be awful, but let’s focus on the cover. It looks like someone took a random stock photo of two girls kissing and was like, “Yeah, that’s Annie and Liza, right?” They really don’t favor them at all. I don’t recall anyone having a colorful pixie cut in this story (as cute as it looks on the model). I know that’s not the most important thing, but I will mention it. Otherwise, it looks kinda artsy I guess. Looks like a still from an interpretative dance or something. And as a bit of a sidebar, maybe it's my modern privilege, but the idea of having an entire discussion guide for this book is a little funny to me. What’s going to be discussed? “Hey, should queer people have rights? Should people be able to write whatever they want without their books being burned by bigots? Should kids be able to read whatever they want?” etc. It’s a very “obviously yes” thing to me, but I get that it hasn't always been for others and still isn't for some, so it's not bad this exist (probably, again, I haven't read this guide). I refuse to put this as low as the Virago Upstarts cover from part one, so they get a three out of ten. It's not that bad.

Nancy Garden School Library Journal Cover - 6.5/10

So the reason why this cover is on this list is because of the two girls in the background. I admit that it could be Nancy Garden and her partner Sandy Scott, but for the sake of justifying its place on this list, I’m going to say it’s Annie and Liza. It kinda looks like them to me. I know it’s just a part of a cover, not an actual full cover for Annie On My Mind, but I think there’s a potential vision here for an AOMM cover. I like the scenery on the bench in front of the Brooklyn Bridge. I could see that vision alone being an AOMM cover, even though I don’t think there was an actual scene from the book near the bridge like this. That’s fine, a lot of the AOMM covers over the years don’t feature an actual scene from the novel, including my favorite from part one of this list. And the art is really nice. The drawing of Nancy is a drawing of an actual photo of her and it’s done to a tee. Really nicely done.

I don’t know what to title this one, sorry ‘bout that - 9.5/10

YES, YES, YES! I’m not sure if this is fanmade or not, but I love it, so I had to include it. It looks like something a fan would make and I mean that in the best possible way. The art is super cute and pleasing to the eye. This cover also screams YA romance novel cover like The Legacy Project one, but in a way I personally prefer. It’s actually interesting. The Violets! THE VIOLETS! Violets, both the color—along with other shades of purple like lavender—and the flower, have their place in queer history. Sappho, famous super super early sapphic writer (so early we sapphics/lesbians are named after her and the place she lived) wrote several fragments mentioning violets. So did Emily Dickinson and several other sapphic/potentially sapphic writers. Nancy Garden also did this in AOMM. Liza gifts Annie violets for Thanksgiving. Not only do violets represent everlasting love, but they have a huge sapphic history. I like how Liza is sort of drowning in the violets. I think this could represent 1) how Liza is drowning in her love for Annie, as she’s very head-over-heels for her from day one. Or 2) Liza, having just discovered her sapphic feelings for girls, is very enthralled in what’s such a new world for her. This isn’t purely a bad thing at all, but you could argue that being so obsessed caused Liza to make… awkward decisions, like what she and Annie get up to in Ms. Stevenson and Ms. Widmer’s house, which got them all into deep trouble. She’d also known she was a lesbian for much less time than Annie. It takes her a while to even directly call herself a lesbian with confidence. Maybe that’s why Annie is certainly still in the flowers, as she’s definitely a lesbian and in love with Liza, but she’s not drowning like Liza, not because she doesn’t love her as much, but because she is a bit more seasoned in her sapphic feelings, knows better, and is a bit more cautious, careful, and knowledgeable about being a lesbian. She isn’t quite as willing to do somewhat awkwardly-wild, but sometimes brave things as Liza, like how Liza stood up to Sally and Baxter in Stevenson and Widmer’s house while Annie’s mostly scared-silent during the scene. Though it took two people to do what they did in Stevenson and Widmer’s home, so Liza definitely makes her more daring in some ways she probably wouldn't have otherwise been. They go about their feelings a bit differently. I also like how Annie is placed right by Liza’s head, almost like she’s in Liza’s “thought-bubble” in a way. Fun way to represent the “Annie On My Mind” title. Also, the clouds look like cotton candy—reminds me of Coney Island which was around where the girls had their first kiss. Okay, that last bit felt like a stretch, so maybe I need to stop while I’m ahead, ha! This cover is so close to matching my favorite from part one, except 1) my favorite was in an art style I prefer a little more, but that art style worked better for that cover while it might look kind of funny on this one; the more cartoony style works really well here. 2) I’m not sure if this is fan art or not, so I want to be fair. It’d feel a bit odd putting fan art against an official cover. If this is fan art I’d love to know who made if so I can credit them here! Any help on finding the artist is welcomed. So beautiful! I love it so much!

