A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels
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Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London its rich diversity of...
The Last Days of New Paris
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A thriller of a war that never was - of survival in an impossible city - of surreal cataclysm. In...
Five Spice Street
Can Xue, Karen Gernant and Zeping Chen
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Five Spice Street tells the story of a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Sakho & Mangane in TV
Feb 17, 2021
Then, halfway through the season and with virtually no warning, a villain with magic powers turns up, one of the characters likewise reveals he has occult abilities, and from this point on the show is stuffed with demons, zombies, evil magicians, strange cults, and so on: the police captain is told that rather than an elite crime task force, she's now running a secret paranormal investigation squad (not that she bothers to tell anyone on the team).
To say it's wrong-footing is a serious understatement, and I would love to know what was going on behind the scenes on this show (it's like Starsky and Hutch turns into The X Files mid-run), but it's colourful and pacy with interesting characters (I particularly enjoyed the perpetually-wasted police pathologist). The quality control, script-wise, is a bit iffy in places, but it obviously scores very highly on the 'what the hell am I watching...?' front.
Aces of the Luftwaffe
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YOU have to show what you’re made of as the war over Europe is in full swing. Fight waves of Axis...
The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories
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Inspired equally by the classic TV noir Western, Have Gun, Will Travel, and Vladimir Nabokov’s...
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Bombshells United, Volume 2: War Bonds
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Years ago, before she became the battling Bombshell known as Batwoman, Kate Kane and Renee Montoya...
Secrets of a Scottish Isle
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Spirited American Jane Wunderly must investigate a secret society on an isolated isle off the...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The King of Bones and Ashes (Witches of New Orleans #1) in Books
Mar 13, 2020
Magic is seeping out of the world, leaving the witches who’ve relied on it for countless centuries increasingly hopeless. While some see an inevitable end of their era, others are courting madness—willing to sacrifice former allies, friends, and family to retain the power they covet. While the other witches watch their reality unravel, young Alice Marin is using magic’s waning days to delve into the mystery of numerous disappearances in the occult circles of New Orleans. Alice disappeared once, too—caged in an asylum by blood relatives. Recently freed, she fears her family may be more involved with the growing crisis than she ever dared imagine.
Yet the more she seeks the truth about her family’s troubled history, the more she realizes her already-fragile psyche may be at risk. Discovering the cause of the vanishings, though, could be the only way to escape her mother’s reach while determining the future of all witches.
A decent book and a brilliant take on different magical communities in New Orleans. I really enjoyed the 1st book in the Savannah series so thought I'd try this one to. I enjoyed the book although sometimes I found myself a little lost in so much information,but overall I quite enjoyed it! Would recommend especially to those witch loving readers.