![]() ![]() Most recently we’ve updated with Better Call Saul (whose Season 6 has arrived on the service), and The Diplomat (we talked with Keri Russell playing a workaholic in a complicated marriage (again) for this political thriller). 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. She wrote six novels: Desert Leopard, Price of Blood, Power of Darkness, and No Man’s Son under her own name, and Red Adam’s Lady and Gilded Spurs under the name Grace Ingram. We’re including only series with at least 10 critics reviews, and for series with the same Tomatometer scores, we list the ones with the most critics reviews first. Grace Ingram was the pseudonym of Doris Sutcliffe Adams (19202015). The most popular shows ranking on our guide to the best-reviewed on Netflix include Stranger Things (which aired its fourth season in 2022), phenom Squid Game (which will air its second season in 2023 or 2024), video game curse-breaking adaptations ( Arcane: League of Legends, The Witcher, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners), crime dramas ( Ozark and Peaky Blinders, which both concluded in April 2022), royal stories ( Bridgerton, The Crown), and diverse genre works like Black Mirror, The Sandman, Cobra Kai, and Love, Death + Robots. To keep the list fresh with the best Netflix series to watch, the series featured here are currently in production, have been renewed for further seasons, or aired their final episode recently (within the last year or two, so people can still discover them after they’ve ended). Looking for the best shows on Netflix? Look no further, because Rotten Tomatoes has put together a list of the 100 best original Netflix series available to watch right now, ranked according to the Tomatometer. ![]() (Photo by Netflix) 100 Best Netflix Series to Watch Right Now (May 2023) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() One of the few issues I had with the first novella was how quickly many of the more interesting ideas and themes were glossed over in favor of moving the story along at a quickened pace. ![]() ![]() Okorafor continues to impress with the amount of ground she covers in so few pages. Binti continues to struggle with her place in the universe as she confronts her family, the history of her people, and her connection to the various relics, species, and technologies that surround her. Although she continues to find challenges wherever she lands, Binti’s interactions with foreign and domestic cultures helps to evolve her quest for self-identification and acceptance with her peers and loved ones. While the first story focused on Binti running away from her Namibia-based Himba tribe on an intergalactic journey of discovery, this sequel turns the focus of revelation inward. While this opening summary might feel like an unfinished entry of a Douglas Adams space satire, it is, in fact, a beautifully written, heartfelt story on finding one’s purpose in the universe.īinti: Home, the second novella of the Afro-futuristic Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor, is about twice the length of the first entry, and takes full advantage of its wider scope. A tentacle-haired, genius teenager decides to spend spring break at home, so she leaves Planet Math School to fly back to Africa on a living, pregnant spaceship, accompanied by her terrorist-turned-best-friend: a giant, gaseous jellyfish monster.Īnd thus begins chapter one of Binti: Home. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom is nothing special, just a good kid trying to do his best. ![]() ![]() What happens is inside him, and that's what author Tony Abbott delicately chronicles. If you look at it, nothing much happened." In terms of physical events, or plot, he's right. It's a story in which, as Tom himself says as narrator, "It wasn't much, really, the whole Jessica Feeney thing. It's about Tom, and how he tries to deal with her presence in his class and neighborhood, and how doing so changes everything in his life. Though the title is FIREGIRL, this poignant little book isn't about Jessica, the disfigured burn victim. If effort toward becoming a better person, coupled with introspective self-examination and criticism, are the hallmarks of adulthood, then this gentle, touching novel is a true coming-of-age story. ![]() ![]() I love retellings, and I'm always up for one based on Pride & Prejudice. It’s a war Aliza is ill-prepared to wage, on a battlefield she’s never known before: one spanning kingdoms, class lines, and the curious nature of her own heart.