Demons of Bourbon Street (Jade Calhoun #3)
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USA Today best-selling author, Deanna Chase, brings you book three of the Jade Calhoun series. ...
Green-Eyed Demon (Sabina Kane, #3)
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Things to do: 1. Rescue sister. 2. Murder grandmother. 3. Don't upset the voodoo priestess. ...
Merissa (11950 KP) rated Her Druid Temptation (The Amber Druid Series 0.5) in Books
Mar 31, 2023 (Updated Apr 10, 2023)
Liana and Traven are two Amber Druids who are both living in New Orleans. Liana is a restauranteur and Traven is a P.I. They meet again when Liana has a meeting with a person that Traven is following. They have known each other for 50 years but each of them thought that nothing would ever happen, for their own reasons. This is a short, passionate, love story that I have enjoyed and I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
This novella is enough to give you a taste - and leave you wanting more - of the Amber Druids. I want to know more about them!
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July 29, 2016
The Legacy (A Thornton Mystery #4)
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A quiet tree-lined street in New Orleans erupts in panic when the body of Sally Wilcox is discovered...
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The Autobiography of a Super-tramp
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William Henry Davies was born in a pub and learnt early in life to rely on his wits and his fists -...
About Decorating: The Remarkable Rooms of Richard Keith Langham
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Richard Keith Langham s all-American interiors unite a traditional approach with dashes of whimsy,...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Project Power (2020) in Movies
Sep 9, 2020
Maybe some of these Netflix movies would be more impressive on a big screen where all the special effects and sound design would get an appropriate delivery and have the faculty-numbing effect this sort of film is depending on. Or maybe not, I don't know. As it is this has an interesting premise, charismatic leads and seems to genuinely want to do some social commentary about US society, the nature of power, etc etc. But that would require a level of downbeat grittiness wholly at odds with the extravaganza of lavish CGI and show-offy direction this film also wants to be, and it's the latter elements that win out. As a result it is watchable and engaging on a superficial level but you sort of lament the loss of the more interesting and restrained film this could have been instead. Hey ho.
Darkness Becomes Her (Gods & Monsters, #1)
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Ari can't help feeling lost and alone. With her teal coloured eyes and freakish silver hair that...
Queen of Swords (Wilderness #5)
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It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a...
Rachel King (13 KP) rated The Elephant Mountains in Books
Feb 11, 2019
Right away I was struck by the simplistic nature of the writing. This is Scott Ely's first book in the Young Adult genre, which I could easily guess from what the writing lacked. One major thing that bothered me throughout the book was Ely's habit of "telling" instead of "showing." He repeatedly made statements in the book like this: "She went on to tell him that their house was close by, on high ground, and they thought they could live upstairs." (page 38) Why couldn't Ely have written this out in dialogue. This kind of writing is littered throughout the text, and it left me feeling like I had been shorted a proper book. At a little over 200 pages in length, this book was too short for my expectations. I normally love dystopia, but this one was disappointing.
The main character Stephen was a likable character, but he seemed to be both extremely lucky and a kind of talisman for death. I understand that the conditions of the area that Stephen was traveling through were extremely dangerous with very limited resources, but did just about every single person that Stephen came across have to die? That strikes me as overkill, pardon the pun.
I also did not understand the ending. If there really was as much flooding as the radio continuously announced, then Stephen would have needed to travel much further than he did to find dry ground.
I gave the book three stars because I really liked the premise of the book, though it fell short of my expectations.