![]() While the film suffers from predictable tropes and some issues with its narrative development, the end result is still quite acceptable and minor considering that the actual material focuses more on Bob's journey with himself and his closest friends rather than his love interest alone. The narration done by Jericho Rosales on the background was actually outstanding as he puts so much more life and complexity into his character through words alone. The film was paced lovingly as we brush through the life of Bob through various phases in his life seamlessly even if we had to go back and forth between each one numerous times. While we haven't read the well-received book of the same name, "ABNKKBSNPLAko?!" the movie was a great experience overall. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To help her friend, Catalina must test the limits of her extraordinary powers, but doing so may cost her both her House–and her heart. Dangerous and unpredictable, Alessandro’s true motives are unclear, but he’s drawn to Catalina like a moth to a flame. Catalina has always been afraid to use her unique powers, but when her friend’s mother and sister are murdered, Catalina risks her reputation and safety to unravel the mystery.īut behind the scenes powerful forces are at work, and one of them is Alessandro Sagredo, the Italian Prime who was once Catalina’s teenage crush. In a world where magic is the key to power and wealth, Catalina Baylor is a Prime, the highest rank of magic user, and the Head of her House. ![]() ![]() Sapphire Flames by Ilona Andrews – a ReviewĪmazon / B&N / Kobo / BAM / Book Depository / Google Play / iTunes ![]() ![]() The motive was easy to suss out on this one, and if you read a lot of Christie, you will quickly recognize certain plot elements that she recycled later on, but for a first novel, this really is a genuine classic. ![]() At times, it is even enough to throw the reader off, but every now and then, Christie allows us to be more intelligent than her investigative assistant often is, and that's always good fun. And it's always a trip to see just how confused Poirot's non-answers tend to make him. Either Hastings will be completely wrong as to the identity of the killer (which you can usually tell as a reader right off the bat, if that is the case), or he is right about the killer, but MASSIVELY off about the reasoning and logistics behind it. I can say, having read quite a few short stories with Hastings as the narrator previous to this story, that I always know that one of two things will be the case. Given how xenophobic a lot of the characters are in Christie works, one must imagine that this anti-foreign sentiment was shared by a lot of Christie's English readers as well (at least in the earliest works.) But I enjoyed this mystery immensely. This item: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Paperback 10.99 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot) by Agatha Christie Paperback 10.00 The Murder on the Links: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie Paperback 9. Now, I had already read three Poirot novels and numerous short stories, but I do like to imagine what the ideas were of the readers who were introduced to him through Hastings' observations about the famous Belgian detective in this first novel of Christie's. A fun first adventure to introduce readers to what would become one of literature's most famous detectives: Monsieur Hercule Poirot. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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