The Stepford Wives
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For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too...
Vampirella Vol. 1: Forbidden Fruit
Paul Cornell and Jimmy Broxton
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via Edelweiss "One thousand years have passed since Vampirella was last spotted, doing what she...
Burning Chrome
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Best-known for his seminal sf novel NEUROMANCER, William Gibson is also a master of short fiction....
All The Broken Pieces
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Matt Pin would like to forget: war torn Vietnam, bombs that fell like dead crows, and the terrible...
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His Dark Materials
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His Dark Materials is an upcoming British fantasy adventure series based on the novel series of the...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) in Books
Aug 27, 2021
This time, Dresden must uncover who has framed Warden Morgan - formerly his chief prosecutor on the White Council - and see if he can uncover the traitor within the ranks of that body.
By the end of the novel, the world (as a whole) has become a somewhat shadier place: how do you know what the right thing to do is, when there is no clear-cut right or wrong?
Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated A Girl From Forever (The Forever Institute #1) in Books
Oct 4, 2021
An absolutely action packed Thriller of a novel I was gripped from the get go. The way Yolanda has written absolutely captivates your imagination and takes you on the journey along with the characters I round myself getting nervous at points worrying about the outcome. I will definitely be reading the other 2 books!
Absolute must read
David McK (3562 KP) rated Sharpe's Mission (1996) in Movies
Dec 8, 2022
This, I believe, is the only Sean Bean led Sharpe made-for-TV movie NOT to be based on a Sharpe novel by Bernard Cornwell, even although it is written well enough that it very well could have been!
As with all of the Sharpe stories, you know pretty much what to expect: Sharpe is sent on a dangerous mission (here, to blow up a French ammunition supply during the closing stages of the Peninsular War), and ends up fighting just as much against those in authority on his own side as against the French ...
Sensitivemuse (246 KP) rated The Ritual in Books
Nov 17, 2017
Yeah that’s basically what you get throughout the book. It could be similar horror elements like Blair Witch Project, only you do find out what it is towards the latter part of the story. (And it’s still pretty creepy to figure out and picture).
I really do enjoy the horror aspects in this book and the feelings it invokes. You can really feel the desperation, frustration, and anguish felt within the characters. Tempers flare and understandably fights happen from within the group. You feel Luke’s anger and his highs and lows as you follow him throughout this horror journey.
There’s not many twists or blindside moments in this book it’s pretty much standard that you would see in horror books but the setting is very well done. A remote forest in Scandinavia while there’s something big and bad out there provides great atmosphere for the dark and scary.
It does drag out through the last third of the novel where you just have to feel for Luke and you wonder how much the human spirit can take. The ending really should have ended about 50 pages ago and there is repetition through the novel that some may find a trial to go through when reading. It’s manageable most of the time but I was close to losing my interest towards the end of the novel but powered through. It was still an enjoyable read, and recommended for those that want a good solid horror.
I’ll be reading more of his books for sure. I enjoyed the thrill and can only imagine what his other books will be like.