Category: Book Reviews
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Review – Idlewild – Nick Sagan
Format: Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: NAL Trade Publication date: 06 July 2004 ISBN-13: 978-0451212061 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ From a bold new talent comes a smart, stylish near-future thriller that fuses the fierce imagination of The Matrix with the chilling social vision of…
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Review – Year Zero – Jeff Long
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Pocket Star Publication date: 29 June 2004 ISBN-13: 9780743406123 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ An archaeological manhunt is raging in the holy land — a hunt for the historical Jesus. For Nathan Lee Swift, the line between noble discovery…
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Review – Across the Nightingale Floor – Lian Hearn
Format: Paperback, 306 pages Publisher: Macmillan Publication date: 02 April 2004 ISBN-13: 9780330415286 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the murderous warlord, lida Sadamu, surveys his famous nightingale floor. No assassin can cross it unheard. Brought up among the…
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Review – Fatherland – Robert Harris
Format: Paperback, 380 pages Publisher: Arrow Books Publication date: 27 April 1993 ISBN: 0099263815 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. Xavier March, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei, is called out…
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Review – Flowers In The Attic – Virginia Andrews
Format: Paperback, 389 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Publication date: 2011 ISBN-13: 9780007436828 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ The novel that launched Virginia Andrews’ superselling career: the tale of four children locked in an attic by their once-loving mother! It was a case of tender, loving…
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Review – Threads: The Reincarnation of Anne Boleyn – Nell Gavin
Format: Paperback, 358 pages Publisher: AuthorHouse Publication date: 01 August 2001 ISBN-13: 978-0738867861 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ It’s 1970. Anne and Henry still have issues they need to address. It’s been 434 years since they parted – on bad terms – and they haven’t spoken…
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Review – Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
Format: Paperback, 344 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 22 July 2010 ISBN-13: 9780340980903 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ They say ‘live every day as if it’s your last’ – but you never actually think it’s going to be. At least I didn’t. But what if, like…
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Review – A Brief History Of The Dead – Kevin Brockmeier
Format: Paperback, 272 pages Publisher: John Murray Publication date: 2007 ISBN-13: 9780719568305 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ ‘Remember me when I’m gone’ just took on a whole new meaning …Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends found themselves alone in one of the…
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Review – Grave Sight – Charlaine Harris
Format: Paperback, 291 pages Publisher: Berkley Publication date: 2006 ISBN-13: 978-0425212899 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Harper Connelly had a lucky escape when she was hit by lightning: she didn’t die. But the lightning strike left her with an unusual talent: she can find…
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Review – Memory Zero – Keri Arthur
Format: Paperback Publisher: Piatkus Publication date: 02 April 2009 ISBN-13: 9780749909758 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Sam Ryan has no memory of her past. All she has is a crayon drawing of a woman with the word ‘Mummy’ scrawled underneath. Everything changes the night…