7/4/2023 0 Comments Hope in the dark reviewThat being said, getting to the story’s best moments takes time and patience. The new setting immediately pulled me in not only is it creepy from the start, but the intrigue that holds the mystery together is powerful. Not only is a fog preventing you from leaving, but your group also appears connected to the town’s dark history. When a bus carrying a professor and his group of college students crashes in Little Hope during a detour, you realize more is going on than meets the eye. It has an eerie past connected to the 17th-century witch trials, along with a family from the 1970s that experienced tragedy. For Little Hope, you’re introduced to a New England town of the same name. This fresh break allows Supermassive to explore a new setting, characters, and horror subgenres. This story is completely self-contained, so you don’t need to play Man of Medan to understand it. Little Hope tells a fascinating tale, but lackluster gameplay, predictable scares, and performance issues hold it back from greatness. Little Hope is the second standalone entry in Supermassive’s Dark Pictures Anthology, and though it is a step up from Man of Medan, it still falters as much as it succeeds. I always look forward to seeing how the team is going to subvert my expectations. It’s part of the studio’s identity and what made Until Dawn such a hit. Supermassive Games loves to combine horror tropes and create its own spin on them for one big, spine-tingling adventure.
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In a market in the south of England we meet Camelot, a relic trader and the narrator of our story. And he had created a new law – thou shalt do anything to survive. There was a new king and his name was pestilence. People are abandoning the towns close to the sea convinced that the pestilence will nor reach them inland. The black plague has reached the country and is forcing the population to extreme measures to survive. The story takes place in England in 1348. It usually changes its mind again while I walk back home to get me wet anyway – who deserves joy anyway? I can’t remember exactly when I bought this book and why it caught my attention among the others in the library – I am sure it was probably raining outside and the local libraries are the best place to spend some time waiting for Edinburgh to change its mind again on the weather. I still find it kind of thrilling to have started this and, in a way, I am happy to start with something that I liked (which implicitly means it’s universally good). Well, I guess we’ve got to start from somewhere and the easy best way to start is with the review of a book. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Margaret wiseShe said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Thirsty by mt andersonAnother is that he links them to American consumerism, as represented by, for example, fast food like McNuggets and Big Macs and vampire fare like potluck human casserole. Anderson's Thirsty (1997) is that he feeds those two metamorphoses into each other. turning into a vampire? One of the neat things about M. Is he merely going through the hormonal overload of all adolescent boys? Or is he. He's been feeling uneasy and tetchy, quarreling with his best friends, Tom (handsome and potentially one of the cool kids at school) and Jerk (good-natured but simple-minded and benignly ostracized). Being an imaginative, shy boy, he only indulges in romantic fantasies in which they do things like wear black clothes and attend cool art exhibits. Massachusetts small-town high school freshman Chris has a crush on Rebecca Schwartz. Consumer Culture, High School, Vampires, and H.P. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Elephants do rememberBut, in fact, she's more worried about her son's fortune that's slipping out of her grasp. She justifies her actions by saying that she loves her son and wants what is best for him, and she is afraid that his marriage to Celia Ravenscroft is a bad idea. Oliver, is a nosy busy-body who is in it for the money. It's been over a decade since the murder, but as the two friends begin their inquiries, it becomes clear that "elephants - and people - can remember." Startled and unsure, Miss Oliver enlists the help of the famous Hercule Poirot to find the answer to that question. The double suicide of General and Lady Ravenscroft happened fifteen years ago, but the length of time that has passed doesn't stop a worried, nosy mother from posing this question to mystery writer Ariadne Oliver: did the wife kill the husband and then kill herself, or did the husband kill the wife and then commit suicide? Elephants Can Remember by Agatha ChristieĪ wonderful mystery with good development, but with some moral problems. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal.