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A Song for the Dying (Ash Henderson #2)

Stuart MacBride

9.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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He’s back … Eight years ago, ‘The Inside Man’ murdered four women and left three more in...

The Waking Land (The Waking Land, #1)

Callie Bates

8.0 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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It's been fourteen years since Elanna was taken hostage. Fourteen years spent being raised by the...

They Feed

Jason Parent

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The night uncovers all we wish not to see. A troubled man enters a dusky park before sunset. A...

The Beauty of the Wolf

Wray Delaney

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What some might call beauty, I find monstrous' In the age of the Faerie Queene, Elizabeth I, Lord...

David McK (3801 KP) rated Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) in Movies

Mar 21, 2020 (Updated Sep 28, 2024)

Also known as "Salazar's Revenge" (instead of "Dead Men Tell No Tales") in certain circles - I think maybe Dead Men is the American subtitle? - this is the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean film, with Johnny Depp again reprising what is (for me) his most iconic role of the Pirate Captain Jack Sparrow.

This ties itself closer to the original trilogy than the last entry ("On Stranger Tides"), with the return of certain key characters from that trilogy 'bookending' the plot, and with a close familial tie to one of the key characters of this.

Indeed, we're also back to basics with the plot of a supernatural threat to Sparrow, and of his wish to reclaim the captaincy of the Black Pearl (his ship), ALONGSIDE the return of Captain Barbossa (yet again)...

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Malcolm Of Earth

Alex Usher

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They took him from his world to end a war on theirs… They got more than they bargained for. ...

science fiction sci-fi military sci-fi

David McK (3801 KP) rated Midnight Falcon (The Rigante, #2) in Books

Sep 26, 2025

Midnight Falcon (The Rigante, #2)

David Gemmell | 1999 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.7

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The second of David Gemmell's Rigante stories, this one is pretty much a direct follow-on from Sword in the Storm, but now following Connavar's illegitimate son Bane instead of Connavar himself.

As before, it's also very much a Scottish highlands / Rome type of deal, with Band initially driven out of his homeland and travelling to the city of Stone (very much 'our' Rome in its Julius Caesar heyday) where he becomes a Gladiator, all so he can get revenge on the man he believes has killed the love of his life (met after being driven out).

Of course, as a Gemmell work, it's not as simple as that, with the finale of this 'tying back' to the very beginning of the previous work.

As with pretty much all Gemmell, well worth a read.