Rating: 4/5
Find some nice river or meadow sounds record and let it accompany you as you open this book. A dystopian future with a bit of hope awaits you.
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Review: Hemlock and Exile
Rating: 5/5
Make a pot of some herbal tea before opening this book. Or boil wine with cloves and cinnamon. These pages will make you crave something warm and fragrant. Open the book, adventure in cold snow is calling! Seasoned soldiers with hidden aching wounds in their hearts will guide you.
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Rating: 3/5
Imagine the soft sound a fresh loaf of bread makes when you squeeze it. Or the bitter taste of dark chocolate on the palate. And a gunshot and smells of war. Ruin, smoke, rotting corpses… And flickering hope of new beginnings. That is the core of this book.
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Every Predator movie means a special evening in our family. We watch it when we are sick. When good friends are visiting. Or when we want to relax after a hard week. That is why we could not ignore this new movie from the franchise. And here we go again. Humans mind their own business and have no idea an alien species just landed on the Earth to show off his skills and collect trophies. A deadly intelligent species armed with advanced weapons and able to lift a bear. This time, Comanche people in the Northern Great Plains in North America in 1719 will face the Predator.
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The recent rains made me wish for a good ghost story. Something following the standard formula: a person ends up somewhere and strange things happen there. And so I tried this self-published book by Astrid Addams and… ladies and gentlemen, this wasn’t a mistake! Do you hear the clocks ticking? Get used to that sound, it will haunt you even after finishing this book.
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This reading journey marked with rereading this book over the years is a journey of personal growing up, maturing, and watching the life of my own pets. And it is a journey of disappointment.
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Welcome to the world of colonialism, exploration, tough moral choices, love, and… consequences of greed. This game takes you into a world that resembles European colonies spiced with magic and god-like creatures. The players find themselves in the role of De Sardet, a diplomat whose aim is to travel to Teer Fradee, a new world. And find there a cure for Malichor, a deadly disease that already killed De Sardet’s relatives and threatens to wipe out the entire old continent. This journey brings many surprising revelations, forces the player to balance difficult relationships between the clashing nations and find the origins and meaning of De Sardet’s own existence.
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There is something… the taste of fresh creek water in mouth. The earthy smell of moss and forest flowers. The remains of the snow on the leaves of the last year… the rust spreading on a forgotten blade… This book simply feels like a gulp of beautiful nature, dark haunted ruins, and eerie magic. It will make you wish for a long walk among ancient trees and smell a lily of the valley.
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I was waiting for this book since the first announcement of the Witness trilogy. And I was not disappointed. This is not a beautiful book. But when I want to read something beautiful I go and read about Anne Shirley*. The story is a lot simpler than the Malazan Book of the Fallen. The world of Malaz has changed. We can taste it in the kelyk. We can see it in the brand new characters staring at us from the pages. Still, the book feels very familiar because the old stories, places, and characters are mentioned in small remarks and the new grows on strong roots of what was. This novel mixes fun and tragedy in balance. As usual, the characters have to make extremely hard and complicated decisions and the plot does not revolve around black and white winning heroes and losing evil lords. Philosophy that provides food for thought does not fail to fill a few decent pages.
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Dear struggling writer, listen to the children of the night while you despair over your feeble manuscript. Let not the echoes of doubt and erased pages crush your will to write. Embrace the darkness in your writing space and succumb to the lure of inspiration…
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