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Quests: Heroes of Sorcado

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Tabletop Game

Quests: Heroes of Sorcado is an epic fantasy cooperative campaign for 1-6 players. In each of eight...

Unwritten

Tara GIlboy

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Book

Twelve-year-old Gracie Freeman is living a normal life, but she is haunted by the fact that she is...

Fantasy Children's book

Spelled (The Storymakers, #1)

Betsy Schow

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Book

Somewhere over the rainbow, all spell is about to break loose… Fairy Tale Survival Rule No. 32:...

young adult fantasy magic fiction fairytales fairy tales

Become (Awakened Fate #5)

Skye Malone

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Book

After barely surviving another attack on her life, Chloe has only one option left. Magic given to...

mermaid fantasy paranormal romance young adult ya

Mighty Jack and the Goblin King

Ben Hatke

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Book

Like a bolt from the blue, Jack’s little sister Maddy is gone—carried into another realm by an...

middle grade fairytale retelling

Buying Trouble (Dorina Basarab #0.9 On the Prowl Anthology)

Karen Chance

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Book

"Buying Trouble" In Midnight's Daughter, New York Times bestselling author Karen Chance took us...

urban fantasy

Awix (3310 KP) rated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) in Movies

Sep 3, 2021

Approximately sixty-seventh Marvel Studios project to date starts off as a pretty good king fu movie, as parking attendant Simu Liu is forced to come clean to his best friend that he is in fact the renegade son of an immortal warlord, before turning into a not quite so good fantasy movie (immortal warlord wants to invade a magic kingdom, which may inadvertently cause the end of the universe).

Good martial arts choreography, but the non-stop CGI of the climax isn't nearly as interesting or fun to watch, and the movie seems to lose its edge and sense of humour as it goes on. Feels very much like an attempt to do something akin to Black Panther, but with Chinese culture; may well do very good business in Asian markets. The usual links and references to other Marvel movies are a mixed bag; some of them feel very contrived and gratuitous. Still, they're integral to the Marvel project and I doubt this movie will disappoint the faithful.