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Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Castigator Parerea Voastra

Daca am numarat bine, castigatorul ales de voi e
Andreea T.
Noi tinem sa le multumim tuturor participantilor (si eu recunosc ca-mi plac toti preferatii vostri), dar si celor care au votat.
Acum sa vedem cine e aleasa noastra..
 Katherine


Pentru ca nu stim cine ce ar vrea, zic ca prima care vede ca a  fost premiata va alege cartea.
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Castigator E usor sa te iubesc

Castigatoarea este:

Noemi Pripon AKA LoZ in plic
 
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Castigatori Concurs Dragobete 3

Castigatorii sunt:
Sense and Sensibility - Andreea Chirita AKA Andreea87
Wuthering Heights - Mandu Bianca AKA ByBy
Declaratia - Lary Larisa AKA Larisa
Te iubesc - Janeta janeta AKA Janeta-20072001

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Castigator P.S. Te iubesc

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Cristina Penca aka Cristinna
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Castigatorul/The Winner MB

Pentru prezenta ei pe MB,
For her presence on MB,
Cristinab
primeste din partea noastra: Zece lucruri pe care le-am facut... de Sarah Mlynowski
receives from us: Ten Things we did... by Sarah Mlynowski

Mai avem in vizor cateva persoane care s-au incumetat sa-si faca simtite vizitele si pe care vrem sa le rasplatim. Dar vrem sa va tinem in suspans...

We have in sight more people who dared to make known their visits and we want to reward them too. But we want to keep you in suspense...


Saturday, February 23, 2013

Film Review The Raven (Corbul)

And now, after CCAM smooth you a little with Parental Guidance, it’s came my turn to get you back on dedicated blog’s track.

Do you remember the verse: "Quoth the raven, Nevermore"? If you do, you’ll know what I mean, if you don’t, sit more comfortable and listen to me a little. It's about the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. E.A. Poe is an American author, poet, novelist and literary critic, his works are part of the American romantic movement. He is known for his horror stories (or macabre stories), mystery, and he is considered the father of detective genre and the precursor of the science fiction genre. Put aside his personal life, that has been tumultuous like for many other artists in the nineteenth century and beyond, we must admire his genius and literary imagination and to be grateful for the paths that he opened for us.

Now, back to our main topic, the movie The Raven (2012), directed by James McTigue, it starts from a fact and it creates a detective story full of mystery and cluttered with horror scenes. E.A. Poe was found on the day of October 3rd 1849 on the streets of Baltimore (in the park on a bench in the film) delirious and in an advanced state of deterioration of physical health and he died on October 7th at the hospital. The only word that he kept repeating before he died was "Reynolds", but nobody could understand what he meant. The cause of death remained an unexplained secret and, like it wasn’t enough, all his medical records and death certificate disappeared. The newspapers have speculated his death, focusing on alcoholism and had also inventing a lot of other reasons that could lead to his death. A death shrouded in unknown, fitted for the father of the mystery genre and horror stories. Starting from here, the film presents us a story that seeks to shed light on the events preceding his death, but remember that it is still a story.

About the plot I’ll not tell you much, because this is the charm of a thriller, to wait breathless what will happen and who will ultimately prove to be the killer. The film takes place in a gloomy atmosphere worthy of Poe's stories. You will not get the twists of the situation, but the specter of the killer which cannot be caught and is always with one step ahead of his pursuers. A psychopath that is trying to make Poe to write yet another famous work, committing a series of crimes that rely on some of Poe’s stories. So, the police call Poe to help clear up the case and seize the murderer. That is more than enough, you know the end, but the development of the film will make you shudder.
It’s a good movie, where the mystery scenes will be intertwined with the horror ones, but it’s good to know that there are not too many of these. The tension is well dosed and nineteenth-century middle atmosphere is well represented, and it brings a touch of mystery to the movie. The film is well played, and John Cusack, as usual, makes a very good role. I'm sure those who appreciate dark fantasy genre will not be disappointed.

Maybe I abused of the word mystery and its synonyms, but this is the key word.

Enjoy the film!
To those who have not read E.A. Poe’s stories or his poems, I highly recommend to read them. Worth it!

Romanian:
Și acum, după ce CCAM v­a descrețit un pic frunțile cu Părinți vs. Bunici, a venit și rândul meu să vă aduc pe făgașul consacrat al blogului.

