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. Wells and heralded Australian racehorse Phar Lap.“3 Minutes to Midnight” the first book of the Midnight Trilogy by L.M. The lyrics warn of escalation in the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union ("ICBMs, SS-20s / they lie so dormant, they got so many"), and allude to both H. ![]() This setting was surpassed only recently, after the inauguration of American president Donald Trump in January 2017, when the clock was set at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. This was the closest to midnight the clock had reached since the overt testing of H-Bombs by the US and Soviet Union in 1953. Nuclear confrontation was pertinent at the time of this song, the clock having regressed to a mere "three minutes to midnight" in 1984 from some 12 minutes in the preceding decade. ![]() The title and lyrics of the song allude to the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timepiece published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which represents the proximity of nuclear war (or more generally "catastrophic destruction"), designated as "midnight". The song was written by band members Peter Garrett and Jim Moginie. Minutes to Midnight is the fourth track on the 1984 album Red Sails in the Sunset by Australian music group Midnight Oil.
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