Touch of Smoke
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Three years ago, Rikki Albemarle watched her best friend die at the hands of a supernatural evil....
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The Missing Season
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From the author of Edgar Award finalist Grit and The Lies They Tell comes a tense, atmospheric novel...
YA young adult suspense thriller The Missing Season Gillian French
The 18th Abduction
James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
8.0
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Detective Lindsay Boxer's investigation into the disappearance of three teachers quickly escalates...
Not His Vampire (Not This Series Book 3)
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Magic is real. Shifters exist. Trixie Russell knows this. Everyone does. But no one told her about...
Not This Series fiction adult series paranormal romance
Chaos at Coconuts (Coconuts Series Book 2)
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To most, Coconuts is simply a bar. But for three best friends, it’s their oasis. That is, until...
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David McK (3557 KP) rated Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) in Movies
Jun 16, 2019 (Updated Apr 24, 2023)
This has nothing to do with it, but is (rather) a continuation of 2014's Godzilla movie that 'kicked off' what I'm going to call the Monster-verse, which now consists of 3 movies: 2014s "Godzilla", 2017s actually-quite-enjoyable "Kong: Skull Island", and now this.
The connecting tissue? The organisation known as Monarch, which has secretly being studying the Titans (as they are called here) ever since the events of that movie (set during the Vietnam War, remember). Kong is mentioned a few times, and appears on a TV screen in the background, but is not a character in this film.
What anybody really wants out of a movie like this, of course, is to see the monsters fighting each other whole destroying all around, and - in that respect, at least, this movie does not disappoint. It's just a pity that the human element doesn't really connect, with some clumsy eco-message exposition, although it does have some nice-looking vignettes when viewed in isolation (King Ghidorah on top of a mountain, with a cross in the foreground, for example).
Salt & Blood (Darker Desires #2)
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After slaying a wendigo, banishing a sub-prince of Hell, and falling in love with Adrian Graves...
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Lucius is a monster-hunting priest and befriends a mine owner as he travels to Galm to speak with the priest there. Unfortunately, that priest is dead and Lucius is afraid the rest of the town will soon follow.
This was a wonderful old-style fantasy that kept me turning the pages as I got lost in their adventures. The characters are all easily identifiable and have their own quirks and foibles. The pacing kept the story moving along whilst not rushing, giving me a chance to savour what was unfolding before me.
A great start to the series, I look forward to continuing this story and have no hesitation in recommending it.
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Merissa
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Crimson: A Dark Sidhe Faerie Tale
8.0
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Kara lived a life full of hardships. Her father abandoned his family when Kara was a young girl, her...
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Fire in Books
Nov 23, 2023
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Fire (Graceling Realm 2)
By Kristin Cashore
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She is the last of her kind...
It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.
This was really good. I was expecting it to carry on from Book1 but it doesn’t it follows the story of Fire and another world we do get a mention of Graceling which is how we find it’s another world but not till the end. So this is Fires story and she’s considered a monster in a world where the monsters are beautiful and bright but deadly. She has the power to control minds and is feared she goes to help the king and all sorts of events unfold. It’s a really good YA and I’m starting to like this writers style.