tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49194734977720878212017-03-29T13:40:18.037-07:00Books CrumblesBooks reviews every week!Giulia Chinanoreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-71341679459683600122017-03-29T13:40:00.000-07:002017-03-29T13:40:18.062-07:00Wires and Nerve (Vol. #1) by Marissa Meyer, illustrated by Douglas Holgate - Review<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Wires and Nerve &nbsp;</span></h2><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;">by Marissa Meyer,</span><span style="color: orange;">&nbsp;illustrated by Douglas Holgate</span></h4><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cwTH3dlEfPQ/WM13e2VhzZI/AAAAAAAAE8o/oSTCsxoiRm0iRDmTygqHefp108pu_Pb9QCLcB/s1600/29772863.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cwTH3dlEfPQ/WM13e2VhzZI/AAAAAAAAE8o/oSTCsxoiRm0iRDmTygqHefp108pu_Pb9QCLcB/s1600/29772863.jpg" /></a></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>The Lunar Chronicles are back</b> with this first volume of the graphic novel illustrated by Douglas Holgate. If you loved the series you are certainly gonna enjoy this!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In this adventure we follow Iko, the sassy android from the Lunar Chronicles, on a new dangerous adventure.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The <b>Plot</b> starts from where we left, or just a bit farther in time: a few months have pass since Cinder and her friends saved the world, but there still a lot of work to do. Both Luna and Earth needs rebuilding and establishment; Cinder is struggling to be acknowledge as queen by the lunars, not to think of the packs of wolf-hybrids that have gone rouge on earth. This is when Iko gets in, she takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She will soon be working with and handsome royal guard - if you have paid attention &nbsp;in the series you would have gasp the attraction between her and You-Know-Who, starts with a K.- who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty and her own humanity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We still get a glimpse of all our other beloved characters - new Luna's queen Cinder, her lover and Common Wealth's Emperor Kyo; Scarlet and Wolf at the farm; Winter the new ambassador for Luna on Earth, tailed by her beloved stalkerish guard Jacin; and the one couple I was waiting for: Cress and Thorne traveling and delivering the cure, for the lunar disease, to all earthen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I was happy to see all the old character, but it was even more delightful getting to know better Iko, since we don't have her full perspective from the series. End what a spicy android she is! Funny, girly, caring, end at the same time a kick-ass character, terminator style. What appears from this graphic novel is that she is more similar to a human than a robot. Her feelings are strong, they don't feel like the product of program. <b>Seeing her starting to fall in love was the cherry at the top of a Sundae</b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The story was simple and good, but what I wasn't in love with were the graphics. I did find the drawing to simple and scratchy, not really the style I like.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">All in all it was nice and I will pick up the rest of the volume.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>3.5/5 STARS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>HERE'S A NICE SPEED-DRAW OF IKO BY <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOR0Xk4XR204Cr6V8jqbhKA">SHANLIGHTYEAR</a>:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fW8Ei6z_iVQ/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fW8Ei6z_iVQ?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-56807387051091659132017-03-22T05:17:00.000-07:002017-03-22T05:18:50.419-07:00Daughter of the Pirate King (#1) by Tricia Levenseller - Review<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Daughter of the Pirate King (#1)</span><br />by &nbsp;Tricia Levenseller</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xsbdjewum8U/WMsb3pPhfxI/AAAAAAAAE6M/ebWb9WM9KU8eE5YPnPrAvUkClFn463buwCLcB/s1600/33643994.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xsbdjewum8U/WMsb3pPhfxI/AAAAAAAAE6M/ebWb9WM9KU8eE5YPnPrAvUkClFn463buwCLcB/s400/33643994.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is not everyday that we are able to read a YA with pirates as main characters, which is a shame cus - has <i>The Pirate of the Caribbean</i> movie franchising shows - we all love them. It seems that recently they are again picking the interest of writes: we saw a bit of the pirates' world in a <i>Darker Shades of Magic</i> trilogy, by V.E. Schwab, &nbsp;with Lila and Alucard (<span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>ADSOM REVIEWS HERE</b></span>&nbsp;--&gt;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html">&nbsp;#1</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/03/a-gathering-of-shadows-darker-shade-of.html">#2</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/03/a-conjuring-of-light-darker-shade-of.html">#3</a>); or a bit of naval adventure in <i><a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/06/six-of-crowns-by-leigh-bardugo-this-is.html">Six of Crows</a></i> by Leigh Bardugo, but finally in <i>Daughter of the Pirate King</i> we have old-dirty-scam pirates, mermaids, damoiselles not so much in distress and more than one bottle of rum!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alosa - daughter of the Pirate king - was sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient map, that leads to Isle De Canta; there's only one problem, the map is hidden on another pirates ship. To retrieve the map Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search the ship.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What she didn't expect was for her captor's first mate, Riden, to be so clever and unfairly attractive. But not to worry, for Alosa has a few trick up her sleeve, and a simple pirate can not stop the Daughter of the Pirate King.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tricia Levenseller did find a way to make pirates in fashion again!</b> She didn't make them impossibly beautiful or unbelievable, but she gave to ruthness a new shine. They are sweaty, with golden teeth, saggy, smelly pirates; well some might smell better than the others but still, you get the idea. They are believable, and that's key in a book, if you can picture the characters as physical identity, that means that the writer was able to conjure a convincing/concrete world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plot is simple but beautifully crafted, all the main actions take place on the ship so there is little world building, but I'm sure we will get to know more of it in the next books. The characters are well rounded, there is not too much psychological depth to them but they emerge well from the pages. Our heroine <b>Alosa</b> is a <b>bad-ass</b>, <b>funny</b>, <b>sassy</b>, with a little too much self-confidence for my liking, but still I enjoyed reading about her, <b>I liked her alot</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">"Lass, you've the face of an angel but the tongue of a snake"</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The writing is good and so is the pacing. I flow through the book - I read it in one stand - and I can't wait to get my hands on the second book: <i>Daughter of the Siren Queen</i>, which is coming out february 2018. I can not wait for it!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4/5 STARS</b></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: &quot;merriweather&quot; , &quot;georgia&quot; , serif; font-size: 14px;"></span>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-51849080772862958602017-03-20T06:56:00.002-07:002017-03-20T07:01:31.900-07:00TEA TIME: Beauty and the Beast - Retellings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">IT'S TEA TIME !</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u8WchIhGVqA/WM_ZnQW969I/AAAAAAAAE94/IMHJ-HBA2PM3vWtl1L11ucT2tDSTRfM8gCLcB/s1600/beauty-and-the-beast-3840x2160-rose-red-best-movies-11557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u8WchIhGVqA/WM_ZnQW969I/AAAAAAAAE94/IMHJ-HBA2PM3vWtl1L11ucT2tDSTRfM8gCLcB/s640/beauty-and-the-beast-3840x2160-rose-red-best-movies-11557.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The disney real-action movie just came out, as a retelling itself, I'd like to honor it and go through all the<i> Beauty and the Beast</i> retellings I've read so far. Since is quite a popular story, there are a lot of books inspired by this classic fairytale but I've gathered down below just the one I've read.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In no particular order - without any further do, let's jump right in!</div><b></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">- A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J. Maas -</span></b></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6XrExXuoSAM/WM0ecmdCRVI/AAAAAAAAE8Y/7ObTvoD8jVwYLRIh105vDeroyG8n_iC_gCLcB/s1600/16096824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6XrExXuoSAM/WM0ecmdCRVI/AAAAAAAAE8Y/7ObTvoD8jVwYLRIh105vDeroyG8n_iC_gCLcB/s320/16096824.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sarah J. Maas is probably one of the &nbsp;best master when it comes to Adult Fantasy. In <i>A Court of Thorns and Roses </i>series she took the starting point from the Beauty and the Beast and created a <b>richly imagines fairy tale</b>. We don't have a beast but shape-shifters faeries.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Plot:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When nineteen-year.old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land sh only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamil- one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But and ancient wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it... or doom Tamlin - and his world - forever.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The story is sprinkled with beautiful themes and sensuality. The world building is inventive and even though you don't get the full picture in the first book, the horizont gets wider and more detailed in the second. The writing is good, and above all the characters development throughout the series is amazing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I &nbsp;gave a <b>4/5 starts</b> at this first installment in the series, and a <b>5/5 star</b> at the second (<i>A court of Mist and Fury</i>), which was just perfect!</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">- Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge -</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UW51m578sbk/WM7jQ6NxGBI/AAAAAAAAE84/We1Nxez0FCcn7ZI_NgOR9L_m8y9viR2IQCLcB/s1600/15839984.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UW51m578sbk/WM7jQ6NxGBI/AAAAAAAAE84/We1Nxez0FCcn7ZI_NgOR9L_m8y9viR2IQCLcB/s320/15839984.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Rosamund Hodge is well known for her classic stories retellings, her style and characters dosen't do for me but they are loved by plenty, so <b>it's worth a look</b> to in which side you fall.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The story is about Nyx, who since birth has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom - all becouse of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth she is been training to kill him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Without a choice Nyx, at sixteen, abandons everything to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the curse he put on her people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Igenex is not at all what Nyx expected.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Has I said at the beginnings I can't come to like her book, but that doesn't mean that they are not plenty of good they just don't get to me. I thought this book did mix to many myths and legends, and I ended up giving it <b>2/5 stars </b>on <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15839984-cruel-beauty?ac=1&amp;from_search=true">Goodreads</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">-Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer-</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4uwnJpeWydM/WM_MNaYomlI/AAAAAAAAE9Q/_9CIpENhvkw6vDVmvUU1Pw0wAtq7oeRqgCLcB/s1600/13206760.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4uwnJpeWydM/WM_MNaYomlI/AAAAAAAAE9Q/_9CIpENhvkw6vDVmvUU1Pw0wAtq7oeRqgCLcB/s320/13206760.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Scarlet (REVIEW--&gt;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/scarlet-lunar-chronicles-2-review.html">HERE</a>) is the second instalment in the <i>Lunar Chronicles </i>series, even if it's supposed to be a retelling of <i>Little Red Hood</i>, there are too many recalls to the Beauty and the Beast. It's impossible in my opinion to pick it up as a standalone, but <b>the series it's really good</b> so I suggest you, if you want to read it, to start of with <i>Cinder</i> (REVIEW--&gt;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/06/cinder-lunar-chronicles-1-review.html">HERE</a>).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Plot:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cinder, the cyborg, mechanic, is trying to break out of prison - even though she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Halfway around the world, <b>Scarlet </b>Benoit's grandmother is missing. When Scarlet encounters <b>Wolf</b>, a street fighter who may have informations as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The series is <b>beautiful and a fast read</b>, don't get scared of by the massive volume, you will fly through the pages form an exciting adventure to another. I can't say al lot about Scarlet/Wolf's story without spoiling it too much, but to give a reason to the why I put it in the Beauty&amp;Beast category, let's just say that wolf will become quite beastly over time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I gave this book a <b>4/5 stars</b>, highly recommend the series!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">- Uprooted by Naomi Novik -</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aZFS9nsJ3Bk/WM_UPxRYPiI/AAAAAAAAE9g/zVZdohLgUAkriHzXZTamzDoaM5o7my5ygCLcB/s1600/25068467.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aZFS9nsJ3Bk/WM_UPxRYPiI/AAAAAAAAE9g/zVZdohLgUAkriHzXZTamzDoaM5o7my5ygCLcB/s320/25068467.