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Bayonetta: Bloody Fate (2013)
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Based on the 2009 game, Bayonetta: Bloody Fate follows the story of the witch Bayonetta, as she...
Bewitching The Werewolf
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When witch for hire, Megan Stephens, is assigned to help the local werewolf pack leader find a mate,...
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol 7
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Sabrina's father, Edward Spellman, is back from the dead, inhabiting the body of the newly...
Dragon's Bait
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Fifteen-year-old Alys is not a witch. But that doesn't matter--the villagers think she is and have...
dragons revenge
Daughter of the Blood (The Black Jewels, #1)
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The Dark Kingdom is preparing itself for the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy--the arrival of a...
A Spell of Time (A Shade of Vampire, #10)
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"Tick tock. Tick tock..." Time is slipping through the Novaks' fingers like sand. The only witch...
David McK (3557 KP) rated Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) in Movies
Apr 10, 2022 (Updated Feb 22, 2024)
In no particular order:
She's a witch!
Camelot. 'Tis a silly place
The Black Knight
There's some lovely mud over here!
The Knights who say Ni
Brave Sir Robin ran away ...
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Everyone knows the story of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, or at least Disney’s version with Ariel and her friends Sebastian and Flounder. People will also recall the evil sea witch (Disney’s Ursula) but has anyone ever wondered how the octopus-human hybrid came into being? Why is she considered evil? Why is she alone under the sea? Sarah Henning, a journalist from the US has asked these questions and come up with an answer in her debut novel Sea Witch.
The story begins on a ship many years ago in part of Denmark with the crown prince’s birthday party. Narrated by Evie, a commoner who also happens to be the prince’s best friend, the story flits between present day and four years previously when Evie and Prince Nik’s friend Anna drowned. Whilst Nik is celebrating his sixteenth birthday, Anna should have been celebrating her fifteenth, therefore, when Evie sees a face peering through the porthole of Nik’s ship, she believes it is only in her imagination that it resembled her long lost friend.
The party comes to a sudden end with a storm causing guests to flee below decks, leaving Evie, Nik and his cousin Iker to try to steer the ship to safety. In a terrible moment, Nik is swept overboard by a rogue wave and Evie fears he will be lost forever. Fortunately, Nik is found washed up on shore, but Evie is sure she saw a mermaid hovering over him.
Things become stranger for Evie when a homeless girl arrives on the beach a few days later. Claiming to have run away from home, Evie is startled by the girl’s appearance – she looks just like Anna. To make things even odder, the girl’s name is Annemette, a name so similar to Evie’s missing friend.
Evie and Annemette quickly become firm friends and both catch the eyes of the Princes Nik and Iker. With romance, Evie wonders if both girls will get their happily ever after. However, there is dark magic in the air and not everything is as true as it appears.
With a dark twist at the end, Sea Witch is a story full of magic, secrets and love. Although the blurb hints of the connection to The Little Mermaid, it is unclear until the very end what characters tally up. Unpredictable and exciting, Sea Witch is a story for those with a sense of adventure, a lover of fairytales, a romantic or a history buff, however, remember, not all fairytales have happy endings.
Cori June (3033 KP) rated The Bone Witch (The Bone Witch, #1) in Books
Dec 3, 2018
Now there is a lot of description in the book about who dresses in which hua and what people look like and how they act and what they do.
If you want an action pacted fast paced book: This is not that book.
This book is what I would call a builder book. Its whole purpose is to build the story for the next book. it builds the world it is set in and helps you understand the characters motivations. A beautiful book, however, it can get draggy in the narrative. something that Tea does comment on in the after part of the book.