Character Haiku: Zader
Curl of wood, easy
like butter. Shave fin, tail, nose,
eye, scale. Free the fish.
~Zader
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Book Review: Dissension
by Adrienne Monson
What do you do when your very existence is an anathema to you, the love of your life has wanted to kill you for 2,000 years, your stalker ex is back, and you’ve a teenage girl dumped into your lap that can’t go home?
When you’re Leisha, one of the original vampires, you do the most logical thing—foment dissension in the ranks of vampire-dom in the hope of getting your mundane life back.
Dissension, written by debut author Adrienne Monson, takes the reader on a thrill ride spanning kidnapping, torture, murder, blood lust, slavery, government conspiracy, psychic abilities, and hints about a mysterious child—all in Book One of The Blood Inheritance Trilogy.
Fans of vampire lit will find much to like here from an origin mythology to hints of a final destiny. Most interesting is the developing relationships between the characters as they uncover miscommunications and misconceptions about each other that have ruled their actions for 2000 years. With all the conspiracies and chess pieces swirling around, what I really want to know is can Leisha ever get back to being a wife and mother and what’s going to happen to teenage Samantha, Leisha’s thinly veiled substitute for the family she lost?
Guess I’ll have to read book 2 to find out!
Dissension, Book 1 in The Blood Inheritance Trilogy, written by Adrienne Monson and published by Jolly Fish Press is available in hardback and eBook from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other purveyors of fine literature.
Adrienne Monson
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Character Haiku: Uncle Kahana
Talk story time, pau
for now. Sun sets on Piko
Point. Aloha pō.
~Uncle Kahana
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5 More Ways My Husband Says I Love You
Happy Valentine’s Day! In keeping with my tradition, here are five more ways my husband says I love you.
1) Just letting you know I’m taking the kids to school since they missed the bus.
2) I’m driving through town on my way home. Need anything from the store?
3) I washed a load of whites.
4) Those clothes are looking really baggy on you.
5) Let me carry all those new books out to the car.
How ‘bout your significant other? How does the person you love tell you you’re loved?
Learning ‘Ōlelo: Junkalunka
junkalunka
(juhn-KAH-luhn-KAH) (adj) Pidgin description of something that is old, broken down, used up.
Example
English: Perhaps we should borrow your mother’s car since the road is steep and winding and your car tires are bald and the brakes are soft.
Pidgin: Pali road? In that junkalunka thing? No way!
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