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Uprooted get the whole Beauty&amp;Beast feeling, but instead of an ugly beast we get a powerful, cruel wizard.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Plot:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her people rely on the cold, ambitious wizard, known as the Dragon , to keep the wood's powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman must be handed to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as being lost to the wood.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When the next choosing comes, the Dragon chooses her to serve him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The story is hugely <b>imaginative, engrossing and vivid</b>; the plot gets pretty twisted but works perfectly, the writing style is highly evocative, and the characters feel real. This is for sure one of the best fantasy novel inspired by folk and fairy tales.&nbsp;I handed up giving it a <b>4.5/5 stars</b>, you are gonna love it!.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">- The Star Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi -</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tZmdA4WNj5k/WM_YPvko3II/AAAAAAAAE9s/iq_G-caISkQC7nqZqs1hn_R0JStj542HgCLcB/s1600/25203675.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tZmdA4WNj5k/WM_YPvko3II/AAAAAAAAE9s/iq_G-caISkQC7nqZqs1hn_R0JStj542HgCLcB/s320/25203675.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Star-Touched Queen</i> (REVIEW--&gt; <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/the-star-touched-queen-review.html">HERE</a>) presents itself like a&nbsp;<b>fairy-tale retelling</b>, based on stories like<i>&nbsp;Beauty and the Beast</i>&nbsp;and the greek myth of&nbsp;<i>Hades</i>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>Persephone</i>&nbsp;all mixed-up with indian legends. The writer was able to mix all this elements and created an imaginative tale.<br /><br /><b>Plot:</b><br />Maya, one of &nbsp;Bharata Raja's daughter, has been cursed with a Horoscope that promise a marriage of death and destruction, making her an outcast in the court. Content to follow more scholarly pursuit, her world will be turn upside down when her father arranged a political marriage to peace the outside rebellions. She will soon find herself in Akaran, a land in between worlds, married to the Raja Amar - and in his mysterious palace there are many doors that must not be open and many voices not to follow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All of the lucks in the characters development are mystified by the&nbsp;<b>vibrant</b>,<b>&nbsp;elegant language</b>, Roshani Chokshi use. She is clearly a skilled writer and her poetic vibe did combine wonderfully with the magic atmosphere of India's folk stories.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I ended up giving this story a<b> 3/5 stars.</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">------------------------------</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This were my Beauty&amp;Beast read so far, do you have some other retelling of this story to recommend me?</div></div><div class="post-header" style="color: #aaaaaa; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4309603685501849499" itemprop="description articleBody" style="font-size: 19.8px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 678px;"><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #737373; font-family: &quot;Josefin Sans&quot;; font-size: 19.8px; text-align: center;"></div></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-12625487410819907912017-03-18T10:34:00.001-07:002017-03-18T11:16:21.646-07:00Frostblood (#1) by Elly Blake - Review<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Frostblood</span><br />by Elly Blake</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PnUpPysjf2w/WMbtK9k_0-I/AAAAAAAAE50/L2mVLj6SVFgiS0IoYChpYTW9HTsNLKLPwCLcB/s1600/27827203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PnUpPysjf2w/WMbtK9k_0-I/AAAAAAAAE50/L2mVLj6SVFgiS0IoYChpYTW9HTsNLKLPwCLcB/s400/27827203.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Frostblood</i> is the installment in Elly Blake's&nbsp;<i>Frostbrood Saga</i> - three book have been announced until now- and if you are a block of ice you should prepare to be melt down in this new YA fantasy book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b>"You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took year to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken."</b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's a war going on earth between Fireblood and Frostblood, an old conflict created by greedy Gods, so Ruby - a fireblood stuck in the Frostblood's kingdom- has to hide her power from the cruel eye of the ruling class. But once discovered, her mum is killed and her village set on fire.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Luck seems to turn her way when a mysterious rebel Frostblood, Arcus, demands her help to overthrow the bloody king. While busy saving the kingdom, the temperature between Ruby and Arcus is rising, let's just hope they don't catch fire!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you read a lot of mainstream YA fantasy book, you probably have already read this story. In fact this book is full of chlichè, yet the writer did manage to hold my attention.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If I was reading a book of this genre for the first time, I would totally love it, but I've already read about society split in two groups, a heroine different from everyone else, whose destiny has already been carved in a prophecy and who by pure chance falls in love with - <i>drum roll</i>- the mysterious guy that is supposed to be the enemy. I mean if you have read Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, this is practically a false copy of it.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Frostblood is unremarkable </b>under many aspects, but somehow manage to still works. The dialogue are crafted enough to be funny, and the heroine is well rounded - even though I would have appreciated more psychological depths. For our male counterpart I can't say the same, he was quite flat, aiming for a <i>Heatcliff </i>'s<i>&nbsp;</i>model but never getting there.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The writing style is good, too stereotypical for this genre, but still able to hold the your attention making it a fast read. One of the most remarkable feature of this book is the cover, I'm digging this style!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>In summary it was an ok start for the series</b>, I'm hoping to see some real sparks in the next book of the series, <i>Fireblood</i>, coming out September 2017.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3/5 STARS</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-43096036855018494992017-03-17T15:27:00.001-07:002017-03-20T07:31:33.263-07:00TEA TIME: Beauty and the Beast (2017) - Animated Version vs Live-Action Movie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OpguAJyXSJA/WMxMrFQkjKI/AAAAAAAAE6w/GbM0bMkWSkITAzSKh_P-9C4KKHJHQPhWACLcB/s1600/MV5BMjI4MjE1MDE0Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjcyMTkxMTI%2540._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="314" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OpguAJyXSJA/WMxMrFQkjKI/AAAAAAAAE6w/GbM0bMkWSkITAzSKh_P-9C4KKHJHQPhWACLcB/s640/MV5BMjI4MjE1MDE0Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjcyMTkxMTI%2540._V1_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Disney's movie adaptation of this old classic just came out, and oh boy, it was worth the wait, <b>it's stunning</b>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This old classic gets a 20th century kick in - if you've been following Emma Watson's interviews you will known that she tried to give Belle's role a stronger, independent women appeal. As all the new Disney movies suggest, the princess is not waiting to be saved anymore, instead she is the one doing the saving.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let's have a look at the main changes made from the 1991 animated version to the new live-action one:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">[CONTAINS SPOILER]</span>&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1- The Prince.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aFc2F1Mc4P8/WMxMyKqkPKI/AAAAAAAAE60/eM-KRIbwrxcneZrip9H6HozJ7xM77odWgCLcB/s1600/MV5BMTc5MzAzOTY4OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjcyMDg2MTI%2540._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aFc2F1Mc4P8/WMxMyKqkPKI/AAAAAAAAE60/eM-KRIbwrxcneZrip9H6HozJ7xM77odWgCLcB/s640/MV5BMTc5MzAzOTY4OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjcyMDg2MTI%2540._V1_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apart from computerized, beastly <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1405398/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm">Dan Stevenson</a> &nbsp;appearance, in this movie we finally get a bit of the Prince's back story. At the beginnings, we see the young prince having a lavish ball in the castle. We are shown as he throws the beggar women, seeking refuge, out of the castle, at which point she turns into the enchantress and places the curse on the castle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later on, we learn about the <i>Prince/Beast </i>'s past and how his mother died when he was a kid, leaving him alone with his cruel father, who raised him as the mirror image of himself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2-Belle's dad.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79XVFRa1VTU/WMxQCSLy_wI/AAAAAAAAE7A/-2dQk4_uXAobP83rA9o5P409OPRA4GCcQCLcB/s1600/landscape-1478513336-belle-and-her-father-beauty-and-the-beast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79XVFRa1VTU/WMxQCSLy_wI/AAAAAAAAE7A/-2dQk4_uXAobP83rA9o5P409OPRA4GCcQCLcB/s640/landscape-1478513336-belle-and-her-father-beauty-and-the-beast.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the animated version <i>Belle</i>'s father, <i>Maurice</i> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000177/?ref_=tt_cl_t5">Kevin Kline</a>), was an inventor. Instead in the live-action movie, is presented as a skilled artist. While the role of the inventor is taken up by <i>Belle</i>, when she comes up with a laundry machine that saves her time and work, so she is free to read as much as she wants.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3- Escaping.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As we said <i>Belle</i> is not a passive heroine, so at the first chance she tries to escape the castle. After being dressed up in a ridiculous outfit by <i>Garderobe</i>, she decided to use the fabric to make a rope to climb out of the tower. But her plan foiled when Mrs. Potts sees her and convinces her to go to dinner.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4 - Trembling castle.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQgjad9u1bY/WMxVWi0WQzI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/HUcsn5PS644J1KgTCw0U2eoV3gPGzNvpACLcB/s1600/MV5BMTI1YjViMzgtMDcwOS00NGRiLWExZTUtOGM1NjIyOTZkYzNkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDQxNjcxNQ%2540%2540._V1_SX1777_CR0%252C0%252C1777%252C740_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zQgjad9u1bY/WMxVWi0WQzI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/HUcsn5PS644J1KgTCw0U2eoV3gPGzNvpACLcB/s640/MV5BMTI1YjViMzgtMDcwOS00NGRiLWExZTUtOGM1NjIyOTZkYzNkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNDQxNjcxNQ%2540%2540._V1_SX1777_CR0%252C0%252C1777%252C740_AL_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the feature I loved the most was how the castle was directly involved in the curse. Apart from been divided in the Ovest/<i>Belle</i>'s wing - light and rich - and the Est/<i>Beast</i>'s wing - gothic and gloomy-, it also starts to crumble every time a rose petal falls.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>5- Enchanted Book.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <i>Beast</i> has an enchanted book that allows him to travel. One of the cruel jokes the enchantress plays on the beast is also giving him a book that can take him anywhere he wants. Though he doesn't utilize it much, since his beastly appearance will be rejected by others. He will use it to take Belle to Paris, where she discovers something about her past.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>6- Belle's mom death.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the movie, the <i>Beast</i> uses his enchanted book to bring <i>Belle</i> to Paris, where she visits her childhood home and learns that her mum died from the Bubonic plague.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>7- Gaston is really evil.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZnSfcnURbs/WMxYw_GwH8I/AAAAAAAAE7c/CNL8QVYC9j87Lhu3N4u_I2OOKs2Wuj2YgCLcB/s1600/MV5BMTk4OTUwMDMxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODAyOTE1MDI%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1393%252C1000_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6ZnSfcnURbs/WMxYw_GwH8I/AAAAAAAAE7c/CNL8QVYC9j87Lhu3N4u_I2OOKs2Wuj2YgCLcB/s640/MV5BMTk4OTUwMDMxNF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODAyOTE1MDI%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1393%252C1000_AL_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After Maurice rejects the idea of Gaston marrying his daughter, Gaston decides to tie Maurice to a tree and let him be eaten by wolves, in the hope that Belle will need a man to take care of her after the loss of her father. Maurice is saved by Agathe, the spinster, that at the end of the movie reveals herself as the enchantress.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>8- There's a new character!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are introduced to a new character: <i>Cadenza</i>. Played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001804/?ref_=tt_cl_t15">Stanley Tucci</a>, who turns into a piano when the castle is cursed. He is married to <i>Garderobe</i>, played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567653/?ref_=tt_cl_t14">Audra Mcdonald</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>9- Le Fou is gay.