The Three Musketeers Promo

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*internal screaming* This looks like a worthy replacement for Merlin, actually a successor, considering Aramis is played by Santiago Cabrera who played Lancelot in Merlin. Now just to hope it will be a) good and b) popular. It would break my heart if it were a bad dud :(

On DVD: Jack Reacher

I don't care what anybody says, I love this movie. I loved all the twist and turns, the fact that Jack noticed all the small details that escaped everybody else, that he unraveled the whole conspiracy. That whenever I thought I had it figured out, something changed and with it the whole picture. And that, in the end, it wasn't about terrorism or anything similar, but about greed, pure and simple.

And I also don't care that Tom Cruise doesn't look anything like the Jack Reacher in Lee Child's books, that he is no tall tank of a man. Just the opposite. I love that he's of average height and largely inconspicuous. Because of that, everybody in the movie underestimated Jack and it was a pleasure to watch him kick everybody's ass. I also loved that Jack never got angry. He was always calm, always kind and smiling and if you left him alone, he didn't cause any troubles. That was lovely. I love characters like that.

And Jai Courtney was in it. And the author himself, Lee Child, had a cameo in it! Fun times :)

Book #75

#74 was "Wild Rock" by Kazusa Takashima

"Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels #3)" by Ilona Andrews

Rating: ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣

Ilona Andrews never disappoints. Though this time, I had to give it "only" 4 stars because I didn't like that they - Kate, Jim, Derek and the rest - kept secrets from Curran. As he told them, if they hadn't lied to him, it hadn't had to come that, people hadn't had to die. If they had just come to him. That was the one thing that bothered me about the book. Other than that, I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. Ilona Andrews really knows how to write action and suspense!