Spider-Man (2002)
7.5
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A nerdy high school student named Peter Parker gets superpowers after being bitten by a genetically...
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Labyrinth (1986)
8.1
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A teenage girl hastily wishes for her baby brother to be taken away by the Goblin King, and must...
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Paladins Strike
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Darren Fisher (2447 KP) rated Grindhouse Grooves Exploitation Soundtracks in YouTube Channels
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Pathfinder: Dark Waters Rising: Vol. 1
Jim Zub and Andrew Huerta
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The warrior Valeros can rely on his sword arm and his friends, the mysterious sorceress Seoni, qu...
The Demon’s surrendee (Demon’s Lexicon #3)
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The Goblin Market has always been the center of Sin’s world. But now the Market is at war with the...
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Annie Chanse (15 KP) rated Wintersong in Books
May 25, 2018
I SOMEWHAT enjoyed this book. It is very much like "Labyrinth" meets "Beauty and the Beast." The premise is a bit too much like "Labyrinth" for me to be entirely comfortable calling this a "unique" book. Goblin King -- thin, blonde, mischievous Goblin King nonetheless -- comes to earth for a bride. A game ensues in which the stakes are as follows: the girl wins, she gets to take her sister and go home, leaving the Goblin King behind forever. The Goblin King wins, he gets to marry the girl. Sound familiar? Yeah. I thought it might.
I was a little turned off by this at first, but the author quickly adds in enough individuality to make the book her own and separate from the "Labyrinth." I don't want to give away any key plot points, so I am not going to go much further in the description of the book.
I will say, however, that the book is very prettily written, and that music is prominently featured throughout. Thankfully, the author writes music well, and it makes the book quite lovely to read, image-wise.
It is listed as a Young Adult fiction book, but I'd say that is not quite the right categorization for this book. The sex scenes are a little too descriptive for YA, and I worry about the poor librarian who is going to get chewed out because a religious mother catches her thirteen year old daughter reading it. Ha.
The plot was okay, if a little overdone, and the pacing was nice; it flowed well. There were no draggy bits, and nothing seemed too rushed. I'm not sure how I feel about the relationship between Liesl (the girl) and the Goblin King, which is, at times, very Beauty and the Beast and at other times, more Joker and Harley Quinn. :-/ I wouldn't say it was the healthiest of young marriages.
Still, overall, it is a solid 3.25-3.5 star book. I recommend it to lovers of romantic fantasy. Not ideal for hardcore fantasy geeks, though.
Oh, and also, if I see the word "entire" again, as in "I gave myself to him, entire" or "I am Elisabeth, entire" or "He finally gave himself to me, his body, his soul, his trust. Der Erlkonig, entire" one more time, I might punch someone. The author really needs to get over that little quirk. I would hate to see it repeated in the sequel, since she made use of it about ten bazillion times in the debut novel, and she has completely lost her right to EVER use the word "entire" again.
Finding Gobi: The True Story of a Little Dog and an Incredible Journey
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In the tradition of Douglas Chadwick's best-selling adventure memoir, The Wolverine Way, Tracking...