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===[[The Day of the Orphan Unrest by Dr Nat TanohJesper Stein]]===
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Saga DCI Steen is eighteen assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and, like left in the open with so many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts police on site? Unless the killer is one of food, them… As the case becomes more and learning about girls. Living in an affluentmore complicated, liberal and protected suburb, he has it soon begins to take a good toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. However, He won't stop until the suburb killer is in Africacaught, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends and family are dragged into whatever the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryconsequences. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of But the soldiers desperate consequences may turn out to stop him? be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Day of the Orphan Unrest by Dr Nat TanohJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]===
[[image:5starEven with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Rockstar Retirement Programme:Category:Confident ReadersHow to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Fionn is off to spend some time with his grandfather on the island of Arranmore. His older sister Tara is going with him. Tara is well into adolescence and she can be quite dismissive of her rather green younger brother. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with the death of their father and needs time alone to get better. Grandfather is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candles. He has a crabby but wicked sense of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold the secret of the seas. [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle|Full Review]]<!-- Makkai Lynda La Plante -->
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===[[The Great Believers Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Rebecca MakkaiLynda La Plante]]===
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It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent'The Great Believers'' follows when a group body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the first of friends whose lives are devastated by two bodies in two days, but the AIDS crisis first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in Chicago during the late 1980’sboot of her car by her son. Beginning Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in 1985, the reader follows Yale midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and his friends as they come pressure to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of get a conservative Americaquick result. Thirty years Four days later Fiona, a devoted friend and another body to add to Yalethe count, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Parispolice have named their suspect, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtbut Tennison has her doubts. [[The Great Believers Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Rebecca MakkaiLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Broken Ground by Chloe DaykinVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Crime]] As the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but for once, she's in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. A little while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[Broken Ground by Val McDermid|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Elvis Crampton Lucas was found, as a baby, on a bench at the zoo. He knows little else about himself, other than that's where his father found him one day and he took him home and named him after the first three vinyl records he took down from the shelf! Elvis' life has been a happy one, but as his twelfth birthday comes around he finds himself suddenly wanting to know, and needing to know, the truth about who left him on the bench and why. Elvis' quest takes him far away, to a new country, facing challenges he'd never imagined in his desire to know the truth. [[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]]<!-- Sheridan LaPlante -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Half Moon Bay by Sara SheridanAlice LaPlante]]===
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It makes Half Moon Bay is a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandmasmall town on the west coast of America, a world-weary cop with as many hang-upslittle down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or to start a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out in the gym new life after work, boxing with (losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her husband left her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved Although she has begun to find a little peace in crime-fightingthe quiet, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windowsseaside town, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the lawday a child goes missing, and a refusal to faint at the sight bringing back painful memories for Jane of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first grief and loss and foremost a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in thisalso, rousing the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack suspicions of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, local townsfolk that she is there? somehow involved in the disappearance. [[Russian Roulette Half Moon Bay by Sara SheridanAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Horror|HorrorPhantom by Leo Hunt]]===
In the third and final part of the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution[[image:4star. With the events of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facility. As events come to a climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven RamirezCategory:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- Ramirez Claire Askew -->
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Steven RamirezClaire Askew]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:ThrillersCrime|ThrillersCrime]]
Still battling As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the zombie hordes deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn't end on the day, Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the Black Dragon Security team show up 14th had the makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to rescue him shoot thirteen fellow students - and his wife Hollyone last bullet to kill himself. But things only get worse – with We follow the virus mutatingstory through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, and the infected getting smarter. When Dave discovers mother of the truth behind murderer, Helen Birch, the contagion it newly-promoted detective inspector who will drive him past all limits investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? the victims. [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Steven RamirezClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Steven RamirezRachel Aaron]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:4In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside.5starKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:HorrorGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|HorrorFull Review]]
A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recovery, but finally feels like he's getting his life back. Then - a plague hits the town, turning the majority of the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humans. Fighting to survive - Dave's urge to hide away and drink is strong - will he fight to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave... [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Island by Brooke FieldhouseM A Bennett]]===
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It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for A contemporary take on the day, but the heat wasnsavage classic ''t Lord of the only reason why he wasnFlies't feeling on top form. He'd had : a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a difficult route, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the roaddeserted island. The passenger, Link is a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia.fish out of water..''Newly arrived from America, she said. ''It's spelled he is finding it hard to settle into the German wayvenerable and prestigious Osney School.'' Of the two job interviews, Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the first was with an up-andschool quad -coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly however ancient that quad may be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based ? When Link runs the slowest time in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewisyears, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with he immediately becomes the dream butt of the night before was too much for Pulse every school joke. And some students are determined to refuse the offer of a jobmake his life more miserable than others.. He couldn't resist the lure of the mystery. [[The Gilded Ones Island by Brooke FieldhouseM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up Colour Me In by Allyson JuleLydia Ruffles]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular ScienceTeens|Popular ScienceTeens]]
