![]() Now they’re nothing but autographs and awkward meet-and-greets. Teen actor Darien Freeman used to live for cons – before he was famous. With savings from her gig at the Magic Pumpkin food truck and her dad’s old costume, Elle’s determined to win – unless her stepsisters get there first. The prize? An invitation to the ExcelsiCon Cosplay Ball and a meet-and-greet with the actor slated to play Federation Prince Carmindor in the reboot. So when she sees a cosplay contest for a new Starfield movie, she has to enter. ![]() Geek girl Elle Wittimer lives and breathes Starfield, the classic science-fiction series she grew up watching with her late father. ![]() Page Length: 320 pages (hardcover edition) Genre: YA, Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Retelling Book Review: “Geekerella” by Ashley Poston ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From the moment he arrives, every action is governed by a pre-determined set of rules rules which Titus very quickly desires to flout. ![]() Young Titus, the long-awaited seventy-seventh Earl of Groan, is born into a family controlled by a long tradition of rituals and customs. It’s as though he’s combined an ancient world with a futuristic one the man’s imagination was certainly a wild one, with more than a touch of madness thrown in for good measure. Sitting somewhere on the fantasy spectrum (although unusually so, as these novels feature no magic, no fantastical creatures, just strange and wild humans), Mervyn Peake has created a world unlike any other inhabited by humans. When my copy arrived from The Book Depository, and it turned out I’d ordered a trilogy, I realised I was going to either have triple the fun, or triple the misery. ![]() When a fellow reviewer offered commiserations over the fact that I was going to attempt it, I was a bit wary, but nonetheless, I decided to give it a go. I had never heard of ‘Gormenghast’ before it featured on the BBC Big Read Top 200 list, and even then, I had no idea what the novel was about. Today you are getting a bonus – two books from the list, plus a spare, for the price of one. Book #537 & #561 REVIEWER: TALL, SHORT & TINY ![]() ![]() “Great Grand Man” has an old-style fortune with its roots in manufacturing his daughter, Enola, is a prominent author and his son-in-law, Lowell, is an economist at Georgetown. To begin with, the Mandibles are a prosperous Manhattanite bunch. Your head may be spinning, because the details of finance are more abstruse than nuclear exchange, asteroid impacts or the second coming, but as she follows her characters through sufferings and accommodations, Shriver manages to make her case – that civilisation is a delicate network and what we have, even if that is only toilet paper and socks, is precious. The formerly wealthy, who had installed themselves in France, must now go home because the almighty dollar is worth nothing, replaced as the international currency by the “bancor”. ![]() The devastation in The Mandibles is monetary – its effect is to destroy the US economy so completely that the impoverished hordes are fleeing to Mexico. T here are plenty of zippy novels about the end of the world, but Lionel Shriver has had a different idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than being innate, their abilities were induced when, as college students, Andy and Victoria took part in what they assumed were harmless scientific studies involving drug testing. There’s an apparently idyllic family scene featuring young parents Andy and Victoria McGee (Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon) doting over their baby Charlene, nicknamed Charlie, that ends abruptly with the entire nursery going up in flames.īaby-terror in this case makes particular sense, because Charlie has developed pyrokinesis as a result of being born to parents who have psychic and telekinetic abilities. Written by Scott Teems ( Halloween Kills) and directed by Keith Thomas ( The Vigil), the new Firestarter starts off with a promising bit of energy. ![]() But this second attempt, produced by Blumhouse and currently playing in theaters, is even worse than the 1984 Drew Barrymore–starring version. It seems as if somebody ought to be able to make a decent horror movie based on Stephen King’s Firestarter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!) ![]() Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World… whatever that means. ![]() Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. It’s a recipe for the perfect love story.” – Helena Hunting, New York Times bestselling author of Meet CuteĪ steamy, hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey, perfect for fans of Christina Lauren and Sally Thorne! Not only is it hilarious, it’s sweet, endearing, heartwarming and downright sexy. ![]() |