It’s really a lot to handle for anyone, but when Lina is given her mom’s old journal, it gives her a renewed sense of purpose.Īs she gets to know more about her mother and her own origins, she makes friends, explores Tuscany, and of course, falls in love with gelato. It worked for “a book with food in the title” and fell nicely into the category of “book title starting with the letter L.” I love a good two-for-one deal.Īnyway, onto the story: Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany because her dying mother wanted her to get to know Howard, who she’s just found out is her father. This young adult novel by Jenna Evans Welch has been on my TBR for a while now - I probably added it so I could make gelato - and because I was in the mood to break out my ice cream maker again, I added it to both of my 2018 reading challenges. Thankfully, in the case of Love & Gelato, it worked like a charm! Sometimes I’m able to orchestrate it just so and I’m able to make something specific (particularly when a title or description mentions food), though that works out a lot less often than you’d think. Most of the time, I go into a book without any idea what I’ll end up making, since I haven’t read the book before. Because of this blog, reading often leads me to delicious food.
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Teenage characters are few and far between, but a story that's simultaneously romantic, tragic, horrifying, and transcendental is more than enough to hold readers' attention, no matter their age. In a present-day story about an archeological dig, Eric is a oddly strong, brain-damaged teenager and Merle his mother in the 10th century, when the island was inhabited by Vikings, Eirek and Melle are young twins, whose story answers questions raised by what the archeologists discover. Set on a mysterious and isolated Nordic island, the stories all include characters with variations on the names of Eric and Merle. Sedgwick appears to share Bridget's sentiment: as he moves backward through time in seven interconnected stories from the late 21st century to an unspecified ancient era character names, spoken phrases, and references to hares, dragons, and sacrifice reverberate, mutate, and reappear. 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In the ancient, oppressively patriarchal kingdom of Otera, the value of a woman is determined by the purity of her blood. The Gilded Ones, the first book in the Deathless series, is her debut novel. She is driven by the tales of strong women handed down by her grandmother and seeks to increase the amount of black female heroes in western literature. She moved to Atlanta in the US at the age of 9 in part to escape the escalating civil war in her home country. The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) by Namina FornaĪuthor Namina Forna was born and raised in Sierra Leone. And also has a proper go at the patriarchy. Here’s a brand new YA series that draws from the ancient stories of Western Africa…. Now, however, thanks to the gradual increasing visibility of our age, from blockbusters like Black Panther and newly emerging YA voices, the inherent magic of the West African mythos is finding wider appreciation. For a long time, the fantasy genre has been dominated by explicitly European models. 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Meanwhile, she ran a parallel “Teen Alien Huntress” series that had two novels “Black Listed” and “Red Handed” published in 20. She would then write the novels in the series at a steady pace of about a novel each year until 2011. She debuted the Alien Huntress series of novels with the 2005 novel “Awaken Me Darkly”. Her work has also been mentioned in “Orange is the New Black” and been translated into multiple novels. In addition to being a two time RITA award finalist she has also made the shortlist for the National Reader’s Choice and her books have been featured on “Seventeen Magazine” and “Cosmopolitan”. Some of her series of novels include “Intertwined”, “Alien Huntress”, “Lords of the Underworld”, “Other-world Assassins”, “Angels of the Dark”, and the “White Rabbit Chronicles”. Gena Showalter made her name for penning over thirty contemporary and paranormal romances as well as her young adult romances. The lead protagonist in the series is Mia Snow, a Chicago PD police officer that catches aliens. She writes the world of the Alien Huntress as a tantalizing and dark place where supernatural powers and human coexistence with otherworldly creatures is the norm. The Alien Huntress is a series of novels in the paranormal genre of fiction written by Gena Showalter, the American USA Today and New York Times bestselling author. |