Going Home
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Home should be a place where you can relax, escape your worries and hide away in comfort with your...
The Legacy of the Lynx
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1798. Three people, two brutal murders, and a single promise...Golo Eck is searching for the fabled...
Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl
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In Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl, the author looks back fondly on growing up...
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b.Young (97 KP) rated Escape From Olympus (The Falken Chronicles Book 2) in Books
May 13, 2018
I was engrossed from the first paragraph and found myself wanting to read Escape from Olympus until I couldn't hold my eyes open any longer. It was that good!
Action-packed until the end, Escape from Olympus begins with a bang of a first chapter! It had my heart racing and my mind reeling.
I don't like to post reviews with spoilers, so I will just say that even if you haven't read the first book, Escape from Oz, you can totally get down with this book. It works prerty well as a stand-alone, although you will have missed a tiny bit of background on Falken which may confuse you for a split second in a couple of parts, but it's not vital to enjoy the story at hand.
Piers Platt did an amazing job relating the world of Olympus and its inhabitants. I was also very impressed with the fact that I actually liked the villians because he did such a great job with their personalities. I was completely invested in the fates of ALL characters in this story and I can't remember that ever happening to me in a book like this.
I am waiting dor my weekend to calm down so I can start the third book, Return to Oz! There was an excerpt of the first chapter at the end of this book, and I am so ready!!!
5000-1 the Leicester City Story
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In August 2015 bookmakers priced Leicester at 5000-1 to win the Premier League - the same odds as...
Jurassic Park: Danger!
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The first visitors have arrived at Jurassic Park to see its miraculous dinosaurs firsthand, but...
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David McK (3396 KP) rated The Book of Boba Fett in TV
Feb 9, 2022
Bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt.
Fell into the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi.
Reappeared in season 2 of The Mandalorian.
And now has his own series.
Or does he? Only 7 episodes long, this is very much a series of two halves: the first half full of flashbacks to what happened to Boba between the time of his escape from the Sarlacc pit (and how he managed that) and his reappearance in Season 2 of the Mandalorian, while the second (and better) half is more akin to The Mandalorian season 2.5!
JT (287 KP) rated Escape Room (2019) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
There have been a few incantations of this new age idea already; Escape Room (2017) & No Escape Room, but this one is probably the best of a bad bunch.
Six strangers each receive a cryptic puzzle box, which once opened invites them to compete for a $10,000 prize – if they can get through a series of deviously constructed rooms. The group comes from all walks of life, a gifted maths student, an Iraq War vet a blue collar trucker to name a few, each with a seemingly interconnected past.
After a frantic flash-forward where we see someone coming unstuck in one of the rooms, we are introduced to each of the characters one by one. There isn’t enough time to go into massive details, so it feels like we only scratch the surface as to what makes them tick.
Meeting in a plush reception area the game begins – although none of them realise it at first. The room starts to get hot and they soon discover that they are about to get burnt alive – unless they can work out the clues to escape.
The group quickly realise that they will have to work together in order to survive.
Aside from getting burnt alive they also face a winter themed room where the ice cracks beneath them, an upside down bar where the floor drops away and a hallucinogenic trip fest which is extremely freaky to watch.
During proceedings, in which there is a lot of infighting and panic, you half expect Billy the Puppet to come peddling out on his tricycle and explain the next part of the game. There are definite similarities to Saw, people are in a race against time before they ultimately meet a grizzly end, but because many people have experienced this style of entertainment before the reality is unnerving.
While the gore doesn’t reach Saw levels it provides enough tension, but it then starts to tail off a little towards the end. The conclusion is far too predictable although there is just enough intrigue to see what they will conjure up next.
Resident Evil Survivor 2 - Code: Veronica
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Claire Redfield, is continuing to look for her brother after the Raccoon City incident and she was...
Haunting Ground
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Haunting Ground, known in Japan as Demento, is a survival horror video game developed and published...