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We learn that <i>Le Fou</i> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1265802/?ref_=tt_cl_t4">Josh Gad</a>) is gay. Not really surprising -with all the subtle reference in the animated version-, but he is the first disney character to be officially and openly gay. This fact made it to the headlines all around the world. A theater in Alabama decided not to show the movie in its establishment because of the scene, which I find behind any sense of reason since the only explicit "gay"&nbsp;scene regards Le Fou dancing with a man who enjoy dressing in drags, at the end of the movie.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>10- Mrs Potts and Cogsworth are married to villagers.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3iw7ksGEcVg/WMxfNgZCA6I/AAAAAAAAE7s/LApFDQzGjiY6asFc7iMmHyuiyx7L7ZmIQCLcB/s1600/potts-differences.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3iw7ksGEcVg/WMxfNgZCA6I/AAAAAAAAE7s/LApFDQzGjiY6asFc7iMmHyuiyx7L7ZmIQCLcB/s640/potts-differences.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We learn that all memory of the castle and its inhabitants were forgotten by the villagers. When the curse is lifted, we find out that both<i> Mrs Pott </i>(<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000668/?ref_=tt_cl_t12">Emma Thompson</a>) and <i>Cogsworth</i> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005212/?ref_=tt_cl_t11">Ian McKellen</a>) are merries to people we already met from the the village.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This were the main difference I spotted, did you find some other important changes?<br /><br /><b>TRAILER:</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e3Nl_TCQXuw/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/e3Nl_TCQXuw?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-83304440105697534112017-03-15T13:59:00.000-07:002017-03-21T05:59:59.744-07:00The Enemy Within by Scott Burn - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;">The Enemy Within</span></div><span style="color: #134f5c;"><div style="text-align: center;">By Scott Burn</div></span></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RC9borjXFFY/WMBINVr88yI/AAAAAAAAE5Q/pP_deklulcooxj9Jq_jZgB_eRZI8mvqYACLcB/s1600/31439520.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RC9borjXFFY/WMBINVr88yI/AAAAAAAAE5Q/pP_deklulcooxj9Jq_jZgB_eRZI8mvqYACLcB/s400/31439520.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've been craving some YA, sci-fi adventure for a while, so when I got my hands on <i>The Enemy Within</i> I was prepared for an extra terrestrial trip!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/01/the-5th-wave-1-by-rick-yancey-review.html">The 5th Wave</a></i> meets <i>I am number 4&nbsp;</i>in Scott Burn debut novel, while bringing a new spin on the human/alien conflict.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Max always felt he was different, he was never able to fit right in, but since the visions came he feels totally estranged. He keeps on seeing a burning city, pain and suffering overtaking his mind. He can't understand what he is experiencing and it's getting stronger with time. Thinking he is going crazy he attempts suicide, failing and as a consequence handing up in a mental institution. But sooner he will discover that his hallucinations weren't just in his head.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">While stuck in the mental hospital, three others are searching for Max. They , as Max, don't really fit in with humans but are something more. Each of them has a special ability, that will come in handy when a military organization comes after them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The novel has simple premise, that we can find in a lot of YA books, but we get some twist and turns that are worth the reading. Even though it uses some eternal sci fi clichè, which I'm sick of seeing in movies and books, the writer is able to make the story interesting with some unexpected plot twists.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The characters are well outlined, the author was able to give them a good psychological depth. The protagonists of our story are really fun to read about - some exchanges were hilarious - and it was nice to see their relationships evolve.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I loved the story and how everything played out, but what is bugging me was the world construction and the absence of descriptions. A lot was left out to the reader's imagination, there was too much blank space to fill in, making the scene and settings sometimes difficult to picture. It felt, at time, more like a script than a book, which was a shame since the story had a great potential.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apart from my little grumbles <b>it's a good reading, quick and fun</b>. You will certainly not regret it!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.5/5 STARS&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Scott Burn official website--&gt; <a href="http://www.scottburn.xyz/">HERE</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-19155491045469629512017-03-13T05:06:00.000-07:002017-03-21T05:59:59.722-07:00A Conjuring of Light (A Darker Shade of Magic 3#) by V.E. Schwab - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Conjuring </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">of</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Light</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">by V<span style="color: red;">.</span>E<span style="color: red;">.</span> Schwab</div></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qOuPzHehqbc/WLsmENW3Q1I/AAAAAAAAE3U/-i-GsdGRN7Q42KFUC-0GJuIPlTlX10c7wCLcB/s1600/29939230.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qOuPzHehqbc/WLsmENW3Q1I/AAAAAAAAE3U/-i-GsdGRN7Q42KFUC-0GJuIPlTlX10c7wCLcB/s400/29939230.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Victoria Schwab nailed it down again!</b> She became a certainty, in all her book the writing is: <b>elegant</b>, <b>composed</b>, <b>confident</b>, <b>polished</b>, <b>just pure bliss</b>. And in A Conjuring of Light - final instalment in the <i>A Darker Shade of Magic</i> trilogy (<a href="https://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html">#1</a>,<a href="https://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/03/a-gathering-of-shadows-darker-shade-of.html">#2</a>) - she give her best, making it the perfect conclusion for the series. Victoria Schwab is not yet 30 and she feels - quoting the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/books/review/not-yet-30-this-fantasy-writer-is-an-old-pro.html?_r=0">New York Times </a>- like an old pro. But let's stop with my eulogy, and get straight to the book.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">In<a href="https://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/03/a-gathering-of-shadows-darker-shade-of.html"> <i>A Gathering of Shadows</i></a> we left Red London celebrating the end of the Element Games, but while festivity are taking place, darkness is casting a shadow over the Maresh Empire, making space for another London to rise. Are heroes will have fight, with every possible means, against a magic force that is moving to drain the world for its greed.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Every character is so fleshed-out, you will except (wish) them to jump out of the pages and come to life. they &nbsp;are well-rounded and they keep on evolving. We see <b>Lila</b>, who in the previous installment came out has hot-headed and more boastful than I could take, showing determination and strength. From the free of attachment kind of girl, she became someone who is ready to die for the people she care about. She is more mature without losing the boldness and fierceness, that made her the character we all love.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><b>"Only you would mourn the vessel instead of the sailors"</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><b>"Well," she said matter-of-factly, "the ship certainly didn't do anything wrong. The people might have deserved it."</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We also get a better spectrum of<b> Rhy</b> and <b>Alucard</b> relationship - secret from Alucard's past and some mind-blowing plot-twists will determine our crown prince's future. Rhy is also put under a different light in this book, he is gone past the rebellious fase, and he is starting to behave like a mighty king.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But the most extraordinary character of the book was <b>Holland</b>, so complex and mesmerising. We get a better look at his past and we get to understand him better. He reminded me of Vicious in more than one way, he surly shows that nothing is just black or white, that an object changes depending on the perspective you are are looking it from.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><i><br /></i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><i>"I keep wondering" he said softly, "if all of it is my fault. Where does it start, Tieren?"&nbsp;</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><i>He looked up.&nbsp;</i></b><b><i>"With Holland's choice, or with mine?"</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">There was a loose end in the plot with Lila, you will get what I'm talking about when you pick up the book - cus you will-, that I'm trying not to hope it was intentional. From what I notice in Schwab's book nothing, not even the smallest details, is put there by chance so this missed realisation is making me think of another waiting adventure. I'm trying not to hope for it, thinking at a possible new series in the ADSOM's universe is too much, it will break my heart if not.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I think that I could go on and on talking about how good this series was, but that will that you away precious time to read it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>5/5 STARS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To celebrate the final installment in Victoria Schwab's Trilogy,&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html" target="_blank">A Darker Shade of Magic</a>, I'm doing a&nbsp;<span style="color: red;">FREE GIVEAWAY</span>&nbsp;: a paperback copy A Darker Shade of Magic. Read the rule to enter ----&gt;&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/free-book-giveaway-enter-to-win-copy-of.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kXG4ibtuMo/WLLmGy615UI/AAAAAAAAE1g/g8A_7_8G3YcJfV2UUqBaeIHm-LoEjHdsgCPcB/s1600/1-Recuperato.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kXG4ibtuMo/WLLmGy615UI/AAAAAAAAE1g/g8A_7_8G3YcJfV2UUqBaeIHm-LoEjHdsgCPcB/s640/1-Recuperato.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-73950830320955151502017-03-09T10:43:00.002-08:002017-03-09T22:44:17.837-08:00A Monster Calls, starring Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones and Sigourney Weaver, directed by J.A Bayona - BOOK vs MOVIE<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A Monster Calls</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">by J.A. Bayona</div></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jgc8eha9kVc/WMA1iOWp2LI/AAAAAAAAE4k/pWHOcfhD3aQwvu3VUQmO6OaKTTMjHs1IACLcB/s1600/2964%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jgc8eha9kVc/WMA1iOWp2LI/AAAAAAAAE4k/pWHOcfhD3aQwvu3VUQmO6OaKTTMjHs1IACLcB/s640/2964%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>"There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one.&nbsp;</i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>Most people are somewhere in between"</i></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I loved the book,(<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/a-monster-calls-by-patrick-ness-review_29.html">---&gt;REVIEW HERE</a>), Patrick Ness is one of my favorite writers and after waiting so long, I was finally able to watch the movie (we still need to wait until the 18th of May for the italian release).</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The book/movie tells the story of Conor (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_MacDougall">Lewis MacDougall</a>), a child whose mother (Rogue One heroine,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Jones">&nbsp;Felicity Jones</a>) is terminally ill; one night, he is visited by a giant tree-like monster (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Neeson">Liam Neeson</a>). Anticiant, wild and relentless the monster will share three stories with him, and at the end of them Conor will have to tell him a fourth one, the&nbsp;<i>Truth</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All the feelings and emotions I had while reading the book, did resurface. You will ached for Conrad, as he struggles to process his mum illness, the absence of his dad and the rejection of his peers. Lewis MacDougall was amazing in his role - such a young actor with beautiful expressions and good skills - he is able to guide you through Conrad's grief journey. MacDougall's angry big eyes are the mirror of the conflicts raging in Conrad's soul.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YF9S5Us2wTY/WMA8_KU2TvI/AAAAAAAAE40/TosYXncbaFwAbL69HK9FOXN0neXTHPDpgCLcB/s1600/amonstercalls0008.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YF9S5Us2wTY/WMA8_KU2TvI/AAAAAAAAE40/TosYXncbaFwAbL69HK9FOXN0neXTHPDpgCLcB/s640/amonstercalls0008.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rest of the cast did not disappoint. Felicity Jones (Lizzy) was marvellos, the relationship between mom and son was palpable.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigourney_Weaver">Sigourney Weaver</a> is not kicking any aliens here, but she is playing Conrad's grandmother, Mrs. Clayton. She needs to help her daughter, Lizzy, with her treatments and also look after Conrad, that was pretty much left to himself until her arrival. As a character she was able to come across even better than in the book, her facial expression could have suffice, she made an outstanding performance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h35MSqC3R9I/WMBAo19n8MI/AAAAAAAAE5A/7MtWCSFXoJ4XtmrplHFCGSgKf9et-ougACLcB/s1600/A-Monster-Calls-Conor-Falling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h35MSqC3R9I/WMBAo19n8MI/AAAAAAAAE5A/7MtWCSFXoJ4XtmrplHFCGSgKf9et-ougACLcB/s640/A-Monster-Calls-Conor-Falling.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The graphics were a bit of a let down - probably budget shortage -, but the photography and the settings were beautiful. Starting from the Conrad's house, homely and lived in, to his uptight Grandma's one, bent and sculpted into gloomy antique furniture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apart from the computer glitches, the whole movie was near perfection. It follows the book step by step, while giving it a more adult twist. I would highly recommend; on <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_monster_calls/">Rotten Tomatoes</a> is scoring a 87%, which I think is pretty damn good!