Updates On What Is going On With Me

Hello,

It has been a while since I have been here. This blog has been re-vamped again and I will be working on changing a lot of things in the near future with it.

I did a lot of spring clean here and you will find that it will soon be nothing but about me and things that I do like. I will be importing some stuff to a newer blog elsewhere sooner or later for my own convenience and to streamline my blogs and seperate things that I like and things I read about.

I have a new job lately that I am not 100% crazy about, but I am glad to have, and they are glad to have me.

I have also recently learned the true meaning of friendship and who can totally be trusted to be there when I need them and who is just there to use people....Karma is a royal bitch and I will see the downfall of many of them sooner or later. Enough said.

I am going teaching myself how to organize myself and my time to spend it in the various places I wish to spend it...ie: here and Awaiting Diana. I will be there more often in the near future.

Speaking of Awaiting Diana, I am proud to say that the re-vamp Jen did on the forum is wonderful and I am looking forward to the re-vamp of the blog. We have added a new blog page called Darcy Nation that Jen will run herself. I like it, and she has done a brilliant job. I guess I am next on the list of changes and additions...lol I am soo looking forward to doing my part to help out.

I will also be working to make sure we get everything done for all aspects of things.

My other projects will be fun too. I am working in another place and playing with some wonderful people to make what is only fantasy into a fun escape. I am enjoying the friends I make there.

I cannot wait to see things change and work for all of us all around.

Next up is grounding myself and getting back into some habits I always needed to be in...and that includes myself spiritually. It is time to return to what calls to me and has been within me forever.

I will continue to change and fix this site and others...however, in the end, I will eventually take down the writing blog because I am working on putting it in the website DREAMS OF THE BLUE ROSE. I will also be closing down many pages that I no longer use. Since one or two sites shut down it should be easy as of this moment. Live Journal may end up closing down for me. Everything that is there is here and I no longer feel the need for more than one page. I will see, since I am reluctant to part with a longtime friend.

I am working to clear things up so that I can make room for not only my poetry/writing website, but so that I can open up another one for reading and stuff...or just have a blog for it.

I will be back soon, just give me a few!

Love,
Karol Lynn

Warchild - Lost

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Thank you!!

My Fortieth BIrthday

Today, I am 40.  

I have been looking forward to this for a very long time!

I loved my twenties and thirties, but it is time to grow older and live a good life!

Happy Birthday To Me!! 

What I Am Up To So Far-

I am still searching or a job, and again, I say that it is very hard to find one with the unemployment rate so hight. There are more than twenty applicants per job opening. I am keeping hopeful, and I know that sooner or later something will come about.

My great-uncle died this past Monday. It is alright, he was 94 years old. He lived a good life and was a WWII veteran...he suffered a lot in the end, but now that it is over, I am happy that he is in Heaven and the suffering is over. He will be laid to rest tomorrow afternoon.

I am doing what I can as far as reading. I am counting down the days until Diana Gabaldon's AN ECHO IN THE BONE is released at the end of September. My only hope is that I have a job by then so that I can afford to buy the book instead of being on the reserve list for the library.

Right now, I am currently in the re-read of FIERY CROSS....which is not one of my favorite DG novels, but moves the story along quite nicely. I am over halfway through it and plan to get my reviews for it up in our forum blog soon.

I am also beginning the writing process for myself. Soon, I will be neck deep in information and ideas for my own writing and hoping that I can write something awesome.

For the moment, I am just babbling and getting something here so everyone knows that I am alright...

Have a great day!!

~Karol

J.R. Ward: Zhadist, Vishous And Phury

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York,
there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their
slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers
like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their
race. Now, an ally of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
will face the challenge of his life and the evil of the ages.

Just a refresher for the Black Dagger Brotherhood.

When I left off with the reviews, I was just sitting down to read Butch's story LOVER REVEALED after reading LOVER AWAKENED, Zhadist's story....

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Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard living, ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world- to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. If he can't have her, then at least he can fight side by side with the Brothers...

Fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, found by a miracle, the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back, though even her love may not be enough to save him...
http://www.jrward.com/index-books.html

I loved this story because it showed a new possibility for the Brotherhood...a chance to add to the ranks.

Butch is a perfect addition to the group, full of angst and what he feels is unrequited love for Marrissa. I wonderful book, and I recommend it to everyone!!

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Up next is another crazy twist and a wonderful novel to boot!! Vishous's story LOVER UNBOUND....I will get to this in a moment.



Ruthless and brilliant, Vishous son of the Bloodletter possesses a destructive curse and a frightening ability to see the future. As a pretrans growing up in his father's war camp, he was tormented and abused. As a member of the Brotherhood, he has no interest in love or emotion, only the battle with the Lessening Society. But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr. Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time- until a destiny he didn't choose takes him into a future that cannot include her.

V's story is probably the hardest story to read if you don't understand the darker side of certain types of sexual relationships....but to be honest, V is a great character with a lot love that he doesn't know how to show or to recognize in the grand scheme of things.

The ending of this story is very interesting, and to say that I was shocked that it was done in this way is an understatement. It just shows that Ms. Ward is very diverse in her writings.

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And Now for Zhadist's twin....Phury, who I came to adore and wanted to hit all the way through his story.....LOVER ENSHRINED.



Fiercely loyal to the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Brotherhood's bloodlines alive. As Primale of the Chosen, he is to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished.

As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself- she sees the emotionally scarred male behind all his noble responsibility. But while the war with the Lessening Society grows more grim, and tragedy looms over the Brotherhood's mansion, Phury must decide between duty and love.

It was interesting to see this story play out...the drug addiction side was hard to take in, but Phury had been doing this for so long, it is hard to get it out of your head.

It was no wonder that Phury has the addiction, what with looking for a century for his twin, Z and finding out what had been done to the brother....then to watch that brother slowly sink for centuries until Bella came along.

Phury had some serious baggage, but he works through them and his love and alas his addiction.

In this story, there is a surprise return. The one we are waiting for since his disappearance, Thorment returns after the loss of his wife, and there is an addition to the group....

This is also the story where young John Matthew, Blay and Quinn start to make strong appearances and add more to the mix. John Matthew has been making himself known, but now it seems that his friend, Quinn is more vocal as well...so along with Rhevenge's voice coming into the mix, and a female Xhex making her voice heard a which I felt was about time!!


The next story in the list is Rheveng's (Bella's brother), LOVER AVENGED. I plan to get to that one soon, since I am almost finished reading it....and to give you a bit of a peek: I am so in love with the story so far!!!

Hello Caledonia!!!

I am in a Celtic Thunder mood today. I think it is because my mind is in Caledonia!!

(turn off Austenland's trailer first!!)










I am thinking of writing soon!!! Or jumping into Diana Gabaldon's world!