![]() ![]() Later, she learns that Teddy has died and thinks about how much pain she would feel if she lost her family. Mia overhears her grandparents talking about whether Mia should live or die. She recently applied for a music program in New York City, which caused tension between them. While she’s in intensive care, Mia watches her grandparents worry about her and remembers times with Adam. ![]() They’re airlifted by helicopter to another hospital in Portland. Mia and Teddy are rushed to the hospital, where Mia sees her friend Willow. Her consciousness left her body and watched as doctors tried to revive her parents. She was in the backseat, so her body survived however, she slipped into a coma. Mia’s mother and father were killed in a car accident. Her brother Teddy and father also have the day off, so they pile into their rusty Buick and drive around town visiting friends and family. In Oregon, this small amount of snow is enough to cause school closures. If I Stay begins with seventeen-year-old cellist Mia Hall waking up to a thin layer of snow on her lawn. ![]()
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When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home.Įxcept there’s something off with Kale. Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 Backlist Reader Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 COYER Winter, Lenoreo's 2022 Netgalley and Edelweiss Challengeįind it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ Google ✩ Kobo ✩ iBooks ✩ Book Depository Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Paranormal Romance ![]() ![]() If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. ![]() ![]() Even then, humans tend to get caught up in the storm, unable to process the extent of damage that they’ve caused, leaving it all to crumble. The idea behind it is how humanity is never prepared for the worst until it finally comes. The book has a few plot narratives that hold the book as a novel, but what shapes it is the countless impending moments of destruction. It’s a book that tackles the controversial issues of climate change, politics, and domestic life through different characters who are either contributing to the climate change topic or taking away from it. Weather couldn’t have been published at a better time. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. ![]() ![]() These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabriel de León is a silversaint: a member of a holy brotherhood dedicated to defending realm and church from the creatures of the night. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. ![]() It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. ![]() Like recent epic tomes from Patrick Rothfuss ( The Name of the Wind) and Christopher Ruocchio ( Empire of Silence), Empire of the Vampire centers on an infamous character who recounts his life story, years removed from the events that gave the character their reputation. Moreover, the world can most definitely be seen as Post-Apocalyptic since a world-changing event in the past has broken humanity and left the world rather desolate. The novel has some elements of Fantasy and even Post-Apocalyptic fiction, in terms of world-building, but the dark tone and subject matter can easily slot this in horror. Add to this list Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. McCammon, IT by Stephen King, Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons, the Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witch novels from Anne Rice, to name the most well-known. Horror, on the other hand, tends to the shorter tomes, but there are occasional Epic Horror novels… Swan Song by Robert R. Grand Scale novels are popular in Science Fiction and Fantasy – you’ve got your Space Operas and Epic Fantasies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fridlund is an assured writer: she knows how water tuts against a boat hull and how mosquitoes descend into any patch of shade. With people he was a little afraid.” When a young woman moves with her 4-year-old son into a new cabin across the lake, the teenage Linda, who's looking back on these events as an adult, is hired to babysit. She's hungry in flesh and spirit, a backwoods outcast among “hockey players in their yellowed caps.cheerleaders with their static-charged bangs.” She chops wood and cleans fish with her father, who was “kind to objects. ![]() The novel itself unfurls in far northern Minnesota, where a 14-year-old named Mattie Furston, who calls herself Linda, is living on a failed commune with her parents. It’s a 17-page stunner that begins with a child ghost and ends in a chorus of communal condemnation. An atmospheric, near-gothic coming-of-age novel turns on the dance between predator and prey.įridlund’s debut won the McGinnis-Ritchie Award in 2013 for its first chapter. ![]() |