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>EVEN! Both book and movie are amazing.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b>Trailer:</b><br /><b><br /></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/R2Xbo-irtBA/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/R2Xbo-irtBA?feature=player_embedded" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"></iframe></div><b><br /></b>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-71858848920116580492017-03-08T01:18:00.000-08:002017-03-21T05:59:59.741-07:00The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</span></div><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;">by Robert L. Stevenson</div></span></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fFlrq8fgdEo/WLxnv0cn7sI/AAAAAAAAE3w/8UrPiRGtsLYWwwm81H9Ma49ScF6FPALTQCLcB/s1600/15994498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fFlrq8fgdEo/WLxnv0cn7sI/AAAAAAAAE3w/8UrPiRGtsLYWwwm81H9Ma49ScF6FPALTQCLcB/s400/15994498.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;It's quite weird how the story came to be: according to Osbourne's account, Stevenson wrote the first draft of <i>The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</i> with remarkable speed. The main details of the story were given to him in a dream, and in three days the first draft of the novel was complete. But after reading it to his wife he set fire to it and started again (quite drastic, I would say). He then spent some months to polish the work we still read and enjoy nowadays.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Are we good because we want to be, or are we good because we just don't want to be punished?</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Surely Stevenson did ask himself the same question while writing this iconic novel. The theme of the dual personality was a novelty in the 19th century, but still feels contemporary nowadays. He was able to portrait in Hyde, Jekyll's alter ego, the dark side of man which civilization has striven to submerge. In fact, as you probably already known, Jekyll and Hyde are the same person and the two entity can not be separated. From my reading, Hyde is just a mask that Jekyll puts on to dissociate himself from the terrible acts he commits, it's his way of freeing himself of the restrictions dictated by the society. With Hyde's identity he can vent all is violent and dark instinct, but Jekyll doesn't disappear he is always there. The problem comes when Jekyll becomes slowly more addicted to his other self. Neither can survive with or without the other, there is only one solution....</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's an&nbsp;<b>exquisite novel</b>, in contrast with most of the Gothic Romances of the time, here there is no love and frilly romance, just friendship and male partnership. I was glad of that, since the classic love-tales tend to be a bit boring after a while.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I founded the writing style quite peculiar, at time convulsive as probably is character psychology, but at the same time simple and quick to read - less than 100 pages. As in the majority of the novels of the time the characters are still a bit empty shells, that stand more for a moral ideal than a complex individual. Still the story is<b> pleasant </b>and <b>engaging</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4/5 STARS</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-84003245397734908012017-03-06T04:31:00.002-08:002017-03-06T04:31:42.899-08:00A Gathering Of Shadows (A Darker Shade of Magic #2) by V.E Schwab - Review<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">A</span> Gathering <span style="color: red;">Of</span> Shadows</span><br />by V<span style="color: red;">.</span>E<span style="color: red;">.</span> Schwab</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pcuhiwBrl5g/WLaBarD5UAI/AAAAAAAAE2k/6z3_4cFXyj8WDr3S9_DRc85gYHEYHvTnACLcB/s1600/20764879.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pcuhiwBrl5g/WLaBarD5UAI/AAAAAAAAE2k/6z3_4cFXyj8WDr3S9_DRc85gYHEYHvTnACLcB/s400/20764879.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">"How do you know when the Sarows is coming?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">(Is coming is coming is coming aboard)...</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here we are back with my favorite Fantasy writer of all time: Victoria Schwab and the fantastic characters of <i>A Darker Shade of Magic</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this second installment of the Trilogy (<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html" target="_blank">A Darker Shade of Magic #1</a>), old and new characters are back in Schwab's multiverse, and you are probably gonna love them even more than the first time!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kell - the Antari traveler, who likes to smuggle little trinkets in between worlds-; Lila - once a thief, now a pirate and maybe something more; Rhy - the charming Prince of Red London, freshly back from the dead-, Alucard - the cocky Captain of the Night Spire with a mysterious past-, and many more.<br /><br />We left, in the first book, with Lila sailing off to unknown venture; and Kell back in Red London, having bond forever his existence with his brother, Rhy.<br />After the threat from the Dane twins is called off in White London, and Vitari, the pure magical force casted back with Holland's dying body into Black London, thing are finally starting to settle down in Red London. They city is buzzing with the preparations for the Element Games - an extravagant international competition of magic- that will draw back into port some old friends.<br />But while one London is engaged in the festivity, an ancient shadows has been woken in another. It just seems that if our protagonists don't go looking for troubles, this one follow them.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #666666;">"Delilah Bard had a way of finding trouble"</span></b></i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />I couldn't be more happy with this fallup of the series, give me pirates and a magic tournament - that did call back HP memory - and I'm sold. And if you also look at the covers of this series, they are beautiful, even the internal graphics are superbs. Not to mention that as usual Schwab's writing skill looks effortless. Her writing is like breathing, natural and essential. In her book nothing is excessive or lacking, everything is always well balanced.<br />She is the true magician in this book, transforming words in vivid images and sensations. Her use of language is detailed and evocative, making the reader drown into Kell's and Lila's world. A World where all the different sub-plot, each with their different characters, are brought forward until they converge into one. This clue point, was the case of the Element Games, until the competition all the characters are split as we left them in the first book, but they are slowly drawn together chapter by chapter.<br />The characters are well-rounded, we get even more depths in them. Delilah Bard was the best Pirate/Thief &nbsp;and much more that I ever read about. I can't get enough of her is the baddest badass of them all and she doesn't give a damn.<br />Let me also advise you that if you get to the end you will immediately need <i>A Conjuring of Light</i>. In fact the second book stop on a cliffhanger, leaving you leaning in like at the end of Soap-Opera's episode.&nbsp;</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>5/5 STARS</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>To celebrate the final installment in Victoria Schwab Trilogy,&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html" target="_blank">A Darker Shade of Magic</a>, I'm doing a&nbsp;<span style="color: red;">FREE GIVEAWAY</span>&nbsp;: a paperback copy A Darker Shade of Magic. Read the rule to enter ----&gt;&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/free-book-giveaway-enter-to-win-copy-of.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kXG4ibtuMo/WLLmGy615UI/AAAAAAAAE1g/g8A_7_8G3YcJfV2UUqBaeIHm-LoEjHdsgCPcB/s1600/1-Recuperato.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kXG4ibtuMo/WLLmGy615UI/AAAAAAAAE1g/g8A_7_8G3YcJfV2UUqBaeIHm-LoEjHdsgCPcB/s640/1-Recuperato.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-16579339304978529092017-03-04T01:49:00.000-08:002017-03-05T04:25:22.985-08:00 Vicious ( Vicious #1) by V.E Schwab - Review<h2 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Vicious</span><br />by V.E Schwab</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGt7z5sLLv4/V6zZfoKtBLI/AAAAAAAAEbE/3bWY5dbYDOwVvUTxWD6AgLMJreetoaKcQCLcB/s1600/13638125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UGt7z5sLLv4/V6zZfoKtBLI/AAAAAAAAEbE/3bWY5dbYDOwVvUTxWD6AgLMJreetoaKcQCLcB/s400/13638125.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #666666;">"Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of&nbsp;monsters&nbsp;knew how to play at being human"</span></i></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In&nbsp;<i>Vicious</i>, we find our self in a comic-like world where super villains and superheroes can be easily mistaken for one another.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The story starts with Victor and Eli - two brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. They start a research on adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events that reveals the possibility, given the right conditions, that someone might develop extraordinary ability. But when their thesis moves from theoretical to practical, things go horribly wrong.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend, aided by a young girl who can rise the dead, and other odd characters that tag along the way. Meanwhile Eli is on the&nbsp;<i>holy</i>&nbsp;mission to eradicate, from earth, every other supernatural being. With both of them terribly powerful and driven by revenge, the battle between the two arch-nemeses is going to be <b>epic</b>!</div><b></b><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><i><span style="color: #666666;">"The paper called Eli a hero.</span></i></b></b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #666666;">The word made Victor laugh. not just because it was absurd, but becouse it posed a question. If Eli really was a hero, and Victor meat to stop him, did that make him a villain?"</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's all about the ambition, the betrayals and jealousies, that brought together first, and broke apart after, our two protagonists. Eli and Victor both have a dark-side beyond their collected and calm appearance; showing that there is a fine line between good and bad guys.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Everything about this book draws you in</b>: the characters, the plot, the excellent and effortless writing of Victoria Schwab. It's elegantly crafted, the book move fluidly from past to present, each chapter is perfectly linked to the next.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Victor is one of my favorite Villains of all times, I would highly recommend this book to any reader it's beautiful. Also it seems that a fallup novel will come out in 2018 under the title of &nbsp;<i>Vengeful</i>, can't wait for that!.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>5/5 STARS</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To celebrate the final installment in Victoria Schwab Trilogy, <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html" target="_blank">A Darker Shade of Magic</a>, I'm doing a&nbsp;<span style="color: red;">FREE GIVEAWAY</span>&nbsp;: a paperback copy A Darker Shade of Magic. Read the rule to enter ----&gt;&nbsp;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/free-book-giveaway-enter-to-win-copy-of.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Book official trailer:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l9nHJafcafY/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l9nHJafcafY?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-48405957917835495602017-02-27T05:11:00.000-08:002017-03-04T03:53:38.582-08:00A Darker Shade of Magic (1#) by V.E Schwab - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">A</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Darker </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Shade</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> of </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Magic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">by V.E Schwab</div></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9ITyVdSMFs/WLPjUK_C2AI/AAAAAAAAE18/1FZuEm0zk6s3dn877SHjLb6E9xxIiGA9QCLcB/s1600/22055262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e9ITyVdSMFs/WLPjUK_C2AI/AAAAAAAAE18/1FZuEm0zk6s3dn877SHjLb6E9xxIiGA9QCLcB/s400/22055262.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After reading <i><a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/03/vicious-vicious-1-by-ve-schwab-review.html" target="_blank">Vicious</a></i> I had to pick up her high-fantasy series and I was not desapointed. Victoria Schwab makes music not with mathe and notes, but with words and letters. creating a beautiful symphony that makes you look back at the classics and at the same time forward with original plot and atmosphere.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Schwab created a multi universe, where there are four London existing simultaneously. The boring, non-magical Grey London,ruled by one mad King---George III. Kell's Red London, where he was raised along side with Rhy, the heir to this flourishing magical empire. White London, a corrupted city where magic is power, and the one to willed it are draining the city to its very bones. And once upon a time, there was Black London, dead, sealed off from the rest, where magic had took evil form and consumed the city and its people.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The only people capable of travelling between on London to the other are the Antari. Kell is one of them, ambassador of the Maresh Empire, he carries the correspondence between the royals of each London.But mail is not the only thing he is carrying in between worlds. