![]() ![]() Unlike some of the previous novels, this story doesn’t require preexisting knowledge of the series, easily catching up fans and new readers alike with capsule introductions to Cress and other members of the Rampion crew in a prologue. "Meyer focuses on Iko, Cinder’s cheeky sidekick and an assassin agent sent to hunt down the wolf-soldier hybrids that are plaguing Earth. ![]() Acclimating to her human body, the android is trying to help Queen Cinder of Luna ease tensions with Earth by hunting down rogue wolf-hybrid soldiers who were once enslaved by Cinder’s evil stepmother and have now been banished to the green planet." - School Library Journal This follow-up to the futuristic fairy-tale retellings centers on Iko, cyborg mechanic Cinder’s best friend. ![]() "The Lunar Chronicles continue in this entertaining graphic novel sequel to the existing volumes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() You can’t be a professional ballet dancer if you only play at it. Girl is rewarded for her ambition and dedication.ĭance is a discipline, and the women who wrote these books knew that. Girl becomes young woman while devoting herself unstintingly, joyously and ferociously to her art. But what was the story, repeated in almost every book, with minor variations in what dances were being performed and how many horses were ridden while on holidays? Not directly – the word ‘feminist’ was never mentioned. Because ballet books are inherently subversive to a patriarchy. So feminine! So appropriate! And yet…I learnt more about being a feminist from those books than from anything else I read. My mother, who hated to see me reading the fantasy and science fiction stories I also loved, would smile approvingly at the ballet books. I read everything, but I had a particular love for ballet books, especially the Sadler’s Wells series by Lorna Hill. When I was a little girl, I was a voracious reader (no surprise). ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanette (not the author) is a girl brought up with the unwavering religious certainty and absolutism of her evangelist mother in the North of England, who plans for her to become a missionary. I asked her why she did it, and she said ‘You never know until it’s too late.’ There was a woman in our street who told us all she had married a pig. The next night I had sausages, but I still had the dream. ![]() I told my mother about it, and she said it was because I ate sardines for supper. Sometimes he was blind, sometimes a pig, sometimes my mother, sometimes the man from the post office and once, just a suit of clothes with nothing inside. ![]() Finally we came to the moment, ‘You may kiss the bride.’ My new husband turned to me and here were a number of possibilities. ![]() The priest was very fat and kept getting fatter, like bubble gum you blow. I thought everyone would point at me, but no one noticed. As I walked up the aisle, the crown got heavier and heavier and the dress more and more difficult to walk in. My dress was pure white and I had a golden crown. It was spring, the ground still had traces of snow, and I was about to be married. ![]() ![]() Thompson’s tale is dense and mercurial, with the story line leaping among myriad perspectives and tones even as it jumps from the real world to a liminal landscape in which time, space, and memory are mutable. While the courts attempt to define personhood and identity on a legal level, other people look for a more martial, permanent solution. As a rogue group of Homians seek to accelerate that process through mass murder, humans such as Rosewater mayor Jack Jacques, time-traveling Oyin Da, psychic Kaaro, and intelligence operative Aminat desperately seek a way to prevent the colonization of Earth. ![]() In the alien-influenced city of Rosewater, which recently declared independence from Nigeria, the dead rise, now inhabited by the spirits of the extraterrestrial Homians, whose goal is to replace humankind. ![]() In this mind-bending conclusion to the Rosewater trilogy, following the events of The Rosewater Insurrection, multiple factions wage a complicated war for the future of the Earth. ![]() |