'Speaking Up' has Reeling from a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects tragedy and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language in media, educationunable to cope, religion, the workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the mid twentieth century unemployed actor Arlo decides to the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said get on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault a plane and the Kardashians with equal rigourgo somewhere new. [[Speaking Up Colour Me In by Allyson JuleLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This A Treachery of Spies by Michelle SacksManda Scott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart The Anomaly by John WebleyMichael Rutger]]===
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George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian LondonTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, with a career lasting from the 1770s to for the Regency Youtube era. He was also one of Join the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether intrepid (over twenty if rather inept) team of them being of King George IIIinternet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers)actually find one. Throughout most Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that time he carefully recorded is the names starting point of each this book. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of his clients, paranoia and subsequently transcribed them conspiracy thrown into what is referred to as his fee bookthe blend. [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart The Anomaly by John WebleyMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race Water Thief by Eirlys HunterClaire Hajaj]]===
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It's easily done. You nip off to fill everyone's water bottles, and your mum starts to fret Nick is in case you don't make it back before the train leaves. Mum gets off middle of wedding preparations when he decides to find you, you make it back leave his fiancée behind in good time but she doesn't, and hey presto, four children London and take up a parrot disappearing into post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the unknown with building of a children's hospital. He has no money, no home and not a parent in sightidea what he is getting himself into. [[The Mapmakers' Race Water Thief by Eirlys HunterClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Beau Death of Mrs Westaway (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Ruth WarePeter Lovesey]]===
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IChildren love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn've only just got into psychological thrillers sot going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a skeleton, despite being sitting in an international bestarmchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of the half-seller, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until nowdemolished building. But, I can see why she The lad's much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and can't wait hurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with the corpse and the picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to get started on her previous three books nowgo viral. [[The Beau Death of Mrs Westaway (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Ruth WarePeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Helen RappaportKatherine Webber]]===
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The basic facts about Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the deaths ghost of Nicholas and Alexandraher sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, some of which were deliberately obscured at the time but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for various reasons, being one when there should have long since been establishedtwo. For the last few months She has to shine bright enough for both of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarinathem. When she befriends outsider Seth, their children and few remaining servantshe presents her with an escape. From her family, were held in increasingly squalidher friends, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had grief and loss that continue to scar them all shot and bayoneted to death . Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in circumstances which, once love with the news was confirmed beyond all doubtescape that he represents from her grief, horrified their relatives it's not so clear that she's falling in Europelove with him. [[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Helen RappaportKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Take Me In by Sabine Durrant]]===
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It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave[[image:4. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Take Me In by Sabine Durrant:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]] <!-- Elisabeth Hyde Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Summerland by Elisabeth HydeHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyerAfter discovery of the afterlife, a state legislatorthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrivedthe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. Ruth, In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a corporate lawyer, would find fault race against Soviet spies and want to talk about him going into dealing with a retirement homemole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. GeorgeWhen Rachel White, a nursean ambitious SIS agent, would argue and Lizziebecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally she must decide how far she is willing to go and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going how much she is willing to risk to happenuncover the truth. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Summerland by Elisabeth HydeHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Janina RamirezK D Knight]]===
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The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural historyIn the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, especially of early medieval times, are both lively but comes away with cash in his pocket - and informativehis wife. She shares her extensive learning In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike the problem of whether or not to explore further run his horse in the subjects she discussesGold Cup when the ground is against him. But how will that translate into children My favourite was ''The Story of H''s fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make , the story dull of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and factconsidered a no-packed? Will she hold hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile up occured at the action 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to display her considerable knowledge? Nopethe line, not a bit winning the race at odds of it! 100/1. [[Riddle of the Runes Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Janina RamirezK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyFor Sharing|FantasyFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a super plot and well written charactershome there, this book is so much funincluding frogs. A word of caution thoughFor some reason that nobody can remember, this is not suitable for all readersthe Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. As the tittle suggests there is a lot They think nothing of bad languageit. So, when Biriwita wins a LOT of bad languageplace at Croak College, thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition first Ticklewater frog to this there manage such a feat, he is also some sex filled with excitement and sexual language too, there his only worry is some violence but this is not actually very explicit how much he will miss his friends and not as constant as the language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must readfamily. [[The Grey Bastards Frog Who Was Blue by Jonathan FrenchFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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