Book Review: People Kill People

                                                      People Kill People Review

People Kill People is about the ways in which gun violence affects the lives of six teens in Tuscan, Arizona. The characters we follow are Rand and Cami two nineteen year old parents that have a three year old son, money is something that is a problem for the two of them even with Rand working all the hours he can at his construction job and Cami secretly working as a drug dealer(this is something that does end up causing problems later for her). These two both feel like it's a good idea to have a gun for protection. Daniel a teen that lives on the streets since he escaped from his step mother's place is another character that feels like a gun would be good for protection, Daniel is dating Grace and he loves her a lot but he seems to be a bit too focused on spending every moment with her and it seems he's not as stable as he first appears to be. The next two characters Silas and Ashlyn are both part of an alt right white power movement which is very power guns. Silas is part of the movement because he believes in the cause and it's racist sentiments while Ashlyn on the other hand is only part of the group because she is looking for a group to belong to since she's never been accept by anyone in her life. The final character we follow is Noelle who is very anti-gun since she was involved in a car accident in which someone shot the driver of the car she was in and said crash almost killed her and left her with pretty severe epilepsy which has made it hard for her to function normal, it makes it difficult to exercise or look at screens for a long period of time. Noelle ends up feeling pretty hopeless about her life.

Overall this book was really good it did I good job at making me interested in the characters even if I didn't end up liking them. This book had a writing style that is a bit different than Ellen Hopkins other books which were written in verse while this one was written in verse and prose. Overall I think that this book was pretty good it did a good job at fleshing out it characters and it had interesting things to say about the issues it discussed. Please tell me your thoughts about this book in the comment section down below.

TV Review: Legacies: This Year Will Be Different(2.02)

