My Thought's On. . .
The Girl Who
Could Move S**t With Her Mind
They say . . .
“First impressions count”.
In this case, that maxim hits
the nail on the head. How? As soon as I saw the title of this book, I knew I’d
love it. I mean, anyone who uses that as a title for their book has to have a
great sense of humor. MY kind of humor.
And I was right.
Teagan Frost is a girl on a
mission. Literally. She works for a clandestine government team. A team so
secret that they’ll deny any knowledge of her at the drop of a hat if she
screws up. Not a good thing when you’re the only person with psychokinetic
abilities in the world and a queue of drooling scientists with top security
clearance are itching for you to fail so they can dissect you.
When a body turns up at the
site of Teagan’s last job, murdered in such a way that it’s obvious someone
with paranormal abilities must be involved, plastic fingered gloves point the
blame her way and scalpels get sharpened.
Fortunately, she gets
twenty-four hours to prove her innocence. But will it be enough? Teagan’s boss
wants rid of her. The rest of the team hate her. A squad of black-ops goons
think she’s nothing but a freak that needs locking up and experimenting on. And
someone’s obviously out to ensure she fails.
Just the recipe for a nice
little whodunit. One presented with an aperitif of disaster-in-the-making, with
a side salad of action all the way. It’s irreverent, down and dirty, underhand,
and guaranteed to please the mischief-maker in all of us.
An insanely imaginative peek
into a twisted mind.
The Boys
Continuing the “first
impressions count” theme. . . .
I adored this series!
There you go. My thoughts in brief, expressed from the heart.
Adapted from the Dynamite
comic book series of the same name, The Boys follows the life of Hughie
Campbell. A mild-mannered, down-to-earth young man, Hughie is madly in love
with the girl of his dreams, Robin . . . up to the moment she’s obliterated by a superhero
who literally runs right through her, that is.
Hughie is traumatized, until
Billy Butcher crosses his path. Butcher despises all “Supers” and wants to wipe
the lot of them out. Even so, he has eyes for one in particular; Homelander,
the charismatic leader of the most popular of the super heroes – The Seven, who
are sponsored by the mega rich, ultra powerful Vought International corporation.
As the show goes on to
reveal, the Seven aren’t all that special. In fact, most are out and out
self-serving scumbags who don’t give a toss about the populace at large . . .
unless it can improve their ratings, that is.
Butcher knows this, and leads
his vigilantes on a desperate crusade to expose the “supers” for what they
really are, while fulfilling his own personal vendetta.
What I particularly liked
about this series is that it’s a great judge of human nature. If people did
somehow become blessed with powers in real life, THIS is what they’d be like.
Oh, they’d start off wanting to do good, but with multi-billion dollar
corporations and social media gurus plotting their every move, they’d end up
emotionally wrecked trash monsters.
A lot of outrageous things
happen in the series. (Ass-murder being a prime example) A truly explosive
moment, I guarantee. And it’s awesome. Bad behavior. Even worse language.
Sexual exploitation. One of the most timely
– tongue-in-cheek- exposes I’ve seen in a long time.
Even better, there’s one
hellova twist at the end that sets up series 2 quite nicely, thank you very
much. And I for one can’t wait J
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