Redeem (The Caelian Cycle #2.5)
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A boy without a voice. A teen without a home. A man without hope. Kian knows the way his life...
Young Adult Dystopian Science Fiction Novella
ClareR (5911 KP) rated Local Gone Missing in Books
Aug 24, 2022
I liked this a lot. For such a small village there’s a lot going on: drugs, tensions between new and old villagers, fires - and a disappearing neighbour. Honestly, it made me vow to never move to a village!
The main characters are great. Dee, who knows everyone’s secrets and flies under everyone’s radar; Ronnie, the typical nosey neighbour who wants to be Elise’s sidekick; and Elise, who is worried about going back to the job she clearly loves.
I didn’t guess who did it, as is usual.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this and expanding my reading horizons!
The Taken (Spirit Walkers #3)
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All Jenna Langley wanted was a chance to finally marry the man of her dreams. But when the spirit of...
Paranormal Mystery Romance
Remarkably Bright Creatures
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After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay...
Animals Magical Realism Octopus Literary Fiction
David McK (3576 KP) rated Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1993) in Movies
Feb 5, 2023
Of those three, this has probably aged the least well - I would be shocked if they could get away with some of the stuff they did here nowadays (particularly the whole Einhorn and Finkle plotline).
Anyway - provided you're not too easily offended - Carrey plays the eponymous Ace Ventura, a detective who specialises in finding missing animals, and who is hired (by none other than Courtney Cox) when the Miami Dolphins mascot - an actual Dolphin - is kidnapped on the Superbowl weekend.
Which probably means more the American audiences than any other.
The film does still raise the odd wry chuckle, but I was obviously easier amused back in the day ...
The Lock Up
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The Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow and April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's...
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The Last Thing Claire Wanted
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An ex-FBI agent. A dying matriarch. A family secret that keeps killing. Northern California. Anne...
David McK (3576 KP) rated Sherlock Holmes (2009) in Movies
Nov 1, 2020 (Updated Jan 13, 2024)
Unlike the more-contemporary set TV 'Sherlock', this is still set in Victorian times although, I have to say, that I never really took to the portrayal of Holmes in this film at all. It's also a completely-new (to the best of my knowledge) mystery for him to solve; not based on any of the Conan Doyle stories. That's both a good thing and a bad thing: it does mean that it's 'fresh' (unlike, say, another retelling of 'The Hounds of the Baskervilles'), but - I have to say - it also lacks the fun, the sense of mystery, the sheer enthrallment of the Conan Doyle stories.