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The Hurricane Wars
''The Hurricane Wars'' is a 2023 romantic fantasy novel by Thea Guanzon. The novel is inspired by Southeast Asian mythology, specifically Philippine mythology Philippine mythology is rooted in the many indigenous Philippine folk religions. Philippine mythology exhibits influence from Hinduism, Hindu, Islam, Muslim, Buddhism, Buddhist, and Christianity, Christian traditions. Philippine mythology .... A sequel, ''A Monsoon Rising'', was published in 2024. Plot Orphaned as a baby, Talasyn grew to follow as a dedicated soldier for the Sardovian army to defend her country from the Night Empire. She has a secret - she is one of the last remaining Lightweavers. Characters *Talasyn Alunsina: main protagonist who is the daughter of Hanan and Elagbi *Prince Alaric Ossinast: crown prince of the Night Empire *Khaede: Talasyn's best friend *Coxswain Darius: Talasyn's comrade *Vela: Kesathese defector for army *Gaheris Ossinast: A Night Emperor and Alaric's father *Elagbi : Urduja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Fantasy
Romantic fantasy, or "romantasy", is a Genre, subgenre of fantasy fiction that combines fantasy and Romance novel, romance, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre. One of the key features of romantic fantasy involves the focus on relationships, social, political, and romantic. Romantic fantasy has been published by both fantasy lines and romance lines. As a result of the financial success of authors such as Sarah J. Maas and Rebecca Yarros in the 2000s, publishers created Imprint (trade name), imprints to focus on this subgenre. Some publishers distinguish between "romantic fantasy" where the fantasy elements is most important and "fantasy romance" where the romance are most important. Others say that "the borderline between fantasy romance and romantic fantasy has essentially ceased to exist, or if it's still there, it's moving back and forth constantly". Game historian Stu Horvath noted, "the heroes and heroines of rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Mythology
Philippine mythology is rooted in the many indigenous Philippine folk religions. Philippine mythology exhibits influence from Hinduism, Hindu, Islam, Muslim, Buddhism, Buddhist, and Christianity, Christian traditions. Philippine mythology includes concepts akin to those in other belief systems, such as the notions of heaven (''kaluwalhatian'', ''kalangitan'', ''kamurawayan''), hell (''kasamaan'', ''sulad''), and the human soul (''kaluluwa'', ''kaulolan'', ''makatu'', ''ginoand kud'',...). The primary use of Philippine mythology is to explain Religious cosmology, the nature of the world, human existence, and life's mysteries. Myths include narratives of List of Philippine mythological figures, heroes, deities (''anito'', ''Diwata (other), Diwata''), and List of Philippine mythological creatures, mythological creatures. These myths were transmitted through oral tradition, handed down through generations guided by spiritual leaders or Philippine shamans, shamans, ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine Romance Novels
Tagalog romance novels, sometimes collectively referred to as Tagalog pocketbooks, Tagalog paperbacks, Tagalog romance paperbacks, Tagalog romance pocketbooks, Philippine romance novels, Filipino romance novels, Pinoy pocketbooks, Tagalog popular novels, or Tagalog popular romance literature are commercialized novels published in paperback or pocketbook format published in the Tagalog or the Filipino language in the Philippines. Unlike the formal or literary romance genre, these popular romance novels were written, as described by Dominador Buhain in the book ''A History of Publishing in the Philippines'' as a form of traditional or conventional romance stories of "rich boy meets poor girl or vice versa who go through a series of obstacles and finally end up in each other's arms".Buhain, DominadorA History of Publishing in the Philippines/ref> Description According to Tatin Yang in the article ''Romansang Pinoy: A day with Tagalog romance novels'', Tagalog romance paperbacks were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romantic Fantasy Novels
Romantic may refer to: Genres and eras * The Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement of the 18th and 19th centuries ** Romantic music, of that era ** Romantic poetry, of that era ** Romanticism in science, of that era ** Romantic chess of that era * Romance film, a genre Books * ''The Romantic'' (Gowdy novel), by Barbara Gowdy * The Romantic (Boyd novel), 2022 novel by William Boyd Film & TV * ''The Romantic'' (film), a 2009 animated film * ''The Romantics'' (film), a 2010 romantic comedy film * ''Romantic'' (film), a 2021 Indian Telugu-language romantic film * ''The Romantics'', a 2023 Netflix documentary series * "The Romantic" (''The Amazing World of Gumball''), an episode of ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' Music Classical * ''Romantic'', Anton Bruckner's 1881 Symphony No. 4 * ''Romantic'', Carlos Chávez's 1953 Symphony No. 4 * ''Romantic'', Howard Hanson's 1930 Symphony No. 2 Popular * ''Romantic'' (album), 2016, by Mannequin Puss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Novels
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