#annie on my mind #nancy garden #book cover #book covers #book cover review #lgbt representation #lgbt #lesbian #lesbians #liza winthrop #annie kenyon

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joanbpoet · 6 months

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Untitled #10, 2002

Victoria Chang

What happens if these aren't pastoral or war poems? When I can feelthe light I carry on my back but can't see it or use it?When sadness and language cast the same shadow. These six strips arethe shadows of our blood, proving that every woman's life canbe broken into and displayed. On some nights, if I zoom in to thepainting, they become three sets of lips. If I hold my phone nearmy mouth, I can feel three people breathing on my face. I made aneffort to unlove everyone, but all I received were these lips, slightlyopen. Today my eighty-year-old neighbor told me, Everythinghurts...you'll see. I wanted to tell him that I already see. After adeath, the idea of a journey disappears. After two deaths, the journeydoubles. Maybe our bodies never had a vanishing point,so there will always be hunger. Even a woman's life is trying tobecome more than the woman it represents.

#poem #poetry #victoria chang #the Kenyon review

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ky1echristian · 9 months

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“Some romance’s sizzle. But there’s nothing cooking in this pot.”

#ky1echristian #letterboxd #review #daisy kenyon #1947 #otto preminger #joan crawford #dana andrews #henry fonda

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booksandwords · 9 months

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Born of Blood by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Series: The League: Nemesis Rising #11 Read time: <1 Day Rating: 4/5 Stars

The Quote: Right or wrong, she wasn't going to be what life kept trying to make her. Heartless. Bitter. Vindictive. You won't take my soul. I won't let you.. It was the only thing she had left. They'd stolen everything else from her long ago. Her childhood. Her innocence. Her sense of fair play. Her family. What was left? — Jayne Erixour

I'm going to be honest I'm a bit torn on this one. 🤨 I'm giving it 4 because I believe Jayne Erixour and Alexos Hadrian Vicarius Scalera deserved their own full length book. Through Jayne we could have got more detail on the founding of the Sentella, the seedlings of it are here and seen an entirely different race, Hyshian, that makes Desideria's Qillaq look almost egalitarian. In addition, I'm wondering if this is different from the history we've been told about them before. Don't get me wrong this is still a great book, it's Sherri and we finally got a story for Jayne but I was kinda hoping for more when we did get her story. Is that so wrong? 🤔 Especially when you look at what we got for Fain (Born of Betrayal) and Julian/Dagger (Born of Legend) and in the Hunterverse Maxis (Dragonbane) and upcoming Jaden (Shadows Within *epic grabby hands* for that one in particular, 🤩 look I know some of Jaden's story and I need more).

I like Jayne and Hadrian's story. We get to learn Jayne's background, what she wanted to be before she was forced into her life, her life secret (she's a Winged Batur 😲) and what makes her tick. Hadrian is so different to Nero, he feels more like Mari than Nero (not certain where that came from). Hadrian has an entirely different set of strengths than his older brother, his are passive and more defensive. This is the first time we've spent any real time with a Trisani unfortunately there is no real lore introduced, we did, however, get introduced to the Clusas a group of Trisani immune to the mindreading abilities and the concept varying levels of power. We are shown Gauduley "the Trisani term for when one was so attracted to another that they lost control of their power." (p.111). I want to see that played out in all its glory, especially given we know Nero is so powerful.

Through Nero, Hadrian is almost disturbingly well connected. Interestingly Nyk is connected to them both. The plot is not dissimilar to many of the others, there is no damsel in distress but Jayne is not what you expect. The twist she faces is she signed a warrant for a simple retrieval that gets turned into a spill-kill. It was actually quite nice to see the old language back it's been a while since we were using assassin speak, a spill-kill is a kill with torture first. A rarity that Jinx calls out.

Let me add some random quotes and comments. • Important to the story in a way is Eve of Destruction is Jayne's older sister, older by 7 years. She is already in command of a unit at 21 in the prologue. • Hadrian's endearment from Jayne is Suāva Trisani for sweetie. I always like knowing what they are, some of them have been fantastic. No one has yet beaten Hauk's for Sumi. • "Nero know?" "Above his paygrade." Syn snorted. "Nothing is above his paygrade where you're concerned. You trying to get us killed?" "I'm trusting you on this." That garnered a full laugh. "I don't keep secrets from your brother. I can't." "Yeah... he's a massive pain in the ass that way. Can you at least avoid him for a bit?" Syn Scratched at his check. "Can try. But like you, he has a nasty way of tracking me down." — Syn legit can't keep secrets from Nero, it's the telepathy thing. Even if Syn's mind is a lot scrambled when he's sober. This whole book is essentially Hadrian finally proving to Nero that he isn't that toddler Nero saved anymore, he can hold his own. (C.S. Syn and Hadrian, p.53) • We get to meet another Schvardan (the land-based Phrixians), like Morra from Born of Legend. It was nice to meet Moradcity. • "No. No! Bad idea. Why would you leave good alcohol to go chasing down someone your brother will find first?" "Personal satisfaction." Syn scoffed. "Overrated," "The curiosity," "Stupid reason." Syn rolled his eyes. "Besides you know what they say." "Curiosity is the foundation of science?" Syn let out a pain-filled noise. "Damn you Tris origins. Y'all take the fun out of everything." — Syn and Hadrian are great. This is Syn in his functioning alcoholic stage. The good alcohol is a bottle of Tondarian Fire because only the top shelf when you are this screwed. But one thing that comes out in this is part of the reason for the Trisani holocaust, the others around them wanted to claim their technological advancements. And they are to thank for so many. (C.S. Syn and Hadrian, p.75) • This has one of the better and simplest explanations of the Tavali I've read. I never knew their origins. But I'm guessing more of that will come out in Born of Trouble, Ryn and Mack's story. • We've actually met Jayne's son as an adult which I had no idea of. Sway runs as C.I. Syn and Shahara Dagan's son, Devyn Kell's second in command in Born of Ice. Go look up Claire she is a total badass and I remember her.