                                  Legacies: This Year Will Be Different(2.02)Review

• I'm not surprised that Hope decided to track the monster from the end of the last episode and I think having it go to Mystic Falls high school is a good way to get her to attend school there at least for part of this season.
• I'm surprised that Alaric was able to find a job as the principle at Mystic Falls considering the timing of him loosing his job and this school needing a new principle worked out so well for him.
• I like that Lizzie wants to keep herself open to new possibilities this year and that she wants to focus on the present rather than worry about the future. I like that when Kaleb overhears Lizzie saying this year is year of yes that he sees as MG's chance to get her to go out with him.
• I'm pretty sure that I don't like the new headmaster but I'm sure that I'm not suppose to so that's okay.
• I like that Landon is popular now since he's credit with destroying malivore and I find it funny how one guy asks for him to autograph a picture of a phoenix and a girl uses magic to say hey to him.
• I like that Josie and Landon are going on their first date and that there happy to go on it since they are sweet together although I think that Josie getting sad with Landon making one of jokes he makes when he's uncomfortable and taking what he says seriously is another thing that makes me think their relationship won't last long since they don't seem to really get each other.
• Josie being thrown off by Landon having his schedule printed out is something that clearly brothers her because she wants him to need her. There is also a bit of awkwardness between the two when they Landon tries to kiss her and Josie tries to hug him before they separate as well.
• I like that when MG was hesitating about actually asking Lizzie out that Kaleb told him that now was his time and he should do it.
• I find it worrying how the headmaster is proclaiming that they are better than humans and need to work harder this year to prove that because this line of thinking is generally ones that villains have in these stories.
• I think that it makes the most sense for Hope to start school at Mystic Falls and I like that Alaric offered to talk to her if she's having any problems Hope of course isn't going to open to him right now though.
• I like that Hope is befriend by a girl named Maya after she sees Hope crying in the bathroom over what she thinks is boy problems and right away offers to help with a makeover to make the guy jealous.
• I'm a little surprised at how quickly Hope reveals herself to be not what she says she is to Alaric by attacking him when he finds in the boy's locker room when she's looking for the monster.
• I like that Hope tells Alaric that she's a vampire hunter and that she's tracking a monster that she thinks is a troll and has been for week as a way to explain how she attacked him and what she was doing in the locker room.
• I like that Alaric doesn't want to involve any more kids in monster hunting because he doesn't want to put anymore in danger but there's no way that Hope is going to back off this but since he doesn't remember her there's no way for him to know that.
• I like that MG asked Lizzie out and that she said yes but she doesn't seem to happy about it so it doesn't look like this relationship is really going to get started anytime soon.
• I think it's concerning that Josie gave a nose bleed to the girl that was flirting with Landon in class because go right to violence even minor violence when you're jealous is never a good sign.
• I think that both Josie and Landon are pretty awkward and insecure which I think is going to cause them problems when communicating with each other because neither of them seem comfortable with taking the lead in their relationship.
• I liked that Hope and Alaric unintentional ended up working together to take down the troll and I like that Alaric found out that Hope is also a witch.
• I was excited that Maya found out about the troll but I wasn't that surprised that she was just compelled to forget after Alaric called MG over to do so.
• I liked that MG told Alaric that he is always going to be his headmaster even though he isn't working at his school anymore.
• I liked that after finding out what Hope really is that Alaric suggest that he goes to his old school since it's school for the supernatural and that after that she rejects that offer he asks for her help with killing any future monster that might come now that it seems like the attacks her staring again, Hope rejects this as well.
• I like that Lizzie is upset when MG is late for their study date although I think it's more because she thinks it would be embarrassing to be stood up by him rather than she actually likes him.
• I think that Sebastian is very mysterious with the whole showing up out of nowhere, seeming like he's from another time and him having no idea where he is or how he got there, I'm interested in learning more about him.
• I think it's cute how Lizzie is smitten with Sebastian right away and I'm wondering if the feeling is mutual between them or if he's up to something.
• I like that Alaric figures that him and Hope must have fought together in the past and I like that he figures out that Hope was erased by malivore. I'm sad that Hope doesn't want to tell him the truth because it would make leaving harder but I like that Alaric is asking her not to leave.
• I'm not surprised that the troll that might not be a troll isn't dead yet because it was killed far too early in the episode.
• I thought that MG's first two attempts at speeches to get Lizzie to date him were laughable bad but I thought the last one about how he wants to date because he knows all of her and likes all of her and believes that she deserves to be with someone who fully sees her.
• I'm kind of wondering if the things the monsters are going to be drawn to this time is going to be Hope since malivore wants her destroyed.
• I think that Josie not telling Landon what is wrong even though she knows it's hurting their relationship is a bad sign for both there relationship or any relationship that Josie will have since you have to be willing to tell your partner when something is wrong.
• I find it interesting that Sebastian tells Lizzie that they are both drawn too each other but he feels it would be bad for her if they were to start a relationship for some reason which just makes me more intrigued about who and what he is. Also the sexual tension between the two them is a lot and I'm really into it.
• It's kind of ridiculous how Landon doesn't notice Hope and Alaric killing the Cyclopes behind him since he's listening to music.
• I really liked how romantic the shot of Hope and Landon meeting each other's eyes across the park was as the ash of the monster drifts away.
• I felt bad for MG when Lizzie was telling him about Sebastian and how a big part of the appeal is that he has no idea who she is and she likes that she can just be herself rather than have him know all her baggage already which is basically the exact opposite of what MG's speech about why they should date would've been, I like that MG is a good enough guy to tell her that he was just happy to see her happy today.
• I like that Alaric after seeing that he can't convince Hope to stay gives her his cross bow and I like that Hope tells him that he's good at helping kids.
• I like that Landon and Hope were able to talk to each other as well as they did even though to Landon she's a stranger and the whole situation is very awkward to Hope, this is something that just made them work together as a couple in past and hopeful again in the future.
• I like that Hope tells Landon that sometimes being a relationship means allowing yourself to be imperfect which is something that she learned from her relationship with him when she ends up giving him relationship advice.
• I like that Landon's subconscious remembered Hope's milk shake order and that he order one for her after seeing her without knowing why which just proves that he still loves her but he doesn't know that since he can't remember her.
• I feel bad for Josie that she can't feel like her relationship is working out if she isn't in someway fixing problems for the other person and that she's mad at herself for being ridiculous and codependent in all of her relationship.
• I like that Landon tells Josie that she shouldn't be so hard on herself because maybe the reason she is the way she is, is because she's never been in a relationship where her feelings actually mattered before.
• I like that Landon tells Josie that he also feels like a fraud because everyone keeps saying that he destroyed malivore while he knows that's not true even if he doesn't know what really happened and that he wanted Josie to be impressed by him like everyone else is.
• I'm glad that Hope told Alaric who she really is and that he's the closest thing she has to a father and that she has no idea what to do now that the world has forgotten her. I like that Alaric hugs her and tells her that they'll figure it out together.
• I find it worrying that the new headmaster approves of Josie using magic to hurt her classmate and that he offers her a spot in an advanced magic class as reward for doing so.
• I'm not sure what is up with the cloak figure with the knife but probably something to do with malivore.

Please tell me your thoughts on this episode.

Book Review: The Trials of Apollo: The Dark Prophecy

                                                    The Dark Prophecy Review

The Dark Prophecy is the second book in The Trials of Apollo series and this one starts with Apollo along with Leo and Calypso arriving in Indianapolis in hopes of finding the next oracle before Nero or one of the other emperors do. Soon after arriving the group realize that an emperor named Commodus has already taken over the city and since Commodus is someone that Apollo has a history with he's even more unwilling to have to face him without his godly strength considering that he killed him.

