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===[[Watch Us Rise Toffee by Renee Watson and Ellen HaganSarah Crossan]]===
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Jasmine and Chelsea go to a high school with an excellent reputation. It places strong emphasis on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged to join clubs and associations. But Jasmine is fed up with her drama group because she's always typecast in the loud'I am not who I say I am, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black '' ''and resents the angry black woman trope). And Chelsea Marla isn't who she thinks she is fed with poetry club because the only poetry it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. So, along with friends Isaac and Nadine, they start a new group called Write Like a Girl. [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan|Full Review]]''
''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is a woman trying to remember.'' Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Rachel Lynch Bowling -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) In The Shadow of Heroes by Rachel LynchNicholas Bowling]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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The girl had once been a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide in the most gruesome way | style="vertical-align: top; text- align: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by throwing herself off a cliff in the Lake DistrictMelanie Golding]]===[[image:4. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but she had no reason to investigate, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girl's school and a darker story emerged5star. One of the pupils goes missing at the local fairjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her best friend is husband have just welcomed the girl arrival of children – twin boys, who has accused a teacher of luring her they decide to his flat name Riley and then sexually assaulting herMorgan. It seems that the teacher also has paedophilia on his computer, but the downloading eerily coincides with the girlBut something's visit to his flatwrong. What While everyone else is going oncelebrating, but - most importantly - where Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there is Faith? coming to take her children away, and if she looks away for even a second, they'll strike… [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Little Darlings by Rachel LynchMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Know Who You Are by Angela MarsonsAlice Feeney]]===
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Someone Aimee Sinclair is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with just on the death edge of her twin when she was six years oldmaking it big time as an actor. Some of Right now she's the events, or at least the details sort of them, are not public knowledgeperson whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it that's all about to evil intentchange. That might seem bad enough's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, but she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreatedname she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldnThat't be on s not at the case, but who has better knowledge front of what happened to her than mind though when she does? If comes home one day and finds that her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enoughhusband, Ben Bailey, she can sort it out.has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Or can she? Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Know Who You Are by Angela MarsonsAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark Liberation Square by Gregg HurwitzGareth Rubin]]===
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1997In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Evan Smoak After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is 19 years old ''trained upfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, mission readyand Americans from the west. And yet untestedDividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar.'' HeWhen Jane Cawson's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all husband is arrested for the impeccable training that murder of his youth belies. Evan Smoak former wife, Jane is Orphan Xdetermined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Out of the Dark Liberation Square by Gregg HurwitzGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You by Lisa Jewell]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he's spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Watching You by Lisa Jewell:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Cooch Lupo -->
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===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle We Are Blood And Thunder by Kate CoochKesia Lupo]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate CoochTeens|Full Review]] <!-- James Atkinson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07ML4Q55J.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ML4Q55J/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21Teens]]
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[[image:4star''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in So, Lena is a cryptling - a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved low caste individual living in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member city of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: itDuke's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problemForest. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss We Are Blood And Thunder by James AtkinsonKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments Things in Jars by Adrian CullJess Kidd]]===
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For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended A child has gone missing. The detective asked to live forever take on the case is still struggling with the shame and that so farfrustration left by a previous case, it where the child was working out OKnot found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Time has passed though This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and although I'm a great deal fitter fascination with the bizarre and healthier the downright hideous. And before you're more than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out couple of balancepages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. It was time to look for Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a new approach widow's cap and as so often happensstout, shiny boots, but the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast''Live Forever Manual: Sciencething for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatmentslet's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it' seemed like the answer s actually meant to my cure bronchial problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tipsis by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. [[Live Forever Manual: ScienceRuby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, ethics and companies behind it's clear he has a soft spot for the new anti-aging treatments determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Things in Jars by Adrian CullJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Beneath the World, A Sea by Charlie Jane AndersChris Beckett]]===
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January is a dying planetSouth America, 1990. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlightBen Ronson, purea British police officer, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where arrives in a creature can freeze mysterious forest to death in secondsinvestigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is black button eyes - have a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you diestrange psychic effect on people, to close to unleashing the other, you die subconscious and yet the heat from the sun exposing their innermost thoughts and the water from the ice are necessary for lifefears. Life for Ben becomes fascinated by the inhabitants of January is longDuendes, and hardbut the closer he gets, and arduousthe more he begins to unravel, will anything ever change? with terrifying results... [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Beneath the World, A Sea by Charlie Jane AndersChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks Where the Prime Minister Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by David LawsM J Lee]]===
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At the time of my writing thisIt really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, there conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is one thing uniting Britainhanging by a thread, and this is hatred of 'Brexitoff to collect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Not just Brexit, but use of Traffic was heavy on the word 'BrexitM60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Yes, people hate Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the people that instigated it then disappearedtraffic, and/or the people who just canbriefly put his hands on Ridpath't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate s car then ran into the use path of the wordan articulated lorry. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon The driver had no chance of stopping and leave the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsidednaked man was killed instantly. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get Glancing to the actual Brexiting in hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a very protracted mannergun. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so This was now a crime scene and the reader resulting seventeen-mile tail back of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before traffic would be the titleleast of Ridpath's theme really arises. Hereworries, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveablealthough no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks Where the Prime Minister Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by David LawsM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden A Perfect Explanation by Mary ChamberlainEleanor Anstruther]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrivesEnid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, determined to identify had everything. Leading the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her motherlife of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's possessionslife has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, Dora untreated and Joe find their worlds upended – threatening both Enid and are swiftly forced those close to confront their pastsher. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War IIAfter losing custody of her children, Dora remembers a time when she concealed Enid sells her son to her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In sister for £500 – but is this story an act of lovegreed, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck or an act of light can diffuse desperation? Exploring the darkest shadows true story of war… her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[The Hidden A Perfect Explanation by Mary ChamberlainEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails 55 by Stephen John HartleyJames Delargy]]===
