Dragondoom (Mithgar book #5)
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One of Dennis L. McKiernan's most acclaimed novels, Dragondoom brings the fascinating world of...
Snow Blind
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With the holidays over and the long cold winter looming, January can be a bleak month in...
Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale
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Queen Gimnax has ordered the reclamation of the northern lands. As a cartographer in her service,...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Assistant in Books
Apr 11, 2023
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The Assistant
By S.K. Tremayne
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Newly divorced Jo is delighted to move into her best friend's spare room almost rent-free. The high-tech luxury Camden flat is managed by a meticulous Home Assistant, called Electra, that takes care of the heating, the lights - and sometimes Jo even turns to her for company.
Until, late one night, Electra says one sentence that rips Jo's fragile world in two: `I know what you did.' And Jo is horrified. Because in her past she did do something terrible. Something unforgivable.
Only two other people in the whole world know Jo's secret. And they would never tell anyone. Would they? As a fierce winter brings London to a standstill, Jo begins to understand that the Assistant on the shelf doesn't just want to control Jo; it wants to destroy her.
This book was a very good reminder of why I do not have an Alex in my home! Very dark very mean and chilling to the bone. Well worth a read!
Dragon Warrior (Dragon Clan #2)
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Harith is a dragon-shifter with something to prove. As the son of a clan chieftain, he has an...
Paranormal Romance
David McK (3369 KP) rated Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) in Movies
Nov 21, 2021
We've had Origin stories (upon origin story upon origins story ...)
We've had 'fish out of water' comedies (see: Thor)
We've had outright sci-fi/sci-fantasy (see: Guardians of the Galaxy)
We've had political thrillers (see: Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
We've had team-up (see: The Avengers)
We've had crime capers (See: Ant-man)
Up until now, we've had no Martial Arts movies (sorry, Netflix's 'Iron Fist': you don't count as a movie).
We've also had no movies with a mainly Asian cast. Until now.
This also brings back the 10 Rings organisation (first name-dropped all the way back in 2008's 'Iron Man'), with the plot outline of the movie actually quite different than what I expected - lots of Martial Arts sequences (the fight on the bamboo scaffolding is a high-light), the usual Marvel musings on family, and one or two character inclusions that I wasn't expecting (but really should have been) ...
Sixteen Horses
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Near the dying English seaside town of Ilmarsh, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers...
Literary Fiction Trigger Warning: Animal Cruelty and Dismemberment
We All Want Impossible Things
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Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your...
The Lessons We Learn
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March 1943. As the Buffalo winter ends, the father of Betty Ahern's friend, Lee Tillotson,...
David McK (3369 KP) rated The Incredible Hulk (2008) in Movies
Jan 30, 2021 (Updated Sep 18, 2022)
Anyway, all that said, this is solidly mid-tier stuff: better than the Ang Lee version from circa 2003, sure, but not up there with the likes of The Winter Soldier or Avengers Assemble.