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Anne Boleyn

Howard Brenton

7.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Traditionally seen as a pawn manoeuvred into Henry VIII's bed by an ambitious father and his...

Jason Frowde (14 KP) rated Village Attacks in Tabletop Games

Sep 3, 2019

Village Attacks

2018 | Horror, Miniatures

8.0

(3 Ratings)

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Burn the witch !

Village attacks is a tower defense style game but with a great and unique premise !
You are the bad guy and must defend your castle from peasants with there pitch forks and torches !
The production for this game is fantastic, the minis great and the gameplay fun .
Some negatives could be that there isnt a great deal of choices to be made and that it is pretty pricey ( but you do get alot )

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The Steam Engines of Oz (2018)

5.0 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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A century after the Wicked Witch, the Emerald City is at the mercy of a once-revered hero, and...

Christina Haynes (148 KP) rated Sea Witch in Books

Sep 18, 2018

Sea Witch

Sarah Henning | 2018 | Paranormal, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

7.4

(7 Ratings)

Book Rating

Sea Witch

When I was younger I used to always love the Princesses from the Disney stories and be afraid of the Villain's. But 'The Little Mermaid' was a different story, I loved Ariel and of course I wanted to be her and be a mermaid. But Ursula always had my heart, I loved how she was, I loved her songs and the story of who she was. But I always wanted to know more, who she was before the story and why she became the Sea Witch. Sarah Henning gives me just that.

Evie is a girl from Havnestad, a place near Copenhagen where the Little Mermaid is set. She is a girl who is hiding a secret from her best friend the Prince of Havnestad... Evie is a witch.

Nik, Evie and a girl called Anna have been best friends since they was small, until one day Anna drowned. Years later Anna is still a memory to them both, Evie has never forgotten her best friend and neither has Nik who loved Anna. One day a girl arrives on the shore called Annamette who looks almost identical to Anna only older. Evie believes that she is Anna, but no one else agrees. Annamette is hiding a secret of her own, alike Evie she can use magic. Unlike Evie she's a mermaid.

Annamette has given up her tail for legs in order to have her true love return the feeling. Once this happens she will be human forever and live among the people and be 'apart of that world' Evie makes it her duty to help Annamette get what she want's to help her to become human. She shows her things, she takes her to balls. They become close friends. But the Prince that Annemette loves, is Prince Nik and his cousin believes shes a phoney, and he might be right.

Time is ticking to get Annamette her legs. If they are to fail, Annemette will turn into sea foam. Evie will loose her new friend and will we finally find out who the Sea Witch it?

☕☕☕ - NOT A BAD BOOK

Love,
Christina xx

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Crucible in Books

Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 11, 2017)

Exceptional drama exploring paranoia and hysteria

I remember having to study this book in drama during my school days, which made me become fascinated with the Salem Witch trials and its parallel politics. It is a dramatised and partially fictionalised story of the trials that took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during 1692/93.

The play explores paranoia, the power of superstition and mass hysteria. It shows the dangers of using a scapegoat to fix problems in society. Classed as one of the great American plays along with the likes of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Miller wrote the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, when the US government ostracised people for being communists.

Many prominent people became victims of the Red Scare, Arthur Miller was one of many people who came to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In his play The Crucible Miller drew comparisons with the Red Scare and the witch trials of 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts.

Truly an awe-inspiring and essential read.

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated The Wizard of Oz (1939) in Movies

Jan 11, 2018

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

1939 | Fantasy, Musical

8.4

(117 Ratings)

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First color movie

The first movie ever to be done in Technicolor. This movie was a very important one during the great depression because it lifted peoples spirits and kind of gave them hope. The story of a young girl who ends up (in her mind if you believe) whisked away bystand up to her fears and face off against her foe. a twister to a wonderful make believe where her closet friends are represented by a scarecrow,tinman and lion all which need her to get stronger and she needs them to get her back home. We are introduced to one of movie histories greatest villains in the Wicked Witch of the West early in the movie and see our heroine stand up for herself against her foe. Some people say Dorothy represented the USA and The Witch was Hitler and that the meaning of this movie could be we could stand up to our greatest foes and defeat them if we just had the right tools.

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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Blood Kissed (Lizzie Grace #1) in Books

Mar 1, 2020

Blood Kissed (Lizzie Grace #1)

Keri Arthur | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

9.0

(1 Ratings)

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In a world where magic and science sit side by side, and powerful witches are considered necessary aides for all governments, Lizzie Grace is something of an outlier. Though born into one the most powerful blue blood witch families, she wants nothing to do with either her past or her magic.

But when she and Belle, her human familiar and best friend, open a small cafe in the Faelan werewolf reservation, she quickly finds herself enmeshed in the hunt for a vampire intent on wreaking bloody havoc. It’s a hunt that soon becomes personal, and one that is going to take all her skills to survive–that’s if the werewolves, who hate all things witch, don’t get her first.

I love Keri Arthur and have read almost everything she has written this is a reread for me as I needed to refresh myself for the second book. It did not disappoint full of action and pent up sexual frustration between characters. I love the fact she has Belle her human familiar . Recommended.