They were ordinary women--mother and daughter--whose devotion to tolerance and abhorrence of fascism launched them on an extraordinary adventure: the infiltration of prewar Los Angeles' Nazi movement.| Los Angeles Times
Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆ With the somewhat accurate and rather clunky sub-title of “True stories of the unsung women heroes who rescued refugees and Allied servicemen in WWII”, this is a book whose idea I liked rather more than the execution. The core is six chapters, each devoted… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆ It’s funny. You wait ages for an action heroine novel set in Arizona, then two show up at once. Right on the heels of The Killing Game, we have this, which takes place almost entirely in this state’s most iconic location, the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately,… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★ “It’ll be all Reich on the night.” It’s basically impossible to separate this from the time and place in which it was made: that being Nazi Germany, just a few years before the outbreak of World War II. The portrayal of, not only Johanna/Joan of Arc, but the rest… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
Literary rating: ★★½ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ On the surface, Scala City is an idyllic, hi-tech world of prosperity, peace and morality, albeit at the cost of omnipresent surveillance of its residents. But there’s a dirty little secret. The Blind Spot is an area where surveillance is barred, and where the… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★ “Warn of bore” While technically solid, and occasionally looking quite good, this may be the laziest scripting I have seen in a movie for a long time. I feel I may have lost actual IQ points through the process of watching it, such is the degree of stupidity which… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
We’re delighted to announce Werner Lind is joining the site as a contributor, with a special responsibility for covering fictional action heroines. His first review is already up, and here he is to tell us a bit about himself and his background. Hi, fellow action heroine fans! My name is… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
