![Gilded Cage (2017) by Vic James [ARC Review]](/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Gilded-Cage-by-Vic-James-460x300.jpeg "Gilded Cage (2017) by Vic James [ARC Review]")
11 months ago
GILDED CAGE follows an unSkilled family — the Hadleys — and the beginning of their slave years with a Skilled family — the Jardines.
The book opens on a scene …
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H.G. Well’s alien invasion novel, The War of the Worlds, is well known. It has been adapted for film, theater, and most infamously radio, but with Eric S. Brown, we get a new life breathed into the old story. The War of the Worlds always was a commentary on the fragility of life, the arrogance of human superiority and the triumph of the common man, but Brown takes it one step further: it is now a reflection on the old mores of science fiction and how even something done to death can be reanimated to terrifying appeal.
After “sixteen years worth of research, writing, and rewriting,” Sean Pidgeon should have a good book on his hands. But between a strange point-of-view(third person, present tense), lack of a real plot until the last 100 pages, and long, rambling chapters and paragraphs, Pidgeon fails to bring the magic and mystery of King Arthur and the story of one man’s journey to find the truth about him to life.
4 years ago
There is something quintessentially British about setting a film, of any genre, in the world of the caravanner, and Sightseers is no exception. Touring caravans, picturesque campsites, and quaint English tourist attractions all combine to provide an intriguing backdrop to a very black comedy.
