5/31/2023 0 Comments Rogue patrick radden keefe![]() ![]() “Every time he tells me a new story idea, I feel like I have a mini–heart attack. This time, however, the intimidation campaign was coming from inside the house. While working on Empire of Pain, his 2021 book about the Sackler family’s role in the opioid epidemic, Keefe came to believe the family had hired an investigator to intimidate him by loitering outside his home. ![]() The culprit had added a single word to the page: No.Īs a staff writer at The New Yorker, Keefe has written about all kinds of disreputable figures - an international arms broker, hackers, a dubious diamond dealer, a mass shooter, and the Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzman, to name just a few - and this wasn’t the first time someone had tried to get him to beg off a story. When he returned the next morning, he found that someone had taken one of the pages - a picture of a dead body inscribed with a threatening message in Cyrillic letters - and placed it on his desk. Before calling it a day, he printed a trove of related documents and left them in a stack on his printer tray. On a recent evening, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe was in his home office in Westchester County, toying with a story idea that involved the Russian mafia. Photo: Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Worm by wildbow amazon![]() ![]() I refuse to believe that is canon and I'm pretty sure that's just the authors sudden inability to let go of a character he's been nurturing for over two years. That interlude at the end with her and her mother? No. The book as a whole, is basically Taylors life, from her coming into her powers and setting out into the world, to her eventual death as she saves it. If you have not finished it do not read on, I swear to God, even if you don't think you will read it, just don't. This is the book Steelheart should have been. I read this almost directly after Steelheart, and the two did not compare at all. Not sure if that's going to be any time soon though, as he's now working on a second book, Pact! The fact I can't just pick it up and read the next chapter now is absolutely destroying me. In fact, when (not if, when) he gets a decent editor and publishes this as a set, I will buy it, and I will most likely read it again. In just under 2 weeks, that should tell you just how into this I got. ![]() For those of you unsure, that is long, that's almost 1/2 of The Wheel of Time series, or all of ASOIAF, including Dance with Dragons. This book was 1.7 million words long, it took me 13 days to read, during which time I pretty much didn't put my laptop down. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Shannon messenger skyfall![]() And as the storm bears down on them, she starts to realize the greatest danger might not be the warriors coming to destroy them but the forbidden romance that s grown between them. ![]() ![]() But unlocking his heritage will also unlock the memory Audra needs him to forget. He has a power to claim the secret language of the West Wind, which only he can understand. When a hasty mistake reveals their location to the enemy who murdered both of their families, Audra s forced to help Vane remember who he is. Even if it means sacrificing her own life. She s also a guardian Vane s guardian and has sworn an oath to protect Vane at all costs. She walks on the wind, can translate its alluring songs, and can even coax it into a weapon with a simple string of commands. Seventeen-year-old Audra is a sylph, an air elemental. And he has no idea if the beautiful, dark-haired girl who s swept through his dreams every night since the storm is real. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Vane Weston has no idea how he survived the category five tornado that killed his parents. Drawing on her background in cinematic arts, she writes fast-paced adventure stories that have featured on New York Times bestseller lists and proven popular in many countries around the world. A broken past and a divided future can t stop the electric connection of two teens in this fast-paced, fantasy-romance ("VOYA") novel. Author Shannon Messenger has won numerous awards for the Keeper of the Lost Cities series and the Skyfall series. ![]() |