13 reasons why (2017)

      This TV show is an adaptation of the critically acclaimed novel by Jay Asher which explains the reasons as to why the character, Hannah Baker,  commits suicide. Throughout the 13 episodes ,all about an hour long, you meet the main character Clay, who in real life is in a really good band 'Wallows'. With also the perspectives of Rachel, Hannah's best friend, Alex, Hannah's other best friend and Rachel's ex, with also other character like the closeted Lesbian, a jock who wants to beloved and egotistical gay poet and a stalker who has enough guns to run a terrorist cell.

    I must say you really should be in the right mind when watching the show because it is quite depressing however, the emotions throughout allow the audience to engage more with the individual characters and understand more as to why Hannah Baker commits suicide. The suicide scene itself made me cry as it were so realistic. As a note to people who have misunderstood the show;

IT IS NOT ENDORSING SUICIDE.

     The story shows the effects of suicide on society with family, friends and school and how possibly to prevent it. Perhaps thus allowing people to realise the event to which they allow to occur and to help stop them before it reaches these extremes.

    So I tip my hat towards Selena Gomez who had the cojones to produce such a project and definitely support Jay Asher for writing such an emotional novel, it is really good by the way, to which allows such circumstances to be talked about without a lot of the stigma to which often comes with it .


   I rate this brilliant show a 8/10.

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Gilmore girls : A year in the life of (2016)

Now, I am an extremely ;large fan of the original series of Gilmore girls with the fast pace humour and all of the hot boyfriends of the main character Rory Gilmore. Be it Dean, her first boyfriend played by Jared Padalecki who she lost it too, was always a tender about his feelings and broke up with her because he didn't belong in 'her world'. Then there was Jess who was the regular badboy played by Milo Ventimiglia who suprislingly was also a massive book nerd yet didn't fully appreciate Rory and his family in the ways he should have. Then lastly there is Logan the ladies man rich-boy played by Matt Czuchry, who never oculd stick to one girl yet that was clear to Rory from the start.


So here we are 10 years after we said goodbye to the Gilmore girls gang seeing Rory trying to break into a very hard job profession, seeing all of her ex-boyfriend and sleeping with various men be it her boyfriend or not. But, it isn't just about her we see about Lorelai and Luke's back and forth relationship, the life and death brigade reunion and Emily Gilmore trying to do things differently.


I definatley cried when watching these four episodes as well as absolutely laughing. yet, to end on a cliff hanger such as that is just extremely cruel Amy Sherman-Pallidino.


I rate this 18/20.

Good Girls Revolt (2016)

This show is set in the end of 1969 until late 1970. It centres around the lives of female researchers at the magazine in America, News Week, and it is about how they petitioned for equal pay and equal jobs. With the use of the famous feminist lawyer Eleanor Holmes Norton you see their individuals paths through the rise of the Black Panthers, the legendary Woodstock taking place and the repercussions from the Vietnam war which after this series finished would carry on for another 3 years. Yet, despite the clear inequality for women they realise they can use sex as power over men.

It helps give light to topics which are not usually addressed in TV shows such as domestic abuse, alcoholism which according the times was just as normal as breathing and a reminder of how misogynistic and sexist people were.

 

I rate this 18/20.

The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks

As a disclaimer to you I am a huge Nicholas Sparks fan, I have read many of his books and I have also watched many of the film adaptations of his Novels, but this book has not been adapted yet but it is still one of the most powerful novels I have ever read. It is about a single mother who's son has severe special needs and after one storm they are rescued by a fire-fighter. And that is how their new life blossoms with love blooming between the fire-fighter and waitress/full time mum.

Yet, despite it being a brilliant novel it did follow characteristic features of Sparks' novels;

- Two mismatched lovers get together

- A main character dies

- The main characters have a fight and temporarily break up

 

 

But, if you are looking for a stereotypical romantic drama then this book is for you. I rate this book a 7/10.

 

 

 http://uk.nicholassparks.com/stories/the-rescue/

 

 

Intro to Tori

I'm an intrepid reader who's bookshelf consists of the floor, under the bed and the actual bookshelf. So despite my extreme amount of revision for schooling and exams which are intoxicating my life I still read a minimum of a book a week.
So on here I will be writing my reviews of these books, my ideas and I doubt that the their authors will read it but I will put some questions to these authors.