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In reference to Jade's first-person narration, Robin Marx of Grimdark Magazine writes that "Jade’s mind runs a mile a minute, thoughts swirling with movie trivia, hopes, fears, assumptions, misinterpretations, and jumped-to conclusions. Her stream-of-consciousness perspective is sometimes a challenging one, as it’s occasionally difficult ...
[4] Publishers Weekly and Fiona Denton of Grimdark Magazine wrote that the book satisfyingly concluded the trilogy's plot thread's, and introducing twists to the metanarrative. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Denton singled out the reveal of the narrator's identity as a particularly well written revelation.
Several attempts to define the neologism [3] grimdark have been made: . Adam Roberts described it as fiction "where nobody is honourable and Might is Right", and as "the standard way of referring to fantasies that turn their backs on the more uplifting, Pre-Raphaelite visions of idealized medievaliana, and instead stress how nasty, brutish, short and, er, dark life back then 'really' was".
When in Nonnus' fourth- or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in "starry Eridanus", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong, whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born. In 1937, . Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was released to critical acclaim, paving the way for future on-screen adaptations of classic tales.
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Albanian citizen Eridan Munoz Guerrero, another suspected leader, received a 14-year term. Accused of running several cocaine laboratories in Belgium, Munoz Guerrero had admitted his guilt at the ...
A 5-year-old child had to be disarmed by police after answering the front door holding a loaded handgun in Michigan. The child opened the front door carrying the armed weapon to a cadet who came ...