What Hattie doesn’t realize until after the marriage takes place is that she was tricked by her new husband and the whole thing was a set-up. The marriage takes place because they are discovered leaning in together, almost embracing, and everyone who has ever read historical romance knows what comes next when a group of well-to-do people discovers an unwed couple in a compromising position. It took me several days to read it because these two really had no use for each other when they first get married. This is a mash-up of the forced marriage, enemies to lovers. I saw this book somewhere described as a marriage of convenience trope, and ahhhh… not quite. I did end up liking this book, but lord have mercy it took me a bit. So I went into Portrait of a Scotsman with a hopeful attitude, but bracing myself. On the other hand, book two left me irritated and angry after getting almost to the end and running into the tried, cliche gay villain trope. On one hand, I simply adored the first book in the series and loved the premise of this group of women who are fighting for suffrage and women’s rights.
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Through everything, Lolly has always been there for them, and now Isabel, June, Kat-and Meryl-must be there for her. and questioning everything they thought they knew about life, love, and one another.Įach woman sees her complicated life reflected through the magic of cinema: Isabel’s husband is having an affair, and an old pact may keep her from what she wants most.June has promised her seven-year-old son that she will somehow find his father, who he’s never known.and Kat is ambivalent about accepting her lifelong best friend’s marriage proposal. But when innkeeper Lolly asks them to join her and the guests in the parlor for weekly Movie Night-it’s Meryl Streep month-they find themselves sharing secrets, talking long into the night. Suddenly, Isabel, June, and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom-and barely speaking. Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch’s inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. In the bestselling tradition of The Friday Night Knitting Club and The Jane Austen Book Club, three women find unexpected answers, happiness, and one another, using Meryl Streep’s movies as their inspiration. Literally: re - vision looking at it all in a new, fresh light. After two decades writing, creating and editing fiction, I began to see how often it’s our life stories that are in need of revision. So much of the happiness and meaning we make in our lives depends on the stories we tell ourselves. She is also a mother, human, sister, daughter, wife, friend, three-time wedding officiant, wine lover and failed ukuleleist.Ī NOTE FROM LEXA. As a consultant, she helps individual artists and companies create original IP for books, film and television. Through Jungian psychology, she works with the unconscious mind to unleash clients’ true potential. 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Among the survivors are Benji Ray, a scientist formerly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Shana Stewart, who is pregnant and the reluctant custodian of the evolving AI (via nanobots, natch) Sheriff Marcy Reyes and pastor Matthew Bird. To recap: A plague called White Mask decimated humanity, with a relative handful saved by a powerful AI called Black Swan that herded this hypnotized flock to Ouray, Colorado. Now what?Ī sequel to a pandemic novel written during an actual pandemic sounds pretty intense, and this one doesn’t disappoint, heightened by its author’s deft narrative skills, killer cliffhangers, and a not inconsiderable amount of bloodletting. The world as we know it ended in Wanderers, Wendig’s 2019 bestseller. From there, he went on to revitalize DC’s mystery titles, bringing to them his zest for all things gruesome and ghoulish during this period, his style became increasingly lush and sophisticated. It wasn’t just what Wrightson drew that made his work so striking, but the attitudes behind his work.Īfter an apprenticeship as an editorial cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun (and a fanzine illustrator for such publications as Squa Tront, Amra, Heritage, and others too numerous to mention), Wrightson graduated to the professional comics, drawing two issues of Nightmaster for DC’s Showcase. From the TCJ Archives The Berni Wrightson Interviewįrom The Comics Journal #76 (October 1982)īerni Wrightson, famous for his graphic portraits of rotting zombies, slavering werewolves, maniacal axe-murderers, and drooling witches (as well as the odd dinosaur or sword-wielding barbarian), is possibly the most popular artist to emerge from comics’ short-lived artistic renaissance of the late 1960s one might say that he, along with his contemporaries Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Michael Kaluta, and Barry Windsor-Smith, were the motivating forces behind that peak period. |