Lethal (Lee Coburn, #1)
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When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out...
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A Single Thread
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It is 1932, and the losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell,...
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The Sleep Room
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As haunting as Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black and as dark as James Herbert's The Secret of...
Blood Vow (Black Dagger Legacy, #2)
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A tough vampire warrior in training and a quick-witted aristocrat develop an irresistible attraction...
The Madness of Crowds
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The incredible new book in Louise Penny's #1 bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series. When...
The Promise
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The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside...
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It’s set in a world that we all know a little about. A Covid-19-type virus, except far more severe, breaks out and social panic ensues. Society goes ion to lockdown, hospitals are unable to cope with the sheer volume of cases, and the army is drafted in to keep order. Shops are looted, food is rationed, people die horrifically.
Edith Harkness looks back on her life as she prepares to enter the last stages of Long-Nonovirus. It’s a much more serious version of Long-Covid, where the affected person dies. Edith looks back on her life, from her childhood where she lives with her brain-damaged mother, to her years of study and consequent art prizes, and then her time in lockdown with her lover, a Bulgarian Turk.
It’s a book about love, sex, desire, illness, caring, family and grief. Those are some big topics for a slim book, but it’s beautifully told.
Now I need to read some more Sarah Hall books.
The Poison Season
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Outsiders are always given a choice: the Forest or the lake. Either way, they're never heard from...
David McK (3562 KP) rated John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) in Movies
Sep 5, 2019 (Updated Mar 27, 2023)
And that is pretty much what this film is about, picking up almost directly after Chapter 2 and with Keanu's super assassin John Wick now with a 14 million USD price on his head after killing a man on company (sacred) ground - i.e. The Continental Hotel - in the previous instalment.
I'm still a little hazy on the society itself - just how much are those hitman tokens worth? They constantly seem to change value! - and on why the world and its neighbour seems to be some sort of assassin, leading me almost to wonder are we in some sort of Matrix reality (not helped by Keanu even saying he needs 'Guns. Lots of guns'), but - putting that aside - this is still quite an enjoyable, albeit very violent, action movie.
Lost (The Caelian Cycle #1)
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During WW1, a meteorite crashed, releasing a mist that changed the DNA of all who were exposed. One...
Young Adult Dystopian Science Fiction Romance