Category: Book Reviews
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Review – Graceling – Kristin Cashore
Format: Paperback, 352 pages Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: 22 January 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0575084490 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the…
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Review – If You Could See Me Now – Cecelia Ahern
Format: Paperback, 401 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Publication date: 21 November 2005 ISBN-13: 9780007212255 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ What if love was right there in front of you — you just couldn’t see it? Elizabeth Egan is too busy for friends. Enter Ivan. Wild, spontaneous and always…
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Review – The Cat Kin – Nick Green
Format: Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Lulu Press Publication date: 01 January 2005 ISBN-13: 9781411664234 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Everyone who came across the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was mysterious Mrs Powell with her silent feet and unnerving stare and pashki,…
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Review – Rollback – Robert Sawyer
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Publication date: 05 February 2008 ISBN-13: 9780765349743 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the…
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Review – Dime Store Magic – Kelley Armstrong
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 414 pages Publisher: Bantam Spectra Publication date: 27 May 2004 ISBN-13: 9780553587067 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ For years real witches have hidden their powers, afraid of being persecuted. You could have a witch living right next door and never know about it. But then a…
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Review – Flashforward byRobert Sawyer
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Gollancz Publication date: 09 Oct 2009 ISBN: 978-0575091016 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones First line: “Day One: Tuesday, April 21, 2009” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions…
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Review – One – Conrad Williams
Format: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Virgin Books Publication date: 02 April 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0753518106 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ This is the United Kingdom, but it’s no country you know. You survived. One man. You walk because you have to. At the end of this molten road, running along the…
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Review – Outlander/Cross Stitch – Diana Gabaldon
Format: Paperback Publisher: Century Publication date: 1991 ISBN-13: 978-0712647601 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon – when she walks through a…
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Review – The Queen’s Fool – Philippa Gregory
Format: Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Harper Collins Publication date: 04 February 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0743246071 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ A stunning novel set in the Tudor court, as the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth is played out against a background of…
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Review – The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite – Beatrice Colin
Format: Paperback, 416 pages Publisher: Hachette UK Publication date: 08 January 2009 ISBN-13: 9781848540316 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double…