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Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful - the perfect seductress and the...
Oi Dog!
Jim Field, Kes Gray and Claire Gray
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The hilarious sequel to the bestselling Oi Frog! will have children rolling around with laughter....
Oi Dog!: Board Book
Jim Field, Kes Gray and Claire Gray
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The hilarious sequel to the bestselling Oi Frog! will have children rolling around with laughter....
The Book of Etta
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In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife,...
The Invasion of the Tearling
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With each passing day, Kelsea Glynn is growing into her new responsibilities as Queen of the...
The Napoleon Complex
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Napoleon stood before a stormy sky. In his hand was a scroll, and on that scroll were characters....
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
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This is the fully authorised chilling sequel to Susan Hill's bestselling ghost-story, The Woman in...
My Girl 2 (1996)
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Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis and Anna Chlumsky return as the offbeat Sultenfuss family in this...
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Old Guard (2020) in Movies
Jul 14, 2020 (Updated Apr 11, 2021)
Apparently based on a relatively-new comic series, you can also tell that this is a straight-to-TV affair, with it not *quite* having the budget or flair of a Hollywood film. It's also unclear just what happens if any of these immortals lose a limb - does it grow back?
Anyway, the driving force behind this is the discovery of a new immortal, just after the other's last mission goes sideways, with Big Pharma - in a plot development that will surprise no one - now out to see if they can extract the secret of their immortality from the group (who don't know it themselves).
Also definitely set up for a sequel: if it is half as good as this one, I'll be watching.
David McK (3372 KP) rated Dark Prince (Greek Series, #2) in Books
Jul 25, 2020
As the novel starts, Alexander is but a 4 year old and Parmenion is out of favour with Philip of Macedon, who is jealous of the Spartan general's success in battle. Alexander is still plagued by the Chaos Spirit, and - at around the 1/4 mark - is magically transported into an alternate Greece, where the myths and monsters of Greek legend are all real. With a little help from Aristotle and the Siptrassi stones, Parmenion is soon off on a rescue mission, accompanied by Philip's assassin Attalus (without Philips knowledge). The bulk of this novel - parts 2 and 3 (of 4) - then takes place in that alternate Greece, with Parmenion - again - reliving his past and playing a key role in proceedings, before it returns to 'our' Greece for the final part of the novel.
As is standard for Gemmell, lots of musing on the nature of Good and evil throughout, and with a conflicted central protagonist.