he Secrets of the Tides is a 2012 drama by author Hannah Richell and was published by Orion Publishing. It follows a newly pregnant Dora Tide and she travels to her childhood home Clifftops to confront the demons of her family’s past. What follows is 300+ pages of irritation, annoyance,…
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Book Review: Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris
Hannibal Lecter was 8 years old when his family were killed by Nazis during the Second World War. He and his younger sister Mischa were taken prisoner by Nazi soldiers that killed their family. In the mists of the harsh winter, the men find themselves running out of food and…
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Book One: Animorphs by K.A. Applegate
Is it time for an “Animorphs” come back? Kennie looks into the book series and proposes if it is time to have another crack at making a series for TV. Subscribe! http://bit.ly/TorchEGSubscribe
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Book Versus Film: Jaws by Peter Benchley
Before Freddy Krueger stalked our dreams, before Jason Voorhees begun mercilessly killing amoral teenagers, and before Charles Lee ‘Chucky’ Ray became stuck in a doll by voodoo, terror lived beneath the ocean in form of a white grey fish. We all should know Steven Spelberg’s 1975 Starktastic film that began…
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Stories From My Youth: Jamaican Ghost Stories – Ol’ Hige
I swear my uncle was a master story teller. When I visited his house, every night he would have a strange new tale to tell. My cousins and I would gather around him after dinner, pull the blankets around us and wait. He usually sat outside the back door, stuffing…
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Book Review: Monstrous by Sean Platt and David Wright
Monstrous by Sean Platt and David Wright is a book that has good points. Its premise is one of my favourites, what happens after death. Henry Black just died. He and his family were attacked in their home. He finds himself in limbo, confused and frightened he makes a hurried…
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Book Review: The Treatment by Mo Hayder
The Treatment is the second book in the DI Jack Caffery series. Written in 2001, this book covered a very disturbing subject matter. The plot follows Caffery as he races to find an abducted child after the parents are found close to death in their home. This book comes with…
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Seven Kinds of Hell by Dana Cameron
Young archaeologist, Zoe Miller, seems to be having a run of real bad luck lately. In the months after her mother’s death, she discovers she belongs to a race beings called Fangborns. Werewolves, Vampires and Oracles, who protect mankind from evil. Great! Until her cousin is kidnapped by a psychotic…
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Back of the book reviewer comments. They are very common in the literary world. Little comments from reviewers about a book that appear on publisher websites, on the back of the book or on the first page. Wherever they are, when picking up a book I prefer not to read…
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Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company by Homer Hickam
Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company is not a book you can read on its own. There are two other books in the series, making this the third and it shows. Unfortunately I have not been able to find the others and thus will be reviewing my copy as…
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