The Murder Exchange
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Five grand for a couple of hours work? It seems easy money, but the deal ex-mercenary Max...
The Opposite of Sex (1998)
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After her stepfather dies, 16-year-old Dede (Christina Ricci) moves in with her gay half-brother...
Children of the Corn (1984)
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As physician Burt Stanton (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Linda Hamilton), drive across...
Eeny Meeny (Helen Grace, #1)
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A young couple wakes disorientated, trapped and without food or water. There's no escape. Instead...
Miracle Cure
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Sara and Michael. The ideal celebrity couple, darlings of the media - until their lives are...
Queen & Slim (2019)
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A young African-American couple in Ohio are nearing the end of a not very successful first date when...
Jpb (34 KP) rated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) in Movies
Sep 12, 2021
Simu Liu has acted smoothly in his role and movie really impressed me in most parts.
Looking forward for other flicks down the line
David McK (3801 KP) rated Ballerina: From the World of John Wick (2025) in Movies
Feb 8, 2026
Full of stylish action - the flame-thrower bit in particular is impressive - with Keanu Reeve's titular john Wick making a couple of cameos (and showing why he is so feared in 'this' world of the movie), this never-the-less seems to lack the bite of the action movies from which it is spun off.
Still worth a watch, though!
Dean (6927 KP) rated A Haunting in Venice (2023) in Movies
Sep 21, 2023
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated All Your Perfects in Books
Oct 1, 2020
Quinn and Graham had the perfect romance and marriage. But now, that marriage is on the rocks and all those perfect memories threatened as their union is about to implode. If they can't talk to each other and work things out, they're done. Can they get past their problems and find that perfection again?
Wow, I picked a doozy for the first book in my challenge! This book was almost physically hard to read at times! It's a brutal look at a struggling marriage, as Quinn and Graham--once a perfect couple--can barely look at or talk to one another. Told in a then and now format from Quinn's perspective, we see how the two fell head over heels in love. And, conversely, we see how they fell apart. It's an emotional and tense read that's often bitterly sad and heartbreaking. Hoover makes you feel as if you're in the book, part of the characters' dissolving marriage.
This one hit home, as Quinn and Graham battle with infertility, something I know quite well. If you've struggled with this, this will be a hard read--yet you'll be able to find many parallels with the couple. It's not necessarily a happy book, yet it's romantic and sweet too. It presents a very realistic portrayal of marriage and one of the best portraits of a (straight) couple grappling with infertility that I've ever read.
This isn't an easy book to read, but it's really quite good. It packs a sucker punch, but in a good way. You'll find yourself lost in Quinn and Graham's world--I certainly recommend this fierce, touching look at love, marriage, and how far we will go for the ones we care about. 4+ stars.