Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1) in Books
Sep 5, 2019
This book has sent me cartwheeling through so many feelings: intrigue, horror, indifference, happiness but I can't say that, in the end, I understood the story. I didn't get it.
Why could Mara do these things? Was she the cause of the asylum collapse? What about Noah? What happened to the building they were after?
Admittedly from about the 25% mark to about 70% I was enjoying the story but then I just got really confused when Noah confessed his secret. I had no idea what that had to do with the rest of the plot.
Not really to my liking. I wont be continuing the series.
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated Murder in the Family in Books
Jul 23, 2023
Despite my misgivings on the style, I did like the twists and turns and, like I said, overall I enjoyed it and I thank HarperCollins UK, Harperfiction and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of Murder in the Family.
David McK (3695 KP) rated Red Notice (2021) in Movies
Dec 12, 2021
Deadpool.
Black Adam.
All in the same movie; a wannabe twisty-turny crime thriller in which a framed FBI agent (played by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) has to team up with his former notorious art thief target (Ryan Reynolds) to clear his name and to catch the new '#1 art thief in the world' thief aka The Bishop (Gal Gadot).
I found this to be reminiscent of the Nic Cage starring 'National Treasure' series, with the main characters all globe-trotting around the world in pursuit of the McGuffin, and with the interplay between Johnson and Reynolds raising a few laughs/raised eyebrows along the way.
In short: good, but not brilliant.
David McK (3695 KP) rated The Marvels (2022) in Movies
Feb 25, 2024
(Despite one or two good entries since).
If so, IMO they've just hit a new low.
It probably doesn't help that you're almost required to do a lot of 'homework' (movies and TV series that introduce the key characters) prior to watching this (I have), with that knowledge all but assumed by Marvel and with no real fill-in given for those who haven't.
It's not all bad, though, Iman Vellani is infectious as Kamala Khan fan-girling out over Captain Marvel, while the mid credit tease is probably one of the best since the original from 2008s Iron Man.
David McK (3695 KP) rated Agatha All Along in TV
Nov 8, 2024 (Updated Nov 8, 2024)
As the show starts, she is still in Westview and still under the Scarlet Witches spell, but it's not long - tail end of the first episode - before she is free of said spell, and travelling down the heretofore believed to be mythical Witches Road in search of her lost power in the company of several others, including Joe Locke's Teen and Aubrey Plaza's Rio Vidal, both of whom have connections to Agatha's past life in particular ...