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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Red King (Wilde Justice #1) in Books

Jan 7, 2021

I picked this up free at the beginning of the year after reading this authors entire Immortal Vegas series pretty much back to back. It contains the same set of characters but now Sara Wilde is part of the Arcana Council herself and is solving mysteries, instead of hunting for artefacts.

This one starts with Sara chasing someone up a mountain who's been selling technoceuticals to minors and has been marked for Justice. It's after he's been sent to be judged that whispers of the Red King begin to surface. A tale of a butcher in Venice who used to be renown for his stews until something was found in them that caused him to be hunted down and killed. Now it appears he's back from the dead and using the Venice Carnivale as a hunting ground and Sara is sent in to investigate.

I don't know about this one. I liked being back in the world of Sara and the Arcana Council. I enjoyed seeing more of the Devil and the Magician but there wasn't enough action to keep my entertained. I've been reading this nearly a week and there isn't even 250 pages in this.

I loved the descriptions of Carnivale and I'd love to visit Venice during that time but the mystery of who the Red King was and what his plan was just wasn't grabbing my attention. I think I preferred Sara hunting down the artefacts in the previous series. I think it was just more action packed and the tension between Sara and the Magician and the whole will they/won't they get together

I will probably continue this series at a later date just because I still really like Sara and the Magician's relationship and the Devil who always pops up at just the right time/gives enough information away to help her.

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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Melissa Bashardoust

8.8 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale ...

The Bandersnatch (199 KP) rated The Novice (Black Magician Trilogy, #2) in Books

Nov 7, 2019

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The second Book in the Trilogy The Novice was published in 2002 and is followed by The Black Magician (2003). the continuing story follows Sonea through entering the guild and after experiencing abuse from her fellow students and having her guardianship changed from Rothen to the High Lord Akkarin. After beating a bully in a duel, Sonea is faced with an unknowing future under her serious and strange guardian.

I loved the second book especially How Sonea dealt with the class abuse form the other students and the threat of the high lord Akkarin after he finds out she knows his dirty little secret. And I especially loved Sonea defeating her bully in a duel showing both the bully and the guild she wasn't to be messed with especially since she took a lot of hell from most if not all of them.

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Shadowplay (Micah Grey #2)

Laura Lam

7.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Old magics are waking. But will the world survive their return? Micah Grey almost died when he...

Penn & Teller: Fool Us - Season 1

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Illusionists Penn & Teller sit in the audience and watch as aspiring magicians try to impress them...

Unleashed 3: Trick or Truth

Ali Sparkes

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A group of very special teenagers. Each with an incredible power, they live together, protected by...

Renny Harlin recommended Apocalypse Now (1979) in Movies (curated)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

1979 | Action, Drama, War

8.7

(37 Ratings)

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"It’s a typical choice maybe. I’m a huge Coppola fan – I’ve seen it many times in many different versions and formats and that movie, to me, is just fantastic storytelling, interesting characters, maybe the best war film I’ve ever seen. You are transported into his incredibly exotic world and it tells the story of something that is based on reality but the director kind of creates his own reality. He constructs this horrible place – his own interpretation of hell and he that makes me believe in it. It’s a movie that I can always watch again and never get tired of, and it always feel like I’m in the presence of a genius magician. I think I prefer the theatrical cut of the movie. The Redux, with the scene with all the French colonialist people, I didn’t feel added much."

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