Category: Book Reviews
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DNF – The Rich are Different by Susan Howatch
Format: Kindle, 566 pages Publisher: Sphere First Publication date: 15 Mar 1977 ISBN: 9780751553123 Links: Goodreads | Barnes & Noble First line: “I was in London when I first heard of Dinah Slade. She was broke and looking for a millionaire, while I was rich and looking for a mistress. From the start we were…
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Review – Mountain Man by Keith C Blackmore
Format: Kindle, 514 pages Publisher: Create Publication date: 15 Dec 2011 ISBN-13: 9781475298659 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Boomstick.Samurai bat.Motorcycle leather.And the will to live amongst the unliving. Augustus Berry lives a day-to-day existence comprised of waking up, getting drunk, and preparing for the inevitable day when “they” will come…
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Review – Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Format: Paperback, 563 pages Publisher: Scholastic Publication date: 01 May 2005 ISBN-13: 9780439709101 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ One cruel night, Meggie’s father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART– and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of…
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Review – The Future for Curious People
Format: Paperback, 317 pages Publisher: Pan Books Publication date: 02 Sept 2014 ISBN-13: 978-1444770360 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ What if you could know your romantic future? What if an envisionist could enter the name of your prospective mate into a computer that would show you a…
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Review – The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Format: Paperback, 291 pages Publisher: Random House Publication date: 26 June 2012 ISBN-13: 9780812984750 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer;…
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Review – Once a Ferrara Wife by Sarah Morgan
Format: Paperback, 480 pages Publisher: Harlequin Presents #3043 Publication date: Feb 2012 ISBN-13: 9780373130498 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ For better…or for bedding? Laurel Ferrara wouldn’t know a happy ending if she fell over it – of course her whirlwind wedding was always going to end in disaster. But it…
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Review – Cowboy Take Me Away by Jane Graves
Format: Kindle, 428 pages Publisher: Forever Publication date: 28 April 2013 ISBN-13: 9781455515196 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ FIRST LOVE BURNS HOTTER Rainbow Valley, Texas, has always been a refuge for animals, and Shannon North, director of the local shelter, intends to keep it that way. But with donations…
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Review – True Love by Jude Deveraux
Format: Paperback, 516 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books Publication date: 27 May 2014 ISBN-13: 9780345541819 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Just as Alix Madsen is finishing up architectural school, Adelaide Kingsley dies and wills her, for one year, the use of a charming nineteenth-century Nantucket house. The elderly woman’s relationship…
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Review – The Three by Sarah Lotz
Format: Kindle, 480 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 22 May 2014 ISBN: 978-1444770360 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Waterstones First line: “Come on, come on, come on…” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ They’re here … The boy. The boy watch the boy watch the dead people oh Lordy there’s so many … They’re coming for…
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Review – Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Format: Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Corgi Children’s ISBN: 978-0552546126 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble First line: “Her laugh turned to a moan at the first ripple in her bones.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Vivian, at 16, is a beautiful young werewolf with all the young wolves in her pack howling for her. But…