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Superman & Lois 2x12
That episode was really good in goadin me into believing they would kill Tal-Rho off and we might get Bizarro-Tal as a replacement to keep the actor in the show, but then they flipped it all around and kille of Bizarro-Tal instead.
Which, don’t get me wrong, I prefer, but why can’t we keep both?
In case you missed it when I first posted it: my 1st chapter of my series "family ties" (link to the rest at the bottom:
The Lies That Bind
Chapter 1
Virgil pulled his bedroom door closed; turning the knob to make sure it was locked. He didn’t want anyone to get into his space while he was venturing out. He pulled his hood up, stuffed his keys and hands into the pockets of his hoodie, and walked slowly, deliberately down the hallway.
“Just a couple of snacks, then I’ll head back.” he muttered to himself as a way of a pep talk.
He plodded to the kitchen, socked feet making no noise on the linoleum. He stuck his head deep into the fridge.
A ding came from the oven, startling him. Then he heard feet excitedly running from another room.
“Hi Virgil! I’m making cookies would you like a couple?” Patton greeted him from behind the fridge door. Virgil closed the door carefully, a hand full of string cheese.
He looked up from under his purple bangs, “Sure. Cookies would be nice.” He muttered quietly.
Patton had already taken the pan out of the oven. The cookies were the size of a splayed hand, nearly a half a foot from end to end.
“Patton, I think I am ok with just one…” Virgil picked one up, its heft from the chocolate chips surprising.
“Take a few, I know how you like to squirrel things away!” Patton heaped a pyramid of huge cookies on a thin paper plate for Virgil to take. The top one teetered, then fell and broke in half on the counter.
“I guess that’s the way the cookie crumbles!” Virgil shook his head at the stale humor.
Virgil picked up one of the halves of broken cookie, and bit into it.
“Thanks pop-tart” he tested the nick name hesitantly.
Patton beamed at him. Virgil turned away to let Patton finish his baking project. He headed toward the door to the living room putting one of the huge cookies in his mouth.
As he entered the room he saw Roman in flurry of movement. He seemed to be trying to work out some choreography routine scene that was blearing on the TV. It was either a fight or a dance. Virgil couldn’t tell which. Roman was moving this way and that, arms flailing. He suddenly started to move backward quickly toward Virgil. With a mouth full of cookie Virgil tried to grumble out a warning. But Roman bumped hard into Virgil before either could prevent it.
“Oh! Hi Virgil! Sorry about that! I didn’t see you there!” Roman turned around to face Virgil. Then his eyes went to the mound of cookies on the paper plate that was bending under the weight. “Ooo what are those!?” Roman’s eyes moved slowly to the half a cookie sticking out of Virgil’s mouth.
Taking the cookie from his mouth he started to say “Cookies. Patton…..” Virgil couldn’t even finish his sentence before Roman had climbed over the couch and made a dash to the kitchen.
Virgil took a deep breath and then chuckled to himself. “That was close…”he mumbled to himself as he shook his head. He shuffled back down the hallway. He stuffed the string cheese into his right pocket, put the half eaten cookie back into his mouth, and took out his keys from deep in his left pocket.
Logan’s door opened then, making Virgil freeze in place. Logan came out of his room, book in front of his face.
“Hello Virgil.”
Juggling the cookie out of his mouth once again, he replied. “Hey Logan” Virgil nonchalantly put his keys back into his pocket.
“Cookies?” Logan asked hopefully
“Yep.” Virgil answered.
“Satisfactory.” Logan’s pace quickened toward the kitchen.
Once Logan was out of sight Virgil let out the breath he had been holding. He put the key into the lock and unlocked his bedroom door. Pushing the door open, he quickly slipped in. he pressed his back into the door to close it from the inside. Locking it with his free hand, he straightened out his posture.
“I was the most worried about Logan. He can name me the easiest. But he didn’t even notice.” Virgil leaning with his back still on the door looked across the room. There was another Virgil tied to a wooden chair staring back at him.
“I mean Patton would have been trouble too. But Logan is always free with….” The Virgil against the door waved his hand smoothly, as if to pluck the right word out of the air. “Accusations.” The Virgil bound in the chair shook his head, and struggled against his bonds. The sick yellow bonds were a cross between silk ropes and duct tape. Minuscule cursive words were etched into them.
The Virgil against the door slid out of his form.
Deceit now was the leaning against the door.
“Nobody suspected a thing.”
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Blog Tour + #Review: END OF THE LIE by Diana Rodriguez Wallach!
Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the blog tour for the stunning conclusion to the Anastasia Phoenix series by Diana Rodriguez Wallach, End of the Lie! I absolutely love this series and can’t wait to tell you all about it today, so let’s get started!
About the Book
title: End of the Lie (Anastasia Phoenix #3) author: Diana Rodriguez Wallach publisher: Entangled Teen release date: 4 March 2019
With her harrowing tale of espionage and near death experiences finally out in the open, Anastasia Phoenix thought things would be better. That she and her friends had outsmarted Department D, the criminal empire her parents helped create. She thought wrong. Former friends have turned to enemies, causing more innocent lives to get swept up into the dangerous world her parents created. Now it’s up to Anastasia to stop the damage before anyone else gets hurt—or worse. She embarks on a treacherous trail from Poland to Prague, and old rivals emerge at every turn. But when the final confrontation occurs, will she be too late to protect the ones she loves… or even herself?
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About the Author
Diana Rodriguez Wallach is the author of the Anastasia Phoenix series, a trilogy of YA spy thrillers that debuted in March 2017 (Entangled Publishing). She is also the author of three award-winning young adult novels: Amor and Summer Secrets, Amigas and School Scandals, and Adios to All The Drama (Kensington Books); as well as a YA short-story collection based on the Narcissus myth, entitled Mirror, Mirror (Buzz Books, 2013). In 2011, she published a highly regarded essay in Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories (HarperCollins). It was the only essay chosen from the anthology by Scholastic to be used in its classroom materials. Diana is featured in the anthology, Latina Authors and Their Muses (Twilight Times Books, 2015), and she is currently on staff as a featured blogger for Quirk Books. In 2010 Diana was named one of the Top Ten New Latino Authors to Watch by LatinoStories.com, and she placed second in the International Latino Book Awards. She is an advisory board member for the Philly Spells Writing Center, and is a Creative Writing instructor for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University, and currently lives in Philadelphia.
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My 5-Star Review
Since this book is the third and final in a series, this review will be relatively short and a bit vague so as not to include a bunch of spoilers. I especially don’t want to spoil the plot for anyone who hasn’t yet read these books, because it’s one of my favorite YA series and I want everyone to enjoy it as much as I have! This series gives me the same vibes as Kristen Orlando’s The Black Angel Chronicles, which is another series I absolutely adore, so if you’ve read any of those books and enjoyed them, it’s safe to say you’ll like these too. These books are full of adventure, spycraft, mystery, and some mind-bending episodes of disinformation. The characters are as strong and vibrant as ever; I found myself feeling so badly for Keira in this final book, while also cheering on Anastasia and Marcus’s relationship (as well as Charlotte and Julian’s). End of the Lie is a stunning conclusion to the tightly plotted and extremely well written Anastasia Phoenix series, and I can’t wait to see what Diana Rodriguez Wallach comes up with next!
Thanks so much to Entangled Teen and Diana for letting me read an early copy of the book, and to Chapter by Chapter for including me on this tour! I sincerely hope you’ll pick up the Anastasia Phoenix series (bonus: you can binge it now that it’s finished!) and let me know how you like it!
Rating: 5 stars!
**Disclosure: I received an early e-copy of this book from the publisher for purposes of this blog tour. This review is voluntary on my part and reflects my honest rating and review.
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Exclusive Interview: Diana Rodriguez Wallach on LIES THAT BIND and Anastasia Phoenix
What if saving yourself meant destroying everyone you love? Still reeling from everything she learned while searching for her sister in Italy, Anastasia Phoenix is ready to call it quits with spies. Then she and her friends learn that Marcus’s—her kinda boyfriend—brother, Antonio, has also gone missing. Luckily, they track down Antonio in a fiery festival in England, only to learn he has been working for the enemy, Department D, the whole time. But Antonio wants out. And so does Anastasia. But before any of them can leave espionage and their parents’ crimes behind them, a close friend turns up dead. No one is safe, not while Department D still exists. So Anastasia and her friends embark on a dangerous plan to bring down an entire criminal empire, using every Dresden Kid they can find. As their world becomes surrounded by spies, and the children of spies, Anastasia starts to question who she can really trust. Including her best friends…
Official!
After some more note-taking and cross-fact-checking, the opening pages have been written.
Kendall’s Story is now official!!
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A Note for Those Who Pre-Ordered
A Note for Those Who Pre-Ordered
If you pre-ordered Lily’s Story through Amazon, you have one week to claim your $.99 MatchBook Kindle offer. In one week, the MatchBook price will go up. Thank you for your order, and I hope you enjoy the book! KLM
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