Monday, February 29, 2016

The Original Sin

  Sally Sin, a.k.a. Lucy Parks Hamilton, is an ex-spy for the United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction, or USAWMD. She fell in love and realized that she was mentally tired and just wanted a normal life. Now, several years later, she is happily married with a three year old son. What her husband Will and son Theo don't know is her past. They don't know that she always sits in a coffee shop across from Theo's preschool to make sure that no suspicious figures try to kidnap or kill him. They don't know that she carries a gun with her wherever she goes. They don't know that her deadly arch-nemesis Ian Blackford has just been confirmed alive and looking for her.

Contains violence, mature topics and swearing.

Monday, February 8, 2016

Stars Above

Before the Lunar Chronicles, much backstory remind barely touched by the books.  Stars Above goes into much more detail on those things. What happened to Cinder before she lost her memory? What did Kai think in the meeting in Book 1, Chapter 1? What were Scarlet's, Wolf's, Cress's, Thorne's, and Winter's childhoods like? And what happened once the series was over? Find out in Stars Above. Warning: many spoilers.

Monday, February 1, 2016

Fairest

           Queen Levana is the villain of the Lunar Chronicles. But even antagonists should have a chance to share their own stories.
          Levana was born into the Lunar royal family with two parents and an older sister who thought torturing her- or rather, forcing her to torture herself- was fun. When her parents died, she thought that she might finally get a bit of freedom. But her sister Channary was just as terrible a ruler as their parents were. She then met Evret Hayle, and fell in love with him at first sight. But he was already married, and Levana knew she could never compete with his wife and win. This is the story of an antagonistic villain, and is as sad as so. I also give it a far more mature rating.



" Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
Who is the Fairest of them all?

Come close and I shall tell you a tale-
My Queen's dark secrets I've longed to unveil.

Her greed may have led her to steal and kill,
While her wickedness drove her to break a man's will.

But the greatest tragedy I've yet to expose
Is that she did it all for love...
                                                           so our story goes.

Should my portrayal of the Queen you ever wish to deny,
Know that I'm naught but a mirror. I cannot lie."