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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Dead Chest Island (The Secrets Begin #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2018

I had the pleasure of meeting [J.J. Parsons] at the Savannah Children's Book Festival. I told her I had picked up her book [Dead Chest Island] at a local book seller. She kindly gave me the second book. That said, this is an unsolicited and honest review.

[Dead Chest Island] is a throw back to the mysteries of the 1950's. It made me think of The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Young children getting into adventure after hearing a story about an island that leads to solving a international crime, or foiling it, rather.

[Parson's] writing has a good flow and is well thought out. The characters are well developed. I am looking forward to reading the second book and hearing more of Edison'd adventures and see if his sister is still a pest. Highly recommend this book to school libraries.

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Lost - Season 6

7.0 (5 Ratings) Rate It

TV Season

Season 6, the final, follows two timelines. In the first timeline, the survivors are sent to the...

Lost - Season 3

9.0 (6 Ratings) Rate It

TV Season

In Season 3, the crash survivors learn more about the Others and their long history on the...

The Root To Murder

Lauren Carr

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Homicide Detective Cameron Gates learned long ago that there is no such thing as a typical murder...

Bear Bottom

Stuart Gibbs

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

In the seventh novel in New York Times bestselling Stuart Gibbs’s FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy...

Nick Friesen (96 KP) rated Stranger Things - Season 1 in TV

Jul 12, 2017

David Harbour (4 more)

All of the kids

That theme music

The pitch-perfect retro atmosphere

Barb!

I can't rate it Eleven (0 more)

Nostalgia Perfected

Stranger Things is everything I wanted J.J. Abrams' Super 8 to be, and more. The atmosphere of the show is pitch-perfect and well established from the very first episode. The creeping tension builds until it touches the viewer's core and finally "resolves" in a full-on creature feature of a final episode. Like any good mystery/thriller TV show, it saves plenty of mysteries for future seasons. Here's to hoping the Duffer brothers don't bungle it up like Hemlock Grove after the interesting mysteries in its first season. Stranger Things is a much better show, however, and the Duffer brothers seem to have a much better idea of where this story is going. The child actors are all fantastic, and of the few notable adults/teens, David Harbour is my favorite. I cannot wait for season two in October (the kids have Ghostbusters Halloween costumes!).