Words We Don't Say
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Joel Higgins has 901 unsent text messages saved on his phone. Ever since the thing that happened,...
Grief Loss PTSD Coming of Age
Homecoming (Men of Devotion #1)
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Home is where his heart is. Broken in body and soul, elite Special Forces operative Jack Dresden...
Contemporary Erotic Romance M_M
The Captain and the Theatrical
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When Captain Pendleton needs an emergency fiancée, who better to turn to than his male best friend?...
Merissa (12051 KP) rated The Ostin Rebel (Isle of Ostin #4) in Books
Aug 8, 2023
This was a great book to finish on, and I was glad Ledger got his HEA. After being tortured for five years, he definitely deserved it. It is full of dark moments but lighthearted times are there - usually courtesy of Arbor, but also, sometimes, Everest. They are both similar although Everest isn't quite as bad!
I loved Roland getting his but I think I may have a bit of Arbor in me as I felt it was all over too quickly. Still, I'm glad the way it went down with the final blow being struck as it was. I'm also glad it wasn't Ledger! For someone with his crippling anxiety and PTSD, that really would have made it fiction!
A great series that I thoroughly enjoyed and have no hesitation in recommending.
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* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book; the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Aug 8th, 2023
Mark Jaye (65 KP) rated Iron Man 3 (2013) in Movies
May 21, 2019
Whilst having good memories of this instalment it was better than I recalled. Picking up after the events of 'Avengers Assemble ' we see Tony Stark dealing with PTSD, suffering anxiety and panic attacks. It's interesting to see now - after Endgame, the change in direction for Stark. Here is a man who knows - who has seen, there's greater threats out there. It's the start of what 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' progresses 4 MCU movies later.
The story is straight forward enough. Initially we are led to believe that the villain of the piece is The Mandarin, played by Ben Kingsley (or so we presume), the terrorist threat with whom Iron Man goes up against. Half way through we are thrown a twist with the reveal that Kingsley is actually Tony Slattery, an actor in the employ of the real puppet master - Aldrich Lillian (As played by Guy Pearce) who is using the terrorist threat to cover his real agenda....Extremis.
Great action, Acting, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man 3 is the best of the trilogy helping to solidify RDJ's status as founding player of this cinematic universe.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season 6
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Brass, now partnered with Sofia Curtis, finds himself caught in a shootout that leaves one officer...
Shamanic Healing: Traditional Medicine for the Modern World
Itzhak Beery and Alberto Villoldo
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Shamanic healing is making an astonishing comeback all over the modern technology-driven and...
The Book of Tapping: Emotional Acupressure with Eft
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Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), is a simple form of acupressure that treats the...
ClareR (5721 KP) rated Someone Like Me in Books
Jul 14, 2019
Liz is a single mother with two children, and the book starts with their father returning the children late from spending the weekend with him. When Liz points out that they have school in the morning, he snaps. He starts to strangle her, and just as she thinks he’s going to kill her, she senses an outside influence taking her over. This ‘influence’ saves her life.
Fran is a teenager coping with the PTSD and hallucinations caused by her kidnapping as a six year old. Their paths cross thanks to Zac, Liz’s seventeen year old son.
This is a story that requires the reader to leave their rational, logical mindset at the door - and I’m all for that! I loved everything about this book. I don’t know how M.R. Carey comes up with the ideas for his novels, but I’m just incredibly glad that he does!
Many thanks to NetGalley for my copy of this book.
Keep Me Still (Keep Me Still, #1)
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Layla Flaherty had the perfect life until a stranger gunned her parents down right in front of her,...