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I have nothing against romantasy as a genre, in fact I enjoy it myself often. But it can tend towards being shallow, and poorly developed beyond all the lusting and smoldering. Tom Cruise is possibly the WORST choice they could have made to play Reacher. He is nothing at all like the character is. Furthermore, my biggest complaints with the first movie is; Reacher is self-professed terrible driver yet the movie makes him seem like an expert, and, in the fight scene at the end of the movie, Reacher is supposedly hurt by just a few punches ??? Really? Really Really? I don’t think so! Reply
I cannot say, for certain, that this book would have the same effect on me now as it had then, when I originally read it. In fact, I can almost guarantee you that it wouldn't. I am worlds and decades away from the person I was then, and influence -- particularly marrow-deep influence -- is a specific synergy of the person you are as introduced to the catalyst of change that will make of you who you become. I would have to re-read this book to give a detailed review of it, which I may, at some point, do. But for right now, I'll offer an over-reaching opinion of the book in general that has been so strong in the imprint of it that it has remained unchanged from the time I originally read it, as a teenager, to now: This book is profound. It changed me in the reading of it, and is one of the handful of books to which I credit my ignition as a writer. As someone who reads 99.5% female authors, I have found it a little concerning that two of my favourite reads were written by dudes (Empire of the Vampire, and The Book that Wouldn't Burn). Reading this book however, reassured me that the identity of the author had nothing to do with it. What I love is a substantial story with vivid worldbuilding, and characters with realistically human levels of depth and moral complexity. I really enjoyed how this story was told from both Johnny & Amy’s point of views – it made it feel more authentic seeing both sides of their sometimes-hidden lives. The pace was excellent and even though there were a lot of moving parts in this story from the police, the immediate and extended family and other gangs it was all crafted together to make for a compelling, bingeable read. But there are complications. Amy, who was warned by her comfortably middle-class parents not to marry Johnny, wants a different life. She sees the violence and the bloodshed, and fears for her son’s future. When their own family home is shot at, she moves out and then issues an ultimatum to her husband: leave this life of crime behind and start afresh on the NSW north coast.To Antonov and Belagren, everything is a game. Before you get too enamored of your new friends, you might want to ask yourself what your role is, because, Dirk Provin, you’re a piece being moved about the board at their whim, just as surely as I am, you can rely on it.” Another Canadian Elliott, Elliott Barker, says of The Partial Psychopath: "For about half a century, we have known one unfailing recipe for creating psychopaths -- move a child through a dozen foster homes in the first three years." I wonder if it even requires foster families: could moving a child as frequently between military bases, even with a loving but emotionally stunted mother, have some of the same effect. On the world Ranadon there is no night as both suns shine brightly. The intervention of Belagren, High Priestess of the Shadowdancers, and the sacrifice of a child of royal blood, has banished the Age of Shadows from the skies. Belagren's position is unquestioned . . . until circumstances begin to tip political rivalries into a deadlier game altogether.
And Joseph is a lovable, moving character that you root and care for. Not all the supporting characters are as well developed-the worst being the love interest, a parallel to Mary Magdalene, but with none of the depth or spirit the character is given in say, a work like Jesus Christ Superstar. She's more just there to be a plot complication. It also made me realise that I had somehow forgotten that fantasy just means it's set in an imaginary world - that fantasy doesn't actually have to involve magic or mythical creatures. Don’t you? I mean, how do you know that the High Priestess doesn’t just make it up as she goes along? It’s illogical just to accept her word as fact.”
This story showed how sometimes the people you thought you were the closest too can become your enemies while the people you thought were your enemies might be your best allies. It also shows that when people have chosen to put you into the game even by trying to not play you are playing. In Mississippi, 1938, an eighth-grade education is all young Towanna Whitaker needs to be a sharecropper. Still, he is determined to finish high school and "be somebody"—until vicious rumors, bullying, and public shame drive his mother to abandon the family. It falls to a guilt-ridden Towanna to give up his education and care for the baby girl she leaves behind. Note: My thanks to NetGalley and Text Publishing for providing me with a free electronic copy of this book for review purposes. The man Johan, carries terrible secrets that shakes Dirk's belief in the Goddess, and the Shadowdancers, acolytes to the Goddess.
At the age of 20, in 1974, Child entered Law School in Sheffield, England. It is said that he never intended to actually practice law. Upon graduation, he decided instead to get a job in commercial television and joined Granada TV in Manchester. Child would end up working there for 18 years before being fired as a result of “corporate restructuring.” During that time he wrote countless commercials, news stories and trailers. It was 1995 and Child was 40 years old.When Ivan Novak is shot dead in his driveway, his father, Milan is certain the leader of a rival Serbian gang is responsible and insists his younger son, Johnny exacts retribution. Johnny isn’t a killer and, not convinced the Serbs are responsible, is reluctant to perpetuate the war that began in Croatia on the streets of Sydney. Looking to deescalate the situation, Johnny develops a brilliant plan that he hopes will satisfy his father’s lust for revenge, and allow he, his wife, Amy, and son, Sasha, to finally escape his family’s stranglehold and start a new, legitimate life. But if the plan fails, Johnny risks losing everything.
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