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The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Derting’s debut novel is a gripping page turner full of romance, mystery, and suspense. Violet’s ability to sense the dead has plagued her since she was little. She had to constantly cope with being drawn to the echoes left behind by the dead. The torment that ensued after her
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Unseen Academicals (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett Unseen Academicals made it into my top ten reads of 2009 so you’ll guess that I enjoyed it. It’s my first adult Pratchett after a several year gap and he hasn’t lost his touch. I probably needed the break to appreciate how good he can be at looking at
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Tiger Warrior by David Gibbins It is an exhilarating read – if you’ve read David Gibbins before you will not be disappointed as the exposition is there, how Jack sits down and spins a tale of a discovery is amazing to read and one of the best things in the book which I thoroughly
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A Hat Full of Sky: The Continuing Adventures of Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett I think the reason I liked this book so much was that it had a good balance of all of the elements that go into YA fantasy. Before I found the Tiffany Aching books, I’d only
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Blood and Ice by Robert Masello Other minor issues include the book being just a tad too long, a few predictable moments that are telegraphed too obviously by the author, a somewhat anticlimactic ending, and a couple of highly convenient plot devices like the discovery of a new species of fish that offers the solution
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Hangman Blind by Cassandra Clark 1382 is a good year in which to set a crime novel. Richard II is still a minor, so instability abounds; pockets of resistance remain after Wat Tyler’s rebellion and there’s a superfluity of popes adding to the religious turmoil already fuelled by Wycliffe and his vernacular Bible. Much of
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Nation by Terry Pratchett At one point in this excellent new novel, a boy named Mau desperately needs to find milk for a starving infant. Unfortunately, he’s on a virtually deserted island, and there just aren’t any cows or nursing mothers around. There is only one possible source of nourishment for the baby, and Mau
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Nation by Terry Pratchett Best-selling fantasy author Terry Pratchett told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Nation, deals with the island survivors of a tsunami, but the first pieces of the story came to him about six months before the 2004 tsunami that devastated several Asian countries. “I’d hate people to think that I
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Karma Coalition by Shawn Christensen Warner Brothers has snapped up Shawn Christensen’s SF thriller Karma Coalition for Dan Lin to produce, Variety reported. … Karma Coalition centers on a falsely accused fugitive who embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind his wife’s death before the world comes to an end. Karma Coalition by
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd There can be no faulting Peter Ackroyd’s new novel for any lack of ingenuity. Here is the story of Frankenstein as told, or rather re-told, by Victor Frankenstein himself. Nothing unusual about this – except that Ackroyd has mixed together both the originl story and the real-life