The Woman in the Dunes
Book
Dazzlingly original, Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes is one of the premier Japanese novels in the...
Little Wildheart
Book
By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor's poems slip effortlessly...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Phoenix Forgotten (2017) in Movies
Sep 19, 2020
Kim Pook (101 KP) rated I See You (2019) in Movies
Oct 12, 2020
Anyway, when the movie properly starts we are made aware that the husband and wife are having marital problems due to the wife having an affair. At work the husband is placed on the case of the missing boy from the start of the movie, and at home strange things are happening, windows are being broken, photos going missing, TV is turning on by itself and it is evident that someone or something is watching the family.
The first half of the movie is showing the strange things happening, whilst the second half of the movie is dedicated to explaining what is going on and quite frankly I lost interest very quickly.
I found the movie rather boring and uninteresting. The acting throughout was very wooden for the most part, which was very surprising for Helen Hunt as I've always found her good, but it seems her acting skills have withered away over the years. The music they tried too hard to make it sound eerie, that it just ended up sounding like it was put together by a trainee and to top it off nothing in the movie made sense. Overall it was awful, I was time watching the whole time wondering when it would be over.
Ari Augustine (10 KP) rated The Deep in Books
May 4, 2020
Annie Hebley is a nurse who survived the sinking of Titanic and has since confined herself to an mental institution. However, at the start of The Deep, she is hired to work on the Britannica to help the wounded WW1 soldiers. What I love about this story is how well it blends actual history in between these moments of atmospheric supernatural events. We meet characters who were once very much alive on a ship that actually existed. There's something eerie about tethering such a story in a historical way that connects to the reader, and this element of the story certainly spoke to me. But what I loved MOST was how unreliable Annie was as a character. Her point of view jumped between 1912 and 1916, blurring the lines of reality even further. Although the pacing wasn't always consistent, I love, love, LOVED Katsu's writing.
Overall, I'd recommend The Deep to anyone with a dash of patience, a dangerous curiosity for the supernatural, and, well, anyone who lives creepy stories rooted in history.
Razzia (2017)
Movie
After 2015's much-lauded Much Loved, internationally renowned director Nabil Ayouch returns with his...
international drama
The World of Lore: Dreadful Places (The World of Lore #3)
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Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories from...
The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme #7)
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Lincoln Rhyme returns in The Cold Moon, a roller coaster of a thriller that pits Lincoln and Amelia...
Intrigue in Istanbul
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In Agatha Award-winning author Erica Ruth Neubauer’s fourth wanderlust-inspiring historical...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Sanatorium in Books
Jul 17, 2022
Book
The Sanatorium ( Elin Warner book 1)
By Sarah Pearse
⭐️⭐️
A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party, and she feels she has no choice but to accept.
Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. And things only get worse when they wake the next morning to find her brother's fiancée is missing. With access to the hotel cut off, the guests begin to panic.
But this is only the first disappearance. Everyone's in danger - and anyone could be next . . .
If I’m going to be honest I struggled through some of this book! It was ok but that was it just ok! I couldn’t stand the character Will he just drove me crazy I was hoping he would become a victim! It was very middle of the road for me and after all the hype I’d seen I was kinda expecting a little bit more. The main character could have been a bit more interesting I know she has a past that’s dragging her down but I felt it wasn’t explained or brought out very well! It’s a shame as I wanted to love it! Also the Epilogue was a bit strange it didn’t really entice me to want the next book.