![]() Is she a pawn, a token or a fall guy? Can she protect the people she loves and make sure that her long-buried secrets don’t rise from the grave? What would possess someone to react to the sight of her boss (and longtime married lover) shot to death in his office by closing the door and walking away without alerting anyone? The trauma behind Littlejohn’s actions becomes clearer as readers discover more about her background, and they may have a hard time putting down the novel, as Littlejohn tries to discover the real reason behind her subsequent promotion at work. Morris takes readers inside Atlanta boardrooms and back into the past of her heroine, Ellice Littlejohn. ![]() Morris has written a legal thriller full of corporate intrigue and small-town secrets. ![]() In her debut novel, All Her Little Secrets, attorney Wanda M. ![]()
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![]() ![]() After a brief spell as a teacher, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a researcher for the popular news program "Nationwide". Medieval combat is described in all its' blood soaked detail, stripping away any romantic misconceptions the reader might have about the age of armor, battle axes and broadswords.īernard Cornwell was born in England in 1944, and adopted by a couple belonging to a religious sect known as the Peculiar People. In the books' climactic final chapter, Cornwell describes the battle of Agincourt with the accuracy of a historian and the verve of a skilled writer. ![]() With "Agincourt", Bernard Cornwell takes the reader on an epic journey, following Nicholas Hook, a lowly English archer on a journey that starts in an otherwise quiet farming village in 15th century England and culminates in one of the most famous battles in history.īut before he can become one of Shakespeare's "Happy Few", Nick must overcome the schemes of duplicitous traitors, self serving priests and conniving neighbors on his way to a date with destiny.Īs his readers have come to expect, Cornwell doesn't skimp on detail or historical accuracy, painting a rich picture of medieval life as a common soldier - the harsh training, foul living conditions, scant food and constant risk of death or disease in an age with only the most rudimentary grasp of medicine. The master of historical fiction has done it yet again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this she is somewhat reviled by the people in her world, is not even considered to be a person in fact. ![]() She can also tailor-make these diseases to suite specific targets. She can then synthesize this information into poisons, prions, viruses and venoms. Lil’it is a genetic mutation who looks human enough, but is able to taste these genetic stories that live in blood, skin, and tissue. What’s the most distinctive thing about the main character? Who-real or fictional-would you say the character reminds you of? And there are people out there who make it their business to sell or even control what stories are told. In a nutshell, we’re all made of stories. In a way that DNA has its own beginning, its own end, and we create narratives that etch themselves into that strand via mutation and adaptation. Your DNA is written and rewritten in endless loops. It grew out of this idea of information and how we control it, and how much of biology is all about information. What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event? ![]() Think Grimm’s Fairy Tales meet The Andromeda Strain, written on a double helix. What’s the book about? Give us the “pitch”.īLOOM is two intertwined stories, one part plague-horror, one part fantasy. “It was the second dead body I’d ever seen in my life, but the first outside the formal surroundings of a funeral.” The book is BLOOM: Or, the unwritten memoir of Tennyson Middlebrook. What is the name of the book and when was it published? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes it feel YA, you ask? It’s written in first person, which is often a theme in YA fantasy. Kill the Queen is filled with action, intrigue, and page-turning delight that kept me up way later than I should have been each night. Despite the main character being 28 years old and there being a fairly generous amount of f-bombs, Kill the Queen still very much feels like a YA book.ĭon’t misunderstand, I’m not complaining! I love YA and am so pleased to say this doesn’t follow the boring slow-burn of typical epic fantasy. It also happens to be Estep’s debut into the world of mainstream epic fantasy, having typically written in the young adult urban fantasy and paranormal romance genres.Īt face value, Kill the Queen doesn’t read like Sanderson, GRRM, or even Terry Brooks. Kill the Queen is Book 1 in Jennifer Estep‘s newest series, Crown of Shards. ![]() |