
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1)
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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a...

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
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A timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender...

Black Rainbow: How Words Healed Me: My Journey Through Depression
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Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman's struggle with depression and how she...

Blood Ties
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Blood Ties is the second murder mystery which features Detective Inspector Charlie Moon. Like the...

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated The Equalizer 2 (2018) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
The action was good and at the beginning you see the use of the stopwatch, which is noticeable in it's absence through the rest of the film. The final action sequence trails through the storm torn town as Washington picks off the enemy and the whole thing seems to be going well until some random first-person shooter camera angles are thrown in out of nowhere and seem completely out of place.
But that isn't the only thing that seems out of place. The whole story line about the art loving neighbour of McCall only partly adds to the film. We see his brief secondary story line with the inclusion of his gang friends, but as soon as it appears it disappears, and doesn't really contribute at all. As odd character placement goes there's also Pullman as the bereaved husband. Needed? Possibly. The right choice? Possibly not.
If you can look past the strange conclusion-less pieces of the film then all the action, the main story line and a nice summing up to a side story make for a good film to pass some time. But I didn't feel like it met its potential. A lot of people in the screening seemed to be distracted throughout, another film that while full of action was somewhat slow paced at times.

Magnolia Nights
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From the author of the bestselling Sweeney Sister Series and Sweet Tea Tuesdays comes a new novel of...

Behind His Eyes: Consequences (Consequences, #1.5)
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes the much-anticipated first...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2336 KP) rated Mulled to Death in Books
Oct 21, 2021
Having enjoyed the first two books in this series, I was looking forward to checking in with Parker again. I did feel that Parker’s motive for looking into this as much as she did was weak until late in the book and the plot relied a bit too much on events over investigation, but overall, this was a good mystery that kept me guessing until the end. Parker and Reid are joined by another couple, Parker’s brother Liam and her best friend Sage, who have recently started dating. These four characters are the core of the series to me, and I loved seeing how they developed here. As always, the books are written in first person present tense. I love how the author works in tidbits about wine making as metaphors for what Parker is going through. We get three delicious sounding recipes and suggested wine pairings at the end. Fans of the series will have fun with the newest in this series.