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, bring small object to willing to pay for a glimpse of the world they will never see. A small innocent hobby, until he smuggle something he shouldn't have.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">He will soon cross path with, Delilah Bard, who will rob him, than save him and in the end force Kell to bring her with him to another world for a proper adventure.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>"I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>"Seen what?"</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Her smile widened. "Everything."</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plot flows like a river, perfectly. Every word is chiseled to fit in a larger scheme, it's crafted perfection. <b>Beautiful</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The world-building is genius. Simple and a complicated, the concept of four London is not nearly as confusing as I thought, everything explains it self while reading it. And while I usually find some plot-holes in this alternate reality kind of plot, This time I couldn't find any, it's totally bulletproof.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The characters, are close to perfection. And here I'm repeating myself , but I simply can't find any other words to describe it. <b>Perfect</b>, <b>perfect</b> and <b>perfect</b>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kell is mysterious, a darkish character without exaggeration; while Lila stuck me for her badassery, and her energetic personality despite being surrounded by violence and cruelty. A life-force. But what I loved even more where the interactions between them: no insta-love, no insta-friendship, everything is built on the evolution of needs and opportunity.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Victoria Schwab is for &nbsp;sure one of the most talented fantasy writer I ever read (with &nbsp;Leigh Bardugo, of course).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><b>5/5 STARS</b><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To celebrate the final installment of her trilogy that come out this month I'm doing a <span style="color: red;">FREE GIVEAWAY</span> : a paperback copy A Darker Shade of Magic. Read the rule to enter ----&gt; <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/free-book-giveaway-enter-to-win-copy-of.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-21691986543311523152017-02-27T05:03:00.002-08:002017-03-06T05:54:41.263-08:00FREE BOOK GIVEAWAY - Enter to win a copy of A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kXG4ibtuMo/WLLmGy615UI/AAAAAAAAE1c/oCkqHFcf2G81-u5mu9KO2OduCiyTzn8TgCLcB/s1600/1-Recuperato.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--kXG4ibtuMo/WLLmGy615UI/AAAAAAAAE1c/oCkqHFcf2G81-u5mu9KO2OduCiyTzn8TgCLcB/s640/1-Recuperato.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The last and final book of <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html" target="_blank"><i>A Darker Shade of Magic</i>,</a> <i><b>A Conjuring of Lights</b></i>, by V.E Schwab is just been released this month. If you have been following my reviews for a while you will know that she is one of my favorite author of all times.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The book for this Free Giveaway is the first installment in the series <i><a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/02/a-darker-shade-of-magic-1-by-ve-schwab.html" target="_blank">A Darker Shade of Magic</a></i>&nbsp;in the english paperback edition (as in the picture). The Giveaway stands only for Europe (UK included). To enter you will need only 3 easy steps:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1- Follow the blog, click on the link&nbsp;<a href="javascript:openPopup(&quot;https://www.blogger.com/follow.g?view\x3dFOLLOW\x26blogID\x3d4919473497772087821&quot;,300)" target="_blank">SEGUI</a>.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2- Like the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Books-Crumbles-1826348907598142/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel" target="_blank">Blog Facebook Page</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3- Send a private message to the FB page with your name or if you don't have a facebook account send a mail to the blog page or leave a comment down below, letting me know that you wanna enter the giveaway.&nbsp;</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you will be selected as the winner, you will get a text on facebook or in your e-mail asking for your chosen delivery address. The contest will close on the <b>31st&nbsp;of March 2017</b>. If you have any question leave a comment below. GOOD LUCK!!</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-65371422320607318022017-02-26T05:16:00.000-08:002017-02-26T05:22:20.924-08:0050 SHADES DARKER, starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Rita Ora, directed by James Foley - BOOK vs MOVIE<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fifty Shades Darker</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">directed by James Foley</div></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl6UaieUx2k/WLKg2PkP3vI/AAAAAAAAE0M/R_eap8Un_iMjvmzS8jozM7hWrHPr0H6owCLcB/s1600/landscape-1473696131-fsd-intl-dgtl-1-sht-ov.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl6UaieUx2k/WLKg2PkP3vI/AAAAAAAAE0M/R_eap8Un_iMjvmzS8jozM7hWrHPr0H6owCLcB/s640/landscape-1473696131-fsd-intl-dgtl-1-sht-ov.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Fifty Shades</i> is literary and movie phenomenon that still gathers a high attention from the audience. Either you've have read the books and loved/hated them or are just interested in seeing what the fuss is all about, the movies are picking up everyone interests. Just in the USA it gross out (to the 22.feb) almost twice the estimated budget of &nbsp;$55.000.000, in Italy is been out for more than two weeks and when I went to the cinema, last Wednesday, the cinema room was almost full.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I read the books mostly under the suggestions of some of my <i>good</i> friends and the general attention that the series was getting. I really couldn't see and understand why people went crazy over it, I did find the book obnoxious and not even well written, I kept on wondering why other good erotic novels weren't able to gather such attention. Nevertheless nowadays it has become such a big topic that everyone knows at least summarily what the series is about.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Let me give you the general synopsis of this book:&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11857408-fifty-shades-darker" target="_blank">Fifty Shades Darker</a></i> is the second installment in the <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/63134-fifty-shades" target="_blank">Fifty Shades of Grey Trilogy</a></i>, the novel was originally written as a <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/45363-twilight" target="_blank">Twilight</a> fan fiction (it probably gets from there: the stalking, the obsession and weird fetish). The plot revolves around Literature student Anastasia Steele, whose life changes forever after she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. Their relationship, in this second movie, moves from a purely sexual one to a sentimental one. While Christian wrestle with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The plot is really simple and seems to move through conventional steps and characters that function just has a background to the steamy sex scenes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ySc_IwxoLu8/WLLMAtWIDMI/AAAAAAAAE0s/R36OaQf2oegZm_YK-PeNzdvQzPyQjyd_gCLcB/s1600/MV5BMTc3NTY3OTkxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjAwODk3MDI%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1499%252C1000_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ySc_IwxoLu8/WLLMAtWIDMI/AAAAAAAAE0s/R36OaQf2oegZm_YK-PeNzdvQzPyQjyd_gCLcB/s640/MV5BMTc3NTY3OTkxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMjAwODk3MDI%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1499%252C1000_AL_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Having not liked the book I was hoping for the movie to be a bit better. But although <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1946193/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm" target="_blank">Jamie Dornan </a>delivers a more elaborate and sensible performance than in the first movie, this sequel as the books still has a weak plot line and dull characters' portraits. The settings and the actors' performance in general from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424848/?ref_=tt_cl_t1" target="_blank">Dakota Johnson</a> to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2757333/?ref_=tt_cl_t5" target="_blank">Bella Heathcote</a>&nbsp;("Victoria Winters" in Tim Burton's&nbsp;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077368/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk4" target="_blank">&nbsp;Dark Shadows</a>)&nbsp; and the singer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1357683/?ref_=tt_cl_t6" target="_blank">Rita Ora</a>&nbsp;were worthwhile, but such a good cast was wasted over a lame story.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sqqf_DFXKO0/WLLPveWYTXI/AAAAAAAAE1A/0yrFTiR6RdEzU7wqe15ytolg99c6VTP0wCLcB/s1600/MV5BNDA3MTM1NTU2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDAwODk3MDI%2540._V1_SX1777_CR0%252C0%252C1777%252C653_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sqqf_DFXKO0/WLLPveWYTXI/AAAAAAAAE1A/0yrFTiR6RdEzU7wqe15ytolg99c6VTP0wCLcB/s640/MV5BNDA3MTM1NTU2OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDAwODk3MDI%2540._V1_SX1777_CR0%252C0%252C1777%252C653_AL_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What was suppose to be a dramatic-romance movie, had instead a soap-operish feeling. It made me laugh out loud in the most inappropriate moment, some scenes were so bad you couldn't help but genuinely laugh. It was the cheesiest, corniest, most awkward-comedic movie I ever watched.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surely this series gained so much success also for the fact that it is so controversial, probably E.L James' favorite say is: <b>good or bad, it doesn't matter if they talk about it!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I don't really feel like declaring a winner between the movie or the book, but I know the book in some ways makes up for the massive plot hole that we find in the movie. <b>BOOK WINS!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MOVIE TRAILER:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n6BVyk7hty8/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n6BVyk7hty8?feature=player_embedded" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-34726725648496825392017-02-24T06:28:00.001-08:002017-03-18T11:15:50.751-07:00Winter (The Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Winter&nbsp;</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><div style="text-align: center;">by Marissa Meyer</div></span></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u2R-pdogClE/WK7o9cgG-oI/AAAAAAAAEzE/pVwGu3e8Q8MX4iXOtP6qwPnyFa2OfJtAwCLcB/s1600/13206900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u2R-pdogClE/WK7o9cgG-oI/AAAAAAAAEzE/pVwGu3e8Q8MX4iXOtP6qwPnyFa2OfJtAwCLcB/s400/13206900.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></b></i><i><b><span style="color: #666666;">"The young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herself."</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="text-align: justify;">For how much I wished there were more books, I'm happily I was finally able to conclude this series and have a sort of closure.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;In this final installment one events follows the other quickly without giving you almost time to take a breath; It's <b>fast-paced</b>, <b>heart-pounding</b> and a quite <b>entertaining read</b>. It was a quite long book (p.820), and still it was a really quick read.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the fourth installment in the Lunar Chronicles series ( <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/06/cinder-lunar-chronicles-1-review.html" target="_blank">Cinder 1#</a>, <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/scarlet-lunar-chronicles-2-review.html" target="_blank">Scarlet 2#</a>, <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/cress-lunar-chronicles-3-by-marissa.html" target="_blank">Cress 3#</a>, <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/08/fairest-lunar-chronicles-35-by-marissa.html" target="_blank">Feriest 3.5#</a>), taking as a start point Snow White's original story. The book starts off from Cinder, Thorne and the rest of the crew still &nbsp;wanted criminals on both Luna and Earth, orbiting unseen in space they need to figure out quickly &nbsp;how to break out a civil revolution on Luna and put an end to Levana's tyranny and their are gonna need a hand from the charming princess Winter.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">"She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in was not an option."</span><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Winter is loved by the people for her kindness and natural beauty; she despise her stepmother, and knows that Levana won't approved of her feeling for her childhood friend/royal guard, Jacin. We already got a good shot of him in the previous book at which end he sold out Cinder and her friends to the Commonwealth, quite a controversial character, definitely different from everyone else.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the real prestige that Meyer's books have, every character is unique and equipped with a complex personality. Jacin is fundamentally, from my point of view, selfish in comparison with the other characters he cares only about his princess and it's like that from the beginning to the end. I didn't feel his involvement in the squad as much as for the others, he felt like a temporary addiction, in it just for personal advantage. His crazy princess surely, makes the fun in the couple.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Winter stopped using her Lunar ability to defy her stepmother and have, in a contorted way, more control over her life, but by not using her Gift she is slowly going crazy. Her exchanges with Scarlet were one of the most funny of the book after Thorne's, their friendship was quirky and smart, really really fun to read. In this grand finale we are reminded that romance isn't everything and friendships is as important.