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King of Blades (Two Thrones #4)

Nicola M. Cameron

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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It's autumn in the beautiful island kingdom of Hellas as King Matthias of Ypres and Queen Danaë of...

Fantasy Romance

Darkest Mercy (Wicked Lovely, #5)

Melissa Marr

8.0 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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Send the messengers for the Faery Courts. This is the end. The Summer King is missing; the Dark...

Elizabeth of York: The Last White Rose

Alison Weir

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Mother. Survivor. Queen. --- AN ENGLISH PRINCESS, BORN INTO A WAR BETWEEN TWO FAMILIES. ...

Historical fiction Tudor Medieval 16th Century England

Rob Halford recommended Queen II by Queen in Music (curated)

Queen II by Queen

1974 | Pop

(0 Ratings)

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"When I think about why I love Queen my head just fills with every single Queen song that I know by heart. It's just like a box of Quality Street. Everything is amazing. The reason that I've chosen the second album is because the song 'Ogre Battle' is on there, which is one of my favourite tracks. It's rare that you struggle to label a band. If you're a heavy metal band you're meant to look and sound like a heavy metal band but you can't really call Queen anything. They could be a pop band one day or the band that wrote 'Bicycle Race' the next and a full-blown metal band the next. In terms of the depth of the musical landscape that they covered, it was very similar to some extent to the Beatles. I mean 'Helter Skelter' was a pretty heavy track, and 'Yellow Submarine' really wasn't. I think Queen have a lot of similar ingredients. Everybody was writing the songs as well, so Freddie was writing differently to John Deacon, and then John was writing differently to Roger [Taylor, drummer]. They were all accepting each other though, and nobody was sat there saying that they couldn't do something because it didn't sound like Queen. If it was a good song they'd record it, and this album is nothing but good songs. It's a style that we've tried to adopt into Judas Priest. A good song is a good song at the end of the day, and there's no point in wasting time arguing about whether Priest are supposed to sound like the British Steel record or the Painkiller record or whatever. I felt such a sense of loss when Freddie died, but he fucking loved his life. He partied like a maniac. I've lost a lot of friends to AIDS and it's such a terrible thing to have to suffer through. Such a cruel condition to be taken by. From what I've seen and heard there's a horrible sense of loss in those early days. There was a lot of rejection and almost pariah-like status heaped upon you by people. And it's still around today, which is so sad and unfair. It's interesting though, because I don't know if Freddie would still have been doing what he did now. Would he still be going out on the road with Brian and Roger, who, by the way, I love? Especially Adam [Lambert]. But Freddie would have been 70-something I think, and I get a feeling that at some point, he would have just said, "I've had enough now darling." We lost him, but he left behind such an incredible legacy and canon of work. I listen to Queen almost every day still."

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RachelReads (74 KP) rated The Assassin's Blade: The Throne of Glass Novellas in Books

May 24, 2017

Gives backstory of Celaena (2 more)

Helps you to understand references throughout the series

SAM CORTLAND????

Must Read if Reading Throne of Glass!

I usually don't like reading novellas/find it hard to get into. But this bind up was just amazing. You learn so much more about Celaena and gain more of an appreciation for her character.
This is a must read before Queen of Shadows!

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RachelReads (74 KP) rated Queen of Shadows in Books

May 24, 2017

Queen of Shadows

Sarah J. Maas | 2015 | Children

9.1

(29 Ratings)

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so. much. happens. (0 more)

It just gets better and better...

This book was so action packed, I don't think I ever put the book down. It draws you in from page 1 until you realise that you've read the entire book. Characters from the Assassin's Blade were reintroduced, and are now such a crucial part of the plot - SJM is queen.
P.S I hate Chaol even more now.

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Erika (17789 KP) rated My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots in Books

Feb 25, 2019

This is supposed to be the 'new' and 'definitive' biography of Mary, Queen of Scots. Honestly, there was nothing mind-blowing about this biography at all. Most noticeably, of course, is that John Guy is peddling is that Mary wasn't aware of the Darnley murder. I still haven't been given enough evidence to believe that.

Overall, this was an ok book that inspired an ok movie.

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Reagan Elizabeth Grainger (288 KP) rated Hive in Tabletop Games

Feb 17, 2020

Hive

2001 | Abstract Strategy, Animals

8.4

(10 Ratings)

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Nice size weighty pieces (0 more)

Can be over pretty quick. (0 more)

Think easier chess

I have the monochrome version and its fab. The aim of the game is to surround the queen using wother sides pieces. The game manufacture has done an easy to follow video and th game comes with clear instructions. It's one of the easiest games I've picked up in a long time.