![]() ![]() Still, there’s plenty here to make for a terrific weekend-afternoon read. All of the ingredients are there, but the murkiness surrounding the mythical underpinnings of the novel keeps it from reaching its full potential. ![]() ![]() While the characters are rich and appealing, and there’s plenty of danger, romance and intrigue to entertain, readers may find themselves frustrated by how long it takes to learn the truth about Eureka’s powers. Kate’s lush, sensuous descriptions bring the Louisiana bayou to life as Eureka battles against extraordinary forces of nature, desperate to discover who and what she truly is and how she can save the people she loves. Four months and one suicide attempt after the accident, Eureka struggles to adjust to life without her mother and to a world that is suddenly filled with mystery and danger-with Eureka, unwitting agent of an apocalypse Ander’s people are trying to prevent, at the center of it all. Seventeen-year-old Eureka Boudreaux has no idea how or why she survived the car crash that claimed her mother’s life, and there have been plenty of times when she wished she hadn’t. When given the choice to “ave the world, or save the girl,” a young man named Ander, scion of a mystical race of beings with power over water, chooses the girl. ![]()
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For the fragment of a life, however typical, is not the sample of an even web: promises may not be kept, and an ardent outset may be followed by declension latent powers may find their long-waited opportunity a past error may urge a grand retrieval. ![]() Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. ![]() Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate, relentless rollback of their gains. 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