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*We receive NO payment of any kind for our reviews---we review books we've bought, or books that are provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review*Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12783154865914027074noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2542645937124177600.post-17621153747072444042017-07-01T15:16:00.002-04:002017-07-01T15:24:29.139-04:00'Crown of Midnight' by Sarah J. Maas: Mel's Quickie Review <div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child</i></b> is a script for a play based on a new story written by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. It picks up the story nineteen years after <b><i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows</i></b> left off. When I first heard about this story, I was torn about if I wanted to read it or not. In the end, I couldn't pass up the chance to get lost in Harry's universe once again and devoured this volume in two days. I couldn't put it down. I thought for sure I wouldn't like the format but after the first twenty pages or so, it was like reading any other story. </span></div>
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John Tiffany trained at Glasgow University gaining an MA in Theatre and Classics. He was Literary Director for the Traverse Theatre, Associate Director for Paines Plough and a founding Associate Director for the National Theatre of Scotland. He is currently an Associate Director for the Royal Court Theatre. During 2010-11 John was a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University.</div>
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Work for the Royal Court includes: THE TWITS, HOPE, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and THE PASS.</div>
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Work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, MACBETH, ENQUIRER, PETER PAN, THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA, TRANSFORM CAITHNESS: HUNTER, BE NEAR ME, NOBODY WILL EVER FORGIVE US, THE BACCHAE, BLACK WATCH, ELIZABETH GORDON QUINN and HOME: GLASGOW. For BLACK WATCH, John won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director and a Critics’ Circle Award.</div>
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On Broadway, John directed THE GLASS MENAGERIE (also A.R.T.), MACBETH, and ONCE, which won 8 Tony Awards in 2012, including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical.</div>
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Other work includes: THE AMBASSADOR (Brooklyn Academy of Music), JERUSALEM (West Yorkshire Playhouse), LAS CHICAS DEL TRES Y MEDIA FLOPPIES (Granero Theatre, Mexico City and Edinburgh Festival Fringe), IF DESTROYED TRUE, MERCURY FUR, HELMET and THE STRAITS (Paines Plough), GAGARIN WAY, ABANDONMENT, AMONG UNBROKEN HEARTS, PERFECT DAYS and PASSING PLACES (Traverse, Edinburgh).</div>
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John is also working on the stage play of HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD with J.K. Rowling and Jack Thorne, which opened in the West End in June 2016.</div>
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Born in Bristol, England, he has written for radio, theatre and film, most notably on the TV shows Skins, Cast-offs, This Is England '86, This Is England '88, This Is England '90, The Fades, The Last Panthers and the feature film The Scouting Book for Boys. He currently lives in London.</div>
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Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly.</div>
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Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. They married on 14 March 1965. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War.</div>
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Rowling's sister Dianne was born at their home when Rowling was 23 months old. The family moved to the nearby village Winterbourne when Rowling was four. She attended St Michael's Primary School, a school founded by abolitionist William Wilberforce and education reformer Hannah More. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.</div>
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As a child, Rowling often wrote fantasy stories, which she would usually then read to her sister. She recalls that: "I can still remember me telling her a story in which she fell down a rabbit hole and was fed strawberries by the rabbit family inside it. Certainly the first story I ever wrote down (when I was five or six) was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee." At the age of nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. When she was a young teenager, her great aunt, who Rowling said "taught classics and approved of a thirst for knowledge, even of a questionable kind," gave her a very old copy of Jessica Mitford's autobiography, Hons and Rebels. Mitford became Rowling's heroine, and Rowling subsequently read all of her books.</div>
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Rowling has said of her teenage years, in an interview with The New Yorker, "I wasn’t particularly happy. I think it’s a dreadful time of life." She had a difficult homelife; her mother was ill and she had a difficult relationship with her father (she is no longer on speaking terms with him). She attended secondary school at Wyedean School and College, where her mother had worked as a technician in the science department. Rowling said of her adolescence, "Hermione [a bookish, know-it-all Harry Potter character] is loosely based on me. She's a caricature of me when I was eleven, which I'm not particularly proud of." Steve Eddy, who taught Rowling English when she first arrived, remembers her as "not exceptional" but "one of a group of girls who were bright, and quite good at English." Sean Harris, her best friend in the Upper Sixth owned a turquoise Ford Anglia, which she says inspired the one in her books. </div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">Publication Date- October 15th </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">She'd reconciled her life without him. His return would be Bittersweet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">Welcome to Mother Cora’s, where the offspring of the Kaveesh learn to coexist with humans.