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Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6)
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are hired by the Big Green Defense Machine to help find evidence that Jonathan Green’s latest client is indeed innocent of killing his wife. However, Cole soon begins to suspect that not everything is as it appears in this case. Can he find the truth? Or has he been played?

This is definitely one of the stronger entries in the series with an intriguing mystery that twists and turns until we reach a non- dues ex machina ending. We get some appearances by characters introduced in earlier books, which is quite fun. Things do slow down at one point, and there is one mostly pointless scene designed to increase the foul language content in the book (not that it was ever an issue). Still, this is the strongest in the series yet.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/10/book-review-sunset-express-by-robert.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
In Bruges (2008)
In Bruges (2008)
2008 | Comedy, Drama
Absurdly hilarious comedy of errors taking place in the wonderful city of Bruges.
Pairing up Gleeson and Farrell was a winning formula that provides hilarity in the most unexpected of places and the timing between the two is quite a thing of beauty.
Farrell manages to play his character with touch of innocent boyhood naivety mixed with violent tendencies, do not be mistaken these characters are totally nasty and psychotic and are fleshed out and believable.
It's a cult classic with outstanding performances with special mention to Fiennes for his overly psychotic turn.
  
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Shirley Manson recommended Combat Rock by The Clash in Music (curated)

 
Combat Rock by The Clash
Combat Rock by The Clash
1982 | Rock
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"They were one of, if not the first, rock & roll male bands that I was really attracted to. I am definitely a female-orientated person, that's just the way I am. I don't go gaga over every single male rockstar that comes out, I sort of tend to be way more interested in the female narrative. But who can resist The Clash? [Laughs] even I could not resist The Clash. 

 I was thrilled by the sound and also the style; they felt like a real gang to me. It really captured my imagination and I wanted to be in The Clash. They still are, arguably, one of the coolest male rock bands of all time, if not the coolest rock band of all time. There's not anybody really that touches them. I love the political bias in their writing and I love the raucousness of it – and I thought they were fucking hot as fuck [laughs]. 

 Again, just amazing songs. Like, I associate 'Rock the Casbah' with a lot of great parties that I went to around about that time. There was a lot of finger-fucking going on to The Clash, an innocent but erotic memory. My sexuality was beginning to really explode when I discovered The Clash so I always associate it with that kind of hotness. It's just The Clash equals hotness. End of story."

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Moriarty: The Silent Order
Moriarty: The Silent Order
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6.5 (2 Ratings)
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The second in Charles Kindinger's 'Moriarty' series of Sherlock Holmes re-imaginings, positing what if Sherlock was an imposter and Moriarty an innocent man driven to a life of crime by the former, which - I have to say - I did not find *quite* as enjoyable as the first.

It also took me a wee while to get used to the recasting of the role of Colonel Sebastian Moran - not to say that the actor was bad, by any means, just that he sounded different.

Anyway, this time round, the story starts in the United States, following both Moriarty and Sherlocks death at the Reichenbach Falls, before - in the latter half - moving back to Merrie Olde Englande - with a new nemesis in the form of Helen Mirren's blackmailer Lady Milverton.
  
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New Beginnings
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8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
New Beginnings by Rebecca Emin is a book about a girl named Sam Hendry who faces bullying at her new school. The subject of this book that is carefully dealt with is bullying. Bullying is a problem that many students face today. This book also deals with the everyday life of a soon-to-be teenager.

Sam is a girl who is about to leave her primary school and friends to start at a new school. At the new school Sam does not know anyone there. Sam wants to stay at her primary school where she feel comfortable. She does not want to have to find new friends, but she does not have a choice. Even worse, at the new school Sam is the target by the bully of the school. Life does not seem to be going well for Sam but luckily she finds friends. She joins the drama club where she is able to express herself and nurture her talents.

Sam’s life involves her friends, talent, interests and first crush. The plot line effectively covers it all. It was refreshing to read about life through innocent eyes. I wish the author had given the reader a more indepth look at the lives of the different characters. I enjoyed reading this innocent story.

I give this book 4/5 stars.

I received this book from Gingersnap Books via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
  
Behind Her Eyes
Behind Her Eyes
Sarah Pinborough | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.9 (18 Ratings)
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Like, wow. Seriously, WTF! *mind blown*
Okay, come on, there's absolutely no way anyone actually guessed how this one was going to end - impossible! My eyes, during that final chapter, were as big as an owl's; I didn't, for a single second, see that ending coming. The whole time I kept asking myself: What's Adele up to? There were even moments when I thought, it'd be a cool (but not necessarily surprising) twist if David was the real psycho, which would leave Adele to be innocent and taken advantage of. Either way, I was constantly second-guessing myself, completely oblivious to what the end result could possibly be. The only thing keeping me from rating Behind Her Eyes with 5 stars was that I found myself a bit put off by the writing itself, not the story in general. Even still, I loved the roller coaster and shocking end!
  
Audition (1999)
Audition (1999)
1999 | Horror, Thriller
Not going to lie this was a hard one to watch.
As someone who has suffered from Trypanophobia for nearly my entire life Audition was one of the hardest movies for me to watch but damn did I not only watch it all the way through but I've managed to watch it more than a few times.

Asami is just such the perfect meek and obedient seeming woman that from the start you just can't help but trust her but the moment the inevitable shit hits the fan she is one of the most terrifying woman ever because through it all she still manages to keep this innocent child like quality to herself.