![]() MI6 comes calling and Alex Rider answers the call though he would rather not. The second outing for our reluctant young spy. Point Blanc (2001) (Alex Rider #2) by Anthony Horowitz. The fire and not knowing which is which - very creepy. But then it's not like M16 really care - I mean he does call for backup and they ignore him. And as for him feeling all alone - aren't psych evals a requirement of spy work? I mean really - he's a fourteen year old boy - he should definitely be required to talk to someone about what the hell he's going through. Mainly because it's not really his fault he's not there - he didn't exactly sign up to be a spy. It really sucks that Alex keeps having to catch up on his schoolwork. I probably would only rate it 4 stars these days, but I'm going to stick with my original rating for posterity. Still they're great books with lots of action. But to my adult eyes, it seems like he's getting by more on luck than pure ability. I also remember Alex being a lot more talented than he is. MI6 and Alan Blunt and Mrs Jones make me so angry. ![]() Alex is a lot more jaded than I ever remember him being. It's kind of funny reading them now - I don't quite remember them being so depressing. Since I'm in the middle of a Cherub reread I thought I'd come back to Alex. ![]() I must have read the first five books like fifty million times. ![]()
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Sofia Coppola is Planning ‘Fairyland’ Film Adaptationĭirector Sofia Coppola ( Bling Ring, The Virgin Suicides) is adapting Alysia Abbott’s memoir Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father for the screen.Īmerican Zoetrope has acquired screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, with Sofia Coppola set to adapt it with Andrew Durham. Fairyland is the memoir of a girl from 4 to 21 being brought up by her gay, widowed father in San Francisco through the 'gay plague' of HIV. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her diabolical plan to give herself everlasting life requires Jenna's compliance, Septimus's disappearance, and the talents of her son, Marcellus Pye, a famous Alchemist and Physician. Queen Etheldredda is as awful in death as she was in life, and she's still up to no good. 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Skulduggery Pleasant is a wise-cracking detective and sorcerer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the other villagers Adele can’t avoid the dark wood, she’s a guardian, she can transform into a wolf to protect the village from the dark wood. Unlike her fellow villagers, Adele cannot avoid the dark wood.Īdele is one of a long line of guardians: women who secretly take on the form of a wolf, in order to protect their village.īut when accepting her fate means giving up the boy she loves, abandoning the future she imagined for herself, and breaking her own moral code, she must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her neighbors safe.Īdele lives in the village of Oakvale, Oakvale is surrounded by the dark wood which is filled with monsters. A forest that light itself cannot penetrate. Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Retellings, Young Adultįor as long as sixteen-year-old Adele can remember, the village of Oakvale has been surrounded by the dark wood-a forest filled with terrible monsters. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() This book has it all- a secret lab testing zombies, hunters and boyfriend problems. Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues mystery thread ties into Ed and the beheaded zombies in book one. ![]() The girl is bright, doesn’t take any shit and her Nancy Drew skills at solving mysteries made me giddy. The more time I spend with Angel the more I love this southern zombie chic. Yeah, that’s right-the zombie mafia.Throw in a secret lab and a lot of conspiracy, and Angel’s going to need all of her brainpower-and maybe a brain smoothie as well-in order to get through it without falling apart. ![]() Her felony record is coming back to haunt her, more zombie hunters are popping up, and she’s beginning to wonder if her hunky cop-boyfriend is involved with the zombie mafia. 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Most of us are afraid of something, whether it’s failure, commitment, public speaking, or simply breaking out of our comfort zone. ![]() Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! ![]() ![]() Narration, I found this audiobook unlistenable due to the narrator, I have the book in the physical, I turned to a text reader to listen to the book previously and after trying with this erosion from audible I returned to the text reader app on my iPad. Academic as well as readable by the practitioner and interested alike. The triumph of the moon is a valid and constructive assesment of the validity of this claim, a concise and fascinating study of the reality while remaining respectful and true to Ronald Huttons fascination and respect of the occult. The ancestors may or may not agree with how the modern world has claimed it’s craft as a valid inheritance true to the ancient ways. In-depth and eye opening, gripping and weaves the events of history, peoples & Druids, traditions, folklore into historical practice of villages, farms and country folk with the new birth of witchcraft and how history was adopted as a magical DNA. The book I’ve read in the past and was excited intellectually to find it as an audiobook so I could illustrate and work while listening to this educational and thoroughly detailed work on the world of the birth and growth of modern witchcraft. ![]() Great book, bad voice, listen audio sample first.Īpologies to the narrator, I respect workmanship and those who do, but this narration is uncomfortable to listen too. ![]() |