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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

DC's Stargirl: Episode 1x08 "Shiv Part Two" Promo (HD) (Brec Bassinger Superhero series)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 1x08 "Shiv Part Two".

Cursed: Trailer (HD) (Katherine Langford Netflix fantasy series)

Here's a trailer for the upcoming new Netflix series, Cursed. I honestly hadn't even heard about Cursed until this morning, but after watching this trailer, I'm definitely going to watch it when it's released on Netflix. Cursed looks like it's going to be an awesome show! :)

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Snowpiercer: Episode 1x08 "These Are His Revolutions" Promo (HD) (Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs series)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 1x08 "These Are His Revolutions".

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Book Review: The Ruin of Kings (Book #1 in the A Chorus of Dragons series) by Jenn Lyons (Spoilers)


Right off the bat, I just want to start off my review of The Ruin of Kings by mentioning that I stumbled upon Jenn Lyons’ A Chorus of Dragons series while I was browsing on Amazon a couple months ago, and I’m so glad that I discovered this series, because I really loved The Ruin of Kings for the most part.

The fantasy genre has definitely been one of my favorite genres of books to read for many years now, and there are a variety things about Lyons’ writing style for The Ruin of Kings that made it one of the most unique fantasy books that I’ve ever read. For starters, I especially love the fact that Lyons’ writing style for this book had somewhat of a sarcastic tone to it when it came to her writing for the character Kihrin, the footnotes that were featured throughout the book, as well as various other times in the book. I definitely tend to have a very sarcastic personality, as well as a very sarcastic way of thinking; so that aspect of Lyons’ writing style for The Ruin of Kings really resonated with me personally.

Both Kihrin and Talon were really great, interesting, well-written, and complex characters. That being said, while I loved both Kihrin and Talon as characters, Kihrin is definitely my favorite of the two characters, and I did enjoy his P.O.V. chapters the most. That being said, Talon being a mimic who can take on the physical form and the memories of the people that she kills definitely made her a very fascinating character; and it also added a very intriguing element to the overall plot of the book from a storytelling standpoint. I also thought that it was rather amusing that Talon actually believed that she could do a better job of telling Kihrin’s life story than he could. Plus, I absolutely loved the interactions between Kihrin and Talon throughout the course of the entire book.

Tyentso definitely stood out to me as being my favorite secondary character in the book. Personally, I thought that Tyentso was a very intriguing and well written character, and I absolutely loved the friendship between Kihrin and Tyentso. Their interactions with each other were oftentimes rather amusing, and a major highlight of the book for me personally.

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Book Review: Broken Throne (Book #4.5 in the Red Queen series) by Victoria Aveyard (Spoilers)


Right off the bat, I have to say that I definitely went into reading with Broken Throne with a great deal of excitement and anticipation, and I’m thrilled to say that I absolutely loved this book for the most part. Since Broken Throne is a collection of novellas and various other content, I decided to approach reviewing this book by commenting on each novella and section, give each section their own individual score, and my overall score for Broken Throne will be the average of my scores for each individual section of the book; similar to how I approached reviewing Sarah J. Maas’ book of Throne of Glass novellas, The Assassin’s Blade. That being said, here are my thoughts on Broken Throne.

Julian’s Notes
I thought that this section was a very interesting and great way to start Broken Throne, because I felt like Julian’s notes to Cal about the timeline of Norta’s history once again really added to the world building aspect of the Red Queen series; which is something that I’ve always thought that Victoria Aveyard did a great job of executing throughout the course of the series. That being said, I did think that Aveyard’s writing for this particular section of the book was a little dry, and I also felt like she kind of broke the “show, don’t tell” rule of writing with her writing for this part of the book. That being said, I do think that the slightly dry tone of Aveyard’s writing for Julian’s notes to Cal did a pretty good job of adding a sense of authenticity to the idea that this section of the book is supposed to be focused on Julian telling Cal details about the history of Norta, though. Honestly, I wish that this section of Broken Throne had been a little longer, because I really enjoyed it; and it once again added to the aspects of the Red Queen series that played a big part in what made me fall in love with the series, and become low-key obsessed with the series in the first place when I read the book, Red Queen, for the very first time back in November/December of 2018.

My Score: 9 out of 10.

Monarchs of House Calore
I absolutely loved this section of Broken Throne for the most part. I thought that this section of the book definitely added a lot to the history and worldbuilding aspect of the Red Queen series, which is something that I think Aveyard has always done a great job of executing throughout the course of the series. This section of the book and the way it’s executed also reminded me a lot of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book, Fire & Blood; which was all about the history of the Targaryen family, and it was a book that I also really enjoyed. It felt very fitting to me that Aveyard essentially wrote this section as if it was a brief record of the Calore family that was written by Julian Jacos for Cal to have, especially given Julian’s love of books. I was also rather amused by the note that Julian had written to Cal at the beginning of this section. That being said, I definitely think that this section of the book left a lot of room to be expanded upon, because the life of each person in the Calore family was pretty much summed up in just one long paragraph; and in the case of several of the people that were mentioned in this section, only a few sentences.

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Episode 7x03 "Alien Commies from the Future!" Promo (HD)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 7x03 "Alien Commies from the Future!".

The 100: Episode 7x04 "Hesperides" Promo (HD)

Here's a promo for next week's episode, episode 7x04 "Hesperides".