King of the Shadow Fae is the first book in the Darkest Fae series. The author runs a fan group on facebook where she can often be found hanging out with her fans.Īmelia makes her home in the Pacific Northwest with her family. Hutchins considers herself to be a coffee addict as she drinks a lot of the “magical potion” that is coffee and uses the drink to help her create the magical worlds that inhabit her books. Sometimes her books do feature romance, but it is often about rising to a challenge or shaking up an entire world in order to find out who you really are. Instead, she looks to write fast-paced books that go hard against traditional standards. Her books are not strictly romance and doesn’t set out to write her books that way. Her books often features what she calls “alpha-hole” male characters who are then taken down a peg by the alpha women in her stories. She is the author of the Monsters series, The Fae Chronicles series, and Lacy of the Nine Realms series. Please click here to read more at Kiko’s House.Amelia Hutchins is a bestselling author of fantasy and paranormal romance novels. But while the CIA did plenty of rotten things, Weiner’s inescapable conclusion is that the agency has been extraordinarily incompetent in practically everything it has done since its creation in 1947 from the remnants of the comparatively praiseworthy Office of Strategic Services, and very seldom has been held accountable.Īnd saves plenty of blame for presidents and congressional overseers who have been bootlicked while they were fed a steady diet of lies and misinformation but made only half-hearted efforts to crack down, on let alone reform, the CIA.Īs it is, the CIA is a considerably diminished agency both in size and mandate in its 60th year and that is not a bad thing considering how it has continuously compromised national security while failing to anticipate: That uncomfortable reality certainly is in play in the CIA torture tape destruction scandal. That is abundantly clear – and made abundantly clear in shocking detail based on impressively exhaustive research – in Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner, who covered intelligence and security issues for The New York Times.Īn agency with a mandate like the CIA sometimes has to engage in illegal and immoral behavior for the greater good. CIA learned of Berlin Wall fall, Soviet collapse on CNNĪlthough it may not be the best metaphor, if the Central Intelligence Agency had been a baseball team over the last 60 years, its record would be something like 5 wins and 95 loses in really big games.
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