TV Series Review: The Reason I Can't Find Love (2011)

 Well, here we go... That's a day of my life I will not return.

7.5 rating on MyDramaList and I think either people are hopeless romantics or idiots.

The story is the following; you've got 4 girls in different stages of life and ages that are trying to love.

Each one is dealing with different problems. Our main character is working on a company where she is well respected and his childhood's friend return from abroad. But he is marrying a young girl. Of course she loves him.

Then we've got a young teen who never really fell in love and falls for the wrong guys - twice.

You've got a older woman who is married but each live in their own house - odd.

And the last one is a girl who hasn't discover her place in working envirorment OR love.

So we've got this gals here, all searching for the same thing but in their wake, other people suffer, in other they are the ones to suffer. 

I know they are niponic therefore their culture is different. There is a lot of men taking advantages over woman, one of them even sleep with a guy so she can enter a job. But in the end, all characters really fell flat - except one.

The first one, for all 10 episodes wanted to date her best friend, dated for a while a guy who was a pearl of a person and destroyed his heart. In the end after, he even broken with his fiance (mutual) and declaring love for one another she basically said - fuck it. IF I follow you it will not be my dreams. I can understand the thinking of "maybe I love you or not" BUT here is done in a way that really fell as she was undecided teen. And although I understand I don't accept her being a nice character. Good for her for finding a good place BUT no.

The second woman, is the only one that really fall in love and I can respect her. She was young, was mistaken, people mistaken her so I can stand by her. Glad she found peace and love.

The third girl is the typical nowadays modern woman. Live for work and put love in second place, going so far as not wanting to live in the same house of her husband. But when the internal clock starts beating she suddenly wants her husband back... the husband has fallen for the fourth woman. So during the next episodes basically is the guy deciding if he should follow new love OR stay with his wife. He was never truly a bad person and really try to understand his way but in the end he hurts the fourth woman, the fourth woman in turn sleeps with a guy to get a job - so she is not without fault and the third woman as I said it's a person who sees the guy as a mean to have children.

Bah. I am disappointed... 

Book Review: Kothar and the Magic Sword by Gardner F Fox (Kothar #2 out of 5)

Author: Gardner F Fox
Book: Kothar and the Magic Sword
Year: 1969
Pages: 154
Part of Series: 2nd Novel of 5.
Reading Time: 3 days - february of 2022
Rating: 6 stars

This is the second novel on the series and we follow Kothar on his adventures. Well on this book we expect some kind of conflict from Sorceress Red Lori which was imprisoned by Kothar on book one but being a sorceress she tells Kothar that is going to follow him and curse him.

He and his trusted magic sword Frostfire (cursed making him never be wealthy).

There are two stories, the second story has more Red Lori and it's more interesting than the first one.

There isn't that much to talk about this.

I don't think this is a clone of Conan or clonan. It's fairly interesting tales and the guy is fairly different from Conan in many regards.

I did enjoy it, and will be continue to read the next ones.

The first tale is about a mercenary job and save a girl while the second advances the plot for the red lori and kothar. I will be reading the following novels.

Book Review: Dark Hollow - Brian Keene (The Levi Stoltzfus Series)

Not the cover of the book I have but better

Author: Brian Keene
Book: Dark Hollow
Year: 2006
Pages: 305
Part of Series:
The Levi Stoltzfus Series #1 (HAHA - No it's not)
Reading Time:  5 days (Between February and March of 2022)
Rating: 7 Stars

I am undecided between 7 or 8 stars. First of all, the all being Levi Stolzfus is wrong. That character doesn't appear in this book at all, unless it has an alias. 

Well, so what is this book about? This book deals with a couple of normal people dealing with a supernatural element.  Adam Senft is the main character. He is a writer dealing with several frustrations at the same time, first not being able to start a new novel; second being sexual frustration due to the alienation of his wife. They were happy married but after two pregnancy that went very wrong they start distance themselves, slowing drifting apart sexually.

In that street there are a bunch of people, the bachelor of 40's, the elderly couple, the funny guy who recently lost his wife (not dead but she cheated on her and left him) and so on.

Right from the bat, we get thrown into some weird stuff - 

"It was on the first day of spring that Big Steve(dog) and I saw Shelly Carpenter giving head to the hairy man"

This is the first line, and the book starts showing us  what is happening and so on. Not that graphic. I saw Brian Lee Durfee review and I Think he never read splatter horror stuff. this is pretty mild in my opinion.

So basically from this moment on, people start disappearing, hooves (like in goats and such) starts appearing nearing houses and other small stuff happens like pipes music being heard and everyone getting aroused and such. What we get from each consequent chapter is that group of people trying to find out what is happening connecting to the great Mythos Brian Keene created (although very mildly - you don't need to read anything by him to understand).

Is it good? Is it worthy? 

Welll, yes and no. If you've read like me a dozen of his novels, then yes, it's worth to see one more book within that mythos - although after reading it I find it fairly skippable since the links are very few. In regard of horror novel per se, I've read better and worse. If you want to start reading a brian Keene novel I wouldn't start with this one and go to the City of the Dead/Rising duology or even the conqueror worms. They are way better and  really connect to the his mythos. The Darkness Edge of Town as well. Enfin,  I will read the second - Ghost Walk in the coming months.

IF you are asking me, is it graphic nudity/sex scenes or gore? 

Some spoilers ahead

I don't think so. There are some sex scenes with satyrs (beastiality?). There are some depicting scenes of horror and gore but nothing that much detailed. I've read far worse.  His despiction of Shelly is awesome - wish I could see her in real life.