Towards the beginning of the book the group is rescued by Hermithea who lives in a near by magical waystation with her lover Josephine who were both once hunters of Artemis but left the hunt after they fell in love with each other. The two women end up helping Apollo, Leo and Calypso but they also want them to help rescue their daughter Georgina and their griffins from Commodus's control. While rescuing the griffins Apollo reunites with Meg McCaffrey who has escaped from Nero's control and had decided to help Apollo out after seeing him at risk of being killed.

The last act of the book has Apollo and Meg getting ready to find the dark oracle and to get the next prophecy while the rest of the main characters of this book get ready to fight to protect the waystation from the attack that will certainly be coming from Commodus the next morning. Both of the missions the characters are taking are of course highly dangerous ones that don't quite go the way that the characters hoped they would.

Overall this was a good book, I think it had a good story to it and I continue to love the characters and I love that I get to learn more about them each book and to explore the world's mythology even more with each book I read in this world. Please tell me your thoughts about this book in the comment section below.

Book Review: The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky

                                       The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky Review

The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky is a novella that is set right after The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and this book is about Monty trying to have sex with Percy for the first time because even though they have declared their love for each other several weeks ago they still haven't got to that part of their relationship yet. Percy has never had sex before so he didn't want to start doing right when they got together and Monty has never actually had sex with someone he was in love with so it's a new experience for him as well although he claims it's not at first. When Monty and Percy attempt to have sex everything seems to go wrong with them feeling awkward about what to do after they plan out a whole evening around it and Monty let's some of his insecurities get the better of him and ruin their evening because he won't admit to their existence.

This book goes on to deal with Monty and Percy having a heart to heart about where their relationship is going in the future in more than the physical sense and talk about what is really getting in the way of the two of them connecting the next day. The two of them try to hook up again and things do feel a lot more natural and fun between the two but things don't go to plan then as well but it ends on much happier note anyways.

This book is great and it reminds me of a really well written fanfiction in the best possible way since it's all about the characters relationship and getting to the part where they have sex with each other but it also deals with other emotional problems in a way that perfectly connects to this other part of their relationship. The relationship and the characters where as great as I remembered them and I'm so happy that there is going to be another book in this series that comes out this summer. Please tell me your thoughts on this book or the series as a whole in the comment section below.

TV Review: Nancy Drew: Pilot(1.01)

                                               Nancy Drew: Pilot(1.01)Review

• There is a story of some girl in the past who died the night that she won the Sea Queen crown and after winning Sea Queen Nancy sees what looks like her ghost and although she doesn't believe in them I have a feeling that this will come into play later on.
• Nancy became interested in solving mysteries after she saw her parents unbury a chest in their backyard in the middle of the night and tried to convince her that she was dreaming. Nancy became even more obsessed with solving mysteries after she found a missing girl but she stopped being interested in solving mysteries after her mom died of cancer.
• It's established that Nancy is working at a diner where an old classmate that hates her, George  is her boss because she tanked her grades for the last half of her senior year. We also learn that she hooking up with a guy named Nick, she works with a guy named Ace who's not very smart and a girl named Bess who is rich and not from around her town and is taking a gap year.
• Things start to get a bit weird when a wealthy man named Ryan Hudson and several of his friends insist that they eat at the diner after it's closed while he tells them to bring a plate of food to his wife who for some reason is staying outside by the car rather than coming in.
• After a power outage Nancy goes outside to check on Mrs. Hudson only discover that she has been killed.
• I disliked how Ace pretty much throw all of his coworkers under the bus when he was questioned by the police.
• The police chief seems like a dick with how he's accusing Nancy, George, Bess and Nick of being murders simply because they found the body. Also him revealing things he knows about them in the most dickish way possible also makes me hate him.
• I like that George pretty much says that the reason the police chief hates Nancy is because she does his job for him.
• I find it funny how Bess thinks that the police chief was calling her an ex con when he also listed rich girl as a description which clearly would be her.
• I'm curious about what crime Nick committed in his past but I still feel like he's a good person regardless of what he might've done in the past.
• I really hate how the police chief just blindly believes that Nancy is the one that killed Tiffany Hudson when he has no proof and it just feels like he has a personal vendetta against this nineteen year old girl which just makes him look pathetic.
• I'm sad to learn that Nancy and her dad haven't been communicating well since her mom died since he has been spending so much time at work.
• I find it interesting that Nancy caught Tiffany's death on camera and that it appears that it was a ghost that killed her.
• I like that Bess after seeing the video completely believes that Tiffany was murdered by a ghost and I like that Ace tells a little more about the ghost who is called dead Lucy.
• We learn that George dislikes Nancy because she was friends with people that spread rumors about her sex life in high school.
• I like that Nick stopped by the diner and I like that Nancy told the others that they are dating since Nick has been wanting her to tell people about them for awhile now.
• I like that when Nick asks Nancy how she would go about proving that Ryan Hudson was behind his wife murder that she started listing off all the things that they should be looking for in order to solve the case before saying that maybe they should just let the police handle it.
• I felt so anxious when Nancy broke into Ryan's house and the security alarm went off which led to the company coming to the house while she was there. I felt even more anxious when Nick went in after her to make sure that she wouldn't get caught.
• I like that Nick decided to follow Nancy because he thought that she might do something dangerous and I like that he told her that she was worth the risk of possibly being caught breaking the law.
• I like that Nick is trying to get Nancy to open up to him but he is also making it clear that he's willing to wait until she is ready to do so but since Nancy doesn't think she'll ever be ready she pushes him away.
• I like that Nancy ends up asking George for help figuring out the meaning a fishermen themed necklace that she found at the Hudson's house because she comes from a family of sailors.
• I like that both George and Bess decide that they are now going to be helping Nancy with her investigation whether she likes it or not.
• I like that after they find an address for a medium in the necklace that when Nancy says that she does this types of things alone George points out that she wouldn't have found the address without her and Bess points out that a medium would be able to tell she doesn't believe in ghosts so she needs her as well.
• I like that Nancy, Bess and George all have different reactions to the medium with Nancy just trying to ask questions right away, Bess really believing that she can communicate with the dead and wanting to see her do that and George wanting Nancy to wait until after the medium does her thing to ask questions because this session was expensive.
• I find it interesting that the medium accidently communicating with dead Lucy is something that frightened her.
• I felt bad for Nancy when she saw her dad and her family friend Karen kissing because she believed that her dad was still mourning her mom.
• I liked that Nancy went to Nick and that she opened up to him and that she tells him about how she doesn't like her current life and how he's the only thing that makes it a little bit better.
• I like that Nancy tells Nick that he doesn't have to tell her about his past until he's ready since she can tell he's not there yet.
• I found it interesting that Nancy's father was Nick's lawyer and the fact that Nick was charged with manslaughter and that Tiffany Hudson was the witness that's statement got him convicted does make him a suspect but since we literally have footage of a ghost killing her I don't think he did it.
• It turns about that Bess isn't rich but is living in a van and that she somehow stole Tiffany's ring, that George is having an affair with Ryan Hudson, Ace is spying for the police chief and Nick is hiding something in one of the cars at the shop.
• I find it very suspicious that Nancy's parents were hiding the dress that Lucy died in but I have no idea what this means.

