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”Right up until that moment it was sweet and funny. Odd couple that they were, they had a real connection. Then he tugged her boot off and kissed the bottom of her bare foot. I could see him doing that kind of thing to his own kid, but she wasn’t. She was somebody else’s little …
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”Let me guess, that’s a risk yer willin’ t’take, right? People always think they’ve got to be riskin’ something to get to the end of the story. But let me tell ya: it’s your story. The end of the story is gonna get ya whether you want it to er not. You think you gotta …
"Wherever you go, there you'll be." Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. This was... amazing. I was expecting to like this, but not love it! To begin with I wasn't sure what to think, it felt slow and boring to be honest and I thought Barrett was such an arsehole, but wow. The ending really satisfied me, …
“At night, the creature that was the Garden peeled back its synthetic skin to show the skeleton beneath.” I got The Butterfly Garden as my May Kindle First book as it had the best reviews out of the bunch you could pick and definitely sounded like something I was interested in reading. A quick synopsis …
”’I just can’t see my way through to the end, now, not at all. It’s a labyrinth.’ ‘Well, yes,’ he said, ‘but the thing about labyrinths is that you’re always at your most lost just before you get to the centre.’” There’s a million and one different psychological thrillers out there on the market right …
”...there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I am …
The Lake House sounded really interesting to me because of its weave of three stories that make the one mystifying disappearance of young baby Theo. Our first of the three stories comes from the perspective of young Alice during the earlier years of the 1900’s, the second comes from current day, now serial author, Alice …
