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7 Books in a Week: The Reading Rush Wrap-up

7 Books in a Week: The Reading Rush Wrap-up

From the 22nd to the 28th of July, I buried myself in books. I wasn’t alone. Thousands of readers across the globe came together to read read read as much as possible in one week. It was the annual Reading Rush, an event birthed on BookTube that has since evolved into something bigger. Run by bookworms Ariel Bisset and Raeleen Lemay, they pulled out all the stops this year by introducing a website

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'Spider-Man: Far From Home' is alright I guess

‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ is alright I guess

Spider-Man: Far From Home is not a bad movie.

But I was disappointed in it. Far From Home suffers from having to follow up the cinematic event that was Avengers: Endgame and while it never attempts to match it in scale, it’s forced to be its own story, a sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming, and an epilogue for Endgame.

These things don’t always blend well. This is a story about Peter Parker trying…

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Book Review: '100 Days of Sunlight' by Abbie Emmons

Book Review: ‘100 Days of Sunlight’ by Abbie Emmons

100 Days of Sunlight is one of the most adorable books I have ever read. It’s a Young Adult Contemporary from Debut author Abbie Emmons — who has a lovely blog & YouTube channel that I’ve been following for several months now. She has a contagious positivity that I was happy to find woven throughout her sunshine-y novel.

100 Days of Sunlight follows 16-year-old poetry blogger Tessa, who loses…

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Spoiler Free Review: 'Avengers: Endgame'

Spoiler Free Review: ‘Avengers: Endgame’

Avengers: Endgame is not just a movie. It’s an event. Seeing it in a packed theater of hardcore Marvel fans is the only way to truly appreciate what is achieved: Endgame is not just the continuation of Infinity War, but the culmination of the sometimes great, sometimes mediocre, but ultimately groundbreaking film franchise.

Even more than Infinity War, this movie is built on the backs of the…

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Book Review: 'The Wise Man's Fear' by Patrick Rothfuss

Book Review: ‘The Wise Man’s Fear’ by Patrick Rothfuss

The epic Kingkiller Chronicle that began with The Name of The Wind continues in the second book of the beloved fantasy series with The Wise Man’s Fear, and Rothfuss brings back his lyrical, intricate, and engaging writing style.

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Kvothe returns to tell his story with his fiery hair…

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'Searching' is an innovative and compelling mystery

‘Searching’ is an innovative and compelling mystery

Searching is a thriller with a plot line that you’ve seen before, but not presented like this.

There’s an emerging trend in film of utilizing screens — whether it be a computer, phone, or tablet — to reflect how involved technology is in the stories being told; the stories that reflect our world.

Searching is a mystery thriller that uses computer and cell phone screens to tell its story; a teen…

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Netflix's 'The Innocents' is weird and riveting

Netflix’s ‘The Innocents’ is weird and riveting

Netflix’s new series The Innocents is weird, but not in the way you might expect.

It’s a gloomy YA sci-fi thriller about young love and shapeshifters. June and Harry run away from their controlling families to find freedom — except, oops! June discovers she can shapeshift into other people, and she’s being hunted by a big Norwegian dude. Soon enough the families are on their trail as well. The…

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Netflix's 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before' is sugary-sweet and uninspired

Netflix’s ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ is sugary-sweet and uninspired

I love a good YA adaptation. The latest is To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, now streaming on Netflix, a rom-com based on the bestselling book by Jenny Han.

The book is an adorable story which I picked up last year in-between dense fantasy/sci-fi novels. It was surprisingly enjoyable, as I’m not usually one for romance, but To All The Boys’  is an immersive experience of second-hand…

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CW's 'The 100' Is Really Something

CW's 'The 100' is really something. But is it actually any good? I try to find out in my latest blog post. #The100

Years ago I saw the pilot episode of CW’s ‘The 100’. I didn’t think much of it, despite being intrigued by its sci-fi premise; Humanity lives in space now because of radiation stuff on Earth. After hundreds of years, they send down 100 nonessential citizens to the ground to see if its survivable. For no particularly logical reason these 100 citizens are all teenagers. And turns out they’re not…

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Aquaman?? I think you mean sharkboy and lavagirl 2

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Book Review: ‘All of This Is True’ by Lygia Day Peñaflor

‘All Of This Is True’, a 2018 release from Harper Teen, is a young adult thriller that has a dynamic cover and an intriguing synopsis. A group of wealthy, popular high school girls manipulate their way into a friendship with their favourite author. But it turns out they’re the ones being manipulated.

It delivers plenty of suspense and lightning-fast pacing, but I wouldn’t call it ‘thrilling’.

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The Slow Decay of AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’

One of the first episodes of ‘The Walking Dead’ I ever saw was the mid season premiere of season four, ‘After’. The episode is the aftermath of the prisons destruction; Rick, badly wounded, and Carl, angsty teen, are separated from their group, and travel from house to house aimlessly.

I never expected a gruesome show about zombies to have such complex characters and emotional depth. Carl Grimes was an instant favourite, with the father/son dynamic being the best – well, the driving element of the story. I soon went back and binged the earlier seasons. It was never without flaws, but I was so utterly invested that it didn’t matter.

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What Was the Point of ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’?

To come out of a Star Wars movie feeling nothing in particular is weird. I have many opinions about many things when it comes to the Star Wars universe, having watched and loved this franchise for much of my life. ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ is the latest in Disney’s new era of Star Wars films, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller…until they left half way through production due to “creative differences”, and Ron Howard took over. It’s an origin story for the iconic and much-loved original trilogy character, Han Solo.

Yes, that’s the one. Smuggler, scoundrel, scruffy-looking nerf herder. Except, it’s not that Han Solo. The role filled by Harrison Ford in ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’, is now taken up by Alden Ehrenreich, with a younger version of the character. Is it really possible to recapture the charm of Han Solo without Harrison Ford?

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Book Review: ‘Daughter of the Pirate King’ by Tricia Levenseller

‘Daughter of the Pirate King’ by Tricia Levenseller is a young adult fantasy novel, published by Feiwel & Friends in 2017, and the first of a two-book series. With its rather self-explanatory title, a synopsis wasn’t necessary before I decided to dive in. There’s only one reason why I, or anyone else, would.

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The Greatest Kids Movie Ever Made: ‘The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl’

With a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 20%, and an audience score of 31%, it seems pretty clear that ‘The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl’ isn’t a well-regarded movie.

But it should be.

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