That said, near the end, you just get caught up in all that is happening and before you know it its way past 2 am but you just have to finish it :D It dragged on a bit longer than necessary. Pacing and flow were good, though I have to admit it felt slower in the middle of the book. ![]() I would have liked them to be a bit more fleshed out. The rest of the cast feel somewhat superficial since we don't know much about them at all. I would have liked to have known a bit more about Ethan's life before he left the pack so I hope we read more about that in the next instalment. you know what I mean! She wasn't the damsel in distress, she can kick ass with the rest of them and she knows what she wants: to help. Phoenix didn't always make the right calls, but that's only human. Scenes and environments were clear and well detailed.Ĭharacter development was decent. This makes sure we don't get an overload of information while the author is setting the stage for everything that follows. Worldbuilding was good, while Phoenix doesn't really have a grasp of what the supernatural world is all about and what the current state of affairs is, we learn everything alongside her. A real Dublin, easy to recognize, true to nature, Dublin as you would experience it if the Supes came to “play”… or may I say “when the Supes come to play □Ī wonderful story, a great first installment into a new series and a new verse, that will keep the reader entertaining and invested until the very last page, and… by the way… take care to read until the very end, your efforts will be highly rewarded. Hatchell has created a wonderful world, with wonderful characters, humans, supes and Dublin □, then Dublin is a much part of the action as any of the multidimensional characters involved in the plot. Ethan and Phoenix are brought together by the event and a fast-paced, action-packed plot takes it course to reach the most unexpected turning point in the action. If it were not for the fact that she is part Fae and as such reach immortality on her twenty-fifth birthday, which is… tonight.Īs the same time Dublin is hit by an increased number in human attacks, that call Ethan, the somehow renegade son of Alpha of the Donegal Pack, who is in a hunt for the killer of his own brother. Fortunately for her, uncle Darius, a fellow vampire friend of her father, and the only ally they had, took her in into the Dublin coven, under the cover of secrecy, until she succeeded in carving a life of her own in the human world, now co-owning a pub with her best friend and living a seemingly normal life with only the occasional meeting with Darius as reminder of her “otherness”. Phoenix has been aware of this all her life, her own parents were attacked and disappeared year ago, letting her alone to fend by herself in the twilight world between humans and Supes. Her mere existence is a danger to the status-quo, not only consider an abomination but sanctioned by the Council as a crime punishable by death. Phoenix is a Fae/Vampire hybrid, the first and only in the long history of the Lore. Hatchell has the extraordinary gift to intertwine fiction and reality into a full satisfactory tale, populated with multifaceted characters with very much real problems crafted into the tale through urban fantasy archetypes that works. Hatchell is welcome addiction to the genre. Washington: Nuclear threats and climate change pose strong threats to the planet and a symbolic "doomsday" clock will stay at three minutes to midnight, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Tuesday.“3 Minutes to Midnight” the first book of the Midnight Trilogy by L.M. The clock serves as a metaphor for how close humanity is to destroying the planet, and was most recently moved closer to midnight in 2015. "It remains the closest it has been over the past 20 years," said Rachel Bronson, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, during a press conference in the US capital. Global warming, terrorism, nuclear tensions between the United States and Russia, concerns over North Korean weapons, tensions between Pakistan and India, and cyber threats remain destabilizing influences, said Lawrence Krauss, a cosmologist and professor at Arizona State University. The decision not to change the clock since 2015 is "not good news," he told reporters.ĭespite some positive news last year, including the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate talks, experts expressed concern that global nuclear arsenals are growing and anti-pollution pledges lack teeth. ![]() "The fight against climate change has barely begun, and it is unclear if the nations of the world are ready to make the many hard choices that will be necessary to stabilize the climate and avert possible environmental disasters," said Krauss. The decision to move the clock or not is led by the a group of scientists and intellectuals, including 16 Nobel Laureates.
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