Jace is bound to Sebastian in a dark version of a parabatai bond. Kill Sebastian, and you kill Jace. Clary and their friends are determined to find a way to sever the bond before the Clave decides it doesn’t care if Jace dies in their quest to stop Sebastian before he can enact whatever dark […]
Clary and company have defeated her father, Valentine Morgenstern, but not everything has returned to how it was. She’s now training to be a Shadowhunter and she and Jace are finally dating. Simon is adjusting to life as a Daylighter and trying to date Maia and Isabel. However, Jace is becoming secretive and not isn’t […]
I was a fan of Reign, about the life and reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. This upcoming biopic looks to impress as well, and to be more historically accurate. Staring Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Margot Robbie as Queen Elizabeth I, and David Tennant as John Knox, a Protestant Cleric against woman ruling. The film […]
I didn’t realize until it was too late that I had run out of scheduled posts two weeks ago. And of course, I only had one day off last weekend and didn’t get things posted like I intended. Hopefully, I can get back to the regularly scheduled Thursday reviews. Lazlo Strange is a foundling and […]
In volume two, Vader and the Grand Inquisitor fight the Jedi Librarian herself, Jocasta Nu. Jocasta returns to the archives to retrieve information to start her own school in secret, but is forced to confront first the Inquisitor and then Vader. She also learns the truth of the Temple’s Fall land the Purge. Seeing Jocasta […]
Persuasion by Jane Austen – I’ve seen the adaptation several times, and it’s probably by third favorite Austen story after of course Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, but I have yet to read it. Battle Magic by Tamora Pierce – I have yet to finish the Circle/Emalan books let alone all the […]
This one is not my typical genre, as it falls more on the ertoica side of the line, but I couldn’t resist the premise. Stella is a successful econometrician with high functioning Autism. She’s never had a boyfriend or been in a relationship, so she hires Michael, a male escort to teach her how to […]
