This Week's Thought's on. . .
The Book of Etta
In the Book of Etta, we
follow the trials and tribulations of one of the descendants of those few women
trained by the Unnamed Midwife to care for those priceless gems who can still
successfully give birth to newborns one hundred years after the fall of
mankind.
The thing is, Etta doesn’t
want to be a midwife. Nor does she wish to bear children. She follows in the
footsteps of the Unnamed Midwife herself, who traveled the wilds armed with
nothing but an antique revolver and her wits.
Thus, Etta becomes a raider –
and one of the most successful ones Nowhere has ever seen.
But a raider’s life is
fraught with danger, as Etta discovers to her cost when she deviates from her
normal routines and encounters strangers who demonstrate that – despite the
calamity almost ending mankind’s reign – you still can’t trust human nature . .
. or our capacity to learn from the mistakes of the past.
A superb sequel to a
hauntingly poignant series, and one of the most compelling reads you’ll ever
come across.
Pennyworth
For those of you who haven’t
seen it yet, Pennyworth is the story of Alfred – The Alfred who later becomes the butler to Bruce – Batman – Wayne.
Produced by the team who
brought us Gotham, you can expect a somewhat noir atmosphere to predominate.
And it does. A comic book brought to life, Pennyworth is creative, gritty, and
has a definite charm that engages you from the moment it starts.
In Pennyworth, Alfred is a
young man, recently demobbed from the army after 10 years. As an ex SAS
soldier, he possesses a maturity and approach to life that belies his youth,
and in an effort to avoid the future earmarked for him by his father – that of
a butler – he starts his own security company in the rough and tumble London of
an alternate 1960s Britain.
Alfred runs into trouble from
the get-go. For one, he bumps into Thomas Wayne, (Bruce’s dad), who is in
London trying to track down his wayward sister, while engaged on some dodgy
business for the American government. The two become embroiled, leading Alfred
into conflict with an entity called the Raven Society. Things get complicated
when he falls for Esme, an upper-class girl who his parents think are out of
his league.
What follows is tremendously
good fun, and although parts are deliberately outlandish and manically
unhinged, creates just the right balance to keep you rooting for Alfred and his
team as they navigate their way through one carefully crafted crisis after
another.
Give it a go. You won’t be
disappointed.
No comments:
Post a Comment