Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (5000)

Content

Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August in Books

Mar 15, 2018

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it took me away from where I was at the time and completely sucked me into Harry's ever changing, disturbed and exciting life. Harry is such an excellent and interesting character! I found it so difficult to choose whether I even like Harry, he's a good guy, he's a bad guy and he's everything in between too.

This book is such an interesting take on normal time travel reads, it throws everything on its head.
The beginning of the book is slow to take off, you have to wait until around chapter 30 for things to finally start building and from there the book gets tenser, funnier and intriguing with every word.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a heavy and though provoking read.

Kudos

Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) rated A Simple Favor in Books

Jan 20, 2019

A Simple Favor

Darcey Bell | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery

5.3

(8 Ratings)

Book Rating

I won this book from Smashbomb and was looking forward to reading it, but reviews I've read were lackluster so I wasn't expecting much. The author is a preschool teacher and I have found that teachers, whether preschool, college, or anywhere in between don't make the best authors. They tend to find themselves too clever and make bad decisions with their plotlines. This book was pure drudgery and I had to force myself to keep reading it, hating every moment of it. I finally decided that life is too short to read books I'm not enjoying and gave myself permission to stop reading and throw the book in the trash. It's that bad. I could not in good faith pass this book on to someone else. It's just awful.

Kudos

Allison Knapp (118 KP) Jan 20, 2019

Thanks for letting us know. This was a very useful review for me.

Kudos

Dianne Robbins (1738 KP) Jan 20, 2019

You're very welcome. I hope I've saved you from many hours of annoyance and boredom.

Kudos

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated 8MM (1999) in Movies

Nov 7, 2019

8MM (1999)

1999 | Action, Mystery

6.3

(9 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Look at this Photograph

8mm- is a underrated mystery thriller, it was directed by Joel Schumacher, yes the person who destoryed and ruined batman two years before this movie came out. Joel Schumacher is better with mysterious and thrillers than Batman. Anyways the plot:

Private detective Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) lives a normal life with his wife (Catherine Keener) and young daughter, until he receives a startling new case. A widow named Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter) has found what appears to be a snuff film among her late husband's belongings, and she wants Welles to determine if the movie is real or fake. Welles heads to California, where a video store employee (Joaquin Phoenix) helps him infiltrate the dangerous and depraved world of illegal porn movies.

Its suspenseful, horrorfying, twisted and overall a good movie.