One Star Review
A feeble attempt at recreating the Harry Potter magic, the boys' lame attempts at sounding witty, "supreme lord of the bathroom"
What is 'Percy Jackson (The Lightning Thief)'?
An old men really cares about a boys education so he only engages him in adventures at end of school year.
What is 'Harry Potter'?
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
What is Harry Potter?
Two teens fall in love against their families' wishes, but poor communication results in tragedy.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Children evacuated from WW2 london, time travel when in a magic world with jesus lion.
What is 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'?
Mission Impossible type plot line, with a ramshackle crew bound together basically by obligation to their gang and greed.
What is 'Six of Crows'?
9 men start hiking to return a piece of jewelry to the manufacturer.
What is 'The Fellowship of the Ring' (LOTR)?
"For you, a thousand times over."
What is 'The Kite Runner'?
Ambitious guy takes career advice from witches and things go super downhill, while his wife eggs him on.
What is Macbeth?
Private school guys (and local girl) find out their best friend has been dead for 7 years, and was killed by their teacher.
What is 'The Raven Boys'?
supposedly the “good parts only” version of his alter ego’s novel, starts with an introduction by its author whom I immediately disliked after reading it.
The story is mind-numbingly daft: Girl rejects boy in favour of a prince, boy finds fame/infamy, girl gets rescued by boy, consequently regrets all her life choices and tries to make amends.
What is 'The Princess Bride'?
Fiery upstart steals an opportunity from her sister and ruining an annual tradition. Economic and political unrest follow.
What is 'The Hunger Games'?
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”
What is 'The Hobbit'?
A girl gets shipwrecked and while pretending to be her brother creates a love triangle that works out.
What is Twelfth Night?
The government labels children by colours, and the main character goes on a road trip with some random kids, + friendship.
What is 'The Darkest Minds'?
Expected fantasy with political intrigues and complexities, instead got fay high school drama, bullies and one dumb as hell MC.
What is 'The Cruel Prince'?
Two women try to kill each other over a pair of shoes.
What is 'The Wizard of Oz'?
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
What is 'Babel: An Arcane History'?
Man sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, actually goes crazy with revenge (debatable), and everyone dies.
What is Hamlet?
Death narrates the actions of a girl in fictional Germany who learns to read.
What is 'The Book Thief'?
We get the point. She's rich and popular, blonde and beautiful. This was completely irrelevant to the whole mystery which was predictable, and you pretty much knew exactly what would happen at the end from reading the first 3 chapters.
What is 'Nancy Drew'? (Book #1)
An old man watches a highschool girl sleep, and takes her to prom.
What is 'Twilight'?
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
What is 'The Secret History'?
A crew of men are shipwrecked on a magical island and tormented by an old man and his slaves.
What is The Tempest?
Boy with gossip page gets whats coming to him, and everyone turns into a teenage Sherlock Holmes.
What is 'One of Us is Lying'?