I said I had plans to do little but read this long holiday weekend. I haven’t read as much as I’d like but I did finish Parable of the Sower and this.
I can not remember who recommended this series. I think it was someone on “Novel Ladies.” I am fond of paranormal, fantasy and series and this covers all the bases.
Kitty is a werewolf. What a name for a werewolf, right? She is a talk radio DJ and one night, she gets a call that changes everything for her. She begins an advice show for the paranormal: werewolves, vampires, etc. The powers that be don’t like it and try to get her to stop but she does not. Kitty goes from being the most submissive of wolves to damned near alpha.
I didn’t care much for the representation of werewolves and vampires but I am quite curious as to how this will evolve over the series. The next is “Kitty Goes to Washington,” followed by “Kitty Takes a Holiday” and the, so-far-last “Kitty and the Silver Bullet.” It’s a good thing I read fast with all these series that I now Must Read.
My friend InfoDva recommended this series. The Parable of the Sower is, of course, the first followed by The Parable of the Talents, which I haven’t read yet.
Let’s see how to summarize this. Lauren Olamina is a young black woman who lives in the United States in what appears to be a nearly post-apocolypse world. It’s not, though. Only that humans have destroyed the world. People live in small walled communities or else they have no protection. By “small,” I mean neighborhood size. Lauren has “hyperempathy” which means that she can feel what others are feeling. Her family discourages her from telling people about it since it’s something that other people are afraid of.
Lauren is developing her own religious beliefs and making plans to leave her community and try to find a less crazy place when her neighborhood is destroyed and most, if not all, of her family killed. She heads out and is soon joined by others who go along on her quest for a better place.
Despite the plethora of typos, this book was phenomenal. The ideas are not that far-fetched, given the state of our world right now. It takes place only a few years from today - 2024-2027. It’s not likely that we will, in this lifetime, end up there but I think it isn’t impossible, either.
It took me a couple of tries to get into this book. I’m like that sometimes.
The main character, Lucy Trenton, has the ability to sense magic. (Or as they call it “magick.”) She gets herself into a great deal of trouble by following her sense toward something that would cause her more trouble than she could have imagined – a True Cipher. A True Cipher is a magical object, created by a man named Cipher. They normally cause a person trouble and Lucy is sure that’s true in this case.
It is, after a fashion, but also leads to great things for Lucy and her kingdom.
