6 June 2015

Review #238: A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson




My rating: 5 of 5 stars



"Every father should understand that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. "


----Unknown



Ben McPherson, a television producer, director, and writer, pens his debut psychological thriller, A Line of Blood that traces the life of Mercer family after the father and the son discover the dead body of their neighbor which thoroughly changes their lives or rather say fills up their minds with lots of questions and doubt about one another.


5 June 2015

Review #237: Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Over time we all become our own doppelganger, we look the same but we're completely different people."

----Ted, How I Met Your Mother



Michelle Painchaud, an American author, pens her debut novel, Pretending to be Erica that traces the journey of a con artist who pretends to be a dead and rich princess to steal a million dollars painting, but it is not an easy road to try to have the best of the both worlds, because in reality she is just a regular teenager who has a normal lifestyle.




Feature & Follow #13: Pitching in for your favourite novel's movie adaption


Good morning peeps,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!



4 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #43: With Sarah McCoy



Good morning and welcome everyone,
The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy is an extremely riveting story that entwines two tales belonging from two very different era and this book proves that the author is a master story-teller who is surely going to win millions of readers' heart not only with The Mapmaker's Children but also with her future books.


Let's see what the readers have to say after reading The Mapmaker's Children:

“McCoy deftly intertwines a historical tale with a modern one… lovingly constructed… passionately told… The Mapmaker’s Children not only honors the accomplishments of a little-known woman but artfully demonstrates how fate carries us in unexpected directions, no matter how we might try to map out our lives.” — The Washington Post

“McCoy carefully juxtaposes the past and the present, highlighting the characters’ true introspection, and slowly revealing the unusual similarities in the two woman’s lives, which leads to a riveting conclusion.”— Publisher’s Weekly

“The Mapmaker’s Children is marked by rich, closely observed storytelling full of warmth and heart.” —Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of National Book Award winner Cold Mountain

TV Review: The Whispers (Pilot Episode)



"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

----John Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist



ABC presents a new eerie/horror drama that is surely going to creep you out of your sofa with it's portrayal of an imaginary friend through some kids' lives.



3 June 2015

TV Review: Stitchers (Pilot Episode)



“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

----Albert Einstein

ABC Family presents a brand new science fiction/procedural drama series that is surely going to blow some minds off via the television set.



Stitchers, created by Jeffrey Alan Schechter, is all about a smart-ass Harvard student, Kirsten Clark (played by Emma Ishta) who along with a team of NSA geniuses, like Cameron (played by Kyle Harris), Linus (Ritesh Rajan) and other geeks, hacks into the brain of dead people to find out the reason behind their death, in short, to be able to find the clues and the hidden answers lurking in the memories of a dead human.