SERIES: To Be or Not To Be (and when to stop…) by Jade Kerrion

Hi everyone! Here’s a post by Jade Kerrion on when to end a book series. It’s an interesting topic because my Facebook friend, James Wan (director of The Conjuring) is directing Fast and Furious 7, a series that gets better with each movie. When will they stop? Fast and Furious 22? Who knows? As long as it remains entertaining, I’d be happy to watch Fast and Furious 54: Wheelchair Racing.

 

 

SERIES: To Be or Not To Be (and when to stop…)

By Jade Kerrion

If Amazon (the company) were a river and all the books in its vast online repository were drops of water, you wouldn’t be able to skim a pebble across its surface without hitting a book that is a part of a series. Series are popular—they work in movies, on TV, and in books—and for good reason. No one ever likes saying goodbye to the people they’ve fallen in love with. We like to see our heroes and heroines overcome adversity, and then do it again, and again. 

Novel series come in at least three different flavors.

MOVIE REVIEW: The Conjuring

Hi everyone! I watched The Conjuring about a month ago, so why am I writing about it now? Well, I had my first supernatural/ghostly experience the other day while watching The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. I also managed to contemplate killing my neighbors with a nuclear bomb in this review.

THE CONJURING

This was my reaction after finding out they had cast Ben Affleck as the new Batman.

Some have claimed that this is one of the scariest movies ever made—sure, it definitely has a few frightening moments of “Oh-shit! Did I really just literally jump out of my seat?”—but overall, it doesn’t possess that disturbing and psychological current found in something like The Exorcist where the scare factor just shoots right off the screen and infects your mind with terrifying thoughts and images that keep you up all night.

In saying that, there are also one or two genuine moments of terror that will definitely leave you thinking that if your house became haunted, not only would you move out right away—you would also demolish the house. 

Actually, let’s take it one step further. If my house became haunted, I would nuke the whole fucking block with the biggest bomb I could find. Sure, there will be casualties, but I’m sure my neighbors would understand—I would.