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Recipe for Disaster (Violetta Massoni #2)

Theda Vallee

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Mix two parts mystery, a dash of danger, and a sparkling heap of fabulous…. Etta Massoni used...

Flawless Witness

Merida Johns

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Suzanna Jordan suppressed the memories of Jonathan’s abuse for thirty-six years, but when a...

Women's Fiction Women's Domestic Suspense Fiction Women's Psychological Fiction Domestic Abuse

David McK (3721 KP) rated The Phantom of the Opera (2005) in Movies

Jul 11, 2022

The Phantom of the Opera (2005)

2005 | Drama, Horror, Musical

7.3

(20 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The Phantom of the Opera is here ...

2005 film version of the Broadway show, starring Emmy Rossum (Christine Daae) and Gerard Butler (as the Phantom).

And therein lies it's greatest problem: Butler (and, to an extent, all the modern Phantom's) is just too conventionally good-looking for the hideous disfigured gargoyle who haunts the Parisian Opera catacombs but dreams of higher things!

That aside, this is definitely sumptuously filmed, with some great sets. Some catchy tunes, with the latter to be expected

I.t's just that, well, it does tend to drag a bit.

I suppose, in effect, it's like going to the Opera without actually going to the Opera ...

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David McK (3721 KP) rated Blood of the Bear (Fire Born volume 5) in Books

Oct 18, 2024 (Updated Oct 18, 2024)

This is the final(?) entry in Angus Donald's 'Fire Born' series about the Viking berserker Bjarki Bloodhand in the time of Charlemagne, a series which - will enjoyable enough - has never *quite* managed to hit the heights of his Robin Hood 'Outlaw Chronicles' series of novels.

Here, we have Bjarki living a quiet life at the start of the novel, before events transpire to drag him - and his sister Tor - back into the conflict between the Christian Franks and the pagan Danes/Saxons, events that culminate in one of the few Frankish (temporary) defeats.

Worth a read? Yes.
As good as the Outlaw Chronicles series? No.