Please tell me your thoughts on this episode.

Book Review: Sharp Objects

                                                      Sharp Objects Review

Sharp Objects is about Camille Preaker who is a reporter in Chicago who has to go back to Wind Gap Missouri to cover a story about to elementary school girls who were murdered in a similar way within the last year. Camille hasn't been back to Wind Gap since she graduated high school since she and her mother have also had a cold and distant relationship and everyone around town loves her mother which makes it an uncomfortable place to be. Going back to her home town and staying with her mother is the last thing Camille wants to do but she doesn't have a choice because of her job.

Coming back to Wind Gap brings up a lot of old bad memories for Camille considering that very little in town has changed since she was a teenager. Camille ends up finding out that the police don't seem to have any really clue who is behind the murders but she does learn that the killer took all the teeth out of the girls mouth after they were killed. The girls that were killed were girls that had a bit of a dark side to them and who rebelled against the conformity that Wind Gap puts its girls into which makes Camille like them but also makes her wonder if that was the reason that they were killed in the first place. Camille also gets to know her younger sister Amma who was born while Camille was in College and Camille sees that Amma is very popular and seems to be pretty good at controlling people.

Overall I really loved this book which has complicated characters in a dark situation that doesn't seem to have any solution that ends up with the characters being truly happy. This book has good writing and intriguing mystery that I feel is more about the why than the who is behind the killing which are intriguing reasons. Please tell me your thoughts about this book in the comment section below.

Movie Review: Knives Out

                                                         Knives Out Review

Knives Out is about how a wealthy crime novelist named Harlan Thrombey  is found one morning with his throat slashed by his personal nurse and his remaining family gathers together after his death because a detective named Benoit Blanc believes that his death may have been a murder. The family that consist of Harlan's grown children, their spouses and his grand children all seemed to have a motive to kill Harlan since he got in some kind of argument with them that involved money on the night of his death. Harlan's nurse Marta is also called in to be questioned and it turns out that she has a disorder that every time she lies or even thinks about lying she throws up which makes Blanc want her help on his investigation.

This movie was a pretty fun one and with how it's revealed quite early what events led up to Harlan's death it makes the story take quite a different turn as to how a typical murder mystery story would go which adds something to this movie. There is of course a few twists in this movie even after we see Harlan's death that I didn't really see coming but made a lot of sense. This movie had a good story, interesting characters with good acting and directing as well. Please tell me your thoughts about this movie in the comment section below.