Being always the clever and self-sufficient one, the struggle with her identity as she developed growing feelings for Yi San, and wrestling with the burden of his love, provided a vast majority of the angst in
N.K. Jemisin’snewest release isThe World We Make, but it’s the second book in a duology. I think you have to readThe City We Becamefirst. Both books are great. Jemisin’s command of language, especially as she whirls through the different point of view characters, is brilliant and...
Naxke is immediately suspicious of Tu-Co-Han, who is a rival of Kitha’s in regards to who will be the next chief. That evening after“… night had completely fallen. The sky was full of silver beads on the black cloth of forever,”there is a council among the tribe to decide what...
It’s super thin, less a three-act structure that crescendos in carefully constructed escalating tension and more a collection of loose scenes strung together that they probably shot as money/actors became available. Donald is never really in any danger of being caught for murdering people, and ...
J. Abrams did a reboot of the original Star Trek crew in a three-movie set. That reboot changed some of the Star Trek canon (its established mythology) and became known as the "Kelvin Universe". All the Star Trek that exists in the unaltered (or mostly unaltered) mythology is...
(Instead, Elsa realizes, it was a trap set by the Snow Queen, who promptly chains up her rival. Snow Queen chastises Elsa for “squandering” her powers, and marvels at how much she could accomplish if she learned to control them. But for right now, she just needs Elsa out of her ...
The Originals– I never got into “The Vampire Diaries,” because I read the books back during Twilight Fever and was not impressed. The characters were flat, the setting boring, the vampireyness not too sexy… Needless to say I didn’t really give it a try. However, this spin-off ser...
They used hateful, spiteful language to perpetuate a normalising of violence which would never stand face to face. Their keyboards became battering tools to take down the few voices outside the choir. In the same vein: it seems perfectly acceptable behaviour for an “author” in a supposedly...
it is revealed later in the show that [SPOILER ALERT] the body of the leader of the Crystal Gems –‘Garnet’ – is actually the result of two gems (Ruby and Sapphire) that fell so deeply in love that they decided to fuse together indefinitely, which quite frankly sounds like the purest...
was kidnapped by a vampire named Meier Link, or give her a peaceful end if she’s already been turned. He enters Chaythe Castle where Meier Link has locked himself away, and now it’s time for him to fight through demons and avoid rival bounty hunters on his way to complete his job....