#born of blood #sherrilyn kenyon #sherrilyn mcqueen #the league #the league: nemesis rising #book review #ktreviews #read 2022 #spoilers on goodreads #booklr

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clarislam · 9 months

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Book Review: "King's Quest: See No Weevil" by Kenyon Morr

What happens when Princess Rosella tries running a festival - only for things to take a deadly turn when weevils threaten to destroy Daventry? Find out in "King's Quest: See No Weevil" by Kenyon Morr! #KingsQuest #SeeNoWeevil #bookreview #KenyonMorr #reading

Cover of “See No Weevil” by Kenyon Morr I’m back with another book review, and this time I’m reviewing “See No Weevil” by Kenyon Morr! This is the third of three books associated with the King’s Quest game franchise. I was lucky to get a physical copy of the first book to read and review, but I obtained files of the last two books through a post on the King’s Quest fan-run Reddit, where a…

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#adventure #amreading #book review #fantasy #fiction #humour #Kenyon Morr #King&039;s Quest #reading #See No Weevil

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soracities · 2 years

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Jericho Brown, in conversation with The Kenyon Review [transcript in ALT]

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willstafford · 9 months

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Laudable Fluff

LAUDABLE PUS – From Galen to Gallstones – a miscellany of medical myths and mishaps Blue Orange Theatre, Birmingham, 24th July 2023 Disregard the cynical marketing pairing of ‘Barbenheimer’, there’s a cracking double-bill of live theatre showing in the Jewellery Quarter as part of this year’s Birmingham Fest. First up is this charming comic piece, delivered in the format of a lecture by one…

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#Anna Girolami #Birmingham #Blue Orange Theatre #Fluff #James Piercy #Jewellery Quarter #Laudable Pus #Markos Beebe #review #Rosie Snell #Sarah gordon #Tayla Kenyon

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planetmosh · 2 years

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Bastette-Fiction-Single Review-Planetmosh

Formed in 2019 by lead vocalist Caroline Eve Kenyon, Blackburn based alt-rock band Bastette (The Egyptian Goddess Of Protection) release new single ‘Fiction’ taken from their four track EP Awakening via Rock People Management on September 30th 2022. It’s an eerie song, point proven by Caroline saying “Fiction is about falling in love with a rockstar. What you see onstage is often the alter ego…

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#alt rock #Bastette #caroline eve kenyon #Review #Rock People Management

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bookloveravenue · 2 years

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Return to Sanctuary by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Et. Al

Are you ready for a Return to Sanctuary? Enjoy Fourteen Original Fan Fiction tales set in Sherrilyn Kenyon's Hunterverse with a Foreword by Sherrilyn herself. This is volume II.

Over a century ago, the Peltier clan came to New Orleans and established one of the best-known Limanis in the world. Now out of the shadows of their past, the present, and the future, readers will be treated to a second anthology of stories written by fans of Sherri's as they dip their pens into the realms of the Dark-Hunters, Were-Hunters, and Dream-Hunters.

Join us for this exciting collaboration, with fourteen short stories set at Sanctuary that are sure to entertain!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60626137-return-to-sanctuary

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August 22, 2022

My Review: 5/5 Stars

So I have to start off and say I'm a little biased about my review since one of the stories, Follow the Thread, is actually mine and in the book. :) So let me begin by saying that writing this story was a ton of fun! My goal was to write a story that really fit in this world Sherrilyn Kenyon created. I wanted it to truly feel like it could have happened and fit with the other mythologies. I love Greek mythology and was sure to incorporate it and of course you gotta love dragons. Like I said, lots of fun to write and I hope other readers enjoy it too!

As for the other short stories, if you are a fan of the world, I think you will enjoy these writers' takes on what could happen in this world of Dark-Hunters where every kind of mythology has a place. It's definitely a nice placeholder as we wait for Sherrilyn to release her next book! See some characters we know and love written by others while getting some new characters to add something unique to the world.

#book #books #i love books #my review #book review #sherrilyn kenyon #return to sanctuary

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