One Year After (After, #2)
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The thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel One Second After. Months before...
Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook
Tony Cook, Mick Hill and Steve Hibbitt
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Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook provides you with straightforward, practical information...
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 1
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It's all change at the Las Vegas Crime Lab following the shooting death of Holly Gribbs ("Pilot"),...
The Killing Fields of Inequality
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Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most...
Bee Journal
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Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles...
Vagabond
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It was a dirty job in a dirty war. Danny Curnow, known in the army family by his call sign,...
Murder of a Lady
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Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of...
Ali A (82 KP) rated Firekeeper's Daughter in Books
Mar 23, 2021
As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother.
The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, certain details don’t add up and she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into the heart of a criminal investigation.
Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, but secretly pursues her own investigation, tracking down the criminals with her knowledge of chemistry and traditional medicine. But the deceptions—and deaths—keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home.
Now, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she'll go to protect her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.
Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020) in Movies
Sep 26, 2020
I feel like the success of the first film may have gone to the makers heads. They've tried to take what worked in the first film and take it to the extremes - the back stories of the original characters, in jokes and references - but the problem is that for the most part it just doesn't work. Seeing the original characters back is fun for a minute and then it (and they) just become irritating. This film really does suffer from the lack of Samara Weaving who doesn't have nearly enough screen time. Judah Lewis is fine but his relationship with Phoebe isn't at all interesting and watchable like his one with Bea.
The gore and deaths are quite fun, but the majority of this film just comes across as cringeworthy rather than cheesily good like the original. I really don't know what the ending was about and why they decided to go down this route. This almost spoils the original and I think is yet another case of a sequel that should never have been made.
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Cube (1997) in Movies
Oct 14, 2019
Plot wise this is a brilliant idea, and a great early example of the type of torture style horror that we're used to from the likes of Saw and Hostel. Some of the CGI is a bit dodgy (not a surprise considering it was made in 1997) but the deaths and traps are still really inventive and well thought out. The story may get a little too deep into Maths later on but it's still a very good idea. The problem with this film is mainly the acting. Aside from David Hewlett (who I can't fault after his turn as McKay in Stargate), there is a lot of very hammy over acting going on in this, notably from the character of Quentin but the others are at fault too. And when paired with a very patchy script- I mean who the hell says "holy cats" - it brings this film down a couple of notches that the plot really doesn't deserve. I loved the ending though, and I do think this is a film worthy of a cult classic.