Vă amintiți versul: „Spuse corbul... Nevermore”. Dacă da, o să ştiți la ce mă refer, dacă nu, așezați-vă mai comfortabil și ascultați-mă un pic. Este vorba despre poemul Corbul de Edgar Allan Poe. E. A. Poe este un autor american, poet, prozator și critic literar, iar lucrările sale fac parte din curentul romantic american. Este cunoscut pentru povestirile sale de groază, mystery, este considerat părintele genului polițist și este precursorul genului ștințifico-fantastic. Lăsând la o parte viața personală care a fost tumultoasă ca a multor artiști din secolul al XIX-lea și nu numai, trebuie să-i admirăm geniul literar și să fim recunoscători pentru porțile imaginației ce le-a deschis pentru noi.

Acum, revenind la subiectul nostru principal, filmul Corbul din 2012, regizat de James McTigue,  pleacă de la un fapt real și creează o poveste polițistă încărcată de mister și împănată cu scene de groază. E. A. Poe a fost găsit în ziua de 3 octombrie 1849 pe străzile orașului Baltimore (în parc pe o bancă în film) delirând și într-o stare avansată de degradare a sănătății fizice și a murit în ziua de 7 octombrie la spital. Singurul cuvânt care l-a tot repetat înainte să moară a fost „Reynolds”, dar nimeni nu a reușit să înțeleagă la ce se referea. Cauza morții a rămas un secret nedesluşit și ca acesta să fie și mai mare, toate dosarele medicale și actul de deces au dispărut. Ziarele au speculat moartea sa, punând accent pe alcoolismul de care suferea și inventând o grămadă de alte cauze ce puteau duce la deces. O moarte învăluită în necunoscut, demnă de părintele genului mystery și al poveștilor de groază. Plecând de aici, filmul ne prezintă o poveste ce urmărește să aducă lumină asupra evenimentelor ce au precedat moartea sa, dar nu uitați că este totuși o poveste.

Despre subiect chiar că nu o să vă spun prea multe, căci acesta este farmecul unui film polițist, să aștepți cu sufletul la gură ce se va întâmpla și cine se va dovedi a fi la sfârșit criminalul. Filmul se desfășoară într-o atmosferă sumbră, demnă de poveștile lui Poe. Nu veți avea parte de întoarceri de situație, ci doar de spectrul criminalului ce nu poate fi prins și se află cu un pas înaintea urmăritorilor. Un psihopat ce încearcă să-l facă pe Poe să mai scrie o lucrare faimoasă comite o serie de crime ce se bazează pe unele dintre poveștile sale. Astfel poliția apelează la Poe pentru a-i ajuta să elucideze cazul și să pună mâna pe criminal. Atât este mai mult decât suficient, finalul îl știți, dar desfășurarea filmului o să vă țină cu sufletul la gură.

Un film bun, în care scenele misterioase se vor împleti cu cele de groază, care totuși să știți că nu sunt prea multe. Tensiunea este bine dozată, iar atmosfera de mijloc de secol XIX este bine redată, ea aducând un plus de mister filmului. Filmul este bine jucat, iar John Cusack, ca de obicei, face un rol foarte bun. Sunt sigur că cei ce apreciază genul dark fantasy nu vor fi dezamăgiți.

Poate am abuzat de cuvântul mister şi sinonimele sale, DAR acesta este cuvântul cheie.

Vizionare plăcută!
Acelora ce n-au citit povestiri sau poezii de E.A. Poe le recomand cu căldură să o facă. Merită

Film Review Parental Guidance (Parinti vs. Bunici)

I would have never thought that I’ll be writing about the Parental Guidance. Actually, I would have never thought that I will go to the cinema especially for this film. But was my niece’s choosing (she’s under my sister's influence, what can I do???) and I didn’t want to spoil her excitement of going with me to the film.

But I want to say a little about it because... because I liked it.
Yes, it has enough cliché, but it doesn’t abuse of them. It's totally predictable, but not boring. It’s about life facts and feelings, but without being too mushy, it has jokes, some of them good, others not so great. However, most importantly, all of these are well dosed and very well entwined, so this film gave me that good feeling I'm looking for when I start to read a book or see a movie.

Bette Midler manages to not "grab" all the attention and she’s a good partner for the other protagonists (I never had the impression that the film was done only "for her" as I felt about most of her movies). She has her musical moment, but again I didn’t feel it very annoying, but nice because she shares this moment with Billy Crystal. It must be said that the only musical I saw from the beginning to the end and without rolling my eyes was The Sound of Music (1965). Billy? He does what he always did in his comedies. Draws you into atmosphere and keeps you there.

