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Hag 12 Down (6 KP) rated Night Film in Books

Dec 30, 2017  
Night Film
Night Film
Marisha Pessl | 2013 | Horror
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7.7 (7 Ratings)
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This Book is a challenge, but in a good way.
Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

On a damp October night, the body of young, beautiful Ashley Cordova is found in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. By all appearances her death is a suicide - but investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. Though much has been written about the dark and unsettling films of Ashley's father, Stanislas Cordova, very little is known about the man himself. As McGrath pieces together the mystery of Ashley's death, he is drawn deeper and deeper into the dark underbelly of New York City and the twisted world of Stanislas Cordova, and he begins to wonder - is he the next victim?

This is a page turner that makes you want to be in the mystery. You will want to watch the Horror films yourself.
  
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b.Young (97 KP) rated Grind in Books

May 7, 2018  
Grind
Grind
Edward Vukovic | 2016 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (2 Ratings)
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Coffee! (3 more)
Beautiful prose
Character portrayal
The whole book!
I could not put this book down!
I was immediately drawn into this wonderfully written tale of rituals, mystery, and fate.
In a world full of so many, five total strangers cross paths and coincidentally affect the others' lives.
Ziva has inherited the ability to read coffee grinds, a power passed down from her grandmother. The ritual of preparing, drinking, and then placing the cup upside down in order to read the grinds, is one Ziva performs with utmost tradition and care. She reads the grinds to help the drinker discover their future.
But what if Ziva uses the ritual to read her own future? How would her discovery change her life?
Told in multiple voices, each one a stranger to the next, but all are familiar to Ziva, and each affects the other by pure coincidence.
Edward Vukovic's writing is beautiful, haunting and draws you into vividly detailed scenes and doesn't let go until you, too, are wishing for Ziva to read your grinds.
  
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Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Hunt (2012) in Movies

Feb 24, 2019  
The Hunt (2012)
The Hunt (2012)
2012 | Drama
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8.5 (2 Ratings)
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Dark and disturbing
This is definitely not an easy film to watch, but it really is very good. It's a stark and difficult to watch tale about the repercussions of lies in a close knit Danish tale. It deals with some very heavy topics and yet doesn't shy away from the subject matter in question, to the point where it's almost too difficult to watch. But this is why this film is so good, it hasn't Hollywood-ised such a difficult subject and instead you can really believe everything that happens.

It's helped of course by a brilliant performance from Mads Mikkelsen. His quiet mild mannered Lucas is a million miles away from what he gets accused of, and Mads' performances itself is very restrained, which is exactly what this film needed. This paired with a subtle score and well done cinematography make for a very haunting watch.

This really has a stark point to make about the judgemental nature of society, and it makes it very well, even if it is disturbing to watch.
  
Sawkill Girls
Sawkill Girls
Claire Legrand | 2018 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
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7.7 (6 Ratings)
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so i didn't hate it, that's a start. well, more than didn't hate it, this was actually really good. the writing was genuinely beautiful and incredibly haunting, and the fact that nobody else around me has read this book is incredibly disappointing. anyways, we stan all this rep. an ace character, we're comin thru with the gays, and we got pocs. also, a decent fucking guy, we love. i also luv all the girl power ("no one says that anymore") and all the love and support by girls for girls.

now, things i don't like: the 'hand of light' thing? UTTERLY RIDICULOUS. literally the only reason it was there was to push the story onwards and provide info about the people. that was it. i hated that whole plot point more than i hate a lot of things. also i want marion to become friends w/ horses again pls

anyway,,,,,,, this book was v good, and once i get over my nightmares ((genuinely scary i gotta say) i might even read it again.
  
The Devil Rides Out
The Devil Rides Out
Dennis Wheatley | 2007 | Paranormal
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9.0 (3 Ratings)
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Hauntingly amazing
This is the first time I’ve read this book, I read it because my grandfather did the cover illustrations for this edition and I can honestly say this book is amazing. I didn’t connect with it when I was younger but now I’m older I am amazed at how haunting this book is.
The suspense is there, the panic leaps between you and the book all the time and it’s amazing.
This isn’t my typical genre of book to read but now I can’t stop at just this one.
It’s not a particularly long book but it doesn’t miss anything, you won’t be grasping at the next one, you’ll just be taken by this one and transported like it’s the first book you’ve ever read.
I can’t say I found anything bad about this book because I didn’t. I will definitely be rereading it and moving onto the other two books in the ‘trilogy’ that Wordsworth Editions printed. I hope they are as satanic as this book, creepy but breathtaking.
  
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