Scott Graham
A charming fable ending with Schrödinger's rose, which has both been eaten and not eaten by the Little Prince’s sheep. The tale has been made all the more charming by the passing of the years since it was written; all of the meaningless (perhaps more appropriately described as feckless) activities being performed by the people he encounters are even more meaningless or feckless now, as the 2 billion inhabitants of Earth at the time have multiplied into 8 and a quarter billion people at the time this review was written, each performing their own meaningless or feckless task of lighting lamps, making maps, getting drunk, being vain or ruling over nothing but the things of your imagination. On Earth, it was the animals that taught him the meaning of his flower and the duty you owe to the things you tame, be it a rose or a fox, or another person, making him homesick enough to embrace death to return. Both sad and hopeful at the same time.
A charming fable ending with Schrödinger's rose, which has both been eaten and not eaten by the Little Prince’s sheep. The tale has been made all the more charming by the passing of the years since it was written; all of the meaningless (perhaps more appropriately described as feckless) activities being performed by the people he encounters are even more meaningless or feckless now, as the 2 billion inhabitants of Earth at the time have multiplied into 8 and a quarter billion people at the time this review was written, each performing their own meaningless or feckless task of lighting lamps, making maps, getting drunk, being vain or ruling over nothing but the things of your imagination. On Earth, it was the animals that taught him the meaning of his flower and the duty you owe to the things you tame, be it a rose or a fox, or another person, making him homesick enough to embrace death to return. Both sad and hopeful at the same time.
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Book 2 of the Game Changers series and the source novel for the phenom Crave/HBOMax streaming series tells the story of arch rival hockey stars engaging in a series of clandestine sexual encounters lives up to the hype. The main characters are both immensely likeable, Canadian boy-next-door-type Shane Hollander and snarky, arrogant Russian Ilya Rozanov become entangled almost from the first moment of their non-meet-cute. The built-in animosity is emotional for Shane but more performative for bad-boy Ilya and isn’t much of an obstacle to overcome. Ilya is the more sexually experienced of the two as Shane almost blindly feels his way into new territory beyond his awkward, unfulfilling prior encounters with women. As the characters wrestle with their emotions and the relationship evolves, the author does not shy away from being descriptive, so warning to those squeamish over descriptions of homosexual activities.
Book 2 of the Game Changers series and the source novel for the phenom Crave/HBOMax streaming series tells the story of arch rival hockey stars engaging in a series of clandestine sexual encounters lives up to the hype. The main characters are both immensely likeable, Canadian boy-next-door-type Shane Hollander and snarky, arrogant Russian Ilya Rozanov become entangled almost from the first moment of their non-meet-cute. The built-in animosity is emotional for Shane but more performative for bad-boy Ilya and isn’t much of an obstacle to overcome. Ilya is the more sexually experienced of the two as Shane almost blindly feels his way into new territory beyond his awkward, unfulfilling prior encounters with women. As the characters wrestle with their emotions and the relationship evolves, the author does not shy away from being descriptive, so warning to those squeamish over descriptions of homosexual activities.
Very pleasant LGBTQ+ hockey romance, book one of the Game Changer series, of which the current hot commodity, Heated Rivalry, is book two. The romance is pretty standard, save for the lack of any but the most self created obstacles. The characters were likeable; not much world building was required since the author made use of modern day hockey franchise cities. It was an easy breezy feel good read, and just the thing to break up the chunky dialect heavy book that I am reading concurrent to this series.
Very pleasant LGBTQ+ hockey romance, book one of the Game Changer series, of which the current hot commodity, Heated Rivalry, is book two. The romance is pretty standard, save for the lack of any but the most self created obstacles. The characters were likeable; not much world building was required since the author made use of modern day hockey franchise cities. It was an easy breezy feel good read, and just the thing to break up the chunky dialect heavy book that I am reading concurrent to this series.
An uneven fantasy mystery/comedy of mistaken paternity, mistaken identity and mistaken beliefs that provides some comedic relief in the slapstick proceedings but loses the mystery in the labyrinthine plot. The author flexes his writing muscles more in the creation of absurd, rather than colorful, cartoon characters and less in the design of a cogent mystery; in other words, it was not my cup of tea.
An uneven fantasy mystery/comedy of mistaken paternity, mistaken identity and mistaken beliefs that provides some comedic relief in the slapstick proceedings but loses the mystery in the labyrinthine plot. The author flexes his writing muscles more in the creation of absurd, rather than colorful, cartoon characters and less in the design of a cogent mystery; in other words, it was not my cup of tea.