It's a family movie, a movie that entertained me and made me remember (smiling now) my own "Parental Guidance" moments.

To make a little connection with what we usually do, let say that these conflicts between generations are from everlasting!

Romanian:
Nici prin cap nu mi-ar fi trecut că o să scriu despre Părinți VS Bunici (Parental Guidance). De fapt, nici prin cap nu mi-ar fi trecut că o să mă duc la cinematograf tocmai pentru el. Dar a fost alegerea nepoatei (e sub influența soră-mii, ce pot face???) şi nu vroiam să-i stric entuziasmul de a merge cu mine la filmul ales de ea.

Dar vreau să vă zic un pic despre el pentru că... pentru că mi-a plăcut mult.

Da, are clişee, dar nu abuzează de ele. E total predictibil, dar nu plictisitor. Are viață, are sentimente, dar fără a fi prea siropos, are glume, unele mai bune altele nu chiar aşa minunate. Cel mai important este însă că toate acestea sunt bine dozate şi foarte bine împletite astfel încât mi-a creat acea stare de bine pe care o caut când încep să citesc o carte sau văd un film.

Bette Midler reuşeşte să nu „acapareze” toată atenția şi e un bun partener pentru ceilalți protagonişti (nu am avut impresia că filmul e făcut doar „pentru ea”, aşa cum mi se par majoritatea filmelor în care joacă). Are momentul ei muzical, dar încă o dată nu mi s-a părut chiar enervant, ci drăguț pentru că îl împarte cu Billy Crystal. Trebuie spus că singurul musical pe care l-am văzut cap coadă şi fără a-mi da ochii peste cap e Sunetul Muzicii. Billy? El face ce a făcut întotdeauna în comediile sale. Te atrage în atmosferă şi te ține bine acolo.

E un film de familie, un film care m-a binedispus şi m-a făcut să-mi aduc aminte (zâmbind acum) de propriile mele momente de tipul „Părinți vs Bunici”.

Si pentru a face totuşi o mică legătură cu ceea ce ne place de obicei, să zicem că aceste conflicte dintre generații sunt de când lumea şi pământul!!!

OLIVIU CRAZNIC: LENORE ARRAS la Nemira

Oliviu Craznic publicat alături de G.R.R. Martin. (In The Lost Lands) in:

LENORE ARRAS:

Unde începe puritatea şi unde se sfârşeşte păcatul?...
Ţi-au luat singurul lucru care conta pentru tine, şi aşa ai devenit de neoprit.
Cine a trimis asasinul în manta albă, ale cui sunt trupele mercenare care răscolesc continentul încercând... să dea de urmele tale, ce semnătură poartă pergamentul vicontelui de Laertes?... Cum de s-a declanşat vânătoarea, şi de ce este atât de important să ţi se jupoaie chipul?... Ştiu ei unde oare doarme Lenore sub gheaţă?...
Lupii nu sunt chiar lupi, dincolo de Pădurea Brocelainde. Eşti aproape ajuns pe Domeniu, rana ţi s-a infectat şi ai sub haină armele mortului.
Câţi duşmani vei reuşi să iei cu tine în Somnul cel Mare?...
Pe TOŢI.

 „Dark fantasy reprezintă o subspecie literară care combină într-un mod adecvat elemente fantasy cu elemente horror, rezultatul fiind întotdeauna o operă dominată de o atmosferă tenebroasă, sumbră, operă în care intervine în mod constant supranaturalul şi care este plasată într-o lume imaginată de autor.“

Friday, February 22, 2013

Winner For the Love of Swoon Giveaway Hop International

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Feed My Reader Friday (4)

BLOOD LIKE POISON
Description:

Like most seventeen year olds, Ridley Heller thought she had her future all planned out. What she wanted most in life was to get out of small town Harker. Her only goal was to keep her mouth shut and her grades high so she could win a cheerleading scholarship to Stanford. But that was before she met Bo.

In Ridley’s wildest dreams, she could never have planned for someone like Bo, for a love so intense it left her breathless. No human girl could.

A haunting stranger that watched her from afar, Bo stole Ridley’s heart from the moment she laid eyes on him. But he has secrets. Bo’s a vampire. Both his past and his present are a danger to Ridley, but the biggest threat is not her blood; it’s her heart. He’s feeding a thirst for revenge that will cost him his life, and it may already be too late.

The more darkness Ridley uncovers, the more she realizes that her life will never be the same—with or without Bo. Can she sacrifice her future and her heart for someone who has a death wish?