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>"Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder's Head with it"</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>Everyone stared at him.</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>"You know, to ... absorb the moisture, or something. Isn't that a thing?"</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #666666;"><b>"We're not putting rice in my head."</b></span></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Marissa Meyer was amazing in orchestrating all the different plot and subplot, making them inter-wine and then finally converge with grace and effectiveness in this last book. The characters were has always right on spot, the true lead of the series. In fact if we consider that settings and background have little space in the book, what left are just the characters, speeches and actions that are able to keep the reader glued to the pages without time to spare.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm always surprised at how the author was able to pick up this traditional stories and build around and inside of them, so that you are still able to recognize the plot line but at the same time living a totally different feeling and story.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We all know that usually a fairy tales end with a Happily Ever After, but what really mattered in this book was not the ending but the road that took us there.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #666666;">"And they lived happily to the end of their days"</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #666666;">-fin-</span></b></i><br /><i><b><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></b></i><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b>4.5/5 STARS</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b>BOOK TRAILER:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oTUztS9WV8Q/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oTUztS9WV8Q?feature=player_embedded" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-74169106591597996182017-02-10T07:25:00.000-08:002017-02-11T17:20:27.903-08:00Book to Movie Adaptation - 2017<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATION&nbsp;</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2017</span></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8VxAu0Us5LY/WJxwXAHd8HI/AAAAAAAAEwg/RkCaE1_zmdk32LOKpgzUqhZE113CsA7cgCLcB/s1600/popcorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8VxAu0Us5LY/WJxwXAHd8HI/AAAAAAAAEwg/RkCaE1_zmdk32LOKpgzUqhZE113CsA7cgCLcB/s640/popcorn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />This are the 6 books I'm eagerly waiting to see on the big screen this year, some of them have been my favorites for a long time and some are on my 2017 TBR . But without any further do, let just go ahead and jump right in!<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dY8V7xm03rI/WJxx1NBGXJI/AAAAAAAAEws/XdXhtIDF0IU1i-iCcdzacocRkXG3W8JlQCLcB/s1600/a-monster-calls-2016-trailers-posters.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dY8V7xm03rI/WJxx1NBGXJI/AAAAAAAAEws/XdXhtIDF0IU1i-iCcdzacocRkXG3W8JlQCLcB/s640/a-monster-calls-2016-trailers-posters.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />I loved the book,(<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/a-monster-calls-by-patrick-ness-review_29.html">---&gt;REVIEW HERE</a>), Patrick Ness is one of my favorite writers. The book/movie tells the story of Conor (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_MacDougall">Lewis MacDougall</a>), a child whose mother (Rogue One heroine,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Jones"> Felicity Jones</a>) is terminally ill; one night, he is visited by a giant tree-like monster (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liam_Neeson">Liam Neeson</a>), who stated that he will come back each night and tell him three stories.<br />The movie premiere as already been held in already on September 10, 2016 at the Toronto International Film festival, it was released than in the UK on the 1st of January, 2017. I'll still have to wait for the italian release, that should be on the 18th of May.<br />The movie already had such a great response from the book-community and critics. I really can't wait to watch it!<br /><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Xbo-irtBA">TRAILER HERE</a>)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rqe4e2jsSc0/WJyi3FfXAZI/AAAAAAAAEw8/JE398VHOPjIoIYtz2OWbmL-N-AvG2HGbQCLcB/s1600/hidden-figures-film-header-v2-front-main-stage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rqe4e2jsSc0/WJyi3FfXAZI/AAAAAAAAEw8/JE398VHOPjIoIYtz2OWbmL-N-AvG2HGbQCLcB/s640/hidden-figures-film-header-v2-front-main-stage.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The story is about the true story of the unsung heroes of the NASA - the black female mathematicians who quietly enabled the biggest achievements in space in the 1960s.<br />I always like a good "girl-power" book, it got on my TBR for the movie trailer, and I will check it out for sure before watching it in the cinema.<br />US release on the 6th of January, in Italy the 8th of March.<br /><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfrDhgUMGI">TRAILER HERE</a>)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Fifty Shades Darker by E.L James</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8LhTlbOFhos/WJziNV-ZUvI/AAAAAAAAExc/rO4RXwRGWd0aZ7srzx7a2-UxbcRp5u10wCLcB/s1600/Fifty-Shades-Darker-2017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8LhTlbOFhos/WJziNV-ZUvI/AAAAAAAAExc/rO4RXwRGWd0aZ7srzx7a2-UxbcRp5u10wCLcB/s640/Fifty-Shades-Darker-2017.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Valentine's Day is near and what better way, for a single like me, than going to the cinema for Fifty Shades of Grey's sequel to celebrate it!<br />US and Italian release on the 9th of February 2017.<br />I can't say I'm excited to see this movie since I didn't like either the books or the first movie but it's a blockbuster I know I will be in the cinema...<br /><br />(<a href="https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=video&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwi3pIvG_4PSAhWmIsAKHdNlAG4QtwIIGjAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DOItKvc13gws&amp;usg=AFQjCNFnFHHx9Oq_ZQLgJf_lfPj---Y9sA&amp;sig2=OkhOGPIOmPvC_goZnpYhLw">TRAILER HERE</a>)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Wonder by R.J Palacio</span></b><br /><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E4nqr-oOOpg/WJzmtZto0nI/AAAAAAAAExo/fRI3omEHt9g5t49v0W53qm4fqjmtHRw0wCLcB/s1600/MV5BMDhkN2VhNzQtMzhiMS00Y2I3LWJkNTUtMjdjMDdhMDRmYTRlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjM4OTIzMjM%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1503%252C1000_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E4nqr-oOOpg/WJzmtZto0nI/AAAAAAAAExo/fRI3omEHt9g5t49v0W53qm4fqjmtHRw0wCLcB/s640/MV5BMDhkN2VhNzQtMzhiMS00Y2I3LWJkNTUtMjdjMDdhMDRmYTRlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjM4OTIzMjM%2540._V1_SY1000_CR0%252C0%252C1503%252C1000_AL_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Tells the story of Auggie Pullman (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5016878/?ref_=tt_cl_t4">Jacob Tremblay</a>), a boy who is born with a facial deformity, and his struggle to fit in at a new school. Also Auggie mom will be played by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000210/?ref_=tt_cl_t1">Julia Roberts</a>, something to look out for!<br />Hopefully the movie will be released this year, they are still in the post-production, no trailer but just the US release date: 7 april 2017.<br />I really liked the book (<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/08/wonder-by-rj-palacio-review.html">--&gt;REVIEW HERE</a>), an easy read that did make you meditate on the important theme of diversity, a perfect read for middle school kid.<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">The Circle by Dave Eggers</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t4NBAUUw98c/WJzpzabJZ6I/AAAAAAAAEx0/sTX7iEwNzSs0GOpUOs0myrcd0yFHq5uGQCLcB/s1600/MV5BMTg5NzA4MjUzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODI5Nzk3MDI%2540._V1_SX1777_CR0%252C0%252C1777%252C734_AL_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t4NBAUUw98c/WJzpzabJZ6I/AAAAAAAAEx0/sTX7iEwNzSs0GOpUOs0myrcd0yFHq5uGQCLcB/s640/MV5BMTg5NzA4MjUzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODI5Nzk3MDI%2540._V1_SX1777_CR0%252C0%252C1777%252C734_AL_.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The Circle is about a young women, Mae Holland (Emma Watson), who takes up a job at a Google-like tech company where she quickly climbs the corporate ladder.<br />The plot had my hook from the breaking of every privacy criteria, something that nowadays we have to consider more frequently. Also the movie is starring Tom Hanks as, for what I was able to guess, the Corporation Leader.<br />I will surely check out the book before the movie!<br />US release date 28th of April 2017.<br /><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCOXARv6J9k&amp;t=1s">TRAILER HERE</a>)<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie</span></b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ot88flADmqI/WJztO5acgHI/AAAAAAAAEyE/Mdj9i5wpY10rtHxPrTpU8ecitWcFGKz7wCLcB/s1600/Murder-Orient-Express-Agatha-Christie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ot88flADmqI/WJztO5acgHI/AAAAAAAAEyE/Mdj9i5wpY10rtHxPrTpU8ecitWcFGKz7wCLcB/s320/Murder-Orient-Express-Agatha-Christie.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br />No pictures or trailer out yet, but it's expected to be released for the 20th November 2017, in the US.<br />All we know is that: the classic mystery follows fictional detective Hercule Poirot as he pursues a murder on a famous train. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000110/?ref_=tt_cl_t9">Kenneth Branagh</a> will be directing and also acting as Poirot, alongside with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000136/?ref_=tt_cl_t1">Johnny Depp</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5397459/?ref_=tt_cl_t2">Daisy Ridley</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000201/?ref_=tt_cl_t6">Michelle Pfeiffer</a>, just to mention some.<br />I think it's a good opportunity to finally read this classic.<br /><br />This where the movie I'm hoping to see as soon as possible, but what about you: Which is the Book to Movie adaptation you are waiting for this year?<br /><br /><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-16760638993185902632017-02-10T02:10:00.001-08:002017-02-26T05:23:31.866-08:00Mio Fratello Rincorre i Dinosauri di Giacomo Mazzariol - Recensione (Italian review)<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Mio Fratello Rincorre i Dinosauri</span></div><span style="color: red;"><div style="text-align: center;">di Giacomo Mazzariol</div></span></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5eyInzapS_s/WJudSxOrXdI/AAAAAAAAEvw/mOi08lZjR1AlymCfop2Mqs60LZ-5cw_3wCLcB/s1600/29942698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5eyInzapS_s/WJudSxOrXdI/AAAAAAAAEvw/mOi08lZjR1AlymCfop2Mqs60LZ-5cw_3wCLcB/s400/29942698.jpg" width="252" /></a></div><br /><br />Un libricino breve che è riuscito a racchiudere in queste poche pagine grandi sentimenti.<br />Con naturale semplicità racconta la storia di Giacomo Mazzariol e suo fratello Giovanni con "un cromosoma in più". Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri ci porta attraverso la crescita di queste due persone e più di ogni altra cosa ci fa vedere come il loro rapporto cambi ed evolva, fino alla completa comprensione.<br /><br /><i>"Avevo impiegato dodici anni a vedere il mondo con gli occhi di mio fratello; e ve lo giuro, quel mondo non era affatto male"</i><br /><br />Vediamo crescere Giacomo, la sua meraviglia nei confronti del fratellino appena nato, la sua paura del giudizio degli altri quando si fa più grande, la vergogna di non saper difendere il fratello e infine il completo inglobamento delle due anime. Giacomo e Giovanni si fondono come le loro camere, entrano ed escono ognuno nel mondo dell'altro. <b>&nbsp;Amano</b>.<br /><br /><i>"Aveva il mio stesso numero di libri. Al posto della Fattoria degli animali aveva Gli animali della fattoria"</i><br /><i><br /></i>Un bellissimo spezzone di vita, pieno di musica e film, raccolto in poche pagine e con una scrittura semplice che riesce ad esprimere al meglio la complessità della vita.<br /><br /><b>5/5 STARS</b><br /><b><br /></b>Il libro nasce grazie a Joe principalmente, ma anche alla grande popolarità che il loro il video <i><b>The Simple Interview</b></i> ha raggiunto su Youtube.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0v8twxPsszY/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0v8twxPsszY?feature=player_embedded" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-10889242690720124612017-02-09T04:35:00.000-08:002017-02-11T17:30:33.404-08:00A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper #1) by Christopher Moore - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">A DIRTY JOB #1</span></div><span style="color: magenta;"><div style="text-align: center;">by Christopher Moore</div></span></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2FoEfiFR_P8/WJi8_daU6NI/AAAAAAAAEvE/CLnPJnOb2rMf9jOdN9YDhXxY0UJAdBpCwCLcB/s1600/33456.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2FoEfiFR_P8/WJi8_daU6NI/AAAAAAAAEvE/CLnPJnOb2rMf9jOdN9YDhXxY0UJAdBpCwCLcB/s400/33456.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It took me sometimes to finish &nbsp;it, the uni's exams session did break up my TBR, anyways I finally got sometime to relax and enjoy my readings.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This book caught my eye in the bookstore for the creepy title and cover, and I was a goner once I read the sinapsis.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Our hero, Charlie Asher, is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, a Beta guy inside out. He is married to a brilliant, pretty women and they are about to have their first kid. But when his wife dies, other deaths follow. People start dropping dead around him, he hears whispers from under the streets and see darks presence in San Francisco. Something is changing, seems like ,Charlie Asher, has just been recruited for a new job: as Death, or to better say it one death. