Broken Beautiful Hearts
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Her heart has to break before it can open. When star soccer player Peyton Rios receives an offer...
Board Game Design Lab
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The Board Game Design Lab came into existence for a very simple reason: I could never find the game...
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The Girl at the End of the World
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Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She...
David McK (3623 KP) rated Star Wars: Darth Vader, Volume 2: Into the Fire in Books
Oct 3, 2021
Both legs chopped off.
Only one arm.
Left on the lave beds of Mustafar.
No, we're not talking about the end of 'Revenge of the Sith' here, but about part of what happens to Vader in this, the second compilation of Greg Pak's run on the Darth Vader series of graphic novels (here, comprising issues 6 through 11), at the behest of The Emperor, who has found out about Vader's previous 'failings' from Volume 1 (Star Wars: Darth Vader by Greg Pak, Vol. 1: Dark Heart of the Sith in which he allowed his personal feelings to get the better of him.
This run also introduces Ochi of Bestoon - who The Emperor has sent to kill Vader - and actaulyl makes a better attempt at tying together the Original Trilogy and the Sequel Trilogy (with Vader discovering about, and travelling to Exegol and encountering the Sith Eternal) than any of those latter movies did!
GustavoCampello (6 KP) rated The Power of the Dog (2021) in Movies
Feb 10, 2022
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated Host (2020) in Movies
Oct 29, 2021 (Updated Nov 3, 2021)
HOST starts with everyone logging in one by one on Zoom and catching up with each other about how they are doing during the lockdown with them having fun chats with filters, talking about others before they log in ready for the night of some scary stuff.
If you have ever been on a seance or a ghost hunt, which believe me can send chills down your spine, will now that sometimes there is always one that has to try to wind everyone up and it’s not good to mess with the spirits, but when Jemma pulls a prank about the schoolboy it’s time to get the spook on!
Merissa (13332 KP) rated Little Mate (Gay Monsters in Space #1) in Books
Sep 13, 2023
The pacing is fast but the story is all there. We're also talking about a HUGE case of instalust, although Jake does do his best to fight it at the beginning. His sarcasm was spot on. And Zahn's reaction to it was brilliant.
I would have liked a little more to the story, but I'm always greedy with novellas and end up wanting more. And it was nice to see Jake's sister get her HEA too.
A great start to the series and I look forward to reading more.
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Sep 13, 2023
Bad Best Friend (Billionaire's Club #14)
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Six overprotective older brothers. One hopelessly single younger sister. Her. She was talking...
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ClareR (5991 KP) rated The People on Platform 5 (UK); Iona Everson’s Rules for Commuting (USA) in Books
Aug 10, 2022
Six very different people take the same train every day, never talking to one another (or anyone else - this is an English train, after all!), and it’s not until one of them chokes on a grape, that the ice is broken.
These people are a great cross-section of people you might meet on a train, all with relatable problems, and the train setting was such a good idea. It showed how although we all try to ignore one another on public transport, people are generally more than happy to listen in to other peoples conversations and lend a hand if necessary!
I really enjoyed immersing myself in the lives of Iona and her fellow travellers every day, and felt bereft when the ten day serialisation was over. A recommended read!