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">Shock slid into the booth next to Lirabel. His long, leather-clad arm went around her shoulder and he leaned in with no regard for her personal space. He no longer smelled of someone who had just come off stage, but his scent was no less intoxicating, spicy and sweet with sharp undertones of something unavoidably Kaveesh. It went straight to her head and she filled some of the space between them with her body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">Genre- Mature YA Sci Fi/Romance</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #990000;">The only thing the Kaveesh asked in return was to help save their dying race. Breeding programs began and the half-breeds were born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: magenta;">Genre- Romantic Suspense</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: magenta;">Analind Charles thought her life was finally getting back on track. After catching her abusive husband with another woman, she finally mustered the courage to walk out. Now that her divorce is finalized, she’s free to pursue her dream of becoming a pastry chef. When she meets a handsome customer and sparks fly, she’s hopeful that her life is finally beginning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta;"><br /><span style="font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The couple only thinks they knew trouble before. Jealousy and spite bring tension to the new relationship. When Analind’s ex forces his way back into her life, Rush finds himself scrambling. Can he save her before her past wrecks both of their futures?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: magenta;">My name is Kole Harris, and I loved being a detective. Until…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: magenta;">One cold September day, everything in my world imploded. After losing my wife, I was sure I’d never be whole again. I never imagined my life could be normal. Drinking and one-night stands became my new normal—the only way I knew to survive the pain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: magenta;">She opened my eyes and made me believe I can love again. She showed me what it’s like to wake up next to a woman and not run, how to leave the guilt behind and live again—and that I deserve to have a life. I never knew love like this, or craved anyone as much as I crave her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: magenta;">Moving on seemed overwhelming, but I had to learn that loving someone else was possible. However, the heartache from his past has built a wall around the love I know he can give. I never thought I could give my heart to someone else.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Exchanged at birth, Shifty and Evangeline—one human, one sheehaim—have been raised in the opposite’s realm. Thus the stage is set for a dark and ancient ritual which would give the wraiths of the Shadow Realm a power they have long been denied, and for good reason.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Exchanged at birth, Shifty and Evangeline—one human, one sheehaim—have been raised in the opposite’s realm. Thus the stage is set for a dark and ancient ritual which would give the wraiths of the Shadow Realm a power they have long been denied, and for good reason.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">Raised as an affluent only child, Chet used his popularity and status to his advantage. While attending Indiana University Bloomington, he falls into the party scene. His drugs of choice? Alcohol, cocaine—and women. He is honest with his agenda. That way no one gets hurt, and he gets what he wants.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">Although he enjoys his revolving door of women, when he meets Alexis at a charity dinner, all of that changes. But when she leaves him for a co-worker in California, he trashes any future possibility for romance and vows to get on with his life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">When Chet discovers he has an older half-sister, Chantelle, life changes yet again. She wasn’t raised with his silver spoon, and it soon becomes clear she is after one thing—money. Chantelle digs up dirt to blackmail him into being a puppet master, and forces him to help her land a billionaire husband.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">What he didn’t expect was to meet Jesse McCoy—the billionaire’s daughter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple;">All her life Harmony Phillips has felt defective. Growing up in a paranormal community where magikal abilities come from the wavelengths of color, a color blind girl is worthless, and they haven't let her forget it. No one but her adoptive parents, Charlie a Were-Lion and Sarah a Witch, along with her best friend Tesch, a Siren, have ever given her an ounce of esteem. When a fit of outrage unlocks the color yellow to her eyes, Harmony passes out cold with shock over her eggs and accidentally glamours her nemesis Challen Parks into a cowardly golden retriever. As other colors unfold before her eyes, so do new abilities. Love and friendship get turned upside down as Harmony struggles to have faith in people, discovering they are not always as they seem. The misfit becomes the outlaw as she is once again different from everyone else. What began as joy turns to peril when the paranormal Council finds out she is more than a Witch, or a Were or a Fae... oh my.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Okay, to build a shield, the idea is to take the yellow power you have and camouflage it in black. The blanket you have mentally wrapped around yourself, keep it close and hold it tight, nice and cozy. But think about it as if the blanket has two sides, one yellow and one without any color. The yellow side, keep close to you and the black side, you turn out.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the things I really enjoyed about Mr. Bellfwigg being my Fae instructor came from the visual and sensory imaging concepts he planted. It gave my physical and mental self a clue as to what to do. