Throne of Fools (The Omaran Saga #2)
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After the fall of the evil city of Zennidhum, Simon Wargallow and his allies believed that Omara was...
Madness is Better Than Defeat
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In 1938, two rival expeditions set off for a lost Mayan temple in the jungles of Honduras, one...
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 Baker Street Wedding
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The wedding of Reggie Heath and the celebrated actress Laura Rankin was reported in all the...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Stronghold (Dragon Star, #1) in Books
Feb 8, 2022
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Strong hold ( Dragon Star book 1)
By Melanie Rawn
A generation of peace is about to be shattered as a seemingly unstoppable invasion force lays siege to High Prince Rohan's realm. For Andry, the Sunrunner Lord, the invasion is a fulfilment of his long-ago visions of disaster to come. This is the first book in the "Dragon Star" trilogy.
This was a bit meh for me after the catch up and then the initial excitement of the war it got a bit tedious in the middle but ended strongly. I think the next few books are definitely a must read so I’ll keep going!
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Independence Day (1996) in Movies
Feb 12, 2022
It's cheesy, it's loud, it's dumb, but it has an incredibly likable cast, effects that still hold up, and absolutely shit loads of general destruction.
It also has possibly THE best speech ever commited to film. If you don't get all riled up during that speech, then you are dead inside, I don't make the rules.
Thumb Fire Desire
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In the Spring of 1881, indigent seamstress Ginny Dahlke arrives in one of the earliest Polish...
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist in Books
Apr 30, 2024 (Updated Apr 30, 2024)
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Unnatural Causes
By Richard Shepherd
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He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, the Princess Diana inquiry, and 9/11.
He has faced serial killers, natural disaster, 'perfect murders' and freak accidents.
His evidence has put killers behind bars, freed the innocent, and turned open-and-shut cases on their heads.
Yet all this has come at a huge personal cost.
This was an interesting read at the start but somewhere in the middle I got a little bored. May be a moody thing a 2.5/3 star read!
Rachel King (13 KP) rated Economic Meltdown: A Family Preparedness Plan for Disaster in Books
Feb 11, 2019
What I will address is the text of the book itself, which, frankly, could use some work. I can be a stickler for grammar, and it is obvious to me that the author used the spelling and grammar check function that is found in your typical text-formatting program, such as Word. Simply having someone read over the book before publication could catch these errors. For example, starting on page 50, the word "panty" has replaced what should have been "pantry," not every time, but often enough to be obvious. Other things showed up in the text to show the author's weakness in writing fiction, such as this: "...the unspoken thought hung unspoken in the air..." (pg. 11).
The story itself is a thinly veiled attempt at teaching the reader what is already listed in the section at the end of the book. Much more of the book is devoted to detailed descriptions of these preparations than to the development of the different characters. Towards the end of the book, time speeds up as the author skips ahead several times to fast forward the plot to 2012, with snapshots of plot to show the progress of the fictional family in its preparations for the economic disaster.
Honestly, this book would have been much better written had the author spent more time developing the different characters and made them unique and interesting to the reader, as well as gotten a few extra people to read the text before publication. McHale does not even bother with last names for this "typical American household." Sadly, except for the eight page guide at the end, it is all very forgettable.
Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived
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In the early hours of 15 April 1912, after the majestic liner Titanic had split apart and the 1,500...