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Casey Reid (9 KP) rated Vicious in Books

Nov 5, 2019  
Vicious
Vicious
V.E. Schwab | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
10
9.6 (8 Ratings)
Book Rating
Literally everything (0 more)
This series is too short. (0 more)
READ. THIS. NOW.
Wow. I read a lot of books and very few have the ability to stick around and make me think about it for days on end. Vicious is that book. Being able to love and hate both Eli and Victor simultaneously is a task that only VE Schwab could accomplish. The plot was so fast paced that I genuinely couldn't put the book down. READ IT NOW!
  
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ClareR (6001 KP) rated Insomnia in Books

Jan 15, 2024  
Insomnia
Insomnia
Sarah Pinborough | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Insomnia wasn’t at all what I expected - and that’s a good thing!
Emma is terrified that she will end up like her mother on her 40th birthday: which is only 12 days away. At the same age, her mother became paranoid and tried to kill Emma’s sister. She ends up in a psychiatric hospital for the rest of her life - but not before predicting that Emma will end up the same way.

Emma isn’t sleeping. Is the insomnia an understandable result of the worry and trauma caused by her mother, or is she really going to end up with the same mental illness?

Ooh, this was a twisty-turny one! When Emma starts ‘losing’ parts of her day, even I thought she was heading down the same path as her mother. Trying to keep her disturbed past and her successful present completely separate seems an impossible task, and really piles the tension on.

This was a very tense read, and I was completely hooked - this is one of those books that you won’t want to put down.
  
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David McK (3633 KP) rated Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year in Books

Oct 19, 2025  
Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year
Batman, Volume 4: Zero Year
Scott Snyder | 2014
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Alternative to Frank Miller's Batman: Year One, this is the so-called New 52 take on Batmans earliest days in Gotham City, returning from the dead and finding himself facing both the Red Hood gang (hmmm, is one of them The Joker to be?) and - teased more towards the end here - The Riddler, whilst yet to form an alliance with Jim Gordon, who has also yet to become the police commissioner.

Full of vibrant and kinetic panels, this is indeed an enjoyable alternative to the afore-mentioned Batman: Year One to read.
  
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Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated All the Bright Places in Books

Mar 4, 2020  
All the Bright Places
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven | 2015 | Children, Young Adult (YA)
8
7.8 (24 Ratings)
Book Rating
If you love the likes of A Fault in Our Stars, Everything Everything or 100 Days or Sunlight you will love this coming of age story. It focuses on two people; Finch who has had a tough childhood and suffers from depressive episodes and Violet who has recently lost her sister in a car accident. The find each other on a ledge and Finch makes its his mission to save Violet from the spiral she has found herself in by exploring Indiana. It takes you on an emotional ride, but only one of them makes it in the end and it is heartwrenching!
  
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Trey Edward Shults recommended Irréversible (2002) in Movies (curated)

 
Irréversible (2002)
Irréversible (2002)
2002 | Drama, International
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"I always defend this movie. Some people hate it. I love it, although I am not in a rush to watch the first half again… There is a scene near the end of the film where it is just Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel lounging around their apartment. One of those lazy days you have with a partner. They were a real life couple and that chemistry shoots through to the film. You can tell they are madly in love. I always break into tears at this moment. It puts everything you’ve seen prior into heartbreaking context. The film is a tragedy told in reverse. I think it’s brilliant because by the design of its structure, it makes you think about the tragedy more than if you were just experiencing it in chronological order. Instead of getting to the end of the film and rooting for our protagonist to bash this guys head in, we get to the end of the film and think about how pointless all that pain and violence was and how heartbreaking it is that the violence destroyed this pure love."

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David McK (3633 KP) rated Heat Stroke (Weather Warden, #2) in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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Heat Stroke (Weather Warden, #2)
Rachel Caine
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
At the end of the previous book ('Ill Wind'), weather warden Joanne Baldwin had died and been reborn as a Djinn (or Genie).

What follows in this not only expands on the background story of that first novel, but is also told from a unique perspective: from the point of view of a Djinn, rather than as a mere mortal. Setting itself up nicely for the next book in the series, I actually found this to be both faster (I read it in two days flat) and more enjoyable than the previous novel - no mean feat as that novel was also a very enjoyable read.