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The Strain Vlogs #3.7: Collaborators
Setrakian plans to trap the Master; Eph and Dutch try to find the Master's "voice"; Palmer needs Setrakian's access to the white to hold up his end of their deal; Fet suffers a personal loss.
The Strain #3.1: New York Strong Recap
Given the way the final episode Night Train ended it seemed like our waiting was over. It was time for the epic payoff, humanity was doomed, the vampires were winning, all hail our worm ridden Overlor...
Top Ten Websites I Love That Aren’t About Books
Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! For those who don’t know, the Top Ten Tuesday Tag is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s been a while since I’ve participated and I’ve mi...
Cabal #5
THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The Fall of the House Cabal, that title isn’t ominous or anything. The fifth novel following my favourite necromancer is set to come out this September. After the way the la...
A Gathering of Shadows
A Gathering of Shadows puts its plot on hold to focus on developing its characters. It has a slow start but the ending is worth the wait.
New Teaser for A Monster Calls
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznBvoDQYLI?showinfo=0] Yesterday we saw the release of the newest trailer for A Monster Calls. As beautiful as this film looks, I don’t know if I will b...
Batman Versus Superman: A Fight to the Pain
With the release of Man of Steel, the DCU made its statement. These films aren’t like your Marvel movies. Our movies are real, our movies are deep, our movies are going to make you think. Don...
Vampire’s Kiss
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxCiRKSjTgU?showinfo=0] My best friend and I have this weird tradition and I’m not sure either he or I know how it originally started. Our tradition is t...
Top 5 Wednesday: Fictional Items We Want
Chelsey and I talk about the top five fictional items we want. How many times have you been reading a book and you’ve come across an object (magical or otherwise) and wished that it existed in the rea...
Glass Sword
Glass Sword delivers a sequel that in now way lives up to it's predecessor. Between a lack of character development and a petulant heroine there is very little to hold our interest in this novel.
Alexandra Reads Life and Death
Stephenie Meyer proved how gendered Twilight is with this rewrite. It wasn't her intention, but she did. All of the problems that existed with Twilight exist in this book including a subpar writing st...
Top Ten Reads of 2015 Part Two
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXz7eLg1JpA?showinfo=0] 2015 is coming to a close, which means it’s time to do our yearly wrap ups. Check Out part one of this list here Check out our to...
Top 5 Movies of 2015
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-uRsBxo7_A?showinfo=0] This is our Top Five Movies of 2015, before Star Wars comes out. We’re hoping that we’re going to go and see Star Wars and ...