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City of Secrets

Victoria Thompson

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Elizabeth Miles knows that honesty is not always the best policy when it comes to finding justice. ...

David McK (3540 KP) rated Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14) in Books

Jan 30, 2019 (Updated Jan 16, 2022)

[2022 update]

Setting the bar pretty high already for the title of best-book-I've-read-this-year

[original 2013 review]

I heard (or read) somewhere a while back that the Dresden Files series was meant to run for about 20 books, with Jim Butcher having the general gist of the series as a whole already in mind. If that's true, then we must be on - or approaching - the home stretch, with this as book number 14 in the series.

And what a book it is, too.

By far one of the best books I've read this year, this starts with the previously-thought-to-be-dead Harry Dresden returned to health (of a sort) and life by Mab, the faerie Winter Queen, who is holding him to his promise to be her Winter Knight (which is also the reason why he was 'killed' (note the inverted commas) at the end of <i>Changes</i>, 2 books ago).

The Faerie play a larger role in this than in any book since, perhaps, <i>Summer Knight</i>, with characters from that earlier entry returning. Indeed, there's so much back-story here I wouldn't recommend picking this one up without reading any of the previous: normally, I'd count that against a novel, but not in this case. This one also leaves a couple of plot threads left hanging for the next entry, which I'm already looking forward to.

Let's hope it's not another year before I get reading it!

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) created a post

Dec 30, 2017

So I just watched the movie All Eyez on Me. The life of Tupac Shakur. The acting was amazing and the story line was right on key. Considering all the press recently about the murders of Shakur and Biggie this was the best I have seen. I do wish they went a little more into the feuds between east coast and west coast rap sensations the profile of Shug Knight was awesome. It was better than the character of him used in Straight out of Compton. I also love that they go into his time with the Digital Underground which really was his rise to stardom. All and all this movie I say this is a must see for Shakur fans and raps fans alike.

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David McK (3540 KP) rated Bumblebee (2018) in Movies

Apr 28, 2020

Bumblebee (2018)

2018 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

7.8

(80 Ratings)

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Prequel film to Michael Bay's Transformers series of films based on 80s cartoons, and a strong contender for the best of the bunch!

With Michael Bay handing over directing duties to Travis Knight, it's actually possible to see what is happening on most of the action sequences now, with those sequences not as frenetic or as bombastic as before.

This is also smaller in scale, with only Bumblebee (that's the yellow Transformer) himself and a few Decepticons sharing the screen, although Optimus Prime does get a cameo and a few mentions!

I also got a very 80s, very Amblin-esque vibe from the whole thing, very much due to it's small self-contained setting and themes of family and growing up!