Welcome to a very brief recap of episode 1 of the Netflix show Shadow and Bone. If you are looking for details, you will find these recaps neither very helpful nor profound, I strive to be as brief as possible and only comment on the most critical occurrences. SOME BACKGROUND INFO Shadow and Bone takes …
PART 1 It is winter, as always. Olga – the princess of Serpukhov and Vasya’s big sister – is in her palace, waiting for her brother Sasha to come back. Some useful info: Sasha is everyone’s favourite: Pyotr’s (RIP) favourite son, Vasya’s favourite brother, and Grand Prince Dmitrii’s BFF. While waiting, Olga tells her children …
Needless to say, there are more than five things we can appreciate — things that are worth thinking about, to be more accurate — about The Thorn Birds (TV, 1983), from the acting to the writing that perfectly translates the scandalous nature of this tragic brick-thick novel. But for now, let us stick with five …
The Bear and the Nightingale is a fun ride that gives you a bit of everything: a lovable female lead, a fairy tale, relationships, cosy, terrifying, good and evil and things in between. And most important is its unexpected sense of humor. Here is my recap of this book. PART 1 It’s a cold night. …
OVERALL 8.5/10 The Once and Future King is a YA classic about King Arthur, divided into four books, each of which depicts a different time in Arthur’s life. In this post, I will briefly go over the good and bad of these books and determine whether it is worth one’s time. Spoiler: it is. WHAT …
If there is something I’ve learnt from both the Avengers and Jacks, it is that you should never mess with magic glowing stones. Anyway… OVERALL 5/10 WHAT’S IT ABOUT, ANYWAY The Ballad of Never After is the sequel to Once Upon a Broken Heart. Here, Evangeline Fox has been manipulated by a Fate, Jacks, into …
The movie begins with King Arthur waiting for dawn and wondering how they have gotten to this point, where he has to wage war against his best friend and knight, Lancelot. Merlin pops in and out to help Arthur with this thought process, telling him to go back to the beginning, when he first met …
Camelot (1967) is a musical about King Arthur, based mostly on T. H. White’s The Once and Future King. The film spans from Arthur and Guinevere’s marriage to the beginning of the Round Table’s downfall. Starring the real Dumbledore Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, and guy who looks nothing like Lancelot in the book. VERDICT This …
OVERALL 3/10 WHAT’S IT ABOUT, ANYWAY One day, Bitterblue, Queen of Monsea, finds that a nation across the sea — called Winterkeep — has been cheating her out of a valuable resource. She sets out to give them a piece of her mind. In Winterkeep, a daring teenager student of political science is dealing with …
OVERALL 7.5/10 IS IT GOOD? If you like slow-paced stories that deal with truth-finding, various relationships, compelling minor characters, and a heroine with a quiet strength, this book is it. WHAT’S IT ABOUT, ANYWAY Eight years after the event of Graceling, Bitterblue is now Queen of Monsea. The book deals mostly with Bitterblue’s exploration of …
