Book Review: The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young

War or peace? This question is at the center of The Girl the Sea Gave Back, an action-packed YA fantasy from author Adrienne Young. While this book may not have enthralled me as much as I had hoped, Young weaves…

TV Review: Vikings Season Finale “The Reckoning”

There’s a reckoning for everyone in the season four finale of Vikings with a body count of three main characters by the end of the episode, and the introduction of  Jonathan Rhys Meyers as next season’s Knight of the Templar wielding…

TV Review: Vikings 4×19 “On the Eve”

This week’s penultimate episode of Vikings “On the Eve” saw bloodshed in Wessex and Kattegat as we gear up for next week’s season four finale, which is sure to be just as violent this week. The episode starts with Torvi…

TV Review: Vikings 4×18 “Revenge”

This week’s episode of Vikings, “Revenge,” was filled with sex, scandal and sacrifice as the great army lands on English soil to exact their revenge for Ragnar’s death. On the eve of the brothers’ journey Lagertha plans a human sacrifice to…

TV Review: Vikings 4×17 “The Great Army”

In this week’s episode of Vikings, “The Great Army,” Ivar declares war on the whole world in the name of Ragnar and Odin. This episode wasn’t about the sons of Ragnar though, but the show’s leading ladies who stole every…

TV Review: Vikings 4×16 “Crossings”

It’s dark, unforgiving world without Ragnar on this week’s Vikings episode “Crossings,” which felt more like a filler episode leading up to the foreboding all out war we can expect to see in the last leg of the season. For the first…

TV Review: Vikings 4×15 “All His Angels”

“How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered.” When Ned Stark was executed on Game of Thrones viewers were in denial. At least Vikings gave us four episodes of preparation and made it obvious…