The Promised Neverland: Volume 2
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Life at Grave Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and...
Kitten
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Rae had always lived her life fast and loose with a harem of women to share her bed. Leading her...
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First Family (King & Maxwell #4)
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A daring kidnapping turns a children’s birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat,...
A Monster Of All Time: The True Story of Danny Rolling, The Gainesville Ripper
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Ambitious, attractive, and full of potential, five young college students prepared for the new...
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Caring for a Loved One with Dementia: A Mindfulness-Based Guide for Reducing Stress and Making the Best of Your Journey Together
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Caring for a loved one with dementia can be extremely stressful. This essential guide provides...
Angels & Alphas (Angelbound Origins #1) (Alpha Girl #1)
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Becoming Alpha Tessa doesn’t realize that kissing the wrong guy in her new Texas town could...
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Billie Wichkan (118 KP) rated You Die Next (Starke & Bell, #2) in Books
May 22, 2019
DI Dominic Bell is investigating the murder, but as the body count rises, time is running out. The only person who can help him is a figure from his past, Clementine Starke - but Clementine is haunted by her own demons. Can the two of them pair up to catch the killer? Or is it already too late?
This is the second book of Clementine Starke, DI Dominic Bell stories.
You don't have to have read the first one to read this one as there is enough back story provided to fill you in.
This story revolves around a group of Urban Explorers that see something they shouldn't have.
Along side this we have Starke and Bell who have their own demons they are dealing with.
This was a great story and I loved the plot and it was definitely a new premise to have the plot around.
Great characters and love seeing a bit more insight into our main ones.
We had lots of twists and turns and an ending I didn't see coming.
Looking forward to the next in series.
Recommend reading!
My thanks to Orion Publishing Group, the Author for an eARC via NetGalley; this is my honest opinion.
HLD (99 KP) rated The Alienist - Season 1 in TV
Aug 22, 2018 (Updated Aug 22, 2018)
This is in interesting idea for a show. Before Psychology was a respected field of medicine, you have alienists. Essentially doing the same job, but categorised differently.
Every character appears to have demons of their own. By the end of the season, they confront those demons simply by talking about them aloud to another person.
Also, was paedophilia as accepted 118 years ago as this show portrays? Is it merely an exaggeration of some historical accounts? Who knows, but it definitely created an unhealthy dynamic within society.
Everyone cares so much about the murders of these young men, but nobody cares about the children living on the streets. Or the people having sex with them.
The filming of the show does out-perform some of the acting, but the scenery added to the storylines that occur are sure to keep you entertained until episode ten.
Phil Leader (619 KP) rated The Gatekeeper (Afterlife #0.5) in Books
Nov 13, 2019
Aker might seem like a normal boy but there is something different about him. He is a little more cruel, a little more keen to cause trouble and misery than his peers. His downward path soon brings him to the attention of the demon world, a world he adapts to with ease. But demons survive either on their strength or their wits. Aker may not be strong but he is very cunning and very eager to prove himself.
One of the major achievements of this story is that the main protagonist is (hopefully) in no way relateable to the reader; he is sly, selfish and cruel, caring nothing at all for anybody but himself. Yet the writing means that although we might not agree with any of his choices, it is clear why he makes them. So although the reader has no sympathy for Aker, there is some understanding of him.
The story moves quickly as Aker progresses through the demon world and there is little to time to catch one's breath between scenes. This makes it an easy read, and one that manages to provide a lot of background on the wider series without ever deviating from telling the central story.