A twisted tale told by Harley Quinn herself, when Gotham's most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya's paths collide, and the unlikely foursome have no choice but to team up to take Roman down.
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I’ve fallen down a mange sized hole. Here are the series that I’m obsessed with right now.
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Good Luck Girls they are called, but Good Luck Girls they’re most certainly not. Told that they would be given food and safety, most families sell their girls for the idea that it’s a better future. They forget what the girls have to do to earn that future. When Clementine goes upstairs for her first night, she never expected to walk out alone, having killed the man that was supposed to be her first. But then again, no one ever talks about the rough ones that hold you down, choking the life out of you. Aster will do anything to protect her sister. So she devises a plan, a plan that can take Clementine and three other girls out of the Welcome House for good. But to truly be free, they have to remove the tattoos that mark them as Good Luck Girls. On the run from the law, the nasty Raveners that guard the Welcome Houses, and the man whose brother Clementine killed, they race to the only chance to be free of their pasts.
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Jules is given a second chance. A chance to hit the reset button on her life after it’s fallen to pieces. There’s no one to pull her out of the dark hole she’s in since both of her parents are dead and her sister is still missing. All the ad says is that they need an apartment sitter. What she doesn’t expect is for the apartment to be in the building from her favorite book growing up with sweeping views of Central Park. And she makes $12,000 if she stays the whole three months. She just has to follow all the rules. While there, Jules becomes friends with a fellow apartment sitter, Ingrid, who tells her that the sitter before her left unexpectedly. When Ingrid does the same, disappearing in the middle of the night, Jules goes on a hunt to find her. She discovers more than she wants as the building’s dark secrets come to life.
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Penny has her ticket away from her mom - college. It’s far enough away to stop daily visits but close enough to keep an eye on her. Sam is trying to keep his head above water. He’s just thankful to have a roof over his head and a job. A job that won’t be able to support the baby his ex-girlfriend says is his. Thrown together through a weird family connection with Penny’s roommate, Penny finds Sam on the side of the road feeling like he’s dying. Unable to pay for an emergency room visit, Penny agrees to play his emergency contact. But their little phone messages become so much more as they navigate the rough world of adulthood.
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Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life. - IMDB
Read MoreOutside our world, grey in its loss of magic, lies three other versions, the same but different. Only the last two Antari alive have the magic to travel between them. Kell is one of them, working for the crown in his Red London. His job is to pass letters between the different crowns, but nothing else is allowed to be taken back and forth. Yet Kell is known by few as a smuggler between the worlds, creating his own fine collection of artifacts in a hidden room back home. It’s the one thing that makes him feel alive. Makes him feel like he’s in control. He may be considered loyalty living in the castle, but he feels far from it. When one smuggling job goes wrong, he finds himself with a piece of Black London, a London that has been shot off from the rest. Kell runs from the men that want his smuggled item and right into Lila’s sticky fingers. Instead of handing it over when he finds her, Lila forces herself into Kell’s adventure.
Read MoreTrix has a gift, a gift that lets her roam the streets and steal what she needs. It’s kept her alive and with a roof over her head since her mom went out one day and never returned. But then Trix’s luck runs out. She can either go live with family that’s she’s never even known about or go to jail. Both options mean that she has to stop running. Arriving in the little town is already a turn off. She wants to run away so fast, almost leaving the first day. But something makes her stay. Something about the way the women in her family act makes her stay. Something in the high school football star with his own dark past makes him stay. She decides staying might be the only thing that keeps her alive until she hears the one thing that makes her run.
Read MoreHave a trip on the horizon? If you’re like me, you don’t want to read anything too heavy. Here are three quick reviews of the books I got through on my trip this month.
