![]() ![]() Mercedes Thompson is part Native American and a Coyote Walker. Wolfsbane (2010) also in Shifter's Wolfįor the complete Timeline for the "Mercyverse" Mercy Thompson series.The third book, Iron Kissed, was a number one New York Times bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. The second book in the series, Blood Bound, hit The New York Times Best Seller list. Briggs wrote Moon Called, which was published in 2006 and made it to the USA Today bestseller lists. She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. She now resides in Benton City, WA īriggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel Masques in 1993. Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. ![]() Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() If you love seeing wild parties, dissolute artists and wicked jazz, then you will love ‘Z: The Beginning of Everything’. Eventually, their marriage, which seemed to be made in heaven, is lived out more like hell, since they have to deal with the pressures of being a celebrity couple. The plot starts before she meets Scott, who was still unpublished at that time and then focuses on their turbulent and passionate love affair. ![]() We see how the beautiful, talented and brilliant Southern belle came to be the toast of parties and eventually became the icon of the wild and flamboyant Jazz Age of the 20s. The story is a biographical one, that revolves around Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and the kind of life she led. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Below this flame … two spouts, terminating in gargoyles, vomited sheets of fiery rain, whose silvery streams shone out distinctly against the gloom of the lower part of the cathedral front. “A vast flame, fierce and strong, fragments of which were borne away by the wind with the smoke. Upon the top of the topmost gallery, higher than the central rose-window, a vast flame ascended between the two belfries with whirling sparks. Illustrated with a mono portrait frontis of Hugo and four full page colour plates by Fourneir. “All eyes were turned to the top of the church,” Hugo wrote. In one often-cited passage from the novel, Hugo rages at the state of the building: “As much beauty as it may retain in its old age, it is not easy to repress a sigh, to restrain our anger, when we mark the countless defacements and mutilations to which men and time have subjected that venerable monument.”Ī second, equally prophetic passage has circulated widely on social media in France since the fire that destroyed large parts of the cathedral’s roof and sent its spire toppling into the nave. The story centres on Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre-Dame Cathedral, and his unrequited love for the beautiful. ![]() The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set in Paris during the 15th century. The novel went on to become a classic and is largely credited with helping to initiate a vast renovation of the crumbling cathedral – Hugo’s “majestic and sublime edifice” – in the mid-19th century, completed by the architects Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, historical novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in French in 1831 as Notre-Dame de Paris (Our Lady of Paris). 01:11 Notre Dame Cathedral: before and after the devastating fire – video ![]() |