iZombie, Vol. 2: uVampire
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Told from a female zombie’s perspective, this smart, witty detective series mixes urban fantasy...
Prisoner of Shadows (Lords of the Underworld #2)
Sam Burns and W.M. Fawkes
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For more than five thousand years, Prometheus has been chained in the underworld. Every day, an...
MM Fantasy Romance
Ride the Storm
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Ever since being appointed pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been...
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Brave the Tempest (Cassandra Palmer #9)
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Cassie Palmer has been chief seer of the supernatural world for a little over four months. In that...
urban fantasy
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Jakob's Wife (2021) in Movies
Sep 18, 2021
Jakob's Wife has a lot going for it. It has a well paced and intriguing premise, snappy dialogue, sympathetic characters, over the top and hard hitting gore (seriously springs out of nowhere and caught me off guard), decent creature designs, a good soundtrack, and the aforentioned lead actors (although, Crampton expectedly and completely steals the show)
My main criticisms mainly come from what feels like a confused identity. There's some good humour sprinkled throughout, and some genuinely funny moments, but it does feel at odds with otherwise serious tone on display. A minor gripe, but one that's noticeable (a statement that also applies to the awful cgi rats in that one scene)
Overall, Jakob's Wife is an entertaining splatter fest that should appeal to any horror fan - don't sleep on it!
Touch in the Night (Blood and Bonds #1)
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With a criminal record, no steady job and a penchant for kink, Jesse Truelove has spent most of his...
BDSM Contemporary Paranormal Romance MM
David McK (3791 KP) rated The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes #9) in Books
May 12, 2024
The final entry in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, which - again - I experienced through a mixture of reading and listening to the Stephen Fry narrated Audible version, and which is also really once again a collection of short stories rather than a single over-arching narrative.
What is unique in this collection, though, is that some of the stories are presented as Holmes himself delivering the narrative, rather than Watson acting as the biographer.
I also noticed - perhaps reflecting the nature of the time in which they were written, and Doyle's own interests - that there are more of the, shall we say, supernatural elements in the case chosen ("The adventure of the Sussex Vampire" springs to mind, for example) although - in all cases - the supernatural elements are later debunked by Holmes himself.
As a whole? I thoroughly enjoyed my time in the company of Holmes and Watson.
Death or Volentus
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Volentus is a necromancer gifted with the ability to raise the dead and command them to do his...
Rift in the Soul (Soulwood #6)
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Nell Ingram and her team face a dire, supernatural evil in this newest thrilling paranormal...
Urban Fantasy Romance Ghosts Magic Angels