The Thief (Black Dagger Brotherhood)
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New enemies rise and desire burns in the next thrilling novel of the New York Times bestselling...
Death Be Raven (Terra Vane #3)
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My name is Terra, and I’m a Psychic. I have visions, and I need them now more than ever. Of the...
Murderous Contagion: A Human History of Disease
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Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera,...
Fifty Shades of Black 'n' Blue - Further Revelations of an Ingrained Police Culture of Cover-ups and Dishonesty
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A sensational second book in The Biggest Gang trilogy from detective turned author Stephen Hayes....
Ross (3284 KP) rated Death March (Euphoria Online Book 1) in Books
Nov 19, 2018
While the term "LitRPG" isn't necessarily something that would attract me (I've read and mostly enjoyed Ready Player One but the idea of people escaping the real world to enter an online one doesn't seem to justify a whole sub-genre to my mind).
The book sees Chris struggling to make ends meet teaching disinterested kids while he fights his brother's death sentence. A former compulsive gamer, given the chance to enter the world of Euphoria, normally too expensive for him to consider, he throws himself into the game with gusto. By playing on the hardest level (Death March), he is risking his own life as he cannot re-spawn in the game and death will mean actual death for him. The prize on offer for this risk, if he can survive 6 months game-time (the equivalent of a weekend in the real world), is a cash sum plus the chance to request anything at all of the AI running the government - including a pardon for his brother.
Chris finds himself in a ruined medieval setting in the game, struggling to earn points to level up and make his character stronger. This levelling up and earning/spending XP is a main part of the book. While not a RPG fan myself, I loved this aspect as it meant he learned new skills and abilities throughout the book with good reason (so no sudden new strengths here!) and he had to choose what kind of character he wanted to become.
The action sequences are sublimely written and narrated and the whole book is so immersive. Sadly, it is also really short so was over in no time, but with 2 more books already available I will get cracking on those.
Heartily recommend to anyone who is a fan of fantasy, gaming/RPG or anyone looking for some real escapism.
Cadenza: The Kiss of Death - A Mystery Hidden Object Game
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Play the trial for FREE! Pay once & complete the adventure! You are asked to help with a murder...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Princess and the Frog (2009) in Movies
Mar 26, 2020 (Updated Mar 26, 2020)
The plot: Hardworking and ambitious, Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) dreams of one day opening the finest restaurant in New Orleans. Her dream takes a slight detour when she meets Prince Naveen (Bruno Campos), who has been turned into an amphibian by evil Dr. Facilier. Mistaking her for a princess and hoping to break the spell, Naveen plants a kiss on poor Tiana -- thereby turning her into a frog as well. The pair hop along on an adventure through the bayous to seek the help of a powerful voodoo priestess.
A very dark disney film, the darkness film since "The Black Cauldron". I mean their was "Beauty and The Beast" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". But damn this movie was dark.
Servant of the Bones
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Having created fantastic universes of vampires and witches, the incomparable Anne Rice now carries...
Woman Much Missed
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'Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me...' After the death of his wife Emma, a...