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Posted on August 19, 2016April 7, 2017

All Fall Down by Tom Bale

They thought you did it because of religion. They thought you did it because of culture. They thought you did it because of ideology. You did it because I told you to.  I had really high expectations for this books because I’d seen some great reviews and I’d also seen amazing reviews for Bale’s other …

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Posted on August 18, 2016February 5, 2020

A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan

You won’t remember Mr Heming. He showed you round your comfortable home, suggested a sustainable financial package, negotiated a price with the owner and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That’s absurd, you laugh. Of all the many hundreds of …

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Posted on August 10, 2016April 7, 2017

Fractured by Catherine McKenzie

They say that if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian rainforest, it can change the weather half a world away. Chaos theory... All I know is today is that you can think that what you’ve done is only the flap of a butterfly wing, when it’s really a thunderclap. And both can result …

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Posted on August 5, 2016April 7, 2017

Savage Reckoning by C. Hoyt Caldwell

With a badge pinned to her chest, she didn’t give a shit what the town or God thought of her. She was the law.  I was not expecting to love this as much as I do! Honestly, I started the first few pages and thought ”oh God, this is going to be bad,” but I persevered because …

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Posted on August 4, 2016April 7, 2017

The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan

Darling - come alone to the shed.  I’ve found it so hard to write a review for this book because it was such a moving, descriptive novel. It was sort of one of those reads that I loved for no particular reason, it was just a gorgeous book at the right time. This book was …

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Posted on August 4, 2016April 7, 2017

The Loving Husband by Cristobel Kent

This has a very samey story line, how many books have you read where a husband has a secret second life? I did enjoy this for a good while but it got to the point where the subjects of the novel got to me in a negative way and I found it really hard to …

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Posted on July 20, 2016April 7, 2017

The Night Parade by Ronald Malfi

Was this how the world was to end? Not with a bang and not even with a whimper, but with the slow deterioration of everything good and beautiful and kind?  To begin with, this book had me completely hooked, it was a really intriguing plot and I was looking forward to finding out the reason …

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Posted on July 17, 2016April 7, 2017

The Girl with all the Gifts M. R. Carey

I don’t really want to say a lot about this book, for 2 reasons. Reason one is to keep potential readers in the dark about what this entire book is. I feel like it’s one of those reads where you want to go in blind, it definitely made it more enjoyable for me going into …

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Posted on July 13, 2016April 7, 2017

The Hummingbird’s Cage by Tamara Dietrich

”You used to be only two colors. Maybe three, on good days,” Laurel said, as if she were drawing me in crayon. “Now you’re all of them.”  Love how this got straight into the story, author didn’t bother feeding us extra details we didn’t need, which was great! The short chapters definitely make this feel …

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Posted on July 6, 2016April 7, 2017

Local Girl Missing by Claire Douglas

DNF at 31% I can't. I just... I just can't. Reasons? 1. All the characters are very immature. Frankie just looooves talking and thinking about boys, especially Daniel, and would rather keep her reputation than do everything that she can to work out if her best friend was murdered. She’s also really passive aggressive, especially when she’s …

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