Interesting (and Good!) Reads!
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Beauty of Mine por Watercolur
Beauty of Mine
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 2,101
  • Votos 77
  • Partes 8
Set during the period of China's Five Kingdoms and Ten Dynasties era, Beauty of Mine is about a young woman and the four men in her life who love her and shape her as she finds the path she is born to follow--a fate she cannot escape and the man who she is truly bound to.
Flower of the Palace por Watercolur
Flower of the Palace
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 23,112
  • Votos 734
  • Partes 11
A tale of a flower that became a king. For many years, Queen Gonghye has struggled to produce a son as a way to protect the Royal Family and from the evil machinations of the concubine, Royal Noble Consort Hye. However, a fifth daughter is imparted upon her by the heavens after her only son dies in childbirth. The queen decides to masquerade the princess as the deceased prince in order for them and her family to survive. Will Yi Yong be able to live the rest of her life as a man or will her own desires to live as a female succumb her and lead to the ruin of her mother's family? And what happens when love decides to enter the picture?
Something Beautiful  por Watercolur
Something Beautiful
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 2,650
  • Votos 107
  • Partes 13
For most of her life, Kim Hee-Jin has felt all alone. With her parents working all the time and being an outcast at school doesn't help matters. Since she has always been smart, she is bullied by the older girls throughout all her school years. One day something snaps inside her and leads her into a depression and to suicide. Her parents decide to send her to America to a private school so that she can finish her schooling earlier and so she didnt have to go through the bullying again. When Hee-Jin arrives in New York, she experiences a culture shock that leads things spiraling out of control. Then one teacher, Mr. Griffin, reaches out a hand to help her adjust to her new world. Then when certain events occur, Hee-Jin and Mr. Griffin find themselves becoming closer. However, when a flame ignites between student and teacher, Hee-Jin also finds herself becoming closer to Choi Sung-Woo whom she met the day before she left South Korea at N Seoul Tower. Through Hee-Jin's tribulations, a small light begins to form and a possible love triangle...
Hwatu por Watercolur
Hwatu
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 10,956
  • Votos 333
  • Partes 12
The palace is full of dark secrets and jealous court ladies. To be able to survive in such a jungle is to hold all the cards or prepare to live a life of misery or even death. Jang Eun Bi is a young, beautiful mute palace maid, who has served the Crown Prince since she was a child. She is mute due to a terrible incident when she was young and cannot remember anything because of the tragedy. Seeing her potential, the Crown Prince, who grew up knowing no affection but finding it in Eun Bi, takes her under his wing and overtime a fragile love begins to bloom between them, but they are then challenged on all sides with those trying to depose him and those trying to oust Eun Bi out of the palace. In the process, the Crown Prince's father, the king also becomes attracted to Eun Bi and comes in between the two lovers which threatens the father and son's already fragile relationship. Will Eun Bi be able to survive palatial politics and the jealous women that plagues her everyday life while keeping her head intact? Will she choose between the Crown Prince, the king, or her childhood friend?
Terra Natus por readmyvoice
Terra Natus
readmyvoice
  • LECTURAS 944
  • Votos 138
  • Partes 12
At the close of the 'Destruction' - Mother (Terra) had finally had enough. No more would the humans be allowed to slaughter one another pointlessly. No more would they take the rest of her, and her other children, down with them in the process. Thus, she called forth Terra Natus (Earth Arisen): "They came from the trees, they came from the water, from the rocks, from the plants. Mother Terra calling her other children out from centuries of standing idle, martyrs of a dying world, to fight back. Some saw them it is said, saw them walk right up out of the water, saw a boulder unfold itself and stand, just as you or I might. One second a mighty tree, the next? A being, arms stretched up to the glorious sun. (And) No sooner did we see them, than they were shooting us down. We were finally paying for our sins, and for the sins of our parents, and their parents before them...It was a heavy debt to pay." Generations later, the Terra Brothers, or Protectors, haven't even seen a human near their borders in so long that rumors of their extinction has spread. Rumors which are about to be put to rest in a big way, when Isa (the human) and Salix (the Protector) find their paths inescapably interwoven in the pursuit of eliminating a threat to Mother - the likes of which hasn't been known since the age of human dominance. But what is it? And what could have been so terrible as to drive Isa within the Protector's borders in the first place, knowing she would most likely be killed? Furthermore, how will Salix and Isa's relationship develop as they come to find, much to their surprise, that the other is not exactly like what they had been lead to believe? Come inside and find out! * Copyright © 2016 by Nathalia. All rights reserved. * Original and epic cover art by @Neenerst - I mean seriously, look how she captured all the elements of the story. And I just can't get over the textured strands of hair!
