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Well, plenty as it happens===[[Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft]]=== [[image:4.5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1408877759</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]{{newreview|author=Heather Morris|title=The Tattooist Thomas Senlin embarks on his honeymoon with high hopes. He and his young wife Marya are travelling on a sleeper train across Ur to that engineering marvel, that fabled centre of Auschwitz|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Soculture, you arrive in all ignorance at Auschwitzthe Tower of Babel. It's a place he's read books about, and see the horror theretaught his pupils about, and immediately swear longed to survive the ordeal to see retribution dealt on those behind itvisit, but what do you do to see that oath out? Do you get to work diligently as the Nazis demand, to bustling and chaotic surroundings of the Tower in the extent you get desert are a long way from the word ''collaborator'' muttered behind your back? Do you dare quiet fishing village in which Senlin teaches. When he loses sight of Marya shortly after their arrival, he has no option but to stick your neck out look for her in this strange and get a job that means you're actually a Jew working in overwhelming place. For all his background reading before the political wing of the SStrip, answerable to Berlin? Do you dare get contacts with civilian workers building he is ill-prepared for what he finds in the placeTower, both its marvels and trade the loot purloined from the incoming victims' belongings with food they smuggle in for you, under the eyes of all the camp guards? 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He's smartand survived to tell the tale, charismaticbut he also managed to do something even more daring, successful and very intense, very particular. 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Her mother was abusive and her father preferred not to do anything about it: there might have been a matter bit of pages, I pretense but there was utterly engrossed by no protection. All that should be in the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I've read this year! Malin is a fourteen year old girlpast, who although Elsa is very naive and innocentstill self-harming when under pressure, but her father is dying of lung cancer and although she struggles would have hoped for some personal time with social interaction. It is never stated within the book (a fact him, her boss has allocated her to a new case, that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the autistic spectrum. But that isnof 17-year-old Ruby Haverstock, and you can't really what waste any time when children go missing. [[A Map of the book is aboutDark by Karen Ellis|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Tudor -->[[image:Tudor Chalk. 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By the time the cool kidsnew term begins, although he's had something of a crush on Rosiefriendships will be fractured, but he's known her since kindergarten and done nothing about ita girl will be dead. At But who is the other end of the scale are Jack Radogerens and his friend Ryankiller; is it The Chalk Man, who bully Jason. It might be Wednesdaywhose dusty white grip squeezes ever tighter, but Jason will be glad when the week's over. His or someone much closer to home life is a bit strange too: when we meet thirteen-year-old Jason? Thirty years later, his dad Ed has just phoned tried to say forget about that he's going to be away for three days. Jason's on his own. Wellsummer, apart from about all the UFO and its occupantspoisoned, that issinister memories of The Chalk Man.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1546284451</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Norriss|title= Mike|rating= 5 |genre= Teens|summary=Floyd is a rising teen tennis sensation. At only fifteen, he is set to become However, someone seems determined not to let him and when the letters start to arrive, the past follows, plaguing him and dredging up the youngest ever champion fever dream nightmare of the national under 18ssummer of 1986, his tennis career is written in the stars. Until Mike shows up. At firstpopulated by fairs, Floyd thinks Mike is just a weird kid following him aroundra-ra skirts and death. Why else would he be at tennis practice in Driven deeper into the school so early? But when he appears on mysterious events surrounding Ed's sleepy suburban life, the tennis court in the middle of the match, Floyd can't understand why everyone is acting so calm … until Floyd realises he is the only one reader cannot help but wonder; who can see him. Floyd is referred to a specialist The Chalk Man, and together they unpick the mystery of Mike. will he ever let Ed go? 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He's smart, charismatic, separating the Fur successful and Feather Tribes and making the third – the Tusk Tribe – very intense, very particular. At first Callie loves him, loves the enemy of both. Eager to secure way he includes her position by gaining eternal lifein their relationship, the Ice Queen is consuming the voices of the Erkenwald people. There seems little anyone can do until three children – Eskabut after a boating trip, Flint and Blu – come together. 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Victorious in driving their opponents, the leaderless Anarchists underground, those specially gifted with an extraordinary range Crown Prosecution Service were both of abilities are now the lawmakers opinion that this amounted to rape. The prosecuting counsel is Kate Woodcroft and leaders she's very determined that Whitehouse is going to be brought to book. [[Anatomy of the future, governing a new peaceful and prosperous societyScandal by Sarah Vaughan|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Holland -->[[image:Holland Everless. They are the heroes of society; the role models young children look up to, the officers people look to for justice and strengthjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon. 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Kalamchi wants to raise his people's consciousness so that they can fight against Wages come in the dictator Bamutu form of blood- chillingly known as ''president coins, currency taken from actual blood and denominated in weeks, months or even years of life. In Sempera, as you'd imagine, the rich live for life a long time and after death''the poor do not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848765800</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/12 -->|author=Rob Murphy|title=Rotten In debt and struggling to afford the Core|rating=4|genre=Thrillers |summary=Itrent, Jules decides to ignore her father's 2009warnings and take a job at Everless, and Russia look like being awarded an estate belonging to the football World Cup hosting rights Gerling family. But Jules's father objects for the oh-so-distant 2018 tournament - that a reason: there isa royal wedding coming up, until England stick their oar in. They have solved their hooligan problem, between Lord Roan Gerling and improved their transport systema ward of Sempera's queen, and so at last are valid final holders. Watching this is Francesecrets long concealed that, who have to reciprocate with the Russians who helped them get France '98if revealed, and they have a planwould change everything.. At this stage the UEFA European championship of 2016 has not been awarded, and while France remain favourites to get the job, again some upstart idea has poked its head above the parapet - a joint offering from Wales and Scotland. Yes, these two tiny countries, separated [[Everless by 200 miles and without a brilliant connection from one to the other, and without some vital posh hotels here and there, and with no serious claim to soccer fame when it comes to winning things, are unlikely hostsSara Holland|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Ingemundsen -->[[image:Ingemundsen_Human.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. 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Those are not the most promising words age story, yet somehow, within only a man can hear from his new partnermatter of pages, but she doesnI was utterly engrossed by the wonderful character of Malin. I read this book faster than any other I't lie in ve read this instance. He year! Malin is Jeffrey Harvey, a young Cambridge professorfourteen year old girl, who has been dabbling is very naive and innocent, and she struggles with some extra-curricular work, creating GM trees that can keep vast quantities of water purifiedsocial interaction. Get an iceberg or three worth of H2O near Africa, where clean water It is still never stated within the book (a scarce resource, and the trees can do their bit and fact that I liked) but I suspect that she's somewhere on the water will advance the place and make Jeffrey a well-respected global entrepreneurautistic spectrum. If, But that isn't really what the book is, he can get round all the problems in his life - fractions in the start-about. It's about Malin growing up involved in the project, struggling at school, having a finance officer embezzling the funds for gambling - ohfirst date, and a man ready to accuse Jeffrey of murder and theft of research data on a case reaching back several yearsdealing with family difficulties, all at the same time. It seems the lovely girlfriend was right to see no shortage [[The Unpredictability of possible sticky ends...Being Human by Linni Ingemundsen|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1546282351 </amazonuk!-- Norris -->}}{{newreview[[image:Norris_Mike.jpg|left|authorlink= Jenny Quintanahttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1788450094?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1788450094]]|title= The Missing Girl|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= In the unseasonably warm autumn of 1982, fifteen-year-old Gabriella Flores goes missing. 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