īuy it: | Amazon | BN.com | Book Passage | Audible AudiobookĪs the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls? But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.Īs Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Anita blake guilty pleasuresShe is trained in several forms of hand-to-hand combat as well as in the use of several firearms, with her firearm of preference being the Browning BDM. At the start of the series, she is an animator (a person who raises zombies) and a vampire executioner. She is very direct and flippant in her speech, but is said to be highly competent in the professions she is involved in. Description Īnita Blake is a petite woman of mixed German and Mexican heritage with curly long raven hair and pale skin with scars scattered over her body. Hamilton stated that she created the character after perceiving a gender inequality in detective fiction, with female characters rarely getting the same treatment as male heroes of the genre. The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures (mostly vampires) that have broken the law. Jade - Yiyú (Black Tiger to call/First Female Lover)Īnita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Nathaniel Graison (lover/Leopard to call) Ma petite, The Executioner, Lupa, Little Queen, 'Nita, Gatita Negra, Anna, Kiddo, War, Queen, Dark QueenĪnimator, Federal Marshal, Vampire executioner/hunter, Human Servant, Nimir-Ra, Regina, Bolverk The Taj Mahal really was commissioned by a guy who was so heartbroken after his beloved wife died trying to deliver their fourteenth (!!) child that he demanded one of the great wonders of the world built to house her remains. Isn't it a mausoleum? Since when do tombs epitomize relationships, and wouldn't that be kind of counterproductive, symbolically? Well, that's not the case with the Taj, a building meant to invoke the perfect beauty of a woman and also to honor the love between a Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, and his adored wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Well, Beneath a Marble Sky is here to show you that the Taj Mahal is not just a tourist trap-it's a monument dedicated to the possibility of eternal love.īut wait, you might say. It's sculpted out of pure white marble, it's elaborately decorated with exquisite gems, and it's surrounded by lush gardens that would make a grown man cry. When you look at the Taj Mahal, you might see a just magnificent travel destination-let's face it: the thing is an Instagrammer's dream. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Lucy holland sistersongOne thing that is certain is that there is no love lost between Myrdhin and the Gildas. The three are coming into their birthright, whilst the very nature of that birthright is being challenged.Įach of them has a particular relationship with the enigmatic Myrdhin, a druid of uncertain power. The children of Cador are trying to understand their position in an ever-shifting world. The Romans have departed and Saxon forces are spreading across the country, bringing tribes to their banner as they go. His presence is changing how things are done in the kingdom, and Gildas sees the old traditions as blasphemy.Įnemies wait outside the gates. A Christian priest, Gildas, has moved into the castle at the bidding of Cador’s wife. King Cador’s kingdom is rooted in magic, but that magic is fading as the king turns his back on the old ways. The book’s chapters alternate between each sibling, and through them, we learn of a beleaguered tribe hanging on in changing world. Sistersong is narrated by the voices of three siblings, the children of King Cador. It’s a tale suffused with magic and family rivalries, retelling the ancient British folk ballad, The Twa Sisters. Set in Dark Ages Britain, it tells of three siblings, children of the king of an English tribe that’s beset by enemies from without and within. Lucy Holland’s Sistersong is a folk tale retelling in the tradition of Rosemary Sutcliff and Mary Stewart. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Rob fleming nick hornbyHe tries to find closure in each of these relationships, but they only highlight just how much he loves Laura and just how miserable he is without her. (Never mind that he was total asshole.) He goes into a male mid-life crisis of sorts as he tries to figure out what exactly lead to this break-up, and he deteriorates further by trying to psychoanalyze all his past girlfriends in his Top 5 Most Memorable Split-ups - turning creepy by tracking them all down and having "the talk" with them. Rob Fleming breaks up with his girlfriend Laura and he deteriorates into a bundle of mush as he tries to figure out how to get her back. Anyway, the entire book is about the state of a 30-something guy's record collection vis-a-vis the state of his love life. CDs and DVDs were unheard of (oh God, this post is absolutely dating me). I remember how these were all the rage back in high school. |