Category: Book reviews by me
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February Rap | News | Offers | Mini-Reviews – Star Wars – Tommy Black
Welcome to my first new monthly rap. In this edition we have the latest news and offers for my great range of books, plus some mini reviews of Star Wars – The Force Awakens, and Tommy Black and the Staff of Light. As this is the first post of my new schedule, it includes information from January…
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Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike #3) | Robert Galbraith | Book Review
CAREER OF EVIL (CORMORAN STRIKE #3) by Robert Gabraith (J.K. Rowling) Published October 20th 2015 by Sphere 494 pages Kindle edition Purchased from Amazon When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed.…
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A Pair of Docks (#1) | Jennifer Ellis | Book Review
A PAIR OF DOCKS (DERIVATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT #1) by Jennifer Ellis Published December 9th 2013 by Moonbird Press 300 pages Kindle edition Purchased from Amazon Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older…
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2015 in Reviews
This year I have tried to mix up my reading, as I am currently writing books in two genres, YA and MG. There has been a definite increase in my reading of YA and Contemporary books, but I have endeavoured to read a good selection of MG as well. Each of the books listed below…
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The 5th Wave | Rick Yancey | YA | Book Review
THE 5TH WAVE (Book 1) by Rick Yancey Published | 2013 Publisher | G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers 457 pages Amazon purchase Kindle edition After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies:…
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The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple #1) | Agatha Christie | Book Review
THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE (MISS MARPLE #1) by Agatha Christie First published 1930 288 pages Kindle edition Purchased from Amazon The murder of Colonel Protheroe — shot through the head — is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the…
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