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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
2013 | Drama

"I guess there would have to be a Scorsese movie, but there are so many to choose from. You could go for the trilogy –the Goodfellas, Casino, Wolf of Wall Street trilogy — which I absolutely love. I mean, the rise and fall, it’s a classic thing in cinema — all our lives are a rise and fall, aren’t they, if we’re lucky; it could be just a bit of a rise as we go from adulthood to old age and then we die. [Laughs] But Goodfellas and Casino, the journey of those movies to The Wolf of Wall Street, is where the morality is slowly sucked out of them. So Goodfellas is a film where they have a system, a moral code, which is eroded in Casino, where they have a slight system or morals, but it’s all slightly tarnished. But by the time you get to The Wolf of Wall Street, there’s no moral code at all."

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The Omega Assassin (Wolves of the Five Kingdoms #3)
The Omega Assassin (Wolves of the Five Kingdoms #3)
Victoria Sue | 2025 | LGBTQ+, Paranormal
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
well played with the wolf twist!
I was gifted my copy of this book.

This is book 3 in the Wolves of the Five Kingdoms series, and you don't need to have read the others before this one. Helpful, but not necessary.

Casteel shifted into a silver wolf when he was scared by a snake. He is then plunged into a life he never wanted. Nero is sent to kill the one who claims to be the silver wolf of prophecy. But when their eyes connect across the courtyard, Something in Casteel's eyes make him falter and then both men are drawn into a world of power and politics that might well cost them both their lives.

I loved book 1, gave it five stars. Book 2 got four but I read it on KU and didn't write a review. This book I found to be on a par with book 3.

Casteel doesn't want this life, the High Priest Doran using all sorts of ways to "persuade" the silver wolf out. It's clear until much later in the book WHY he wants to wolf, but he makes it very clear he wants the wolf under his power. Nero offers Casteel a way out, and CAsteel would have taken it, he really would but Nero ends up being his mate and then there is all sorts of back stabbing and double crossing and I wasn't sure which was way up sometimes!

It's quite a bit darker, I think, than the other two books. Casteel suffers badly at the hands of Doran and Nero has suffered fighting for the rebellion. Once Doran grabs power, it's very clear he is not concerned about the people of this land, just what he can get out of them and he will do whatever he wants.

Not especially explicit, for a fated mates/werewolf/paranormal book but I loved that it wasn't.

What this book is about is more than the smex between these two. It's about dealing with the hand that fate dealt you, and doing what you need to do to free your people from under a madman. Even if that might get you killed.

Just a note, very well played with the wolf! Never saw that coming!

4 very VERY good stars

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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
2013 | Drama
Leonardo Di Caprio (0 more)
Thematic Simplicity (0 more)
The film relishes in the debauchery, the sex, the drugs, the money, to the point where it feels more like a Project X for adults than a contemplative Scorsese film.

Full Review:https://www.bohanreviews.com/post/the-wolf-of-wall-street
  
Alpha (2018)
Alpha (2018)
2018 | Action, Drama, Thriller
Enemy to friend
This is a great tale that shows how a wolf becomes a friend to a hunter and evolves to more.
Some of the shots were shot near where I live . So i love seeing the Canadian badlands on the large screen.
  
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"As well as the Viking folklore, we got a paranormal element too!" - @Debbiereadsbook

Review & #Giveaway: Wolf of the Nordic Seas (Valiant Vikings #2) by Jennifer Ivy Walker - #VikingRomance, #Historical, #Fantasy, 3 out of 5 (good)

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Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
Marissa Meyer | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.4 (36 Ratings)
Book Rating
I enjoyed this book more than the first in the series, Cinder. The plot moved along much more quickly and it didn't take me as long to get hooked in to the story. There are a bunch of new characters added in this book... Scarlet (little red riding hood) & Wolf (the bog bad wolf) being the two main additions. The 2 classic fairy tales mesh well together & add more interest along with several unexpected plot twists.
I'm going to stop this review now so I can get started with Cress. The only problem I have now is that the fourth & final book doesn't come out for a year!!!