"Keep far away from Orion Lake." Welcome back to the Scholomance, the school that makes Hogwarts look like day care and the most brutal prison seem palatable in comparison. Four years without real daylight, proper food, or any supplies you didn't bring with you at the start. Sure, there are no teachers, but the classes … Continue reading The Last Graduate – Naomi Novik
"I can't move in my coffin." The First Sister didn't end on a cliff-hanger per se but it left plenty of story to be told and so I was absolutely delighted to be able to dive straight in with the sequel. And my absolutely only complaint about it is that I will have to wait to … Continue reading The Second Rebel – Linden A Lewis
"The dead human was lying on the deck, on their side, half curled around." The book comes with its own summary, far better than I could write, so here it is: When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the … Continue reading Fugitive Telemetry – Martha Wells
"I have the worst luck with bot-driven transports." By this point, we're quite clearly in an ongoing story, so not only will reading this review possibly have sort-of spoilers for the first two novellas (All Systems Red and Artificial Condition), but quite frankly those are so bloomin' good - as is the whole story so far … Continue reading Rogue Protocol – Martha Wells
"Nobody ever believes me when I tell them my uncle Earl owns a museum." Following her divorce, Kara is invited to stay in the spare room of her uncle's business, the Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities, and Taxidermy. She's made of stronger stuff than me - or at least, grew up around … Continue reading The Hollow Places – T Kingfisher
"A girl is running for her life." This book. Wow. I was starting to get really concerned that it couldn't live up to hype. I follow V on social media, and every time she told us that she'd poured her heart out into it I was equally desperate to finally read the book and terrified … Continue reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – VE Schwab
So... here we are. Twenty-two movies over eleven years, and one way or another we are in the Endgame. The Infinity Saga ends here. Last year's Infinity War ended on something of a cliffhanger, and we pick up with the aftermath of those devastating events. The 3-hour run time allows the story to flow at a less … Continue reading Avengers: Endgame (2019)
"There is a right way to do things and a wrong way, if you're going to run a hotel in a smugglers' town." It's the first day of the Christmas holidays, and Milo already has his homework out of the way so he can enjoy the festivities with his parents. Then, disaster: the usually quiet … Continue reading Greenglass House – Kate Milford
"She was going to die because of the rutabagas." Bryony may just have found herself trapped in a magical manor house with a surprisingly eloquent Beast, but if there's one thing she's not it's a 'beauty'. She is, however, a gardener, and as things in the House take ever darker turns it might just turn … Continue reading Bryony and Roses – T Kingfisher
Back in 1973, one of the robots (Yul Brynner) in a Wild West theme park went a bit berserk. Fast forward 40-plus years, and the new Westworld shows that sometimes revisiting old ideas really is a good idea, and that TV is no longer the poor cousin of the big screen. In fact, this 10-hour … Continue reading Westworld (season 1)
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