![]() She has suffered so much in her life, from being forced to host the parasite that murdered her entire family and village, to being put through Training from Hell by her Master/Father Figure, to watching that same Master/Father Figure being murdered before her eyes. Yerin's is that she doesn't want to be hurt any more.That is how broken his upbringing has made him. Lindon believes in his very soul that he is useless. ![]() It doesn't matter that he is easily more powerful than the whole of his homeland combined even though they thought he would never amount to anything. It doesn't matter that at this point he is a Truegold, something that just two years prior he didn't even realize existed, much less was possible for him to attain.
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![]() ![]() This novel is about the Lee family: James, lonely son of Chinese immigrants, history professor, desperate to fit into American society Marilyn, James’ Caucasian wife and frustrated housewife Nath, their personality-free teenaged son Lydia, their daughter, who – as the novel’s first sentence tells us – is dead and oft-ignored youngest daughter Hannah, who knows everything. And this book manages all of the above without actually sucking. In addition, the author’s odd choice of a very wide-ranging omniscient point of view undermines the suspense that the author seems to be trying hard to create. ![]() Though readable enough, this novel is noteworthy in the fact that all of its characters seem made of cardboard. circles made up of Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Green Apple, and a half a dozen small local bookstores) and appearing often on shelves devoted to “staff picks.” I’ve been intrigued but ultimately rejected it five or six times, only caving when I passed right by it in the school library and figured that checking it out would be a low-risk way of testing its waters. This is a strange little book – ubiquitous in the circles I walk in (i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A revised and updated second edition was. An extensive appendix and an index help readers correlate the maps with Tolkien’s novels. The Atlas of Middle-earth was first published in hardback by Houghton Mifflin in the United States in 1981. 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