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b.Young (97 KP) rated Grind in Books

May 7, 2018

Grind

Edward Vukovic | 2016 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(2 Ratings)

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Beautiful prose

Character portrayal

The whole book!

I could not put this book down!

I was immediately drawn into this wonderfully written tale of rituals, mystery, and fate.
In a world full of so many, five total strangers cross paths and coincidentally affect the others' lives.
Ziva has inherited the ability to read coffee grinds, a power passed down from her grandmother. The ritual of preparing, drinking, and then placing the cup upside down in order to read the grinds, is one Ziva performs with utmost tradition and care. She reads the grinds to help the drinker discover their future.
But what if Ziva uses the ritual to read her own future? How would her discovery change her life?
Told in multiple voices, each one a stranger to the next, but all are familiar to Ziva, and each affects the other by pure coincidence.
Edward Vukovic's writing is beautiful, haunting and draws you into vividly detailed scenes and doesn't let go until you, too, are wishing for Ziva to read your grinds.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2434 KP) rated Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna (Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery, #3) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

Despite her intension to leave Paris for America, Ophelia Flax finds herself going to the country estate of her soon to be ex-fiancée to join a hunting party. But a broken down coach brings strangers into the mix, and the next morning one of them is dead. The locals are blaming it on the legend of an ancient beast, but Ophelia thinks poison was involved. Can she figure out whose heart is beastly enough to be a killer?

This is such a great book! The author weaves in elements of “Beauty and the Beast” and plays with it as a real legend while presenting a puzzling mystery filled with real characters and viable suspects. Everything kept me guessing until the great climax, and the way this book leaves things, I hope we get more soon.

NOTE: I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/02/book-review-beauty-beast-and-belladonna.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Katharina and Martin Luther: The Radical Marriage of a Runaway Nun and a Renegade Monk in Books

Jun 14, 2018

Katharina and Martin Luther: The Radical Marriage of a Runaway Nun and a Renegade Monk by Michelle DeRusha gave a vivid picture of 2 individuals whose path led to each other and to changing the course of history. It shares personal details of their lives, childhoods separated from family and risking capture, the escape to new lives. They married as virtual strangers but over time they grew to love and admire each other.
The book was extremely well written and researched. When reading you get a glimpse of what life was like at the time, and how Katharina and Martin called on their faith and each other to share their progressive thoughts.
This is a very intimate view of someone who hundreds of years later is a household name. It presents Martin Luther as very human, with doubts and fears, but with courage and the support of a loving relationship, gave Christians another way to live in faith.

I received this advanced reader's copy from Baker Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Cube (1997) in Movies

Jan 6, 2020

Cube (1997)

1997 | Horror, Sci-Fi

7.6

(31 Ratings)

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Inside The Cube

Cube- holy shit this movie was good, i liked it alot. I never seen it before, but heard about it. I heard many things about it, like it was a cult classic, a great twisted psycholgoical horror film and has traps. Than i was confused because i thought their were talking about Saw, the first one. Nope their are two different movies but about the same thing basically. Saw is also a cult classic, a great twisted psychological horror film and has traps. So thats aint cofusing at all.

The Plot: Without remembering how they got there, several strangers awaken in a prison of cubic cells, some of them booby-trapped. There's onetime cop Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), scientist Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), young math genius Leaven (Nicole de Boer), master of escapes Rennes (Wayne Robson), autistic savant Kazan (Andrew Miller) and architect Worth (David Hewlett), who might have more information on the maze than he lets on. The prisoners must use their combined skills if they are to escape.

Its a cult classic and must watch horror film.