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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles, #2) in Books

Jan 7, 2021  
Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles, #2)
Sweep in Peace (Innkeeper Chronicles, #2)
Ilona Andrews | 2015
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
*I'm reading this as part of the Innkeeper Chronicles Anthology, #1-3*

This one was longer. Dina is asked to host a peace summit between three warring factions who live on Nexus, a planet of sorts. They have been at each others throats for years and the Arbitrator, George, is finally hoping that they can work things out.

We see a lot of the same characters from the previous one but I was missing a certain someone quite a lot - Sean. Dina contacted him near the start but Sean was away from Baha-Char and we didn't see him for a lot of the book.

The peace summit turned out really well in the end but everyone had to go through quite a lot to get there. We had deceit, poisonings, deaths... It certainly wasn't easy to achieve and I won't spoil it for future readers by going into details.

I'm glad Sean's back on Earth and that we will possibly see their romance bloom properly in the next one.

Off to start book 3.
  
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Cori June (3033 KP) rated A Sword Named Truth (Rise of the Alliance #1) in Books

Mar 12, 2021  
A Sword Named Truth (Rise of the Alliance #1)
A Sword Named Truth (Rise of the Alliance #1)
Sherwood Smith | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
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kids that don't like adults because they ruin everything
I don't know if it is because I wasn't ready to read this book or if it is because I hadn't read anything else by Sherwood Smith before but I was lost in the first half of this book. Don't get me wrong it is a good book, but for what ever reason I don't know if I actually liked it or not. It is written as though a scholar wrote it, which is nice. Has multiple POVs and complex world(s).
It starts AFTER a war, and deals with the aftermath, I wish I realized this faster then I did as I kept feeling like I was missing things.
The main characters are teens that can't age because magic and most of the characters I liked they are complex and interesting, with an unfortunate tendency to hate on any authority figure, with or without reason.
Eventually, I see if a second readthrough clarifies anything.
  
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020  
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
2000 | Comedy, Drama
3
5.0 (2 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Back when every studio drama wanted to be indie real bad (when we got shit like J-Lo's 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴 for example) and when hyperlink movies were king. This really could have been something, but instead it leans way too close into the template for all the movies this is ripping off (one-quirk characters overexplaining the themes to the leads and - by extension - the viewers, long writerly conversations that exist solely for decoration, cloying symbolism, purposefully disappointing non-resolutions, etc.) All but completely throws aside the lives of these unique, incredibly intriguing women in favor of having their stories revolve around some lackluster romance - pretty much defining them all by it in the end. For shame. Not entirely unpleasant, of course the ensemble is stuffed with amazing talent, it has a nice cadence and some decent scenes here and there. But as far as I'm concerned Rodrigo García should be fired for continually swinging and missing by turning these potentially thought-provoking stories into underwritten, tiresome (and borderline offensive) grief exploitation.