Įlle Katharine White infuses elements of Austen’s beloved novel with her own brand of magic, crafting a modern epic fantasy that conjures a familiar yet wondrously unique new world. something far more sinister than gryphons. Nor does she anticipate the mystery that follows them from Merybourne Manor, its roots running deep as the foundations of the kingdom itself, where something old and dreadful slumbers. ![]() With the arrival of the haughty and handsome dragonrider, Alastair Daired, Aliza expects a battle what she doesn’t expect is a romantic clash of wills, pitting words and wit against the pride of an ancient house. So when Lord Merybourne hires a band of Riders to hunt down the horde, Aliza is relieved her home will soon be safe again. ![]() Passionate, headstrong Aliza Bentaine knows this all too well she’s already lost one sister to the invading gryphons. ![]() They say a Rider in possession of a good blade must be in want of a monster to slay-and Merybourne Manor has plenty of monsters. Book Description: A debut historical fantasy that recasts Jane Austen’s beloved Pride & Prejudice in an imaginative world of wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom: gryphons, direwolves, lamias, banshees, and lindworms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, Francis Crowder, had built the house long before she was born, back when his marriage to Vera’s mother was new. It stood there, patiently waiting for Vera to come inside, and it did not reveal a single one of its secrets no matter how long and hard Vera stared at it. But the house was built to keep the wind out and the sound in. ![]() Vera stood with one foot on the lawn and one foot on the driveway, sweating, straining as if she might be able to make out the sound of Daphne dying inside. There was only so long her mother would wait. She shielded her eyes with one flat hand, trying to dampen the too-bright day enough to make eye contact with the windows of her parents’ old bedroom. ![]() She had almost refused, had almost made up an excuse: I’m really busy at work. Vera had anticipated that coming back to her childhood home would be difficult. The Crowder House clung to the soil the way damp air clings to hot skin. ![]() ![]() Take-charge Elizabeth’s classified past is especially crucial this time, as is her superior understanding of the need to take precautions. 28), in which the crime enthusiasts at idyllic Coopers Chase Retirement Village in Kent find themselves embroiled in a couple of fresh murders and a frantic search for missing diamonds. Now comes the sequel, The Man Who Died Twice (Pamela Dorman/Viking, Sept. bestseller lists since it was published, has found an eager audience in the U.S., too. Osman, host of BBC’s Pointless, was recently named Author of the Year at the British Book Awards, and the novel, which has remained in the top 10 on U.K. crime debut of all time, hitting the million-sales mark in March. The Thursday Murder Club swiftly became the fastest selling U.K. Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, about a wily group of elderly amateur sleuths, was published in September 2020, the perfect moment to tap into the collective need for a distracting puzzle, clever humor, and familiar settings (never underestimate the appeal of a quaint English village that harbors a murderer or two). Happily, despite the fact that the elderly are dismissed in much of modern pop and literary culture, 70-something is the new black. When British comedian, TV host, and producer Richard Osman decided to write a book, he didn’t ask an agent or editor if focusing on retirement-home residents was a good idea. ![]() ![]() ![]() And what really lies beneath his rough exterior… ![]() And why he never shows his art to anyone. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job. ![]() But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly.
![]() ![]() Then, they, as Germans, became the subhumans, and the marvels of story, based on a true historical tale, take over. As Germans, they survived during the war until the Russians invaded. They heard about, but did not participate in, the cruelties of Jewish extermination. After Hitler’s invasion, one family had Polish slaves – “subhumans,” as they were called. ![]() Both families were ineluctably pulled into the ethnic and nationalist fighting that tore the continent apart.īoth families lived in a region called East Prussia, now in modern-day Poland. Sure, they did not stand up against oppression and slavery, but neither did they revel in it. Neither German family was particularly nationalistic. This story tells the tale of how two peaceful families survived the Second World War and became intertwined by fate. ![]() In twentieth-century Europe, the two great wars not only wrote the unfolding of history but also dramatically altered the landscape of life. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Collected in this volume, profusely illustrated by artist Mark Schultz, are Howard's first thirteen Conan stories, appearing in their original versions-in some cases for the first time in more than seventy years-and in the order Howard wrote them. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years before his tragic suicide, Robert E. The jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."Ĭonan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created-a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers. ![]() Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand. ![]() ![]() there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars. ""Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haire. ![]() |