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Shades of Justice (Detective Madison Knight series Book 9)

Carolyn Arnold

8.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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The line between good and evil isn’t always clear… Detective Madison Knight has risked her...

Mystery crime police procedural series fiction murder

Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare

Regina M. Schwartz

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In thinking about Justice, we ignore Love to our peril. Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare asks why...

Phil Leader (619 KP) rated The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (The Drenai Saga #6) in Books

Nov 13, 2019

As with any David Gemmell book the synopsis makes it sound like any one of a hundred similar fantasy titles. Man comes home to find village murdered and his wife taken by slavers but he has a huge axe and plenty of muscles, blah blah blah

But if there is one person who can turn something so absurdly cliched into gold, it is Gemmell. There are a number of factors here; he knows his weaponcraft so the fight scenes are grittly realistic, his characters are very subtly drawn with many layers and shades of grey. But the thing that always makes Gemmell stand out for me is the dialogue. When the characters speak, everything they say is not only completely in character but there are no cheesy lines or absurd speeches.

If you like your fantasy epic with a complex hero wading through a sea of adversaries for reasons of love and a sense of justice, this book will not disappoint

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The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books

Mar 23, 2018

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry

8.9

(161 Ratings)

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This is one of the most fun reads I've ever had.

I kinda love this book, and the Audio Book is read by Wil Wheaton which is kinda perfect. I even love the dystopian future aspect, where everyone spends all the time online, plugged in to the Oasis. And here within it in a big mystery, with shades of willy wonka. Here is this everyday geek, who through hard work, determination and cunning deciphering of the codes and clues makes a run at the greatest prize of his time. Once agai on fo the most fun books I've ever read, and I really hope the movie coming out soon lives up to the feel, I already know it won't have everything as no movie is ever a complete version, but I feel that steven spielberg at least has the chops to take it on and do it justice. I hope I'm not wrong.