She was practical, but also allowed herself a bit of fancy in her crush on the Duke. She was smart, capable, loyal and had a good head on her shoulders. Both the Duke and Pettypeace harbor a dark secret, and when someone threatens to reveal one of theirs, they combine forces to head off a disaster. Despite knowing a relationship between her and the Duke is impossible, she enjoys her position and is determined to find him a suitable bride, even if it breaks her heart to do so. Pettypeace appreciates that the Duke values her intelligence and capabilities, and he’s earned her loyalty by giving her a chance when others wouldn’t. Not wanting to be bothered with selecting a winner, he assigns the task to his efficient, capable and devoted secretary, Penelope Pettypeace. Determined that he is incapable of love and will only hurt his future wife, he places an ad asking eligible ladies to apply to be his bride. The Duke of Kingsland needs to get married and produce and heir and a spare to secure his title. This is a cute, flirty Historical Fiction romance that is a fun and easy read.
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Without reading at least two or three of the other books, the characters and circumstances mentioned in passing will be extremely confusing. The other books in the series feature secondary characters from those books, and Elena and Clay make very brief appearances only. Their story is told in the first two books of the series Bitten and Stolen. It took Elena years to forgive Clay and realize that she did love him. Years ago, the love of her life, Clay, also a werewolf, bit her. Elena is the only female werewolf in existence. Armstrong basically begins the book assuming the reader knows the characters and provides minimal back story to get newcomers up to speed. It was nice to see Elena and Clay featured again, but I felt that they spent most of the book running in circles, chasing their tails (pun intended).įor those that aren’t familiar with the series, this assuredly is not the place to start. Although I have enjoyed the previous books in the Women of the Otherworld series, this one was definitely not my favorite. A defined waist became popular throughout the decade, with Christian Dior’s ‘The New Look’ of 1947 accelerating this even further than before. Wartime austerity meant that corsets in the 1940s saw an increase in lace fastenings as metal and rubber were in high demand during the war effort. As director and chief curator of the museum since 1997, Steele has produced over two dozen boundary-pushing, breathtaking exhibits that have all but banished the notion that studying the history. Corsets and girdles evolved to include built-in brassieres but continued to be very long, ending at the mid-thigh. The 1930s saw a similar slim silhouette in terms of the hips and bust, however, more angular shapes began to gain popularity, and gradually emphasis on the waist emerged. Women achieved this using garters to add tension to the fabric of the undergarments to attain the desired silhouette. Into the latter half of the 1910s and throughout the 1920s, ‘The beauty ideal was to have slim hips and thighs and a healthy boyish figure’, according to Vintage Fashion Guild. Fashion historian Valerie Steele describes the Edwardian period as ‘The beginning of the end for traditional corsetry’. This silhouette was believed at the time to be a healthier alternative to the old figure, allegedly having health benefits as well as being the fashion. I began just before the Edwardian period with an image of a lady modelling an early example of ‘the new figure’ which was achieved with the straight front corset. In my moodboard I decided to capture a small window in the life of the corset and explore the first half of the 20th century. New York Times bestselling series The Return: Nightfall is the fifth book in L.J. 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Edgar Allan Poe ( né Edgar Poe Janu– October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Sam is an acclaimed public speaker, an advocate of ‘business as unusual’ or corporate responsibility and accountability, and a purpose-driven strategy consultant to brands such as Red Bull, Unilever and PlayStation. Since starting his entrepreneurial career aged 19, Conniff Allende has mentored thousands of talented young entrepreneurs and hustlers around the world. Sam has refined the concepts explored in Be More Pirate by delivering workshops to senior executives in the HQ’s of Google and Facebook, and to hundreds of socially conscious young entrepreneurs and innovators from the townships of South Sam Conniff Allende is a multi-award winning serial social entrepreneur, and co-founder and former CEO of Livity, Don’t Panic and Live Magazine. 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In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle the threads of a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. WHO IS AGENT 6? Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. The entire book is about a poor-little-rich-girl living with a poor-little-rich-family with the kind of ending that makes you go "WHAT THE ACTUAL KIND OF M. It is full of odd sentence structures and purple prose. Then you should probably avoid this book. If that's the kind of thing that bothers you. The sentences are sometimes written fully, and oftentimes It's just that the writing style sometimes get on my nerves. It was a better coming of age than Catcher in the Rye, but I also thought Twilight was a better coming-of-age than Catcher in the Rye (fuck you, Holden Caulfield). Once upon a time there were three brothers. Once upon a time there were three little pigs. Once upon a time there were three soldiers, tramping together down the roads after the war. Once upon a time there were three billy goats who lived near a bridge. Once upon a time there were three bears who lived in a wee house in the woods. She discovers its ability to alter and manipulate the reality of its students and faculty, creating a world in which it can keep its secrets away from outsiders. With guidance from her teacher, Sasha has to learn to use these magical equations to communicate difficult and abstract thoughts while also fighting the voices in her head she knows to be the Institute’s mysterious, powerful force.Īs Sasha’s studies progress, she learns more about the Institute and the powers it holds. She dives into its magical language, which involves producing a tattoo that translates into a mathematical equation. As her studies progress, Sasha discovers darker truths about the Institute, its powerful students and faculty, and the practices it wishes to remain hidden from the outside world. Sasha soon learns the rules and expectations of the Institute, becoming a part of its mysterious world and coding language. Sasha arrives at the Institute and meets a small group of other students, all of whom are from remote, rural areas and have been selected under unknown criteria. It follows Sasha, a teenage girl from a small Ukrainian town, as she is inexplicably accepted into the renowned Institute of Special Technologies, where she begins to unravel the secrets of its powerful and mysterious magical practices. Vita Nostra is a fantasy novel by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, originally written in Ukrainian and Russian and translated into English in 2018. |