Sea Witch Rising
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“The Little Mermaid” takes a twisted turn in this thrilling sequel to villainess origin story...
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
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Sparked by a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial...
Vesper Flights
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Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Meet the Fockers (2004) in Movies
Mar 9, 2022
Barbara Streisand and Dustin Hoffman are welcome additions as the Focker parents, and their liberal lifestyle works at odds with Jack Byrne's uptight nature. It provides the bulk of the funny moments this time around.
The plot is essentially the same as the first film, just set in Miami, and as such follows a predictable beat, but it's a safe one that provides an easy watch, backed by some reliably pleasant Randy Newman music.
An inferior sequel then, but one that serves its purpose. An easy re-watch option for when you've been scrolling through Netflix for far too long.
The Mark of Fate ( The Marked book 3)
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War will be waged, lives will be lost… One step forward and two steps back. That’s what it...
David McK (3547 KP) rated The Loki Sword (Fireborn #3) in Books
Sep 18, 2022
I don't know why that is; it's just one of those things.
However, I'll still read these novels, just not be in as much of a rush to do so as with the others.
This is the third in his FireBorn series (after both The Last Berserker: An action-packed Viking adventure and The Saxon Wolf: A Viking epic of berserkers and battle) and is also, for my money, the best of those three novels. That may be because of the nature of this - a band of travellers setting out on a quest, leading to a battle and a return home, with the author himself admitting the influence of the works of JRR Tolkien on this particular entry.
The Accursed King (The Plantagenet Legacy #4)
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What happens when a king loses his prowess? The day Henry IV could finally declare he had vanquished...
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Elektra
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The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and...
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Wilderness Retreat in Books
Feb 26, 2023
What I liked about it: the setting and the general creepiness.
What I didn't like about it: the main character ... well, actually, most of the characters if I'm honest, the repetitive nature of some of the story, the dream sequences, lack of anything much happening most of the time and whilst the "mystery" was intriguing in the beginning, the twist was, for me, pretty obvious.
I'm sorry I didn't enjoy this as much as I was hoping but I guess you can't please everyone all of the time and there are plenty of very positive reviews for this book so if it sounds like your kind of story, give it a go.
Thank you to HQ and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of The Wilderness Retreat.
David McK (3547 KP) rated The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9) in Books
May 12, 2024
The final entry in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, which - again - I experienced through a mixture of reading and listening to the Stephen Fry narrated Audible version, and which is also really once again a collection of short stories rather than a single over-arching narrative.
What is unique in this collection, though, is that some of the stories are presented as Holmes himself delivering the narrative, rather than Watson acting as the biographer.
I also noticed - perhaps reflecting the nature of the time in which they were written, and Doyle's own interests - that there are more of the, shall we say, supernatural elements in the case chosen ("The adventure of the Sussex Vampire" springs to mind, for example) although - in all cases - the supernatural elements are later debunked by Holmes himself.
As a whole? I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the company of Holmes and Watson.