WAY OUT WEST
Description:

Some of us live for tomorrow...some long for the old days.

A fantasy western town is the last place city girl Callie Sumner expects to find love. Her escape to the remote town is a desperate effort to leave her unhappy past behind and start anew. But the hardships of the Old West throw her for a loop until a handsome gambler shows her the West through his eyes.

Benton "Rand" Randall leaves the corporate rat race to find anonymity in Way Out West. What he finds is a breath of fresh air in a sassy saloon girl who warms his frozen heart. But his past catches up when a vengeance-seeking former employee threatens everything he values, including the town and Callie.

Will he lose Callie if he exposes his identity to save the town and his corporate empire? Can she love a man she knows only as a gambler?

Winner of the New Jersey Romance Writers' Golden Leaf Award.  



SLEEPERS
Description:
An adoptee raised in a foreign land, sixteen-year-old Lianne was content with her life as handmaiden to the queen, until a spell cast on her at birth activated. Now she's filled with uncontrollable rage and access to magic she thought had been bled from her people years ago. Even her years of secret training in elite hand-to-hand combat and meditation can’t calm the fires raging inside her.

Her heart is torn between two boys, the one she’s always loved and the one who always ignored her. But when the kingdom threatens to tear itself apart due to rumors surrounding the queen’s alleged affair, who will Lianne protect and who will she destroy?

 
THE BOOK OF LOST SOULS
Description:

When teen witch Ivy MacTavish changes a lizard into her date for a Halloween dance, everything turns to chaos. And when no one is powerful enough to transform him back except Ivy, it sparks the rumor: Like father, like daughter. Ivy has heard it all before - that her father, who left when she was seven – was involved with the darkest of magic.

Making the rumors worse, someone uses an evil spell book to bring back two of history's most nefarious killers. Ivy's got a simple plan to set things right: find the real dark spell caster, steal the book, and reverse the spell. No problem! But she’ll have to deal with something more dangerous than murderous spirits that want her and her friends dead: the school’s resident bad boy and hotter-than-brimstone demon, Nick Marcelli. Nick’s offering Ivy more than his help with recovering the missing book – he’s offering her a way to ditch her scaly reputation as a lizard-lover. Demons are about as hard to handle as black magic, and as Ivy soon discovers, it’s going to take more than a lot of luck and a little charm if she wants to survive long enough to clear her status as a dark witch, get a warm-blooded boyfriend, and have her former date back to eating meal worms before the week’s end.

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Innovera Yakov: The Journey of a Thousand Eyes by Kia Garriques Book Blast

Innovera Yakov – The Journey of A Thousand Eyes takes you into a world of excitement and danger where thoughts and feelings are overheard and minds can travel to other worlds.

Be prepared to immerse yourself in a world where falling in love could cost you your life and nothing is as it seems. Innovera Yakov – The Journey of A Thousand Eyes is the first book in an action-packed fantasy drama series where characters with powers of healing and destruction live, love, compete and disappear without a trace while they are being prepared for the Journey.

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Author Kia Garriques

Kia Garriques studied writing and English literature at University and has been a published short story writer since 2009. Her first story “The Invisible Alien Watcher” was published by Micro Horror in 2009 and reprinted by Pill Hill Press in 2011. Innovera Yakov: The Journey of a Thousand Eyes – is her first novel in the ‘Worlds’ series.

Excerpt

Blu Tara stared her sister in the face. ‘Let me tell you what you don't know about love, Gamma. It is a curse. You will scoop out your core and abandon it just to have the Being that you love. You will steal another person's life force if it makes it easier to get it. You will abandon the world you have been cradled in, betray everything and everyone you care for. You’ll give up your name for it.’

Blu Tara's voice went soft and dreamy. ‘You will gladly close your eyes and embrace the world of darkness. You will kill or die for it. And you will hate yourself for the weakness that it brings on you. So don’t talk to me about love.’

Gamma shook her head. ‘You're not making sense,’ Blu Tara. ‘You talk as if... I’m the one who should be upset about all this.’

Blu Tara lifted her hand dismissively. She pointed a hot finger at Gamma. ‘Anyway don’t forget what we are.’

'And what are we?’ Gamma glared at her..

'Different. Strange. Something to be frightened of. Two Beings that can fuse and burn everything to ashes. That's the way they all see us down there. That's what the Stardog wants from you - the powers you possess.

‘I hate them all. With their suspicious, shiny faces and their empty games. I hate that Voice which drones on and on at us in the Learning Dome as soon as we've finished resting.

