![]() ![]() ![]() Julian is recovering from his physical scars from being held captive and Nora from her emotional scars. But as if the story is not enough to compel you to listen to this amazing dark romance trilogy, the narration is also top-rate making this a must listen for the dark romance audiobook enthusiast!Book 3, Hold Me, picks up where book 2 (Keep Me) leaves off. Moreover, the constant danger and suspense angle has added a whole other level of intrigue, and in some cases justification, for the hero's uber alpha hero, unparalleled possessiveness. If you haven't yet started this fantastic series, please see my review for Twist Me, book 1 in the series.What a fitting conclusion to this addicting dark romance trilogy that tells the tale of a ruthless and powerful arms dealer and his captive! Listening to the progression from solely obsession to undying love between this unlikely couple has been mesmerizing and passion-filled. 5 "Living Captivatingly In Love Ever After" Stars for the story and narration!*Please note this is the 3rd and last book in the Twist Me Series, and the below review may contain spoilers for the prior books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Just before Roger leaves on a two-year scientific expedition to Africa, he asks for Cynthia's hand and she accepts, although she insists that their engagement should remain secret until Roger returns. Gibson overhears that Osborne may be fatally ill, she begins promoting the match. Unfortunately, Roger falls in love with Cynthia and when Mrs. Nevertheless, they are loyal to each other & often conspire to elude both Cynthia's mother and Molly's father.Molly has harbored a secret love for Roger Hamley, the younger son of the local squire. Preston, who is rumored to be a gambler and a scoundrel. ![]() ![]() Cynthia has been educated in France, and it gradually becomes apparent that she and her mother have secrets in their past, involving the land agent from the great house, Mr. ![]() Kirkpatrick to provide Molly a mother, she is unhappy at the event, but warms to the inevitability when she meets Mr.s Kirkpatrick's daughter, Cynthia, to whom she forms an instant friendship.The two girls couldn't be more different: Cynthia is far more worldly and rebellious than Molly, who is naive and slightly awkward. She is attractive, but also innocent and unworldly. Elizabeth Gaskell's final novel (she died just before she finished the book) is a gentle comedy of manners very much in the style of Jane Austen and was serialized in The Cornhill magazine from 1864 to 1865 Molly Gibson is the only child of widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s. ![]() ![]() ![]() After this period, the remaining two centuries are dealt with in just 50 pages. There are some fascinating characters in the form of Cosimo the Elder, Lorenzo the Magnificent, the fanatical priest Savonarola who held power for a few years after a French invasion, and the two Medici popes, Giovanni (Leo X) and Giulio (Clement VII, the Pope who declined to agree Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon). The course of this book is very unbalanced in terms of chronological coverage, with the first of the three centuries of Medici dominance covering five sixths of the narrative but this is mostly justified in terms of the wider importance and sheer drama of the events involved. ![]() Rising from the merchant class they came to dominate the republic's government and become effectively a hereditary monarchy, though for a long time Florence continued to preserve a republican constitution, in which people from the merchant class were chosen by lot to form the city government, the Signoria. ![]() This is a fairly detailed political and personal history of the famous and colourful Medici family, who dominated the history of Florence and central Italy, and indeed more widely, for most of a 300 year period between the early 15th and early 18th centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() in early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost. Michael Straczynski reportedly both disliked due to Executive Meddling), Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Mister T, Dungeons & Dragons (1983), Ewoks, The Transformers, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, Zatanna: Trial of the Crystal Wand, Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid!!, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Sym-Bionic Titan. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to many other shows (both for and outside WB), such as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) (a job he and fellow writer J. ![]() He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./ DC Comics series, including Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Gotham Girls and Duck Dodgers. Paul McClaran Dini (born Augin New York City) is a five-time Emmy award-winning American television writer and producer of animated cartoons. Paul Dini to Batman, Dark Night: A True Batman Story ![]() ![]() ![]() Her name is Leslie Burke, and she is a shabby, nosy tomboy. When a new family moves into the shabby old farmhouse across the street, Jess’s sister May Belle hopes there will be a girl her age she can play with, but Jess soon realizes that the family’s child is a girl his own age. Jess also has four sisters- Joyce Ann, May Belle, Ellie, and Brenda-who annoy and antagonize him in various ways. Aarons, who commutes daily to a job in Washington, D.C., seems to dislike the person Jess is growing into. Aarons, nags him constantly about his chores, while his distant, unaffectionate, and overworked father, Mr. ![]() Running is an escape for Jess-there’s a lot for him to contend with at home. As summer comes to an end, 10-year-old Jesse Oliver Aarons, Jr.-or Jess, as he likes to be called-spends every morning running through the fields behind his house in the rural town of Lark Creek, Virginia, determined to win the title of fastest runner in the fifth grade when school resumes. ![]() |