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Nick Friesen (96 KP) rated Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) in Movies

Jul 20, 2017

Taron Egerton Excels in the Lead Role (3 more)

Samuel Jackson Makes a Memorable Villain

Stylized Action & Humor Abounds

Intriguing, Well-Written Story

A Bit Off-Color at Times (0 more)

R-Rated Homage to Classic James Bond

If you've ever thought that only problem with James Bond is a lack of black humor and bloody violence, then Kingsman: The Secret Service. Essentially, it does for the spy genre what Kick-Ass did for the superhero genre (oddly enough, Mark Strong stars in both movies). It's a wild and very fun ride; each scene feels fun and exciting. One in particular is most memorable to me, where graphic violence is used to an extreme inside a Westboro Baptist-type Church. I do feel a bit bad for anyone drawn in by the promise of Colin Firth alone though (particularly older folks), they may be more than a little shocked by what they witness.

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ClareR (5674 KP) rated Watching You in Books

Jul 21, 2018

Watching You

Lisa Jewell | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller

8.7

(6 Ratings)

Book Rating

Well, this had me guessing right up to the end!

This has all the ingredients for a good thriller or mystery: a teenaged voyeur, a potentially unreliable witness with mental health issues, teenaged girls with a crush, career driven men, unfaithful spouses. Quite a lot for a book that's under 500 pages long!
An unspecified dead body appears in the first chapter, and the book then goes on to tell us the sequence of events that lead up to that moment. There are some interesting police interviews tucked in now and again too, that help to clarify (or sometimes obfuscate!) what is actually going on.
This was really good. There was no way that I was going to guess who was murdered and by whom, until the end - I liked that touch. The end was a proper bombshell moment. Great writing from Lisa Jewell!

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Ivana A. | Diary of Difference (1171 KP) rated The Last Piece of My Heart in Books

Aug 21, 2018

The Last Piece of My Heart

Paige Toon | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

(3 Ratings)

Book Rating

If you want a book that will calm you down, relax you, show you love and emotion, but at the same time turn your world around and make you cry at 2am, this is the perfect book for you!

Filled with so much love, laughter, happiness, tears, travelling, 7 second long hugs and intimate moments, this book has left me speechless until the very last page.

You will travel the world around with Bridget, and listen to her playlist, keep track of her thoughts and be a witness while she tries to take her pieces of her heart sorted out together again.

But she will fall in love with a person she's expected least - a tiny little baby girl!
Definitely a book that I would recommend to all of you that love these type of stories, and all of you that don't - because you'll love this one regardless!