The Plays and Poems of Nicholas Rowe: The Early Plays: Volume I: The Early Plays
Stephen Bernard, Rebecca Bullard and John McTague
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Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era. A fascinating and important yet...
Alpha (Vanguards Book 2)
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Someone is about to get some Spice in his life. Spice returns to Chicago searching for her...
adult paranormal romance series fiction Vanguards
Breverton's Complete Herbal: A Book of Remarkable Plants and Their Uses
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Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physitian: or an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of...
A Brief History of Britain 1066 - 1485: The Birth of the Nation: v. 1: Birth of the Nation: 1066-1485
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From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Pay the Ghost (2015) in Movies
Nov 4, 2017 (Updated Nov 4, 2017)
It surrounds Cage's missing child who disappeared on Halloween. There emerges a rather unclear pattern of missing children and bizarre otherworldly messages. Given that it is New York, it's difficult to see how they established a sequence of missing children as there were far more than just three children going missing on this day every year. And somehow Celtic folklore gets drafted in, where a mother, who was burned at the stake with her three children, seems to be the one taking these kids in revenge.
The end battle is almost comedic, as Cage gets strangled by a burnt witch while hovering in the sky and rotating simultaneously. It's pretty ridiculous - there's nothing that threads the story together, going from all out supernatural to thriller back to supernatural. A flakey story no doubt.
The Maddening Rain
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This title features 1 male and one simple setting. "We're sixteen and Will writes this story about a...
BookInspector (124 KP) rated The Spaces In Between in Books
Sep 24, 2020
The main star of this book is Nicholas for sure. It is his story which makes the jaw drop. Lack of money and job forces him to work in this creepy house as an English tutor, but this house has strange residents, who live like it is 1916ies Russia. I really liked the complexity of all the residents in that house, they all were very amusing and unique personalities. They all have a role to play, and it is hard to distinguish whether they want to help or to harm Nicholas. The main character brought out many different emotions in me, I felt pity for the events he had to suffer, I was happy when good things happened to him and I was angry when he took silly decisions.
The whole story was told from two different perspectives. We have the introduction and investigative part told by a psychologist Dr Marie – Claire Groller, and the main story written down by Nicholas. I found both of the stories absolutely fascinating. The events highlighted in the blurb, which Nicholas had to suffer, are absolutely unimaginable, and the whole story is very dark, atmospheric, twisted and unbelievable. There is so much detail and emotions in his story, it is just creepy. I really enjoyed the investigation done by Dr Marie Clare and her father. I really liked all the information which they were able to find out, but I do miss the proper conclusion to this story. I WANT JUSTICE! 😀
I really enjoyed the structure of this book, I think it gave this book a great element of surprise. This book was easy to read, except for the French parts. I know maybe three words in French, so all the sentences without a translation left me a little annoyed. I really liked the decent length of the chapters and I loved the mask picture on the pages throughout the book. It gave this good feeling, that I am reading something written in medieval times. 🙂 So, to conclude, I strongly recommend reading this book, filled with unusual, eccentric characters and very unique and sinister setting, where reality mixes with fiction and imagination. What is real and what is an illusion? That’s the question. Enjoy 😀
The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 and WWI
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On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful...
Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
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On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to...
Patek Philippe
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The definitive history of the world-renowned watchmakers, Patek Philippe. Founded in Geneva in 1839,...