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He’d told me during our first lesson that magik worked similar to what humans called neural mapping. If you could do something once, the body and mind created a blueprint to follow the next time, like what Charlie had told me about becoming a Were. Each time it would become easier until certain things just came naturally. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Consider it a homework assignment.” Mr. Bellfwigg told me with good humor. By next week, I want you to be able to make a good shield. I think that’s enough for today. We will work on your glamour techniques tomorrow.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I stood there and nodded. Believe it or not, all this mental visualizing tired me out. And it certainly worked up an appetite. But I also felt disappointed. I had a lot of questions about so many things. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Um, Miss Phillips, you can let the power go now.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Oh, right.” Just as I had absorbed the energy into myself from foot to head, I loosened my grip on my mental blanket and let it fall to the floor around my feet where it disappeared into where it had come from. “I’m sorry, I forget sometimes. I had a stray thought.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He shook his head with one of those ironic smiles adults sometimes had. “Don’t be sorry. It’s actually quite commendable that you don’t lose the power you gather when other thoughts intrude. That’s a hard lesson to teach and one you have sailed through with natural aptitude.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I glowed again, not with power but with pride at the words. I hadn’t heard a lot of praise from my teachers over the years, especially for natural aptitude in anything. “Thank you.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You are welcome, Miss Phillips.” Mr. Bellfwigg answered formally, giving me a gracious nod of his head. “So what stray thoughts were you having that you didn’t release your power at once?” </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">James returned to where I sat and hunkered down next to me. We surveyed our group of misfits and lost souls. He brushed a lanky piece of inky hair out of his face and glanced at me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I nodded. James was the only one who knew the truth of my heritage; the rest of the kids thought I told fairytales to help them sleep at night. “I have to. We can’t keep living like this. Something has to change.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“But if she didn’t want her life back at twelve, what makes you think she wants it back now?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“She doesn’t; she won’t give it back easily. I’ll have to fight her, and if all the rumors are to be believed, she fights dirty. That’s what I need you for.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our eyes met. His grey eyes steeled and he nodded. “I know what I have to do. I’ll do it.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Doubts clouded my mind. I reached out and touched his arm. “Just… don’t—don’t get hurt.” I choked on the words, emotion getting the better of me. He gave me a crooked smile.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Aw shucks, Kat, I almost think you care.” His grey eyes lit with mirth. I took a shaky breath and shoved at his shoulder, not moving him at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“You’re the brother I never had; of course I care for you. I care for all of you. I want to take all of you home with me.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He glanced at Amelia. “Did you mean what you told her? Would you really take her home with you?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes. She deserves a better life. We all do. I’m going to make that happen. I just need some help getting there.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He held up both hands to stave off my argument. “You don’t need to convince me, Princess. I’m already helping you.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: purple;">All her life Harmony Phillips has felt defective. Growing up in a paranormal community where magikal abilities come from the wavelengths of color, a color blind girl is worthless, and they haven't let her forget it. No one but her adoptive parents, Charlie a Were-Lion and Sarah a Witch, along with her best friend Tesch, a Siren, have ever given her an ounce of esteem. When a fit of outrage unlocks the color yellow to her eyes, Harmony passes out cold with shock over her eggs and accidentally glamours her nemesis Challen Parks into a cowardly golden retriever. As other colors unfold before her eyes, so do new abilities. Love and friendship get turned upside down as Harmony struggles to have faith in people, discovering they are not always as they seem. The misfit becomes the outlaw as she is once again different from everyone else. What began as joy turns to peril when the paranormal Council finds out she is more than a Witch, or a Were or a Fae... oh my.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harmony is both the name of the main character and my use of foreshadowing. Tesch is named for the radio personality John Tesh because I listen to his program “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intelligence for Your Life</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” on my way home from work. I got the name Madame Osza came from letters being burned out the the Mazzio’s Pizza sign in our town. (ha ha ha ha). I even use my friend’s name occasionally. Or versions of them. So the character names can come from anywhere. The book Title itself came from obviously, the theme of Harmony’s being colorblind, but it was the publisher’s concept to split the compound word into two parts. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Color Blind</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and that helped me to flesh out the next two book titles </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Color Full</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Color Less</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and decide how to divide the story content between the titles.</span></span></div>
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