Adonis Monahan

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The Dragon Reborn by Robert Jordan - Book Review

This is the third book of the fourteen part series, and arguably the climax of the last three books. It picks up after the events of “The Great Hunt”, with Rand al’ Thor as the proclaimed Dragon Rebor...

By Adonis Monahan

The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker - Book Review

The theme here is duality. We start off with a bored mailman working in the mail sorting room in Nebraska. This man’s name is Jaffe. By sorting through the dead letters of America, he stumbles upon so...

By Adonis Monahan

Little Women - Movie Review

For many millennials, it’s probably hard to believe that more than twenty years have passed since Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 version of Little Women premiered in theatres. Indeed, it’s been a long time,...

By Adonis Monahan

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle - Book Review

The Dinner List, released in 2018 and written by the beloved romance writer Rebecca Serle, is a seemingly frothy novel that buries within it some deep philosophical musings on love, loss, and the heal...

By Adonis Monahan

Code 8 - Movie Review

This film fell flat. Very flat. Freshly buffed marble flooring installed with a freshly calibrated spirit level type of flat. There are a lot of contributing factors to why that happened, the most obv...

By Adonis Monahan

Poet in the Long Dark Coat by Adam Gary - Book Review

The final book in the White Cover Poetry Trilogy, Poet in the Long Dark Coat, reveals a slightly different poetic style than the other two books in the series. Along with poems composed of more lines,...

By Adonis Monahan

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - Book Review

One of the greatest crime thriller novels in history was created by Agatha Christie in 1939. Although it was a simple and short read, it still ranks high in the crime novels genre and is considered by...

By Adonis Monahan

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Documentary - Review

One of the iconic emblems of classic Hollywood, Hedy Lamarr had the kind of face and charisma the camera loved. She also lived a life fit for the movies, with an unbelievable story that few understood...

By Adonis Monahan

Glass - Movie Review

M. Night Shyamalan has had a superhero dream for almost two decades now. Like anything the writer-director does, his first superhero movie, Unbreakable quirkily jump-started the director’s superhero l...

By Adonis Monahan

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney - Book Review

It is one of the bestselling series of illustrated books of this decade; so much so that it was adapted into a movie lately. Even though this illustrated book series is directed towards kids, it is eq...

By Adonis Monahan