![]() ![]() ![]() The is enough lore given to you for you to enjoy the story, but not so much that it's a ton of bricks and you are overwhelmed. There are some flashbacks that are well timed and well done. The villain's are great and the backstory was intriguing. The way the environments are described reminded me of walking through a village in an MMO or an RPG like Skyrim. You always know where you are in a village or in a forest, you always feel as though you're in the world with the characters. The environments are described very well. Their banter back and fourth was hilarious and genuine. I also purchased a paper copy on my own to support the author. I received a digital copy of this book from the author for an honest review. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “As high-concept as it is, Sleeping Giants is a thriller through and through. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction? What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history’s most perplexing discovery-and figuring out what it portends for humanity. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand’s code. 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Certainly Makumbi's characters' claims as ethnic Ganda – and, in turn, the family curse's claim on them – are central here. Buganda as a synecdoche for the Uganda itself says a great deal about modern Uganda. More properly, Kintu – a family saga about a curse unleashed in 1750 and its effects on the members of a clan in 2004 – is a novel of Buganda, the subnational kingdom that long predates the Ugandan state. ![]() ![]() Kintu has been called "the great Ugandan novel" it is hard to not draw comparisons between what Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi does here and Chinua Achebe's work in Things Fall Apart – it is that good. By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Transit Books, 446 pages, $24.50 ![]() ![]() ![]() All are detailed and linked to the letter – even the can is a coke can and the wolf is white! In fact, there at least a thousand different alphabetised things in the book to find! 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I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room.īut what I hated the most was the unwanted way my body reacted to him.Īt first, I thought all he had going for him were his rock-hard tattooed abs and chiseled face. I hated that he took it out on me because he didn’t want to be here. Könyv ára: 3134 Ft, Stepbrother Dearest - Legdrágább mostohabátyám - Penelope Ward, Nem kellene akarnod t. When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn’t prepared for how much of a jerk he’d be. You’re not supposed to want the one who torments you. ![]() ![]() The size of this paperback-sized book in inches is 7.5 x 5.0 and it weighs 0.23 kg. The book has 166 numbered pages but no illustrations. The dust-jacket is an old fashioned thin plastic protective sleeve but it has worked well as the paper used for the jacket in 1949 Austerity England is very thin. ![]() The cloth on the spine however is unaffected and the titles are in still bright silver gilt. 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