Hello everyone! Another month has passed! How was your reading month?
I read a total of 7 books, with only 1 DNF.
Who let the Gods Out? by Maz Evans: I Loved this book!! I laughed so hard, the Gods are so funny and this is a wonderful middle-grade fantasy! 4,5/5 stars!
Death or ice-cream? By Gareth P. Jones: it’s strange, I read two books with a question in the title this month! I love this cover, and this book is original and quite amusing. 4 stars!
Cast: Kandido Uranga, Eneko Sagardoy, Uma Bracaglia
Release Date: 12 October 2018
Genres: fantasy, horror, retelling
Rating: 5/5
Trigger Warning: it’s a horror, so death, Satan, suicide, blood, visions of Hell and Demons.
Plot:
Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil is a re-telling of an ancient fable about a Blacksmith who finds himself battling the Devil. In this story, the Blacksmith has captured the Devil and lives a life of hermit-like seclusion away from the prying eyes of the townsfolk. All is going well until a desperate little girl, Usue, accidentally stumbles across the devil and unknowingly releases him. It is then left to the Blacksmith to reclaim his bounty, but this is easier said than done as he also finds himself at the end of a lynch mob that have come searching for the missing Usue.
Review spoiler free:
You know you have found a good horror movie when you and your dad, who sacrifices himself every time this blogger want to watch a horror movie, at the end of the movie, turn to the other and say simultaneously: that was awesome!!
Errementari is a retelling of a fable, is located in Spain and is written in Basque (but they translated it in italian!): after the artistic prologue we are introduced in a world dark and gloomy, devastated by the war. And we first meet The Blacksmith.
Then we skip 8 years, and we found Usue, a little girl living in the same village as The Blacksmith, and a mysterious stranger who is searching the Blacksmith. But nobody in the village wants to enter the property of the Blacksmith, because it seems an old, crazy and nasty man.
The scene, dark as usual for a Netflix movie, are fascinating: the old village with a forest deep and strange, with twisted trees and fog; the property and the house of The Blacksmith, completely covered with cross; the church of the village, with demons statues.
It’s the perfect setting for Halloween! I’ve loved it!
That was me during the entire movie.
The plot: I hate when for the first 20/30 minutes of a horror movie nothing happens. But Errementari doesn’t fail, and every minute of the movie is interesting, or sad, or funny. Yes, you hear me right: there are a lot of scenes so funny, and let me say it, it’s all because of Sartael, the demon.
The characters: Sartael is the best. I want a fan club for him. And I want to protect Usue and The Blacksmith, because remember if “Not all tales always have a happy ending”, you can’t judge a person by their appereance.
I want to applaud the make up artist: as a cosplayer I’m so impressed by their work.
As always with a positive review, I’m not sure if this is a “professional” or “convincing” review, but I just want to say this: this is an original movie so well done, with a lot of emotions, perfect for Halloween, and it became one of my favorite horror movie of all the time.
Hello! As I already said, October is all spooky here! Here’s the Creatures of The Night Book Tag that I found on Another Book In the Wall.
Go and check Kelly’s blog, it’s fantastic!
The rule is simple: choose a book or character that features the creature listed.
Vampire: Count Dracula.
Werewolf: Remus Lupin
I don’t like so much the werewolfs, but Remus Lupin is probably the character that has helped me to find a new obsession: the harry potter series. I cried for days after you know what.
Zombie: Resident Evil
I don’t like Zombies. At all. I don’t like The Walking Dead, or books with Zombies. But I like Resident Evil.
Ghost: The graveyard book
This book is full of ghosts!
Witch/Warlock/Spellcaster: Princess Olive
Fairy/Fae: Flights and chimes and mysterious times
Angel/Demon: Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens
I cheated a little here and I combined the two characters. But seriously, how cool is this poster? Have you seen the trailer?
Alien: The Long way to small, angry planet
Superpowered Human: Van Helsing
Maybe you don’t know, but there’s also a book from this movie (that I love so much!)
I love books with original and strange titles, and I love to adapt the lyrics of songs to something more bookish.
Here’s my recomendation of horror/spooky books:
I try to including more genres, so we have Death or Ice Cream? that’s a Middle Grade (and I love the cover so much!) and The Woman in Black, still my favourite classic ghost story. Shutter Island is the best thriller that I ever read; Coraline is fantastic. The Other Mother scares me a lot, even if I am 31 years old.
Underworld London is a non-fiction book and it’s scary and very gruesome; The Last Necromancer is a fantasy/historical/gothic, the first of a series with gorgeous covers and last but not least The Uninvited by Cat Winters: she can writes about ghosts and paranormal like no other.
I know that are more and more horror books out there, so stay tuned for my horror TBR books and my favorite horror movies!
Do you know some of this books? Who else love Peter Hollens? I adore him!!*_*
The challenge is to post some books that I loved and some books that are still on my TBR (please TBR, don’t hurt me), corresponding to each letter of the alphabet.
Please remember that maybe some books will be in italian. I will write the english title too.
The watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley: unfortunately, I DNF this book, but only for now. I want to try to read it and hopefully, finish it. The writing style was really difficult for me to understand, and some things were predictable.
How was your reading month? Have you read The Watchmaker of Filigree Street? Do you liked it?
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