Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (5000)

Content

Night Reader Reviews (683 KP) rated One Past Midnight: The Langoliers in Books

Mar 28, 2020

I did not want to stop reading until I finished the entire thing. There were so many questions that needed to be answered and if you stick with it they all do get answered. (0 more)

The Langoliers themselves did not seem realistic, I could not form an image in my head of them based off of the descriptions given. (0 more)

Just Because

Stephen King does it once again with this book. The first short story in Four Past Midnight will keep readers up well past midnight trying to finish it in one sitting.

When a plane flies through a natural phenomenon mistaken for the Aurora Boralice something very strange happens. All of the passengers (including the piolet) who were awake disappear and only those who were asleep find themselves still on the plane. This mismatched group must figure out how to land the plane safely and decide what just happened. They manage to land in a strange area that resembles an airport like what they are used to but there are no people, sounds carry weird, and the food is tasteless, plus there is a chewing noise getting closer and closer to them.

Kudos

Weird Universe: Exploring the Most Bizarre Ideas in Cosmology

David A. J. Seargent

9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

As new discoveries complicate the scientific picture of the universe, the evolving theories about...

Haunted Hikes: Real Life Stories of Paranormal Activity in the Woods

Maren Horjus

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Strange things happen in the woods-paranormal sightings along rarely used dirt paths through the...

American Gods

Neil Gaiman

8.3 (72 Ratings) Rate It

Book Watch

American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the epic road trip novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of...

Mythology

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021

My paperback copy of this book contained the prequel, <i>The Strange Case of Finley Jayne</i>, as well as <i>The Girl in the Steel Corset</i>.

2 stars for The Strange Case... and 3 stars for The Girl in...

I wasn't sure what to expect with this. It isn't my usual sort of read, though I have read quite a few steampunk books (Lindsay Buroker mainly).

Some aspects of this book I really liked, like the different abilities of Griffin's friends, the storyline was also quite intriguing although I figured out who the bad guy was by about half way through.

Things I wasn't so keen on: the steel corset only came into play after the half way point; I was expecting it to be part of Finley from the start. And the romance. I know that in Victorian times it wasn't acceptable to be left alone with someone of the opposite sex without a chaperone and to just be all in your face with love and romance but I read for the romance and although you know they have feelings for each other, nothing actually happens.

I don't think I'll be continuing the series.

Kudos

Ross (3284 KP) rated The Change 3: Paris: A City of Fools in Books

Nov 2, 2020

The Change 3: Paris: A City of Fools

Guy Adams | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

9.0

(2 Ratings)

Book Rating

Odd and more intense than previous books

This third book, again in a different city to the previous ones, is set in central Paris. A group of people have made a life for themselves in the catacombs and tunnels underneath the city, largely safe from the strange monsters and beings that have taken over the city.
Loic, the main PoV character, is a former street child who has quite easily adapted to life under the streets, scavenging for food where he can. The main threat they face is the Impressionists, a race of paint-monsters who roam the streets and tunnels rounding up the people they find.
This book is more focused on people who have made a life for themselves following The Change (still a mystery, but safe to assume that weird things can happen now), rather than those struggling to come to terms with it.
It is quite an exciting tale of rescue, bargaining and trying to evade some very strange, but very Parisian, enemies who are never as they seem.
This book, for once, is fairly self-contained and has an ending and was a good short read.

Kudos

Andy K (10821 KP) rated Häxan (1922) in Movies

Oct 6, 2019

Häxan (1922)

1922 | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror

7.6

(5 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Very strange...

This collection of 7 silent film shorts are put together in this film Haxan. It's hard to give a plot description in a silent film collection like these. They mostly have to do with witches and the belief in witchcraft through the middle ages up through the time this movie was made. There were also elements of devils and devil worship, paganism, and the occult.

The film tried to make the point some of these people and practices were strange at the time maybe due to not a great understanding of mental illness or psychological problems of those involved.

The way the movie was divided was interesting at times and boring at other times. I definitely enjoyed the sections where there were actual moving images with dialogue cards or subtitles rather than those with still images only.

Since there was no dialogue per say, it was difficult to follow at some points; however, several of the visuals were striking and even a little scary considering this movie is almost 100 years old.

I still rather enjoyed it.