Innoverans! All those perfect, pretty Beings; they remember nothing — it’s the curse of this shallow, shining world. Tell me, Gamma - what do you remember of the world we come from before your Odors Apeno dumped us here?’

Gamma swung around to face her sister fully. ‘Blu Tara! What's got into you? Where’s all that coming from? I've never heard you speak like that before. This is about Krave and I- not you!’

Krave and you - don't make me laugh. And, oh! Here’s a big difference — between you and I this time, Twin Sister. It’s the answer to your question that you brought me up here to ask.’ Blu Tara mimicked Gamma's soft and musical voice, Why do you want to kill Krave?

Here's the answer, Gamma. I will do whatever I have to do to save myself. I'm the half of you that's not like you. I don't have a weeping heart. Now I'm out of here. I need my Rest.

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Nathaniel Taylor was a Christian who thought believers were exempted from "dark times." That was until he entered his own long time in the dark. When he meets Lilly, a young woman in danger, it sends him on a journey to discover the difference between night and day and that during dark times, the light is hidden, not gone.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Review and Giveaway PRIEST (2011)

It is about the graphics series (manhwa, as is Korean) Priest and the movie with the same name. The graphics series was created by Hyung Min-woo and honestly I cannot really tell you about it because I didn’t read it, and I don’t want to give you some data taken from the Internet (which any of you can find). Also, everything that we wrote on our blog was about books that we read and movies that we watched, nothing was rambling or “inspired” from other sources. So, respecting you (and us as well) I will not write about something I don’t know, but I promise you that I'll procure the manhwa series and I’ll present it to you.
Why I made this entry a bit longer? Because of the way I saw it was the film received. This means that the graphic novel is much better. Maybe, this thing I noticed on other occasions and often was not true. We liked the movie, it is not a landmark or who knows what masterpiece, but it worth to be seen.

Priest is a 2011 film directed by Scott Stewart, written by Cory Goodman and has Paul Bettany, Karl Urban and Maggie Q.

The plot? The story is a post-apocalyptic dystopia with western accents that takes place in an imaginary world where for centuries has been terrible war between humans and vampires. Vampires are not the... classics ones, in the sense of people turn but an entirely different race, other creatures. A world devastated after fighting vampires, a wilderness where people live in few cities where they are led by the church. An authoritarian leadership, totalitarianism imposed by vampire fighting and from which a handful of people benefit. The victory was made possible by creating an elite group of fighters armed with special abilities, called The Priests who could match the vampires in battle. After the war ended and the remaining vampires were sent to special reservations, as usual, the society turns away from her rescuers. Marginalized and humiliated, cast-off, useless and even dangerous tools in the new social organization, they live their life on a day to day basis just as the hero of the story. That is until he hears that vampires rise again. Brother and sister-in-law killed and kidnapped niece is a sufficient reason for him to deny the oath to the Church who will accuse of treason and insubordination because, as history proved along, not always been true that servants of the Church are the servants of God too. In this new crusade against darkness creatures the problems multiply and everything will become more complicate because on the vampire side appeared a new player, more dangerous and with new goals and several paybacks.

I think that I sad enough and it’s pointless to narrate the film; those who saw it know the story, and for those who have not seen it I don’t want to spoil the pleasure.

It is an enjoyable film and I think that those who love dystopian stories it will bring no reproach. Of course everything can be criticized, anyone can say what he wants, intentionally or not, and if you stick to brush any movie even the blockbusters you can find something to criticize, an effect that you liked or not, a small mistake in editing and so on. I could talk about reference movies mistakes, but I hate this thing of errors’ hunter. You look at the story in general, not at the small details that you don’t even notice unless you look only after them. What the hell, the film is an artistic creation, not real life!

In the end I say that is worth seeing, you will not waste time and you’ll like Karl Urban in the role of vampire.

Enjoy the show!

Romanian:
Este vorba despre seria grafică (manhwa, căci este coreeană) Priest și filmul cu același nume. Seria grafică este creeată de Hyung Min-woo și sincer nu prea am ce să vă spun despre ea pentru că nu am văzut-o, iar ca să vă înșir niște date luate de pe internet (pe care oricare dintre voi le puteți găsi) nu vreau. Tot ce am scris noi pe blog au fost cărți citite sau filme vizionate, nimic nu a fost aiurea sau inspirat de altundeva. Așa că respectându-vă pe voi (dar și pe noi) nu voi scrie despre ceva ce nu știu, însă vă promit că o să le procur și o să vi le prezint.
De ce am făcut această introducere un pic cam lungă? Din cauza modului în care am văzut că a fost primit filmul. Asta înseamnă că romanul grafic este mult mai bun. Poate, chestia asta am mai observat-o și cu alte ocazii și de cele mai multe ori nu a fost adevărată. Nouă ne-a plăcut filmul, nu este unul de referință, sau cine știe ce capodoperă, dar merită văzut.

