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Airman

Eoin Colfer

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In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor...

steampunk

The Forgotten (John Puller #2)

David Baldacci

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Army Special Agent John Puller is the best there is. A combat veteran, Puller is the man the U.S....

The Dream Defenders

Neal Denhartog

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When fourteen-year-old Nolan Erling wakes up with a headache for the fourth straight day, he...

Redemption (The Hacker Chronicles #2)

Philip Yorke

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Saturday, the second day of July, in the year of our Lord, 1644, will be a day long remembered by...

Historical Fiction English Civil War

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Lady of the Ravens in Books

Oct 18, 2022

The Lady of the Ravens

Joanna Hickson | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics

7.0

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The Lady of the Ravens ( Queens of the Tower book 1)
By Joanna Hickson
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Elizabeth of York, her life already tainted by dishonour and tragedy, now queen to the first Tudor king, Henry the VII.

Joan Vaux, servant of the court, straining against marriage and motherhood and privy to the deepest and darkest secrets of her queen. Like the ravens, Joan must use her eyes and her senses, as conspiracy whispers through the dark corridors of the Tower.

Through Joan’s eyes, The Lady of the Ravens inhabits the squalid streets of Tudor London, the imposing walls of its most fearsome fortress and the glamorous court of a kingdom in crisis.

It was good. I enjoyed it but got slightly bored towards the end. I’m a huge fan of the Tudors and liked reading this adaptation of the start of their reign. It was a decent read.

Kudos

Andrew Thomas (363 KP) rated Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) in Movies

Mar 17, 2022

It's the right amount of dark and gritty with a decent performance from Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson! (0 more)

Traps aren't all that imaginative, the social justice angle is all over the place and it is a little too far removed from the tried and proven SAW formula!10 (0 more)

Flawed but enjoyable!

It's been a little more than 10 years since the death of John Kramer aka The Jigsaw Killer! A new killer emerges from the shadows, with a very different agenda and is hellbent on continuing Jigsaw's legacy. Detective Zeke Banks is assigned to the case and finds himself thrust into a vast conspiracy involving the dark deeds of the corrupt system he once swore to protect!

In reality the killer is very uninspired, the traps are not as elegantly designed and there is very little of the SAW DNA present in the film. The main reasons to watch SPIRAL are Chris Rock and Sam Jackson!