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Van d’Allamitri is destined to become the world’s most famous chef— if only he can survive his childhood first! Son of a Shan-li restaurateur and a merchant from the great city of Varo, young Van is torn between honoring the culinary traditions of his overbearing mother and following in the footsteps of his cosmopolitan but ne’er-do-well father. As he finds . . .
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A western themed fantasy, following the story of a low-level political discontent beginning with his imprisonment in a decidedly high security prison. . . .
Her father picked her a husband, and she didn’t like him. So she ran away. Unfortunately for her, she ran in the wrong direction. Set in a combination of a medieval and oriental cultures, the story offers you a slightly spoiled princess, a saucy and talkative maidservant, a duty bound and socially clueless prince, and a ribald and extremely . . .
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In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part . . .
"Listen, sugar, some things never change. Once a nigger lover, always a nigger lover. Only now they call them augers."
I have put off writing this review for the longest time. I finished Corvus at the tail end of 2009, and then had a few conversations with Lee, its author, not [more . . .]
Corvus slips between the story of Zach and Laura, and then Zach’s ‘professional’ life with the Fulgrid as a homo cognscens, a new evolution of human that has ‘developed’ special powers at a cost.
Previous reviewers have focused on the high school elements and the developing love story between Zach and [more . . .]