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Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica

Sasha Turner

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It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive...

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Rawvana's 30 Day Smoothie Challenge

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Welcome to the Rawvana's 30 Day Smoothie Challenge App! The official app from popular health and...

Bubblesreview (110 KP) rated Turtles All The Way Down in Books

Feb 6, 2019

Turtles All The Way Down

John Green | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.4

(60 Ratings)

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Intelligent writing (2 more)

Realistic mental health issues

Fandom representation and fanfiction

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Wow. Just wow.

The synopsis for this book was very short, precisely 9 lines. The synopsis made me expect to read a book much like paper towns where they go on an adventure, detective style and find the missing person. However, this book was something so much more than that. The main concept of the book I felt was actually about the mental health of the main character Aza. Aza has severe intrusive thoughts that take control of her life. Near to the end of the book a sudden and dramatic incident occurs and you're left unknowing what the outcome will be. Although I wish it never ended, John Green ends the book perfectly.
When a book has help line contact details in the authors notes, you know it's going to be a serious book.
It took me less than 24hours to finish this book, I physically couldn't put it down. John notes in the AN that it took 6 years to finish the book, I can completely understand why. Just wow

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Knack in Video Games

Mar 17, 2018

Knack

2013 | Action/Adventure

6.5

(15 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

Promising yet very irritating

This game has a lot of promise, it has very good graphics for the time it came out and the storyline and characters are all pretty interesting and fun (to a point) to play. Knack's abilities too are pretty fun. It's a very long game too so gives lots of game play.

The main issue is that there are a lot irritating features that really start to get you down the longer you play. Regardless of what size Knack is, one or two hits from an enemy will kill you which pushes you back to a prior point within a level. Considering it is very difficult to avoid getting hit sometimes, this is a massive area of frustration for me. There's also no manual checkpoints and picking up health is really quite rare, especially when you need it. There's also very cheesy dialogue which can become a bit cringey after a while.

If it wasn't for the health and checkpoint issues, this would actually be a really good game. But at the moment it often makes me want to throw my controller at the screen...