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{4/5} Star Trek: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox, published in 2014 The Enterprise is summoned to a system where two planets, Pavak and Oyolo, have been at war and are attempting to make peace. An ambassador is aboard to help broker a treaty — that ambassador is Kevin Riley. When Kirk is on […]
{4.5/5} “It’s so funny what people who have never been kidnapped think is scary. Talking crows? I would have loved to meet a talking crow!” Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 1, aired in 2015 Kimmy is one of four women who were rescued from a cult whose leader told them that the world had ended 15 […]
{4.5/5} Serenity: Leaves on the Wind by Zack Whedon et al, published in 2014 Zoe’s baby is fine but she’s not fine and needs a hospital. Of course, soon after they get there the Alliance shows up to grab Mal and everyone else. Mal reluctantly leaves Zoe, promising to rescue her later. But he knows […]
{4/5} “When did they ever ask you? You were always their puppet. All of them, the producers, the directors, they told you what to do. They told you how to behave, how to act, how to smile, how to love and they gave you the subtext for every crappy line they churned out and when […]
{4.5/5} Hunters of Dune by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, published in 2006 Murbella is now in charge of both the Bene Gesserit and the Honored Matres, but there are some rogue Honored Matres who haven’t accepted her rule. Meanwhile a no-ship carrying Duncan, Miles, Sheeana, and seven sandworms has disappeared into another universe. […]
{5/5} “You’re the worst pickpocket I’ve ever seen… Here. Buy a book on how to be a better thief.” The Boxtrolls, released in 2014 Humans and boxtrolls don’t get along very well — humans think boxtrolls steal their babies and eat them, and boxtrolls are afraid of humans and only come out at night. Boxtroll […]
{3.5/5} “When they looked at me, they saw a devil — and maybe I did too — and now I had to look the part.” Horns, released in 2013 Ig’s girlfriend Merrin has been killed and everyone thinks he did it — except his brother and his lawyer. One day Ig develops horns on his head, and […]
{4/5} “The weakest point in the gulag is over there, by the fourth wall.” Muppets Most Wanted, released in 2014 Dominic Badguy offers to be the Muppets’ agent and suggests they do a world tour. Badguy is actually working with Constantine, the world’s most dangerous frog. Constantine arranges to have Kermit arrested and then impersonates […]
{4.5/5} “Eventually things get tragic enough and then they circle around to comedy.” Wish I Was Here, released in 2014 Aidan is an actor who hasn’t been getting work lately. His wife Sarah isn’t particularly happy at work but feels she has to bring home the bacon. Gabe, Aidan’s father, reveals that his cancer is […]
{4.5/5} “Stars die and reborn… They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood. All was cooked in the fiery hearts of long vanished stars… The cosmos is also […]