Read MoreAffinities hold powerful magic, but instead of being honored, they’re locked away and sold into indentured servitude. Essentially shunned from society, thought of as less than human. Ana, the princess of the Cyrillian Empire, doesn’t know any different until she discovers that she too is an Affinity. Locked away, she barely escapes when she’s accused of her father’s murder. She fights to prove her innocence, finally discovering how the world really runs and the corrupt veins that run straight to her empire. Ana frees a con man, a man she hopes will help her find the real person that murder her father so she can clear her name. They make a Trade, but the con man has other ideas, wanting instead to reestablish his place in Cyrillian’s under belly crime ring.
Read MoreAfter being swapped at birth with a human child, Edmund has grown up in the world above, struggling to fit in, and hiding his true identity from his human parents. All the while questioning how his real parents could have traded him for a human boy. The boy has grown up in the world below as the Childe. Never given a real name or a place to belong either. But one day, the Childe is forced to flee the world below when an evil relative takes the throne. He only knows of one place to run to, his real home, the home the changeling now occupies. To keep their secrets and hopefully save the world below, they team up, finding what the true meaning of family is.
Read MoreThe Wayward Children series is about children searching to find where they fit in. And when that isn’t available in their world, secret doors open up for them, taking them exactly where they’re meant to be. Some children stay forever, perfectly happy behind the doors, but others find their way back to their original worlds forever changed, fighting to return even if it could mean death. They might have missed their families. They might have missed the comforts of home. Yet still they try to find their doors back. Out of her own door, knowing the struggles of the returning children, Eleanor opens a home for these children, hoping to make each stay as logical or illogical as she can for them. Together, the children can commiserate and grow and hopefully find their door again. These books are about their travels, their pasts, and sometimes their futures.
Read MoreCass was given a second chance on a family when she was adopted at six weeks old. Eighteen years later and thoughts about her birth mother have started to creep into her head. Who was the woman that gave her up? Where does she ultimately come from? People have always said she looks just like her adopted mother, confusing her as their real child, but she didn’t come from them. She came from someone else. When Cass’s adoptive mother needs a new heart and the doctors don’t think she’ll make it much longer, she tells Cass about letters her birth mother wrote to her before she was born. Letters that could finally answer all the questions. In the search though, Cass worries that she’s not seeing the family right in front of her eyes.
Read MoreHaving your parents researching alien life doesn’t mean that you’re prepared for everything. Olivia and her sister Viola show up at their next parent’s assignment just trying to fit in - Olivia counting down the days until she turns 18 and can take her sick twin sister back to Earth. When their dad gets an extra assignment to scan a decommissioned ship, he takes it, saying they need the extra money for upgrades. But on that deadly mission, he finds a lot more than expected and somehow that lot more makes its way down to the planet’s surface. Using all the knowledge that her parents taught her, Olivia fights to keep her sister alive as the alien life forms adapt to their new home, quickly becoming the apex predator.
Read MoreElena holds onto herself, fighting to remember the life she knew. One day, the curse she’s under wears off and she returns home to find that seven years have passed and her beloved vineyard sold to a man that only believes in science, not the Vine Witches that have been servicings the land for years. And it shows in his poor wine. His competition has taken advantage, weaving hexes over the vineyard. Elena offers to help, hiding her true work from the new owner while also plotting her revenge on the person that hexed her. But when cats start being drained of their blood, Elena begins to worry about her own safety and the reasons behind why she was cursed.
Read MoreFound washed on the shore as a small child, Tova was taken in by the Svell even though she has been viewed as a curse, a forsaken child from her clan. The tattoos inked on her skin claim that she is something else, a gift. Over time she becomes an asset to the tribe, seen as something that can be used in the eyes of the tribe’s Tala, and casts her ruins for the chief. One day her ruins change the fate of the Svell, claiming their ultimate end. The Svell rush to change this prediction and cross the borders into their neighboring enemy’s territory, the newly formed Nadhir Tribe and Halvard’s home. Halvard has watched his family and friends morph into this new peaceful clan, finding ways to live together. But after ten years of it, the Svell threaten to completely wipe them off the map. Tova and Halvard’s paths crash together, making Tova question her own hand in the fate of the Nadhir and the purpose fate had in washing her up on that beach.
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