![]() If you like trashy new adult that is well-written and more engaging than the usual "rich white people with self-manufactured problems and way too much unprotected sex" formula, THE HIT LIST is worth checking out. The other thing that annoyed me about the ending was someone does something bad and faces no consequences for it. Sadie's story was sad and I did want to see her do well - that's PART of what annoyed me so much about the ending. The dance angle was interesting and I'm apparently a sucker for these types of performing art/tortured artist stories. It is very readable and those pages went by quickly. I liked this book because it was trashy, and I was in the mood for trash. The game actually has little to do with the story, apart from stirring up all kinds of angst with Luke. Sadie is one of the chosen, because of course she is, and the blurb is a little misleading in this regard because it makes it sound like Sadie is the #1 choice. ![]() ![]() Urang saves this from being super-extra-wtf-skeevy by having the people in charge of the game insist that all "scores" must be consensual. What makes the whole "he loves me, he loves me not" aspect even more devious is that Sadie's college is playing a sex game where a bunch of boys, called "Hitters" can sign up to "hit that" (read: hot women voted on by the school) for points. Worse still, Luke is one of those dudes who delights in mixed signals, and the whole book is a game of "he loves me, he loves me not," up until the very end, when you finally figure out what's going on. When he's assigned as her dance partner, Sadie absolutely feels that she cannot trust him she's afraid of falling in more ways than one (ho, ho, ho). She is instantly attracted to this guy named Luke, but all of her friends - especially this girl named Brielle - say that he's bad news. She was so ~damaged~ that she left New York for L.A., to go to a performing arts college where she can lick her wounds. Then her dance partner let her fall, and after a devastating injury and even more devastating breach of trust, Sadie was left in the ashes of her rising phoenix ex-partner. Sadie was once a promising ballerina on the cusp of a prestigious career. I mean, I never would have thought about combining a story about a broken ballerina trying to redeem herself and a college sex game together, but maybe I'm doing something wrong with my life. THE HIT LIST served this function admirably, with a truly bizarre storyline that somehow worked. ![]() There's nothing better than trash when you're in the mood for a hot, soapy mess. But the ranked list of films here are guaranteed to have you repeating to yourself, “It’s only a movie … it’s only a movie… it’s only a movie …”.Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest As in any committee-led process, our highly opinionated writers and experts argued over what constituted being included/categorized here ( Mulholland Drive belongs on every list of the Greatest Films of the Millennium whether it’s genuinely a “horror” film, however, is still up for debate). So we’ve assembled our take on the 65 best horror films of the 21st century – the zombie-apocalypse tales, things-that-go-bump-in-the-psyche ghost stories, retro-slasher flicks, neo- giallo nuggets, J-horror, K-horror, French extreme and Hollywood franchise films that have spooked us, shook us and scared us shitless since 2000. and abroad that deserve a place in the pantheon. That, and the fact that such free-floating dread would help give birth to a number of films from both the U.S. Yes, it’s always been a durable genre regardless of what’s going on in the culture, but considering what’s happened globally over the last 20 or so years, it makes sense that horror films would resonate with folks the way they have. Back in the late Sixties and early Seventies, Vietnam and civil unrest helped kickstart a new golden age of American horror movies shortly after the beginning of our new century, we had one massive public atrocity and several new wars to fuel a whole new wave of movies dealing with communal anxieties via scary monsters and super-freaky maniacs.
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