Category: Book Reviews
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Review – The Secrets Women Keep by Fanny Blake
Format: Paperback, 384 pages Publisher: Orion Publication date: 03 July 2013 ISBN-13: 9781409128472 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK First line: “The dark outline of the doorway framed a section of the sun-drenched garden beyond, the brilliance of the outdoor colours such a contrast to the house’s shady interior.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Rose waits for her family…
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Review – Highland Surrender by Tracy Brogan
Format: Paperback, 372 pages Publisher: Montlake Publishing Publication date: 04 December 2012 ISBN-13: 9781612186962 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Fiona Sinclair could not reconcile the irony of nature’s twisted humour.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ To seal a fragile truce, Fiona Sinclair’s brothers trade her in marriage to their sworn enemy. Though devastated by their betrayal,…
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Review – Within the Light by Carly Fall
Format: Paperback, 458 pages Publisher: Westward Publishing Publication date: 31 October 2011 ISBN-13: 9781479128662 Links: Amazon US First line: “Noah had seen a lot of dead bodies in his time.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ When Abby and Noah meet, there is an explosive attraction between them that neither can deny… As a shy, awkward, social misfit, Abby…
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Review – Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Indigo Publication date: 6 June 2013 ISBN-13: 9781780621418 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble First line: “The Servants called them malenchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms,…
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Review – The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
Format: Paperback, 432 pages Publisher: Penguin Publication date: 29 August 2013 ISBN-13: 9781405911665 Links: Goodreads | Waterstones First line: “It was all because of the Berlin Wall.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ At the heart of The Husband’s Secret is a letter that’s not meant to be read “My darling Cecilia, if you’re reading this, then I’ve died…”…
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Review – The String Diaries by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Format: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Headline Publication date: 04 July 2013 ISBN-13: 9781472204677 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “It was only when Hannah Wilde reached the farmhouse shortly after midnight that she discovered how much blood her husband had lost.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The String Diaries. A jumble of entries, written in different hands,…
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Review – Lexicon by Max Barry
Format: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Mulholland Books Publication date: 20 June 2013 ISBN-13: 9781444764659 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US First line: “He’s coming around.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics—they are taught to persuade. Students learn to use language to…
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Review – Exodus by Paul Anthony Jones
Format: Paperback, 302 pages Publisher: 47North Publication date: 11 June 2013 ISBN-13: 9781477805060 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Commander Fiona Mulligan had made a habit out of watching the sunrise.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Reporter Emily Baxter survived the alien red rain that blanketed and annihilated the human race. But after the downpour, and the…
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Review – Brilliance by Marcus Sakey
Format: Paperback, 418 pages Publisher: 47North Publication date: 23 July 2013 ISBN-13: 9781611099690 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “The radio host had said there was a war coming, said it like he was looking forward to it, and Cooper, coatless and chilly in the desert evening, was thinking that the radio man was…
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Review – Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
Format: Hardback, 344 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 9 May 2013 ISBN-13: 9781444724998 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US First line: “He cannot sleep.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Every teenage girl thinks she’s different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester’s front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she…