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Elementals 1 Review

Elementals 1
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Small Magick
Drey is a young mage, sent away by her family in the hopes she would learn how to harness her magickal powers to do wondrous deeds. She becomes frustrated when everything powerful seems beyond her reach. She begins to feel she will never master anything but Small Magick.
Frustration brings her to a natural magick circle and she decides to put it to use. In doing so, she accidentally binds the Wind Spirit into human form, not quite sure how she did it. Cyrus, as the spirit calls himself, sets himself to the task of getting to know Drey quite intimately, and then is ready to return to natural form. Unfortunately, since she has no idea how she trapped him, she doesn't know how to release him!
Only the mage who cast the spell can undo it, so they set about trying to find away to free him, all the while finding they cannot resist the lure each other offers. The harder she tries to free him, the more frustrated she becomes. When an unknown stranger comes to town, also a powerful mage, Drey offers to apprentice to him, in the hopes he can teach her how to master her powers and free Cyrus. Drey learns much about herself and her powers from this mystery mage, but he has a plan all of his own. What does he want with her? Will she ever learn the secret to unlocking the great powers she possesses and to freeing Cyrus? Even if she does find the secret, will she ever truly be able to let him out of her life?
This is the second story in Ms. Midnight's Elementals series and it is a delight! What a unique world she creates in her stories. Small Magick is hot enough to keep the reader yearning for more. Cyrus and Drey are individuals, each with great powers of their own. Drey is a free spirited young lady, who desires above all else, the ability to harness great power with her magick. Cyrus longs for his freedom, but finds he quite enjoys the pleasures of the flesh as well. Drey comes into her own in this story, finding that the truly powerful ones get their strength in the unlikeliest of places and ways.
There is enough intrigue as well, in the mysterious mage, Kelsh, whose agenda is as unknown as his origins. And the details of the passionate love scenes are so inventive and imaginative! The readers will want their significant others at beck and call after reading this book, in hopes of cooling the flames brought on by the details. Definitely worth the time to read; and highly recommended for anyone who likes a little adventure with their passion.
Fire and Ice
Trina was a slave to a powerful sorceress, Kalidah. What she doesn't know is that she herself has a bit of magick in her soul, not that she had ever been given leave to develop it. Then one day as she is gazing into the fire, she unwittingly casts a powerful spell, introducing her to a whole new world, that of the fire spirits.
She can never let her mistress know, and one day her fate is decided for her. Kalidah is set to sacrifice her young slave to a powerful demon, in order to harness its powers for own selfish desires. When her plan backfires, Trina is given her freedom, and finds a new passion for life, in the form of the mysterious Brand, who appears out of nowhere to assist her in beginning her new life. and awakening burning desires Trina never knew existed.
Trina is on her quest to find her family, and her history, with the help of some friends she meets along the way. All the while on her quest for her family, she is also on a different quest... to explore these passions and erotic fantasies she has suddenly been enlightened to discover.
Fire and Ice is quite an interesting read. Who could have ever dreamed up a world of flame spirits, dancing in the hearths of the ordinary people? Ms. Midnight takes something that seems so ordinary, simple fire, and delves into a whole new world. The passion between Trina and Flame burns brightly, never wavering, even in the light of dangers stalking Trina as she continues her journey of discovery. If one is looking for an erotic foray into another world or alternate reality, this is the book to read. One will never see fire in the same light again after finishing this one.
Elementals 1 is a foray into a world of fantasy and erotic pleasure that is sure to captivate readers.
© Kelley A. Hartsell, May 2006. All right reserved.

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Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader Review

Innocent When You Dream: The Tom Waits Reader
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In the absence of an autobiography, this collection of 38 interviews and profiles is essential for the Tom Waits fan. It opens with a foreword by Frank Black and an introduction by Mac Montandon.
Part One: Early Years, contains the following amongst many others: The 1974 press release for Heart Of Saturday Night by Waits himself; A short interview with Clark Peterson of Creem magazine from 1978 titled The Slime Who Came In From The Cold; from 1976, there is an article from Sweet & Sour, a long Zig Zag interview and a New Yorker article.
The 1977 Rolling Stone piece by David McGee is very informative and from 1979 there is a short Washington Post article. This section also contains a poem by Charles Bukowski with a short introduction noting that it captures the entire Waitsian world.
In Part Two: The Middle Years, I found the following to be the most compelling: Peter Sabbag's in-depth 1987 article from the Los Angeles Times Magazine, a long formal question and answer interview by Glen O'Brien in a 1985 Spin magazine, 20 Questions from a 1988 Playboy and another question and answer interview from 1989 with Elvis Costello in Option.
Part Three: These Days, offers inter alia the following informative pieces: A 1999 Billboard review of Mule Variations and a short 1999 live review by Jon Pareles from the New York Times. From the same year there is a short review by Luc Sante in The Village Voice and an engaging conversational piece by David Fricke in Rolling Stone. There is also a short question and answer session from a 2004 Vanity Fair.
This section concludes with Nirvana, a 1992 poem by Charles Bukowski. It was included because in an interview with Soma magazine in 2002, Waits referred to this as his favorite poem. The book concludes with a Discography and a Timeline from Waits' birth on 7th December 1949 to the release of his 2004 album Real Gone. The book documents his entire career and is perhaps better than any biography as it contain so many perspectives from so many different writers.


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Works of Andre Norton. The Time Traders, Rebel Spurs, Voodoo Planet, Plague Ship and more (mobi) Review

Works of Andre Norton. The Time Traders, Rebel Spurs, Voodoo Planet, Plague Ship and more (mobi)
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Just a quick comment. I love Andre Norton. I have almost all of her books in my physical library. 5 stars for the content of this collection. However, all of these titles are available for free download at gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg has thousands of free ebooks available. Check it out.


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Table of Contents All Cats Are Gray (1953)The Defiant Agents (1962)The Gifts of Asti (1948)Key Out of Time (1963)Plague Ship (1978)Ralestone Luck (1938)- IllustratedRebel Spurs (1962)Ride Proud, Rebel! (1961)Star Born (1957)Star Hunter (1959)Storm Over Warlock (1960)The Time Traders (1958)Voodoo Planet (1959) Appendix:Andre Norton Biography

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Antique Trader Tools Price Guide Review

Antique Trader Tools Price Guide
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We like this tool price guide book, but we just wish it was set up so you could look up tools by their maker rather than by just what they are. If you wanted to look up a certain Stanley Plane you would have to go to the planes section and read each description to find a Stanley plane. The index does not go by the maker of the tool, it just goes by what type of tool you are looking up. Still a useful price guide with beautiful photos.

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