#Christian thriller

[csimonson]

Rock Band Roadie

Ready for a Christian thriller? "Full of action and adventure, Rock Band Roadie is a page-turner," said one reader.

Author C.A. Simonson In the mid-1980s, CrossRoad Band traveled the state of Ohio playing in juvenile institutions and hard-core prisons. Venturing out as far as New Jersey, the rock gospel band performed rock and contemporary music, plus a few originals. This author was a keyboardist. Her husband played guitar, and her oldest son, the drums. Her youngest son ran the light show during music…

[tabbyphobos]

Book Review: Mistaken Reality by Traci Hunter Abramson

TL;DR: Bin it.

Today I finished reading Mistaken Reality by Traci Hunter Abramson. I’ve been reading it for two weeks, with a sizeable break to play Sims since I hated it so much. But it’s really easy to just pick up and not finish books, and that’s how I got into a reading slump last year, so I’m making the effort.

I got this book from the library when I went to print a shipping label; my OCD declared it the next book to get. I had already tried it in the past and thought the opening was bad, but like I said, I wanted to make the effort and try to see if there was any diamond in this rough.

Mistaken Reality is labelled as Christian, but I wouldn’t call it that. Clean thriller is what I would put in my spreadsheet if I was to have my own copy. It’s halfway to cozy, if it wasn’t for the sheer number of government agents in the story.

The story starts off with a woman named Hadley going to dinner with her boyfriend and some of his work friends, like his boss. They unceremoniously break up almost on the spot over something that if you had been dating for six months, you would have talked about by now. Anyway, she goes to the bathroom to cry when an FBI agent named JD comes in and tells her she needs to leave and that the restaurant is being evacuated. They get out just seconds before a car bomb goes off outside.

If you thought the plot of the story is a whodunnit, you’d be wrong. They already know who done it: an international criminal named Rabell that they know is also into human trafficking. How do they know this? They got a tip outside the scope of the story, making it seem like you are accidentally reading a book two-plus, but you’re not. This is a standalone.

In the first three chapters so many government agents from the FBI, CIA, and others are introduced with almost identical voices and hardly any description that they are mentally interchangeable. It’s only later on that there is some difference, and really only in who’s married to who. Two of the characters are basically gone for 80% of the book after being introduced.

One of the agent characters leaves the country midway through the book to go on a semi-related mission that feels like a non sequitur until the book’s climax, leaving the reader wondering why they should care about Kelsey and her team of SEALs that refer to each other by their first names (government types are usually all last names) and point blank ask her her real name even though she’s two or more layers undercover. AND SHE TELLS THEM. FOR A PRAYER. What, was it not going to work unless she gave the guy leading the prayer her real name that’s been kept Top Secret for safety reasons? I half expected him to betray them all. And once they finish the mission, the book is only about two-thirds through.

The rest of the story is detective stuff, but since they know who, and even how, they just need a motive, I guess? Even though this guy is a known human trafficker that they are trying to get in custody for reasons unrelated to the bombing? It devolves mostly into trying to find out when and how he can be found.

Here’s the saving grace: the climax of the book actually feels climactic and actually has some tension. It’s not just a romance dressed up as a thriller with a side of military operations at that point. It actually grabs the reader and holds on. Too bad it took 200+ pages to get there.

Would I recommend giving it a shot? No. I’m just glad I didn’t have to pay the $17 it’s priced at for the displeasure of reading it. Bin it, and use your public library, even if it has some stinkers in the stacks.

[dailyflicks]

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

[feyswilde]

mama a girl behind YOU 💜

[in-love-with-movies]

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

[k-wame]

THREE TICKETS TO CHALLENGERS PLEASE MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR (2021) · dir. Christian Schwochow

[synmmin]

I need to put these two in a room together and watch them interact

[cinemoments]

American psycho, dir. Mary Harron, 2000

[esqueletosgays]

BLINK TWICE (2024)

Director: Zoe Kravitz Cinematography: Adam Newport-Berra

[iconsfinder]

[videoreligion]

Good morning, it's #FrancoFriday !

Faceless (1988)

[bones-clouds]

books i read in 2024:

"the world cannot give"

tara isabella burton

“it’s just that when isobel says things, laura believes them, and when virginia says things laura believes them, too; it’s just that laura knows she is so soft, soft enough that anyone can shape her, and she knows enough to know this softness makes her weak.”

[cupidelocket]

!!!i simply am not there (〃^∇^)ﾉ ☆ 🪓

[k-wame]

Jannis Niewöhner as Paul von Hartmann MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR (2021) · dir. Christian Schwochow

[gameofthunder66]

'Blink Twice' (2024) film

-watched 2/5/2024- 3 stars- on Amazon Prime

75% Rotten Tomatoes

[mrs-stans]

‘Pam & Tommy’s Sebastian Stan & Lily James To Reteam On Horror Thriller ‘Let The Evil Go West’Pam & Tommy’s Sebastian Stan & Lily James To Reteam On Horror Thriller ‘Let The Evil Go West’On Horror Thriller 'Let The Evil Go West’

Following a highly successful collaboration on Hulu’s Pam & Tommy, Sebastian Stan and Lily James are set to reteam on Let the Evil Go West, a psychological horror thriller from director Christian Tafdrup (Speak No Evil).

north.five.six. reps the film’s international rights and will introduce it to buyers at Cannes, while CAA Media Finance and UTA Independent Film Group arranged the financing and will handle the domestic sale.

Let the Evil Go West follows a railroad worker who stumbles upon a fortune under deeply disturbing circumstances. As horrifying visions and manifestations drive him toward madness, his wife becomes convinced that an evil presence has attached itself to their family.

Xc Vs penned the script. Tim and Trevor White (King Richard, Fair Play) are producing under their Star Thrower Entertainment banner, alongside Mark Fasano and Nathan Klingher for Gramercy Park Media, which is also financing the film, and Allan Mandelbaum. Stan and James will also executive produce along with Gramercy Park’s Joshua Harris and Ford Corbett and north.five.six.’s Michael Rothstein and Samuel Hall.

Playing Tommy Lee to James’s Pamela Anderson in Hulu’s award winner Pam & Tommy, Stan will next be seen starring in A Different Man, which won him Berlin’s Silver Bear after world premiering to much buzz at Sundance 2024. A24 will release the pic in September. Also coming up for the actor is Ali Abbassi’s The Apprentice, an anticipated title that has him playing a young Donald Trump, which will premiere in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.