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A Dirty Job is a good mix of genera, we have death merchants, hounds from hell, grotesque monsters and an impending doom. Everything has a good hint of humor, all the characters are quirky and they always have a smart comeback.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">But all the quirkiness and irony, that are just right on spot in the first half of the book, are a mashup of bad humors and are repetitive and boring in the second part.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The writing style is good from start to finish, he is really good in creating funny dialogue, but it loses some of that easy going vibe while you get to the end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Overall <b>it's a funny book</b>, it's a good laugh, easy and relaxing to read. I'll probably check out some of his other books!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>3.5/5 STARS</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Book trailer:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fY8Nw41octg/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fY8Nw41octg?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-2382782047198293192017-02-06T09:31:00.001-08:002017-02-07T11:25:48.439-08:00THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, starring Emily Blunt, directed by Tate Taylor - BOOK vs MOVIE<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">directed by Tate Taylor</div></h2><span id="goog_1743308072"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tQcS52NP1v8/WIphyZCTz7I/AAAAAAAAEtk/neXRs8OTuQIwykJpXTm1sHUqxA7gxgjuQCPcB/s1600/rehost%25252F2016%25252F10%25252F3%25252F5a15141a-068e-403b-a23d-2f34fad3550e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tQcS52NP1v8/WIphyZCTz7I/AAAAAAAAEtk/neXRs8OTuQIwykJpXTm1sHUqxA7gxgjuQCPcB/s640/rehost%25252F2016%25252F10%25252F3%25252F5a15141a-068e-403b-a23d-2f34fad3550e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I liked the book (--&gt;<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/09/the-girl-on-train-by-paula-hawkins.html">REVIEW HERE</a>), it was a page turner, engaging, full of suspense and mystery. <b>The perfect summer read</b>. So I can imagine that Fans of the book weren't probably happy about the changes made in the adaptations from book to the big screen. Whatever was shifting the destination from the gloomy London to New York, or cutting out Rachel's drunky sex scene, which I was eagerly expecting, the movie did a selection of what to bring on the screen and as it usually happens things got left out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yet having wait quite a long time after the book to watch the movie, I found myself enjoying it. It was able, nevertheless the changes, to bring back to the surface all the feelings that I had while reading it. What did definitely catch my eye was the outstanding performance of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Blunt">Emily Blunt</a>, she was able to portrait perfectly Rachel, the drunky heroine of the book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've got to say that in the book I pictured Rachel as ugly, Emily Blunt can't get anything near the definition of "ugly" but the way she wears the character is perfect. Just some cracked lips, watery/red eyes and the unhealthy color skin were able to give the exact appearance of an alcoholist. Of course nothing would have worked if it wasn't for her amazing acting skill.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-opkZz38ee2E/WJixFMe5j6I/AAAAAAAAEus/1Qu85xv2PTAZjAetBqbP7cZjkJ-OuH8zACLcB/s1600/the-girl-on-the-train-book-vs-movie-less-info-about-megan.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-opkZz38ee2E/WJixFMe5j6I/AAAAAAAAEus/1Qu85xv2PTAZjAetBqbP7cZjkJ-OuH8zACLcB/s640/the-girl-on-the-train-book-vs-movie-less-info-about-megan.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">She is the solo lead of this drama, while the other female characters, Megan Hipwell (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haley_Bennett">Haley Bennett</a>) and Anna Watson (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Ferguson">Rebecca Ferguson</a>), don't leave a bigger impression than they do in the book. Haley Bennett female heroine in The Magnificent 7 (2016), is suited for her role has the intriguing Megan, but her character doesn't' come across as strongly as in the book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S1A-UHF3qGw/WJixITDU7dI/AAAAAAAAEuw/y8mZPgTkEcwuUeyaYp-Z0xVkZmgoFi5MgCLcB/s1600/gallery4-5717c33a14c70-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-S1A-UHF3qGw/WJixITDU7dI/AAAAAAAAEuw/y8mZPgTkEcwuUeyaYp-Z0xVkZmgoFi5MgCLcB/s640/gallery4-5717c33a14c70-1.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What the move is lacking is the ugliness and humanity that did emerged from the characters in the book. They had perversion, obsession and fears; they felt real and well characterize on a psychological level. In the transposition to the big screen, the deepness of the characters was a bit lost, but they still managed to do a good job.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's a really contemporary movie so the photography and the costumes are great for the suburb metropolitan background. I did appreciate how they tried to display Rachel's memories and drunken sight, blurry and moved, it did really gave the right idea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If I had to choose between the book and the movie: I will say that the book is able to give a full and complete experience while the movie does this only in part. Still a good movie, you should definitely check it out.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>BOOK WINS!</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Movie trailer:</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t1f3bCteRGQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/t1f3bCteRGQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><br /><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-5374855225047963662017-01-26T04:28:00.000-08:002017-02-07T11:25:48.445-08:00THE TEMPEST (2010) starring Helen Mirren and Felicity Jones, Directed by Julie Taymor - BOOK vs MOVIE<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE TEMPEST</span><br />&nbsp;directed by Julie Taymor&nbsp;</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1BKw60FQuEo/WH_p2ROSFYI/AAAAAAAAEsw/53YjKlwKTkoUVZLA414JwF9OwJ8cSs3ggCLcB/s1600/The%2BTempest.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1BKw60FQuEo/WH_p2ROSFYI/AAAAAAAAEsw/53YjKlwKTkoUVZLA414JwF9OwJ8cSs3ggCLcB/s640/The%2BTempest.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"We are such stuff that dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded in a sleep"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-Prospero in the Tempest-</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">When you read a play you can never imagine its full potential until you watch a stage or movie adaptation of it. I read <i><a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/01/the-tempest-by-william-shakespeare.html">The Tempest (--&gt;REVIEW HERE)</a>&nbsp;</i>by William Shakespeare and wanting to see the characters brought to life I found this movie adaptation of it, directed by Julie Taymor<i> </i>mind and makers behind the theatrical representation of <i>The Lion King. </i>Acting in Prospero/a's role nothing less than <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> and starring in the role of Miranda the new star of the <i>Star Wars'</i> universe <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicity_Jones">Felicity Jones</a>.&nbsp;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hHDpGz0aViU/WH_q59WhzQI/AAAAAAAAEs8/cETsQLA2B9MYBUf1VTXuHlQuupjTqNC3gCLcB/s1600/maxresdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="272" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hHDpGz0aViU/WH_q59WhzQI/AAAAAAAAEs8/cETsQLA2B9MYBUf1VTXuHlQuupjTqNC3gCLcB/s640/maxresdefault.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Everything was suggesting a Beautiful movie. What we got was clearly beautiful, but more than a movie we watch is a theatrical performance. I really liked though, not only but I think that was a good and wise choice from the Traymor. Apparently not everyone thought the same since on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274300/">IMDb</a>&nbsp;it gets only 5.4/10 and didn't do as good at the box office either.</div></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Otherwise I think that Helen Mirren was amazing in the role of Prospero/a, and I found it quite interesting for the role to be played by a women. As in the play the presence of Miranda's mother is almost completely deleted, I felt as if in Prospera the two figure were finally reunited.&nbsp;</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Apart from the concrete performance of &nbsp;Helen Mirren, also Felicity Jones is perfect in the role of the pure, wondrous Miranda. She is able to bring to screen the naiveness and wonder of the character without trivialize it. While as in the book I still couldn't appreciate&nbsp;Ferdinand's&nbsp;role, not to discredit&nbsp;<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeve_Carney">Reeve Carney</a> that did his best in this hopeless&nbsp;role.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">To mention are also <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brand">Russell Brand</a> and <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Molina">Alfred Molina</a>&nbsp;as Trinculo and Stephano, they simply made the laugh of the movie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zkkf0H6qOK8/WH_q7COwrLI/AAAAAAAAEtA/qkuNkmCtvUIIwxJOBKbvK9d9LWcXHx8NACLcB/s1600/c0e81f3315827fce559781337daf5200.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zkkf0H6qOK8/WH_q7COwrLI/AAAAAAAAEtA/qkuNkmCtvUIIwxJOBKbvK9d9LWcXHx8NACLcB/s640/c0e81f3315827fce559781337daf5200.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Costumes and scenery are beautiful and perfect for each part. I have a small grumble on Ariel graphics and appearance that are part of the old generation in term of special effect.</div><div style="text-align: left;">In contrast with the opinion of the mass I liked this movie and I think it is worth to see and useful to reread the play from another perspective. Since this plays are made to be performed on a stage or as in this case on a screen, <b>THE MOVIE WINS</b>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Movie Trailer:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DDyGl2uIQ-Q/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DDyGl2uIQ-Q?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-40400135618549417752017-01-23T00:21:00.001-08:002017-01-23T00:21:58.620-08:00The Tempest by William Shakespeare - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Tempest&nbsp;</span></span></div><span style="color: #bf9000;"><div style="text-align: center;">by William Shakespeare&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qBUBH6M69J0/WHzJgmEV8fI/AAAAAAAAErU/LX9_9CDw2-QFVnIiGuDOomM1_9ryPK5KQCLcB/s1600/The-Tempest-production-photos_-2016_-press-call_2016_Photo-by-Topher-McGrillis-_c_-RSC_207566.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qBUBH6M69J0/WHzJgmEV8fI/AAAAAAAAErU/LX9_9CDw2-QFVnIiGuDOomM1_9ryPK5KQCLcB/s640/The-Tempest-production-photos_-2016_-press-call_2016_Photo-by-Topher-McGrillis-_c_-RSC_207566.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Shakespeare again! This one was also a reading for my english literature course and I've got to say that I liked all the books I've read for it so far, I'm also loving theater more and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Tempest</i> is one of Shakespeare's four romances, so in contrast with Hamlet this is not a tragedy but it has a happy ending. It is also considered his last work, a sort of testament and revindication of his ideals. As usual since it's a classic I will try to be brief with the plot since it's generally well known.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alonso, the king of Naples, is returning from his daughter's wedding in Tunis with his son, Ferdinand, his brother, Sebastian, and Antonio, the Duke of Milan. The ship is wrecked in a storm and the passengers and crew are thrown into the furious sea.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are watching the shipwreck from the island. Twelve years before, he was the Duke of Milan, but his brother, Antonio had usurped him. Now all the enemies, thanks to fate and Prospero's magic, had washed up on the shore of the island and they will have to pay and amend for their crime.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the starting point from which the comedy starts to unfold itself, making the characters go through a purgatorial experience to reach at the end a general forgiveness that coincides with the marriage of the young, Miranda and Ferdinand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was fascinated by Prospero, that like a stage director controls and move the others characters on the island. His relationship with his two servants is disagreeable, when with Ariel he shows affections and care instead he is cruel to Caliban, the island's native, that born a devil has no escape from his earthy miserable condition. Clearly we see the &nbsp;remembrance of the English colonialism in the relationship between Prospero and Caliban.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The love story between Ferdinand and Miranda leaves its time, the &nbsp;shakespearean ista-love that I can't stand but I have to accept for the play to go through.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Overall I liked the play and I'm giving it <b>4/5 STARS</b>. Reading it is totally no sufficient, if you want to see a good adaptation I recommend seeing the 2010's movie <i>The Tempest</i> directed by Julie Taymor starring in the role of Prospero the amazing Helen Mirren, and as Miranda the newborn <i>Star Wars'</i> star Felicity Jonas. Down below the Trailer:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DDyGl2uIQ-Q/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DDyGl2uIQ-Q?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-21142120347286288042017-01-21T10:36:00.000-08:002017-01-23T03:57:00.946-08:00HAMLET by William Shakespeare - Review<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">TO BE OR NOT TO BE</span></h2><div><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JGhtpyOzDuk/WHwRvVe63mI/AAAAAAAAEqQ/fqFiXHGMIDIM3f0aDL5aexVxErcBR_1JQCLcB/s1600/covers%25252Fhamlet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JGhtpyOzDuk/WHwRvVe63mI/AAAAAAAAEqQ/fqFiXHGMIDIM3f0aDL5aexVxErcBR_1JQCLcB/s400/covers%25252Fhamlet.