Femme Fatale

I have been very unwell lately. Between a migraine that ended up sending me to the ER and lasted a week, migraines that have completely wiped out whole days, and trying to get out there and do modeling/work with new photographers... Its been trying for me. So i'm catching up on reading and posting when I can. If I manage to read more than one book in a night i'm trying to fill in back space where I missed days. I'm hoping to read at least 365 books/stories this year.

Title: Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the unknown life of Mata Hari
Author: Pat Shipman

Mata Hari is someone that is kind of unavoidable when reading about burlesque, strippers, and the like.  I'd often wondered about her, as i'd seen pics but never had actually read anything about her other than that she was popular. 

I found out due to this book, that I do not care for her as anything but a visual.

The woman was insufferable.

Shes basically Scarlett O'hara from the Gone withe the Wind movie (i've never read the book) as a real person.

She cared really almost nothing about anyone but herself, and anything of real value except for her own personal gain/money. She was highly promiscuous, a cheater, and most definitely a liar. She was counted as a spy for germany, france, and russia though it seems like she cheated them as well (for a paycheck without following through with orders) which finally caught up to her in the end.

She (and anyone she was with) was constantly in HUGE amounts of debt due to her spending habits, and it seems as though she suffered from syphilis from her first husband (which in the end led to the demise of her two children.). 

Basically the short of it is that she was spoiled rotten for her whole life.

((Weird side note: her head appears to have been stolen from its place in a museum a long while back after her execution.))

Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Femme-Fatale-Love-Lies-Life/dp/0060817313

ISBN: 978-0060817312

Into the River

Title: Into the River
Author: Ted Dawe

I did not care for this book. I found it boring and it made me a bit listless as I had been (because of the cover insert) expecting some fantastical Maori folklore or superstition to be present. Nope.

This book is about a Maori boy who is quite intelligent and how he gets mixed up and away from his roots into the modern times at a college/boarding school in the city. 

It was very much a disappointment.

Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Into-River-Devon-Santos-Dawe/dp/1943818541/

ISBN: 978-1-943818-19-8

Bones of faerie

Title: Bones of faerie
Author: Janni Lee Simner

Bones of faerie is book one of "the bones of faerie trilogy".

There is a book that ive been wanting to read for years called "the spiders' bride" that every time i type that in to the library databanks, the next closest is this book. Well. I'm finally reading this one.
I wasn't disappointed.

Its younger young adult fiction. The book itself follows the story of a girl named Liza who lives in a town where magic is shunned. To the point that children found to be carrying faerie traits have been killed or left to die in the elements.
She knows this because her father did this to her baby sister after she displayed the typical glass clear silver hair of the faeries.
There was a war. In the war it seems the faeries used magic. We used what was handy to us: nuclear weapons. Faeries seemed to be dead and gone but their magic lingered and twisted nature against the human world. Angry trees, wraiths of shadow, stones that explode at slightest touch.

Liza runs away to find that shes special in unexpected ways and that she was running towards something. Not just away.

You really end up liking the kids in this book. The author does a good job of making the situations and responses things that kids actually would do as opposed to the stereotypical -hes 9 but makes decisions like a 47-year-old trope-.

I liked it and look forward to reading the next books in the series.

Find it here: https://www.amazon.com/Bones-Faerie-Book-Trilogy/dp/0375845658

ISBN: 978-0-375-84565-9