In the Vanishers’ palace by Aliette de Bodard
How do people survive after colonisation and enslavement? What happens to a society that has been stamped out when those invaders leave, and all that remains...
28 October 2018
A quiet place dir. by John Krasinski
Imagine a world where you couldn’t make a sound. No talking, no laughing. Not even walking with shoes on. A world where the response to noise...
22 April 2018
The shape of water dir. by Guillermo del Toro
A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at...
14 February 2018
The enchanted by Rene Denfeld
ISBN : 9780297870517 When I hear death row I usually don’t think “enchanted”, and I usually don’t look for books set in prisons or about people...
2 January 2016
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
The Shadow #1 Nettie Lonesome was found as a baby and taken in by the Lonesome family. Which is to say used by Mam & Pap...
2 November 2015
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Part of my RIP reading Carolyn is a librarian. Or at least that is word her Father uses. That is the term she uses for herself....
13 September 2015
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
An InCryptid Novel ; #1 Verity Price comes from a family of cryptozoologists, or monster hunters. Generations back they used to be part of The Covenant...
12 March 2015
The Babadook dir. by Jennifer Kent
Samuel’s father died driving his mother to the hospital the day Samuel was born. Ever since it has just been Samuel (Noah Wiseman) and Amelia (Essie...
9 November 2014
The Boxtrolls [based on the book] by Alan Snow dir. by Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable
The town of Cheesebridge lives in fear of the Boxtrolls. A curfew is in force, everything must be locked up at night, children especially must be...
8 September 2014
An artificial night by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel #3 Originally read for the Once Upon a Time VI challenge, 18th May 2012 reread for OUaT 8, 22 June 2014 And...
22 June 2014
Godzilla dir. by Gareth Edwards
Is there a point to me doing a quick recap of a Godzilla movie plot? I mean, you all know that Godzilla means monsters and destruction,...
18 May 2014
Monsters : I bring the fire part 2 by C. Gockel
I bring the fire Part 21 This book follows on straight from book one, so if you haven’t read that you’ll have no idea what is...
21 April 2014