Crushed (Pretty Little Liars, #13)
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High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have been tortured by A for too long. Now...
Zombicide: Wolfsburg
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Wulfsburg is an expansion for the Zombicide: Black Plague board game. Explore new ways to hunt...
Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock #1)
8.3
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First in a brand new series from the author of the Rogue Mage novels Jane Yellowrock is a...
Gone For Good
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Edgar-Award Winner HARLAN COBEN, author of the international bestseller TELL NO ONE, unleashes a...
All that Glows
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Emrys, a spirited and charismatic Faery Guard of the British monarchy, is sent to London to guard...
Bed of Lies
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It was meant to be a miracle treatment, but it became a deadly poison. Cara McGoogan investigates...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Sharpe's Sword in TV
Oct 16, 2022 (Updated Oct 16, 2022)
"Me? I went through the whole war with hardly a scratch. Major Sharpe, though, he's a different matter: he's always getting himself wounded"
This is the tale with the most sever of those wounds, when Sharpe is severely wounded by the French Colonel Leroux (who is on the hunt for Wellingtons spymaster) and is himself near death for a bit.
It's Sharpe though.
The one time that Sean Bean doesn't die!
David McK (3562 KP) rated Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) in Movies
Feb 3, 2019 (Updated Sep 25, 2022)
The sixth entry in Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible series, I believe this is also the first direct sequel to any of the other films (in this case, to Rogue Nation) with Tom Cruise once again reprising his role as superspy Ethan Hunt, who - alongside his team and faces from the past - is once again out to stop nefarious plots from being committed (in this case, the detonation of stolen nuclear warheads).
David McK (3562 KP) rated Casino Royale Vintage 007 in Books
Jan 30, 2019
And that's the crux of this book: British (not-so) secret Agent James Bond is chosen to go undercover to bankrupt Le Chiffre in gambling at the Casino Royale of the title.
THis Bond is also quite 'hard', more akin to the Bond of the Dalton or Craig era of the films than to that of (say) the Moore era or - my favourite - the Brosnan era. As the first novel in the series, this also highlights to Bond just how cold the spy game an be, with the inclusion of Vesper Lynd: one of only two female's in his (literary) life who have such an impact on him.
While the prose does flow well enough, and the novel is short enough not to out-stay it's welcome, it none-the-less failed to ignite any desire in me to hunt down any other of Ian Fleming's Bond novels: I'm not going to avoid them (or say no if I come across them), but neither I am going to actively hunt them out.