Snippets por ThePirateElf
Snippets
ThePirateElf
  • LECTURAS 913
  • Votos 81
  • Partes 10
You. Sitting at your desk, or perhaps scrolling through your phone or slouching on the couch in your living room. You are so far ahead of this that you may not even relate in the slightest. But this. This was your corrupted beginning. Before the world was wiped fresh, this is what you were. ... It was the worst of times, it was the bes--... no, no, really, it really was the worst of times. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Snippets is officially its own story. PLEASE (I would be on my knees except I'm kind of at my computer) comment, vote, TELL ME what you're thinking :) Because I KNOW you people think! And I LOVE that about you. And lastly? Enjoy... It's going to be quite an adventure ;) P.S. Snippets started as several separate story ideas I wrote down. Then one day I said, "Hey! Wouldn't it be cool if all of these could go together?" And well, here is the result! I know you won't be terribly disappointed, and if you are... well, I'm not a fancy company who can guarantee your reading-time back. I suppose I'll just have to do my best to not disappoint, eh? ... Challenge accepted ;)
Il Mare por Watercolur
Il Mare
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 144
  • Votos 4
  • Partes 2
Under the Sun por Watercolur
Under the Sun
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 2,339
  • Votos 92
  • Partes 20
She nods her head even though she wouldn't but she decides to leave him with some comfort. When he sees that she agrees, Min Woo's eyes literally light up in hope. "Thank you," he whispers. "Before I leave, I will give you a present. But in return you must give me something else." Aria cocks her head in confusion. "I will give you the sun so that whenever look up at it you must think of me, and you must give me the moon so that I can think of you." She knew what he was asking. It is his way of asking her permission for him to be able think of her whenever he could. And with that, she is touched by his words. What girl wouldn't? In her time, his words would have been considered cheesy but then again what girls didn't like cheesy stuff, especially when uttered from a man's mouth. ~*~ Aria just so happens to be a girl from the 21st century who time traveled back to the Yi Dynasty when South Korea was still known as Joseon. While trying to find her way home, she is saved by gisaengs (courtesan's), learns the way of life in the Joseon era, and even pretends to be a blind nobleman's daughter. But her adventure doesn't stop there. She actually ends up saving the king of Joseon's life. Just when things couldn't get even more interesting, the king invites her back to the palace as Princess Hyosung's tutor, where he plans to pursue her. How will she answer his very important question? Will she survive all the power, hungry villains and even an assassination attempt along with her own problems?
La Dolce Vita por Watercolur
La Dolce Vita
Watercolur
  • LECTURAS 646
  • Votos 22
  • Partes 8
Grayson Ferris, president and CEO of the Queens hotel chain, goes to Tokyo, Japan in search of his cousin. While there, he meets Melanie Yoko. At first, they start off on the wrong foot, but Grayson ends up asking Melanie an outrageous favor: pretend to be his cousin and trick his dying grandfather that she is his lost granddaughter. Melanie thinks he's nuts at first, but since he's willing to offer a lot of money she finally agrees. As certain obstacles keep Melanie from returning to who she was originally, she starts to wish that she was really part of Grayson's family since it has been so long since she felt the warmth and love of a family. How long can Grayson and Melanie keep up this farce? And will their attraction to each other eventually lead to their demise?
Carols & Courtship por AdelynAnn
Carols & Courtship
AdelynAnn
  • LECTURAS 295,342
  • Votos 13,568
  • Partes 14
When Christmas comes to the sleepy town of Hillbury, so does a love letter for Holly Ambrose - a love letter from a secret admirer. Amidst the yuletide balls and Christmas cheer of Victorian England, Holly vows to uncover the source of the letter, but will the self-avowed intellectual fall in love in the process? This Yuletide novella is twelve chapters long, with a chapter posted each day until Christmas beginning on Sunday the 14th. It's just a little christmas present to all my wonderful Wattpad friends.