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another book I finally got to read and analyse for my english literature course, and what an amazing surprise. I've always &nbsp;found Shakespeare boring and sentimental but this time having taken my time in reading this amazing tragedy I was able to enjoy it fully.</div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since it's a classic the story should be known to everybody so I'll be brief in my summery. Prince Hamlet just got back from Germany to assist at his father's funeral, while his mother Gertrude has already remerried. The Queen has wed the Hamlet's uncle Claudius the dead King's brother. To Hamlet this is a "foul incest" and already he suspect that some "foul play" is behind the death of his father. One night his father ghost visits the &nbsp;castle and Hamlet's suspicions are confirmed. His Uncle poisoned King Hamlet in his sleep, and now young Hamlet must revenge him. From this moment on Hamlet's soul will be divided on how to revenge his father and "taint not thy mind".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the starting point for the tragedy, I loved how the play starts right of in darkness and ends in it there is no salvation the whole state of Denmark is rotten. Even the pure Hamlet is in the end corrupted by the society he lives in. It might be a play more than 400 years old but it still bring modern theme as alienation, relativism and life struggle. We might not have to face a murderous uncle but we are put everyday in front of hard decisions, we might struggle to choose and in the end we to has Hamlet have to make a compromise with the society we live in.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If from one side this play reflects upon how little and insignificant a life is to the other side it makes u look at how big and full of possibilities the universe is, how everything is relative and our way of thinking and looking at things makes them what they are .</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>-"I could be bonded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space"-</b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's a wonderful, modern play and having read a few others Shakespeare's play I can say that this is my favorite above all.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I also felt like it was necessary to see it play out and I found a stunning performance at the National Theater Live by Benedict Cumberbatch, that deserve a look. My eyes were in love with the costumes, the scenery and Benedict. Here are some pics, get a look!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I6HD2zunAR0/WHzCd45DjpI/AAAAAAAAErM/q6am6Zw94Q0r-zDOTIMr_gj85qTUmS2XACEw/s1600/_85042334_hamlet3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="358" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I6HD2zunAR0/WHzCd45DjpI/AAAAAAAAErM/q6am6Zw94Q0r-zDOTIMr_gj85qTUmS2XACEw/s640/_85042334_hamlet3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0MyiHuIe6k/WHzCdjht0GI/AAAAAAAAErM/nD9u-P8qEjAHb7zhHAFq1IJRe642aAtfACEw/s1600/26HAMLETJP-master675.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0MyiHuIe6k/WHzCdjht0GI/AAAAAAAAErM/nD9u-P8qEjAHb7zhHAFq1IJRe642aAtfACEw/s640/26HAMLETJP-master675.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b>National Theater Live Trailer:</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V3S4dXuKXx0/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V3S4dXuKXx0?feature=player_embedded" style="clear: left; float: left;" width="320"></iframe></div><br /></div></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-4924644683848468982017-01-19T02:21:00.000-08:002017-02-07T11:25:48.442-08:00THE 5TH WAVE, starring Chloe Grace Moretz directed by J Blakeson - BOOK vs MOVIE<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">THE 5TH WAVE</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">directed by J Blakeson</span></div></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4RabV-iOfhs/WH9JICorOGI/AAAAAAAAEsM/A3RKJdkmd1g4xHFSAtcyygC2LMV-tgBZgCLcB/s1600/pegasus_LARGE_t_1341_106833228.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4RabV-iOfhs/WH9JICorOGI/AAAAAAAAEsM/A3RKJdkmd1g4xHFSAtcyygC2LMV-tgBZgCLcB/s640/pegasus_LARGE_t_1341_106833228.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before reading the book I saw the movie trailer and I thought: " Wow this is gonna be a kick ass movie!". Well it wasn't exactly as I had immagine.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I read and quite liked the 2013's novel by Rick Yancey (<a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2017/01/the-5th-wave-1-by-rick-yancey-review.html">REVIEW HERE</a>) that did put a good emotional spine to another dystopian tale of teenager facing the world end.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cassie Sullivan (Chloe Grace Moretz), our heroine, is a high school student that from the book came out has a mature and determinate women, that doesn't need some dude to define her. It's this strong character that push me to read the second book in Yancey's trilogy, 2014's <i>The Infinite Sea, </i>of which we are unlikely to see any movie adaptation since the failure of the first one at the box office, but whispers do run around on the web. Who knows!?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e1Zr5fuRSW0/WH-Dd-ima-I/AAAAAAAAEsc/f1ki7gHh0jUiyEJgegnu4bmPFL6yNMDfgCLcB/s1600/the-5th-wave-image04.0.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e1Zr5fuRSW0/WH-Dd-ima-I/AAAAAAAAEsc/f1ki7gHh0jUiyEJgegnu4bmPFL6yNMDfgCLcB/s640/the-5th-wave-image04.0.0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite the strong presence of <i>Kick-Ass</i> star Chloe Grace Moretz as Cassie, the movie is more concentrat on the cliche of the love triangle that made big phenoms of <i>Divergent</i> and <i>Twilight. </i>I really don't get the reason to put more light on this aspect while the book keeps its focus on the survival and the emotional conflicts of our protagonists. The director of the movie turned this story in a languid teenage love one, quite unrealistic in a apocalyptic background. Not to talk about Alex Roe as Evan Walker that apart from a cute face doesn't offer much. Other than the Moretz's performance also Liev Schreiber as&nbsp;Commander Vosh made a good impression on me.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As in every &nbsp;world's disaster movie bridges (we will ever see a movie where the Tower Bridge is no falling?), planes, skyscrapers are destroyed, &nbsp;with the computerish graphics letting you down.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OEqxfg2Iiyw/WH-DfQlHqJI/AAAAAAAAEsg/HG4MSMDRWZ0eKAOl_mDXQHU56KcBSESlgCLcB/s1600/rs-225214-5thWave_2016_23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OEqxfg2Iiyw/WH-DfQlHqJI/AAAAAAAAEsg/HG4MSMDRWZ0eKAOl_mDXQHU56KcBSESlgCLcB/s640/rs-225214-5thWave_2016_23.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I stand by the idea that the book was better and the movie in itself would have totally be a failure without Chloe Moretz as a lead, but her alone wasn't enough to sell another dystopian washout.</div><br /><b>BOOK WINS!!</b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><b>Movie trailer:</b><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kmxLybfGNC4/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kmxLybfGNC4?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-26924153271916809832017-01-18T03:02:00.000-08:002017-01-18T13:35:16.753-08:00The 5th Wave (#1) by Rick Yancey - Review<h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #e69138;">THE 5TH WAVE</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">by Rick Yancey</span></div></h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQvJy0Da_sA/WH87bJcdbQI/AAAAAAAAEr0/DwezxxuRRTwow3fUBTGXD0crX4IlJOsCACLcB/s1600/16101128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yQvJy0Da_sA/WH87bJcdbQI/AAAAAAAAEr0/DwezxxuRRTwow3fUBTGXD0crX4IlJOsCACLcB/s400/16101128.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I don't usually read alien related books, but I like the post-apocalyptic one, more over the movie was coming out last year so I had to read it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As Stephen Hawking said: <i><b>"If alien ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans"</b>. </i>And that's exactly what happens in Rick Yancey's first installment of <i>The 5th Wave</i> Trilogy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Others have arrived on earth, and they seems to have the clear intent of eradicate the human race. Four waves have taken place on earth, the 1st knock down all the power, the 2nd made the earth shake to its root, with the 3rd wave disease spread across the world, by the 4th wave the Others took human shape so no one could be trust it anymore. The book starts of from the dawn of the 5th wave, Cassie is running away from Them, the ones that look human and roam the countryside killing the last survivor. Cassie trust nobody and she is alone in her fight to rescue her brother.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The atmosphere of loneliness, sadness and distrust that surrounds our heroine Cassie, pulled me entirely into this book, while I couldn't care less for others characters view. She was the only one with a rounded and full personality that deserved reading. Don't get me wrong the others narrating voices were good, but while reading them I was always feeling impatient to read &nbsp;again from Cassie point of view.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When books chance point of view from chapter to chapter it's really hard to get the reader to love all the character, Leigh Bardugo did an amazing job in alternating the narration in Six of Crows but it something quite unique that I did miss in this book.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nevertheless of all that is wrong with this book, and there are a lot of things that I wouldn't have close an eye upon in other books, I really liked it and was in a rush to get my hand on the second book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b>4/5 STARS</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>The movie trailer with Chloe Grace Moretz&nbsp;:</b><br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kmxLybfGNC4/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kmxLybfGNC4?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><br />Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4919473497772087821.post-74043497654580561852017-01-17T03:23:00.000-08:002017-03-08T08:43:21.397-08:00Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016), with Eva Green directed by Tim Burton - BOOK vs MOVIE<h2 style="text-align: center;"></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children&nbsp;</span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">directed by Tim Burton</span></h2><div><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LPk9NgGSRHQ/WHv_h67g5_I/AAAAAAAAEpw/wtj8Ky2WSQsnO4OgfxMpQW8QPpZqOTJtgCLcB/s1600/MissPeregrine-Cover.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LPk9NgGSRHQ/WHv_h67g5_I/AAAAAAAAEpw/wtj8Ky2WSQsnO4OgfxMpQW8QPpZqOTJtgCLcB/s640/MissPeregrine-Cover.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was waiting impatiently for this movie to come out, first because I read the first book of the Trilogy by Ransom Rigg and second because I'm a huge fan of Tim Burton. I was slightly desapointed by the book for its overly simplify writing style and plot, it had good premises but it wasn't able to use their full potential, leaving the book on a childish level as I wrote in <a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/miss-peregrine-home-for-peculiar.html">my review</a>. What I was expecting from the movie was to see Tim Burton putting all the creepiness together and giving the story a more adult-like form. The movie is based on the best-selling Trilogy by Ransom Rigg, what I did not expected from it was to be based on the first and going behind it, making the story whole for one installment, so watching it might have spoiled the next books for me. Thanks Tim!&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The story tell us about Jake (Asa Butterfield) who discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds a magical place known as Miss Peregrine's home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery deepens as he gets to know the residents and learns about &nbsp;their special powers and the enemies they are against. Ultimately, Jake discovers that only his own special "peculiarity" can save his new friends.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The movie tries to be quite faithful to the book apart from some character changes as Emma and Olive powers are reversed in &nbsp;the movie, it's also thanks to this that the scene in the submarine is a spectacular one.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EQrbtp8-bYo/WHwKDn8oq5I/AAAAAAAAEqA/3sWbIOSGlQ4fngSTsRN1Tz7IMtNUbYwIwCLcB/s1600/697791d3789a2c2a2ca766129ed7166c.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EQrbtp8-bYo/WHwKDn8oq5I/AAAAAAAAEqA/3sWbIOSGlQ4fngSTsRN1Tz7IMtNUbYwIwCLcB/s640/697791d3789a2c2a2ca766129ed7166c.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I get why he couldn't stop just at the first book, since there is not so much action to begin with. And so the movie moved slowly in the first part, concentrating all the action end and rushing most of it. The costumes, the special effects and graphic are beautiful and do keep the typical style of Tim Burton.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm not sure whether or not I will watch this movie again since it was nothing special. It turn out ok, as the book, but the Tim Burton factor makes this movie win over the book.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">MOVIE WINS!!!</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Books Review:&nbsp;</b></div><div><a href="http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/miss-peregrine-home-for-peculiar.html">http://bookscrumbles.blogspot.it/2016/07/miss-peregrine-home-for-peculiar.html</a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Movie trailer:</b></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tV_IhWE4LP0/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tV_IhWE4LP0?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Giulia Chinahttps://plus.google.com/115245282830404820192noreply@blogger.com2
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