The Bone Ships
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TWO NATIONS AT WAR. A PRIZE BEYOND COMPARE. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their...
The Spirit Engineer
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William Jackson Crawford is a man of science and a sceptic, but one night with everyone sitting...
Flawless Witness
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Suzanna Jordan suppressed the memories of Jonathan’s abuse for thirty-six years, but when a...
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Chandelier (Phantoms #2)
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CHANDELIER is the genre-bending sci-fi/fantasy-romance novel follow up of Michael Leon’s 2019...
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David McK (3633 KP) rated Mortal Kombat (2021) in Movies
Feb 5, 2023
This isn't one of those exceptions
While I have played a few of the MK games in my life, if you'd asked me to name any of the characters I'd probably have a hard time, beyond the 'big names' of Scorpion, Sub-Zero and (maybe) Jax.
Cole Young?
Never heard of him.
Fighting games also don't - generally - have all that much in the way of plot, which carries across to this: something about a tournament (d'uh!), and the fighters needing to train for it whilst the bad guys ignore the rules ...
Charlotte (184 KP) rated The Scrotum Toad in Books
Jun 22, 2023
Set against an African back drop, with descriptions of pure beauty and wonder, The Scrotum Toad pulls you into a story that can outshine any soap opera. Full of quirky, fun characters each with their own special personality traits and levels of intelligence and luck (how on earth Stanley has made it as far in life as he has is beyond me)
Each character does have endearing qualities, I'll be honest though, it took me a little while to warm up to Tangle but that's definitely down to having to rearrange my way of thinking. She's quite the inspiration.
David McK (3633 KP) rated Meg 2: The Trench (2023) in Movies
Sep 7, 2025
If you're expecting anything different from the sequel, you'd be disappointed!
Yes, several - bit not all -of the cast return, with this film very much broken into two distinct sections: the first (roughly) half or so on the seabed below "the Thermocline" - which the creatures below are usually unable to swim up beyond - and the second half on the surface itself.
Second half is also almost a re-tread of the second half of the first movie.
In short, a B-movie writ large.
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A tear in the firmament. Beyond the noxious haze of our national nightmare - as structures of...
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David McK (3633 KP) rated The Genesis Fleet - Ascendant (Book 2) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
As a precursor, this takes place centuries before the 'Lost Fleet' series, when humanity has really only just taken to the stars, centuries before The Alliance and The Syndicate struggle for control of the stars and before 'Black Jack' Geary is born (however, his ancestor Rob Geary has a central role in these novels).
The bulk of this book - the vast majority, even - actually deals with an attack on the colony world of Kosatka, with the action taking place (and described) in both space and on the ground. Although Rob Geary is tasked with protecting his own colony world of Glenlyon, his investigations into an attack on a ship passing into that system leads him to an allied system, where he learns that another allied system (the afore-mentioned Kosatka) is in imminent danger of invasion. Reasoning that those attackers would move on to attack Glenlyon after Kostaka falls, Geary makes the decision to aid in the defence, somewhat stretching his own orders …
In short (like any other work in any of the 'Lost Fleet', 'Beyond the Frontier' or 'Shattered Stars' series) a relatively straight-forward plot that only really exists to provide an excuse for the (admittedly, well-told) action!
The Girl Who Climbed Everest: Lessons Learned Facing Up to the World's Toughest Mountains
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'What I've learned from climbing mountains is that we can push ourselves far beyond what we think we...