The Alpha Prince (Kingdom of Askara #3)
Victoria Sue and Michael Pauley (narrator)
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The Askaran desert can no longer sustain the secret hybrid population of wolves bred from those sent...
The Voice in My Head
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She can feel sorry for herself. Or she can listen...to the voice in her head. For Indigo...
Her Last Flight
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In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the...
The Scent of Rain
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Rose Madsen will do anything to keep from being married off to one of the men in her Fundamentalist...
My Heart Belongs in the Superstition Mountains: Carmela’s Quandary
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Journey now to Tuscon, Arizona, and into the Superstition Mountains of 1866, where... A Chance...
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I read Sundial with my heart in my mouth, horrified, not knowing what could possibly happen next. Honestly, I thought I knew what type of story would be coming my way after reading The Last House on Needless Street, but this is nothing like that, yet at the same time, it’s still totally Catriona Ward! Everything seems a little off kilter, a bit strange. People don’t behave in quite the same way as ‘normal’ people would.
I mean, a bonding experience in the Mojave desert between a mother and her daughter, in the childhood home where her parents experimented on dogs (this is a horror book. Horrible things happen to not just the people, but the animals as well). How could anything possibly go wrong, I ask you!
I hadn’t read horror in quite a while before I read Needless Street, and now I seem to be on a roll. This book reminds me why I read a lot of this genre as a teenager. It’s that feeling of being transfixed, unable to turn away whilst horrific things happen. The mind games as well!
Love, love, loved this.
And now I need to go and read Ward’s backlist, and make sure I read whatever comes next!
Thanks to the marvellous Pigeonhole yet again for an amazing serialisation!! Keep it up please!
No Pistol Tastes the Same by Jacob Paul Patchen
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JP’s pistol tastes like bourbon. Sergeant JP Grimm didn’t pull the trigger. Now his Marine...
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Fallout New Vegas
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Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. It's the kind of town where you dig your own grave prior to being shot...
Saul Sailing Snapper (211 KP) rated Bosch - Season 5 in TV
May 20, 2019
Harry Bosch was created by Michael Connolly in a series of books and has been adapted very well for the small screen. Titus Welliver (Lost, Deadwood) is perfect in the lead role as the gifted detective who has a troubled past.
This series opens with Bosch having fallen on hard times. With ruffled hair, leg in a brace and a cane, he is ushered off a bus in a make shift camp in the desert. Shuffling in a line of desperate addicts he waits for his reward for a day's work, a dose of opioids. After a run in with another addict he is caught snooping around the camp by one of the guards. He is taken to the head kingpin who thinking he is spying on them puts one bullet in the gun found in Bosch's backpack and points it at his head about to pull the trigger...
This series is possibly one of the best crime/detective shows around at the moment. It's pace is deliberate and slow with detectives taking their time finding vital clues (or missing them) but cleverly working multiple plot lines throughout the entire 10 episodes.
Steve Fearon (84 KP) rated Hostile (2017) in Movies
Nov 7, 2018
It does a decent job of creating a world and setting for a modest budget, and though its attempts to avoid showing too much for financial reasons are a little transparent at times.
The film oscillates between the post apocalyptic and the pre-catastrophe, and the performances of the main cast are good enough to maintain interest even when going though the largely melodramatic character building of the contemporary setting.
It is ultimately reminiscent of movies like open water, 47 feet under, and even some episodes of the Walking Dead, with the stranded survivor having to survive whilst essentially trapped in one location.
It is a slow burn movie, and very character based, so you spend a lot of time with our protagonist, who was a little cliched, and hard to like most of the time, but a decent enough performance that you can get through the more dialogue heavy parts.
A decent film, and at only 80 minutes, not a huge investment of your time, so might be worth a look if you like your survival movies a bit wasteland-y.