5/31/2023 0 Comments Fighting Ace by Emma Bray![]() Eyes the color of a cloudless summer sky. ![]() Riker has felt nothing but rage for the past ten years-until he looks into the innocent young reporter's pretty blue eyes. Jessa has been given a near-impossible assignment, but she's determined to persevere because isn't that what makes a good reporter? Instead, he takes out his aggression the only way he knows how-through fighting. ![]() He refuses to speak to the press and be painted as a hero when he knows the truth about what happened on the field that day. Riker Morin may be a veteran, but he doesn't consider himself a hero. Her boss finally agrees to give her the break she's looking for-but only if she can snag an interview with grumpy war hero Riker Morin turned MMA fighter. Her passion lies in politics and world events, but no one will take her seriously. She wants to report on groundbreaking stories that will change the world. Jessa Jeffrey is tired of writing silly fashion columns that don't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Lucky jim author kingsley![]() ![]() " Lucky Jim illustrates a crucial human difference between the little guy and the small man. ![]() ![]() As Christopher Hitchens has written, "If you can picture Bertie or Jeeves being capable of actual malice, and simultaneously imagine Evelyn Waugh forgetting about original sin, you have the combination of innocence and experience that makes this short romp so imperishable." More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy postwar manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that "there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones." Kingsley Amis's scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. ![]() A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doesn't he understand that the last thing she needs in her life is a sadist? His amusement at her objections doesn't disguise that he's tough as nails, very dominant, and extremely stubborn. But how can someone who likes pain be "normal"? To her dismay, when someone spray-paints her home with obscenities, Sam shows up to rescue her. Free from the slavers, Linda just wants to return to her small conservative town, pick up her quiet life, and be normal. She's everything he knew she would be.except for her bullheaded determination to be "normal". As a dominant and sadist, he can give her what she needs, and when an opportunity arises, he slips into her life, intending to make amends. Sinclair managed the impossible I actually fell in love with a sadist that has scared me beyond spitless throughout this series " Kinky Book Reviews When trying to save a woman from slavers, Master Sam screwed up. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Fated by rebecca zanetti![]() ![]() and their lives will never be the same again. So right from the start she's suddenly plunged into a paranormal world where Vampires, Witches, Shapeshifters and Faires exist. There's instant chemistry and lust between them but Scientist and single Mom Cara's no pushover and so she tries to fight him and his sexy pull by always planning to run away (which does get a little annoying at times but hey I've never been kidnapped by a Vampire!). to a handsome, sexy, overbearing, dictatorial, arrogant Alpha Vampire called Talen who says he's protecting her and her daughter Janie from imminent and great danger. ![]() When Empath Cara and her 4 yr old psychic daughter suddenly get kidnapped early one morning little does she realise but she'll be married and mated within 24 hours. EDGE OF YOUR SEAT SUSPENSE & A HOT ROMANCE TOO ![]() |