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Paramount+ is a global digital subscription video streaming service from Paramount that features a mountain of premium entertainment for audiences of all ages. Clarke’s characters, especially Kitty and Lana, are so very different and yet so very flawed that they were able to both evoke my sympathy and my anger, sometimes both emotions simultaneously in the short span of a few chapters. Out of courtesy to other group members, we ask that you only vote if you are planning on participating in our discussion should your choice win. Emergency responders are inching through a ransacked yacht room by room; on the wall of one of the cabins, written in a barely legible, bloody scrawl, is simply: “I confess”. Rhianne Barreto previously starred in the BBC1 comedy series The Outlaws, alongside Stephen Merchant and Christopher Walken.
This novel is written in two threads – “Then” and “Now”, and each chapter is devoted to unfolding the events of the trip, told through Lana’s POV. Having never sailed before, it was an incredible experience to spend day and night on the water, to eat our meals on deck, to anchor in deserted lagoons, to fall asleep to the sound of waves. This is more or less where the beginning of the story finds them: Lana falls in the street, a man stops to help, and then they meet his friends, the crew of a yacht named The Blue. On an extended holiday from England, Lana and her lifelong best friend Kitty were enjoying the tropics in the Philippines. Not really, but they’re incredibly watchable, and the gripping plotting only winds viewers in tighter.Lana and Kitty, best friends from childhood escape their boring lives in England to backpack in Asia.
Flashbacks to various key points in this friendship are what anchor the story and give their characters some solidity. I don't expect to get any real surprises with her books - I know they will likely always be the same kind of thing, but that doesn't make them any less enjoyable to me. It made me question my own life and left me in that place of not having an answer to some of the questions at the heart of the story. An adventure novel about a group of friends whose journey around the world on a yacht turns from a trip to paradise into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. While the tension and suspense may have been lacking for much of the novel (about three-quarters of it), the last 100 apprehension and anxiety-filled pages mostly made up for the slow burn start.Having read and hugely enjoyed Lucy's two previous novels THE SEA SISTERS and A SINGLE BREATH, I was very excited to start her new one, THE BLUE. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Lucy Clarke, the series will premiere on May 18th in the UK, Ireland, and in Canada. Dazu werden einige Geheimnisse aus der Vergangenheit einzelner Protagonisten enthüllt, die bei den Lesern vermutlich zu mehr Verständnis für die Entscheidung der Crewmitglieder hätte führen sollen. Saskia Kemsley in the Evening Standard gave the series four stars praising the lead performances, and the pacing of the script as well as the “idyllic locations”.
Lucy's seventh novel, ONE OF THE GIRLS, is 'an electric, sun-soaked thriller', released in May 2022. Voting is heating up for the 19th annual Televisual Bulldog Awards that celebrate the very best of British television. Developed by New Pictures and Viacom International Studios, the series stars Abigail Lawrie and Rhianne Barreto and is directed by Hans Herbots.THE BLUE, is currently being filmed for a major international TV series for Paramount+ and will be on screens in 2023. All in all, an enjoyable story that took me away from a freezing December day to the balmy, sunlight-filled shores of the Southeast Asian islands. And, thinking they’ve discovered the perfect escape, Lana and Kitty quickly accept the invitation to join the motley crew. As with her other books THE BLUE is set abroad, this time in New Zealand in the present day and on a yacht, just off the coast of the Phillipines in the thread set some months earlier. After Lana and Kitty spend a night on the boat, the crew votes to bring them on board as crew members if they're interested.
Despite the unbelievable popularity of Netflix’s steamy reality show Below Deck, its die-hard fans might reconsider their desire to become an easy-breezy, port-hopping yacht attendant after watching Paramount+’s No Escape.NO ESCAPE is one of the first original dramas commissioned in the UK that will debut across Paramount+ internationally, with additional series including SEXY BEAST, A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, and THE BURNING GIRLS. Aaron had a prior volatile disagreement with him, there was some blood on the deck, yet no one witnessed what happened.
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