Sefer Ha-Bahir: Selections from the Book of Brilliance, the Classic Text of Early Kabbalah
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Discover the Kabbalah classic that reveals the divine feminine, reincarnation, and the power of...
Dracula - Season 1
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It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American...
Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1) in Books
Mar 22, 2019
She's in for a surprise when she does marry, though, as she is whisked away from her father's kingdom to a palace full of hidden doors and a husband who is more than he seems. She's quickly embroiled in a mystery to find out not only the secrets her husband's kingdom is hiding, but the secrets behind her own history.
I absolutely love reading non-western fantasy because there are NEW fantasy elements to discover. This book makes heavy use of reincarnation, which is not a common trope in western fantasy. Not reincarnation as karma, anyway. There is fate, and horoscopes, and choosing your own destiny despite those things, and spirit worlds, and OH IT'S JUST SO GOOD.
The second book, about Maya's sister, came out last March, so I need to read that too. The same author has written another book set in Paris, The Gilded Wolves, which came out in January and immediately hit the bestseller list. I'm glad, this author is fantastic. I'm not sure I'll read it though, as the description doesn't really intrigue me. But The Star-Touched Queen and its sequel, A Crown of Wishes - these are just my cup of tea!
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The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
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Author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) tells this tale of two men in search of fame and...
Heart of Miracles: My Journey Back to Life After a Near-Death Experience
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Karen Henson Jones was on the conventional path to success in the corporate world when a sudden...
The Beginning of Everything
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Varsity tennis captain Ezra Faulkner was supposed to be homecoming king, but that was...
The Restless (2006)
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It is AD 924, at the end of the United Shilla Dynasty. Continuous riots sweep the land ruled by a...
Cursed Daughters
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THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE GLOBAL MEGA-SELLER, MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER, A NOVEL ABOUT BROKEN HEARTS...
Trigger warning: suicide
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Vengeance of She (1968) in Movies
Feb 26, 2018 (Updated Feb 26, 2018)
Basically just quite pedestrian and dull, with lots of messing about on a rich man's yacht that doesn't do a great deal to advance the plot. Some potentially interesting ideas are ignored in favour of potboiler romance and fantasy melodrama. Production values basically scream that the movie was made on a very low budget. Andre Morell is the best thing in it, and he's not in it all that much.
ClareR (6144 KP) rated Cursed Daughters in Books
May 13, 2026
Not an easy legacy to live with, made worse by the fact that Eniiyi buys in to the family curse, despite the fact that in every other way she’s a modern woman.
This all sounds very serious with curses and deaths, but it’s actually witty and looks at the line between family expectations and free will. I did wonder if these women were trapped by their own superstitions, turning the “curse” into a self-fulfilling prophecy. They believed it would happen, and so it did.
And that 30 year old dog - I’d love to know THAT secret!