All the RomCom of Qi Xi

Resolution Reviews. Same disclaimers as every other one. As one of these books came out less than 2 weeks ago, I'll remind that there are spoilers in here. BIG TIME spoilers.

Without further ado - 3 books and 1 movie. This puts me over 25% completed for the year.

( Age of Discovery: A Secret Atlas (Part 1 of 3) by Michael Stackpole )
8 out of 10

( Age of Discover: Cartography [Part 2 of 3] by Michael Stackpole )
8 out of 10

( Innocence in Death by JD Robb )
10 out of 10

Four Brothers
( Four Brothers )
10 out of 10

Resolution Reviews, same disclaimers as every other time. Spoilers abound:

Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton Did Not Finish
( Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton )
As much as it pains me to rate it this highly, I have to go with the established scale -
negative 8 1 out of 10

Innocent In Death by JD Robb (Nora Roberts)
( Innocent In Death by JD Robb (Nora Roberts) )
9 out of 10

Woke up today to no water at the house I'm sitting out. It seems that the main pipes froze last night (we were SUPER cold last night). So, no shower for me *icks*. I had to go buy bottled water for the puppies and cats so that there's something for them to drink because, of course, the way I found out there was no water was that I went to fill the dogs' dishes.

Got my springtime_gen assignment and I couldn't have asked for a better challenge and assignment! YAYES!!!

Signed up for hpslashnotsmut where, btw, sign-ups are still open.

Thank God I got an extension for my hpvalensmut as I'm finally finishing the wrangling into place. corvidae9 is a brilliant mod and I worship her for the extension *worships*.

slashfest will be opening the mini round soon... gotta finish getting ready for that.

Work is crazy, am trying desperately to finish all my year end crap by January 31st. We're also migrating payroll systems from one company to another so that's a wee bit stressful as well.

Finally - a couple of book reviews (same disclaimers and spoilers abound):

( Mistral's Kiss by Laurell K. Hamilton )
3 out of 10

( Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception )
9.5 out of 10

A rec and some resolution reviews.

First - at slashfest - chaeldub took my general prompt of Dean/Seamus - Post Hogwarts, Seamus wants more than is proper and created In Darkness Lies. It's already been picked up on hogwarts_today and it's just that good. It's seriously just amazing. It's angst and has character death and if you need a cry, this is the story for you. Now, I give these warnings because I know some of you aren't fond of character death but... this one is totally and completely gut wrenching and wonderfully amazing. It's just so utterly amazingly and lovely. It absolutely broke me and I adore chaeldub for it. Apologies to all that have ever written for me but this is the best thing EVER written for me. Go read it and tell him what you think about it, yeah?

Second - Resolution 100 Movies and Books

I've watched a few movies during my stint here with the beasts. Below the cuts are my reviews for each one. Please note that I am reviewing these based on my personal taste and preferences. As such, if I don't enjoy it, you might. I'm not a film critic and some of my reviews may contain things like "I liked this for the hot dudes", so I wouldn't really take me too seriously. One final thing - if you felt the opposite about anything I review, please feel free to discuss it with me. I might be swayed into giving it a second watching/reading and change my mind. Or you might be. See, it works all the way around.

( Red, White and Angry ) 8 out of 10

( Fearless )
5 out of 10

( The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift )
6 out of 10

( Artemis Fowl:The Eternity Code )
8 out of 10