![]() ![]() Logan, on the other hand, is everything Emma is not. She’s also a born romantic whose only experience of love is pining after Logan’s best friend, Matt. Challenge therefore accepted.Įmma is a self-confessed nerd who delights in digging her nose in a book and organising her substantial book collection during her holidays. To make up for standing her up, (the very much blackmailed) Logan proposes a deal to help make Emma’s long-term crush Matt fall in love with her. When Logan sees his date is actually his nemesis, he bails the café before Emma can see her. ![]() Thanks to fate and computer algorithms, Emma and Logan are matched and set up for a blind date. ![]() Unbeknown to her, so does Logan, albeit for very different reasons. Neighbours Logan and Emma have known each other all their lives, and hated each other every single day of the same.Įmma, being a romance reader, is looking for a summer love of her own and signs herself up for her school’s Summer Fling Compatibility Test. Truth be told, I actually first read Challenge Accepted over a year ago, but since it had left a nice flavour in my mouth… round two it was. I was in the mood for something light-hearted and fun and this little tinker called me by name. ![]()
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![]() These vivid translations combine elegance and modernity, and are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy. Antigone dies rather neglect her duty to her family, Oedipus' determination to save his city results in the horrific discovery that he has committed both incest and parricide, and Electra's unremitting anger at her mother and her lover keeps her in servitude and despair. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent 'hero'. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. ![]() Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her husband may have lost his faith, but with the treasure she now held, she believed she could restore it. It was through this that she learnt of the true nature of the small box that her husband had brought back with him. The Lady Carillion kept herself busy with the church – vowing to aid Father Robataille with his constant fight against evil in all its incarnate forms. Since his return the Count had allowed his lands and his household to fall into disrepair. All he had to show for the slaughter was a small delicately crafted box, taken from the place of their final battle. Now he believed it had all been for nothing. On the crusade he had witnessed many horrors. ![]() However, upon the Count’s return, the Lady Carillion found her husband despairing and unable to give her any affection. Rubrub, the Count’s loyal wife had patiently waited for him back in their castle. Whilst the Count of Carillion was on a crusade to return to France the arrow that pierced the shroud of St. Although Barker didn’t write any of the stories contained within the original Epic Comics ‘Hellraiser’ series, he did however act as a consultant for each issue.Įrik Saltzgaber (Writer) – John Bolton (Artwork) – Bill Oakley (Letterer) First published back in March of 1989, the first issue of Epic Comics’ original ‘Hellraiser’ offshoot series contained four short stories designed to expand upon Clive Barker’s Hellraiser mythos, along with forewords by D.G. ![]() |