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It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around Two men enter a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle bookpolice station, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and where for the best results. The answer would be something along narrowly escaped the lines clutches of 'try it and see'a man who intended to kill them. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became As they escaped they ran through a busker, finally got into medical school graveyard and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what they were not the book's aboutfirst victim. There's a lot about rock & rollThe stories match, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into evidence is compelling and each man blames the entertainment genre eitherother. Did we have a category for 'doing Now the impossible the hard way'question is, who is guilty? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[Painting Snails 55 by Stephen John HartleyJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHistory|History]], [[:Category:Biography|Confident ReadersBiography]]
When Ollie ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and Nancy, death. Cercas is searching for the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted meaning behind his great uncle's death in the middle of the nightSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by DodgeCercas' great uncle, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that figure who looms large over the London above ground knows nothing aboutbook. Here, children work together to battle great evilsHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. And there is an immediate enemy to fightCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Ollie would have been The question at the hundredth victim centre of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to destroy be a hero whilst having fought for the citywrong side. [[The Haven: Book 1 Lord Of All the Dead by Simon LelicJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionGraphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|General FictionConfident Readers]]
The final novel in Alan KennedyIt's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty the near future, and banished to Scotlandevery coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, providing trade craft spy trainingbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. ItBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would providebiggest exodus for decades. And where Superman is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since helping out, of course – first he was patching up the dams, but now he went to ''s mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabots perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, instigator of the disinformation campaignrefugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, and returned to find her missingbut something else is much worse. A failed mission major bout of food poisoning is one thing but no Justine is quite anotherhitting the city. Alex But it can't get Justine out possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of his head. Has she left the serviceflood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Super Sons: The Things That are Lost PolarShield Project by Alan KennedyRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimePolitics and Society|CrimePolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
A man walked into a police station in EstoniaSigh. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the body was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Michelle Harrison Paige -->
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===[[A Pinch of Magic Mera: Tidebreaker by Michelle HarrisonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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Meet Mera. She''A Pinch s the latest in a line of Magic'' follows three sisters – Bettyyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle king of CrowstoneXebel, infamous for its surrounding marshes sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the neighbouring inescapable prisonterritory's warrior queen, for their entire livesis long dead. The middle sister Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, Bettyand is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, has longed for adventure for as long as Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she can remember and she is determined overhears her father request that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that intended goes to the world has of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to offerget the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. But in setting out to do just thatof course, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bagno idea what kind of person she will meet, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly how hard it will be to get the key to their problem. job done… [[A Pinch of Magic Mera: Tidebreaker by Michelle HarrisonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell Poster Boy by Lisa GardnerN J Crosskey]]===
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Evie Carter's husband was shot dead I first read 1984 in school, in his own home and she was found with the gun late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in her handsthe future. It came and went quickly enough. Was this Some of us may have breathed a domestic dispute which sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediatelynot (quite) come to pass. It might have been sixteen years agoOthers, I think, but were out therealready working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn's no mistaking t put a date on the teenager who nightmare. If she had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, I suspect it would not be as there far in the future are 1984 was no doubt about when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the love the two had for each otherfuture at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. D D had no worries at Sadly. Frighteningly. In the timeblurb, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is Evie about to get away with murder again? : too late! [[Never Tell Poster Boy by Lisa GardnerN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour Critical Incidents by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderLucie Whitehouse]]===
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After When you reach a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''hadcertain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a job) short and so she is not quite sure what is going onhopefully harmonious visit. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off The woman who used to find be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her mum, and then doesn't come backthirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She heads out was going home to investigate and discovers the room which she'd had as a strange, secret world called child: she would have the Midnight Hour, which seems bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were those who knew her parents doing here? well - would have the top bunk. And will The room was redolent of the time she be able to find them 'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? they weren't good memories. [[The Midnight Hour Critical Incidents by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane A Memory Called Empire by Kate LondonArkady Martine]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient she tries to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be getting stabbed complex and rich and errs on the streets side of London all the timemaking them unpronounceable by most readers. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedicI can see why she does both, but it's instruction, sobbing as he held a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the phone. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept that it was just one brilliance of those things. He wanted revengethe book stumbles. [[Gallowstree Lane A Memory Called Empire by Kate LondonArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[How When Spring Comes to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship the DMZ by Ece TemelkuranUk-Bae Lee]]===
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A little while ago There is a friend asked me if I thought place on this earth that we were living through what , at the time of writing, is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the factors which led tohumans have put in place...'' I agreed that she was right In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading todie, if they reach their birthing grounds. I think now that I Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do knownot prevent them from doing so. We are This is a snapshot of life in danger of losing democracy the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as henworld's teethleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[How When Spring Comes to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship the DMZ by Ece TemelkuranUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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