[ SECRET POST #2654 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2654 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Ioan Gruffudd/Fantastic Four 2005]


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02.
[Laurell K. Hamilton]


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03.
[Bates Motel]


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04.
[Sherlock]


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05.
[Korn; Breaking Benjamin]


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06.
[American Horror Story]


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07.
[Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man]


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08.
[Kino's journey/Kino no tabi]


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09.
[Roxy Music]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #379.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Book club

[inevitableentresol]

I read my first Diana Wynne Jones last year (Charmed Life) and I hated it so much. I'd been recced her for years and it was such a horrible disappointment.

I had to get my physical copy out of the house sharpish, I disliked it so much. Urgh. All the worst 'tall forbidding dark stranger is secretly the hero' cliches, worse than any romance novel.

I don't know about Darkholme, but Charmed Life's ending was opposite to fluffy.

Re: Book club

[loracarol]

I honestly haven't read Charmed Life, though I'm sorry you didn't like it. :(

If it helps at all, Darkholme isn't a romance-centric book, though I think there was some romance in it? It takes place in a universe that is being held hostage by someone who runs "fantasy world" tours through the other world, complete with all the cliches you can imagine. The people in the world are starting to get sick of being used like that, so they consult two oracles to find out who should play the titular Dark Lord in the upcoming tours (and the tour guide) to force things to stop.

There's also a companion book called "The Tough Guide to Fantasy Land" which acts like a "tour guide" for the universe.

If the book is chosen, and you decide to read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts! As much as I love DLoD, I don't actually like all of her books, so it'll be interesting to see if that's the case with anyone else. If that makes any sense. ^^;

Re: Book club

[(Anonymous)]

Darkholm has very minimal romance. It's actually more about what happens to a family [and to some extent, the world].

The "tall, dark stranger" thing doesn't really happen so much [there *is* an exception - but there is a reason why here appears that's supported by the plot, and he's far from the main character, and is only there for the last bit of the book.

The end is...I'm not sure I'd call it fluffy, personally, but it's got a lot of really happy reunions and everything gets wrapped up for the better. So it might be better to say it's "happy", instead of fluffy.

Also...Idk how much you'd care about these but the main character is a man whose the nurturing parent, *and* who isn't shamed for actually grieving [in a fairly realistic way, imo] instead of doing the normal "I hurt, but must press on!" thing