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Holy hand grenade!
From the first sentence until the last, I felt as if a small bomb was about to explode.
We begin with Toreth in captivity. The torturer has become the tortured. All hell has broken out and a ‘revolution’ is blasting through the Administration. My stomach started to flip and flop, and honestly it never stopped.
Toreth believes his fight is over and stumbles to relay a message to Warrick;
“Could you tell Warrick—"….
"Tell him I..."
My heart is breaking for him. He has no idea how to ...more
From the first sentence until the last, I felt as if a small bomb was about to explode.
We begin with Toreth in captivity. The torturer has become the tortured. All hell has broken out and a ‘revolution’ is blasting through the Administration. My stomach started to flip and flop, and honestly it never stopped.
Toreth believes his fight is over and stumbles to relay a message to Warrick;
“Could you tell Warrick—"….
"Tell him I..."
My heart is breaking for him. He has no idea how to ...more
WAHOOOO! Thank god…I’m STILL alive!
After working myself up over what could possibly happen in this much touted and anticipated part of TA, I can say with confidence that…it wasn’t that bad! Look mom, I’m ok! (And at least 1000 less exclamation points than I’m used to using when a book tears me apart!)
Now, on to the book...
I am nothing if not predictable. I love me some romance. And unfortunately, for 2/3 of this book, there wasn’t much. Warrick was noticeably absent and I was starting to get gr ...more
First Against the Wall is one of my favorites in The Administration series. I never want to leave the feel of the words and world. I sipped my way through this re-read actually. Reading and re-reading small doses every night. Never in all my reading life have I read and re-read like this. I savor every word. Even polite, every day phrases feel so powerful between these men. The “Ssh”s or “Just you”s or pleases hold such meaning. I wait for certain words now. I feel the power and weight of every ...more
Awe has rendered me speechless. I...I'm not even going to attempt to write a review at this point. I need at least a day, or 2, to recover.
Also what Diana said ...more
Also what Diana said ...more
Carnac decided to cut to the end, regrettable as it was to lose any of the effect. It would be enough. He put every ounce of conviction he could summon into his voice, driving the words home like knives.
"And, finally, I know that in the end the pathetically little you have to offer Keir will no longer be enough, and he will leave you. And when that day comes, there is nothing you will be able to do to make him stay with you. You're not that good a fuck and, really, what else do you have?"
The ult ...more
"And, finally, I know that in the end the pathetically little you have to offer Keir will no longer be enough, and he will leave you. And when that day comes, there is nothing you will be able to do to make him stay with you. You're not that good a fuck and, really, what else do you have?"
The ult ...more
Aaaaand we're back. Book 4 and 5 were kind of weak, especially when compared to this, which is just brilliant. This has everything I missed in some of the previous books: humour, a solid story that never gets boring for even one page, the structure of a book instead of separate short stories, and Toreth at his absolute best/worst. The problem is that Manna Francis and Sonny Hassell & Ais are ruining other books for me. Everything else seems bland, boring, poorly written...
What Francis excels at ...more
What Francis excels at ...more
I have no words to comment this installment.
There was danger, there was careful planning, there was revenge, there were catastrophic truths revealed, there was pain, so much pain and hurt... and inability to change.
There was Carnac! There was the dreaded moment I feared the first time he appeared. There was the sick pleasure he took in hurting and destroying Toreth! There was pure evil shaped in a different form.
And then there were Warrick and Toreth! Despite high complexity of the story line, t ...more
There was danger, there was careful planning, there was revenge, there were catastrophic truths revealed, there was pain, so much pain and hurt... and inability to change.
There was Carnac! There was the dreaded moment I feared the first time he appeared. There was the sick pleasure he took in hurting and destroying Toreth! There was pure evil shaped in a different form.
And then there were Warrick and Toreth! Despite high complexity of the story line, t ...more
Wow, scary times at I&I.
For Toreth, of course, it's all in a day's work. Wholesale slaughter of colleagues? Check. Imminent death? Check. Hours spent in a cell injured and bleeding with a cooling body nearby? Check. To Toreth, it's just a new opportunity to fuck with Chevril's head.
Manna Francis is a master of creating dual internal and external conflicts. In First, revolution has finally come to the Administration. But after the blood's been swabbed off the floors, it's business as usual at I& ...more
For Toreth, of course, it's all in a day's work. Wholesale slaughter of colleagues? Check. Imminent death? Check. Hours spent in a cell injured and bleeding with a cooling body nearby? Check. To Toreth, it's just a new opportunity to fuck with Chevril's head.
Manna Francis is a master of creating dual internal and external conflicts. In First, revolution has finally come to the Administration. But after the blood's been swabbed off the floors, it's business as usual at I& ...more
Fantastic read!
Thought Carnac was a complete bastard in Game Set...
Thought Carnac was a complete bastard in Game Set...
Jan 13, 2013
JH
marked it as to-read