Priest este un film din 2011 regizat de Scott Stewart, scris deCory Goodman și îi are în rolurile principale pe Paul Bettany, Karl Urban și Maggie Q.

Subiectul? Povestea este o distopie post-apocaliptică cu accente western ce se desfăşoară într-o lume imaginară unde a avut loc de secole un război teribil între oameni și vampiri. Vampirii nu sunt cei... clasici, să spunem, adică oameni transformați, ci cu totul o altă rasă, alte creaturi. Un univers devastat în urma luptei împotriva vampirilor, un pustiu unde oamenii locuiesc în câteva orașe unde sunt conduși de biserică. O conducere autoritară, un totalitarism impus de lupta împotriva vampirilor și de pe urma căruia beneficiază o mână de oameni. Victoria a fost posibilă datorită creării unui grup de luptători de elită dotați cu abilități speciale numiți Preoții care puteau face față în luptă vampirilor. După ce războiul s-a încheiat și vampirii rămași au fost trimiși în rezervații speciale, ca de obicei, societatea întoarce spatele salvatorilor ei. Marginalizați și înjosiți, paria, unelte nefolositoare și chiar periculoase în noua organizare socială, aceștia își duc viața de pe o zi pe alta la fel ca eroul principal al povestirii. Asta până când va auzi că vampirii se ridică din nou la luptă. Fratele și cumnata uciși şi nepoata răpită reprezintă un motiv suficient pentru el pentru a se dezice de jurămantul față de Biserica care îl va acuza de trădare și nesupunere pentru că, după cum s-a dovedit de-alungul istoriei, nu întotdeauna slujitorii Bisericii au fost cu adevărat şi slujitorii lui Dumnezeu. În noua cruciadă împotriva creaturilor întunericului problemele se înmulțesc și totul se va complica și mai mult, căci în tabăra vampirilor a apărut un nou jucător, mai periculos și care are câteva polițe de plătit.

Cred că este suficient cât am spus pentru că nu are rost să povestesc filmul pentru că cei ce l-au văzut știu despre ce vorbesc, iar celor ce nu l-au văzut nu vreau să le stric plăcerea surprizei.

Este un film plăcut și cei ce adoră povestirile distopice nu cred că îi vor aduce reproșuri. Desigur critici se pot aduce oricărei creații, oricine poate spune ce vrea cu intenție sau fără și dacă stai să perii orice film chiar și superproducțiile vei putea să găsești ceva de criticat, un efect care nu ți-a plăcut sau o mică greșeală de montaj și altele. Aș putea să vorbesc despre filme de referință care au greșeli, dar nu îmi place de loc chestia asta cu vânatul greșelilor. Te uiți la poveste în general, nu la micile amănunte care oricum nu le observi decât dacă doar numai după asta te uiți. Este film, o creație artistică, nu viața reală, ce naiba?

În final vă spun că merită văzut, nu veți pierde vremea, iar Karl Urban în rol de vampir o să vă placă.
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Cover Reveal - Spirit (Elemental, #5) by Shauna Granger

Release date: April 30, 2013
Cover Design: Mooney Designs

Description:

Not even a guardian angel is more powerful than Death.

Always careful to watch out for others, Shayna put too much trust her abilities to keep herself safe and has been cut down by crazed man. Now she is trapped in the land of the dead, watching as her two best friends suffer the consequences of her death; their powers are fading and soon they will too. Shayna is desperate to return to the land of the living to save them from a similar, cold fate. To save her friends Shayna must turn away from the Light and, in doing so, sacrifice her wings.

But the longer Shayna stays among the dead, the further she slips from sanity. If Shayna cannot find her way back she will be condemned and lost forever among the restless souls of the dead. With nothing left to lose, she will do whatever it takes to fight her way back, with or without her wings.



About author:
Like so many other writers, Shauna grew up as an avid reader, it was in high school that she realized she wanted to be a writer. Five years ago Shauna started work on her Elemental Series and released the first installment, Earth, on May 1, 2011. When not reading and writing, Shauna enjoys cooking and playing hostess whenever she can. 


Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours