Category: Book Reviews
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Review – Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Corgi childrens ISBN: 978-0552546126 First Line – “Her laugh turned to a moan at the first ripple in her bones.” Vivian, at 16, is a beautiful young werewolf with all the young wolves in her pack howling for her. But then she falls in love with a human. If she reveals…
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Review – Mrs Sinclairs Suitcase by Louise Walters
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Hodder paperbacks Publication date: 14 Augst 2014 ISBN: 9781444777451 First Line – “My Dear Dorothea” Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you. What you do, to this child, to this child’s mother, it is wrong… Roberta likes to collect the letters and postcards she finds in second-hand books. When her…
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Review – Blood Red by Jason Bovberg
Kindle: 276 pages Publisher: Permuted Press Publication date: 07 April 2014 ASIN: B00JK1UW4E First Line – “Rachel!” Rachel is 19. She doesn’t know how to handle her new stepmother, let alone the end of the world. But after finding her stepmother dead, Rachel is suddenly racing against time—and terrifying, unnatural forces—to survive a gruesome apocalyptic…
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Review – Meant to Be by Terri Osburn
Hardback: 308 pages Publisher: Montlake Romance Publication date: 21 May 2013 ISBN: 9781612183084 First Line – “Why did this Godforsaken Island have to be in the middle of the damned water?” Lifelong people-pleaser Beth Chandler will do anything to make a good impression on her future in-laws, including defy her fear of boats to make…
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Review & GIVEAWAY – The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh
Hardback: 336 pages Publisher: Crown Publication date: 17 March 2014 ISBN: 9780307461605 First Line – “The night before the worst day of my life, I dreamed the sun went dark and ice cracked every mirror in the house, but I didn’t take it for a warning..” A poignant and mesmerizing novel is a moving tale…
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Review – The Orpheus Descent by Tom Harper
Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN: 9781444731354 Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy,…
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Review – Earthfall by Mark Walden
Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens Publication date: 07 July 2012 ISBN: 9781408815663 First Line – “The boy ran down the rain-soaked street, weaving between abandoned cars.” Sam wakes to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream past, walking silently towards the enormous ships which emit a…
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Review – Midnight in Havana by Peggy Blair
paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Polygon Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN-9781846972348 First Line – “Ricky Ramirez’s parents stood on the other side of the door, speaking in hushed tones with the doctors.” “In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn’t yet…
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Review – Flu by Wayne Simmons
ebook: 320 pages Publisher: Snowbooks Ltd Publication date: 30 April 2010 ISBN-13: 9781906727192 First Line – “There was a woman screaming in his face.” “There’s a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away the tissue. But such simple measures won’t…
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Review – Great Bitten – Outbreak by Warren Fielding
ebook: 222 pages Publisher: Iceni Publishing Publication date: 31 Oct 2013 ASIN: B00GBLBCE0 First Line – “I’m not sure how much you really know about British culture and attitudes.” “The UK is infected and Warren is going to be a hero, whether he likes it or not. Life used to be simple; a journalist addicted…