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Portrait Of A Snow Queen: Being A Memoir Of My (Not So) Fairy Tale Romance (The Chronicles of Aarastad) Paperback – November 22, 2019

by Micah S. Harris (Author)

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Would you give up everything for true love…even if everything included true love itself? As a child, Princess Freyja looked into the cursed mirror – and was changed. Now a distant and difficult young woman, the future queen is in need of a tutor. And Ambrose, a failed poet, is in need of a teaching position. He just never suspected how dangerous the extracurricular activities would be! Soon, he is fighting to save the vexing but alluring princess from the occult conspiracies that have targeted her. He is opposed not only by court schemers and the evil Snow Queen, but also the icy royal damsel who holds his heart. Will Ambrose’s love cause Freyja to thaw…or will she put him in the deep freeze instead? By turns sensuous, suspenseful and supernatural –but always deeply romantic –Portrait of a Snow Queen will both turn up the heat and leave you thoroughly frost smitten!

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648 pages
Language

English
Publication date

November 22, 2019
Dimensions

6 x 1.46 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

0981677002
ISBN-13

978-0981677002
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About the Author

Micah Harris is the author (with artist Michael Gaydos) of the graphic novel Heaven's War and a regular contributor to Black Coat Press's annual cross-over anthology series, Tales of the Shadowmen. He teaches composition, literature and film at Pitt Community College in North Carolina.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minor Profit Press; First edition (November 22, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 648 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0981677002
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0981677002
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.46 x 9 inches

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- #52,248 in Romantic Fantasy (Books)

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Paula Glaser

Charming

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014

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This is an absolutely charming little book about the adventures of Becky Sharp as an agent for the race of Yith and Ayesha of Kor to stop Cthullu from entering the world! a fantastic premise which the author makes reasonable in the course of the action. Becky's excerpts from her diary were nice and there should have been more of them and there should have been more of the great 'detective' but that is only nit-picking. If you enjoy the Wold Newton Universe, the Lovecraftian Universe or just clever pastiche you will enjoy this

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Neil D. Vokes

Fantasy fiction at its best!

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2020

I love reading! After meeting this author, Micah S. Harris, I was introduced to new genres.
When I first got his book my thought was it was huge! With 628 pages, divided into 3 Books, it was well worth the price. Once I started reading I entered the world of Aarastad. I fell in love with the characters. The dialogue was easy to follow and I made an immediate connection with the characters. This book has romance, intrigue, suspense and all while capturing your heart and making you want to read MORE! The Epilogue drops hints that there is still more to come! I AM HOOKED! When you read this book, I hope you love it as much as I did! I can't wait for the next Volume to come out!
( I also have the book on my Kindle but I prefer holding the book as I feel closer to the characters on the pages!)

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James Bojaciuk

Pulp of a Fine Vintage

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2014

I have a small stash of books I read every year. The old, well-bound tomes that bring something new every time I turn the page: Orthodoxy, The Everlasting Man, The Wind in the Willows, Home Another Way, wide swaths of the Holmesian canon, the Alice twins, the opening chapters of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Flannery O'Connor, Brideshead Revisited, The Bible, the best of Borges, Fredrick Douglass' autobiography, Tarzan Alive, and Micah S. Harris' The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp.

Perhaps the last book seems out of place. It is a "mere" pastiche, after all: characters are culled from the public domain and set on new paths. Unlike Tarzan Alive, Beck Sharp cannot even rouse herself to be a hoax. Yet. . .The Eldritch New Adventures of Becky Sharp is not concerned with recreating the joys of the past: Thackeray is met by Lovecraft who, while they walk down the road, are met with Haggard and Doyle and Burroughs. They mingle--you can never be sure which thread belongs where. Becky Sharp is like a steadily flowing current carrying you along past exotic lands and unto the inevitable conclusion.

And what a conclusion! Harris revives Becky Sharp from one of my favorite (albeit least-remembered) Victorian novels, William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair. He sets her against Lovecraft's Mythos--"The Call of Cthulhu" in particular. She has just under 100 years to stop Cthulhu from awaking in 1925. Good thing there's a fountain of immortality in Africa. . .

I will refrain from saying more because, in the first reading, the twists and turns of the plot are half the fun. Harris has a talent for combining and recombining characters in unexpected, pleasing ways. Sometimes these twists are serious; sometimes these twists are in-jokes for literary nerds. Savor them.

Below that, Harris has a rich talent for characterization. It subsumes Becky Sharp and takes it from a simple pulp adventure--which are dime a million--into something indescribably richer. I reread this regularly, admittedly, to spend more time with Harris' Becky.

Perhaps I am an evil man for recommending you a book five years out of print. But literature is literature, and we must all strive to find it when we can.

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Ron Fortier

Super Pulp High Adventure

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2008

One of the true rewards of this job is being able to share with all of you amazing books that, for one reason or another, simply do not get the exposure and acolytes they deserve. This is such a case. It overflows with so much old fashion adventure, I'm hard pressed to describe the fun I had reading it. Be aware, it is not a graphic novel, despite both its gorgeous cover, by artist Loston Wallace, and its comic dimensions. It is a prose novel, but packaged differently with a nice overall design. It's both very easy to handle and read.

For those of you not versed in classic English literature, Becky Sharp is the heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1947 novel, VANTIY FAIR; a book that satirized the mores of 19th century English society. Harris actually teaches English Lit, thus his familiarity and obvious fascination for the character. But it is what he does with her in this madcap tale that is pure pulp genius. Since the lovely lass came to a rather tragic ending in the Thackeray version, Harris's offers us a duplicate Becky Sharpe from an alternate world. In this reality, Becky is recruited by a sect of Lovecraftian aliens posing as human to help them defeat a rival monster known as Tulu. But to do so, Becky will first have to be granted immortality and then sent on a globe-spanning quest to obtain the required talismans needed to defeat Tulu.

Once her journey begins, through both geography and time, Becky manages to meet Asheya, known as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, encounters the giant gorilla Kong of Skull Island, enters into a passionate romance with the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, travels with Nemo and battles a super strong Egyptian Mummy alongside the Ape Man of the African Jungle. And these are only a few of her amazing exploits.

The delight of this book is not only its marvelous conceit, but Harris' talent as a gifted writer. His use of language is deft and exact, with a very beautiful command of style. The narrative has such grace as to carry to reader along effortlessly, all the while painting unbelievable scenes of action and daring-do with panache. This is easily one of the best books I've read all year. Last word, if you enjoy reading fresh and original fiction, then consider picking up THE ELDRICTH NEW ADVENTURES OF BECKY SHARP as a Christmas gift to yourself.

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