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===[[The Party Unrest by Lisa HallJesper Stein]]===
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Rachel wakes up DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a strange bedroom, riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the worst hangover she's ever had and no memory killer is one of them… As the night before. And even though she has no memorycase becomes more and more complicated, she knows at the core of her being that something very bad has happened it soon begins to her at her neighbourtake a toll on Steen's New Yearalready troubled personal life. He won's Eve partyt stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences. But with everyone there appearing the consequences may turn out to be hiding something and no one giving her a straight answer to her questions, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Party Unrest by Lisa HallJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Fred Van LenteDominic Watson]]===
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Comic-Cons are Even 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 place yacht and the silky blue waters of wonder and sanctuary the Caribbean, but only for many peoplea year, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Conthen I will be back, he's looking for both that tanned and sanctuary with other fans refreshed but barely 40 and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exmany working years still to come. HoweverAlso, when his rival I like work. My job is found deadinteresting, Mike is forced I get to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs travel, what we do matters and intrusive fans it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (andif not now, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorthen when?) I was still intrigued. [[The Con Artist Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Fred Van LenteDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Boyd TonkinLynda La Plante]]===
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Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book It was so good February 1979 in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breaththe strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's when a market that has actually doubled body was discovered in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy'')Peckham. Novels, It was to be the first of two bodies in particulartwo days, in translation, are – as but the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means first - that of passing border posts, a sort young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of universal passport issued her car by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters''her son. We here at the 'Bag regularly try Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and give equal credit to finds herself in the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one midst of those list books an investigation hindered by press articles about the subject? I got given police incompetence and pressure to get a book the other year detailing 1001 places quick result. Four days later and another body to go add to before I diethe count, and I might even then the police have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade throughnamed their suspect, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thingbut Tennison has her doubts. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Boyd TonkinLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Broken Ground by Dr Nat TanohVal McDermid]]===
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Saga is eighteen andAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, like many eighteen-year oldsbut for once, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'she', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living s in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has the right place at the right time when a good lifebody is dug up in the Highlands. However Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the suburb 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 Africa, where childhoods can be snatched the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in an instanta cafe. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship Intervening, she thought that Saga lives undershe'd prevented a crime, he is forced but what she said would come back to become an unlikely revolutionaryhaunt her. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Broken Ground by Dr Nat TanohVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante]]===
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[[image:5starHalf Moon Bay is a small town on the west coast of America, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, to start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. Although she has begun to find a little peace in the quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, also, rousing the suspicions of the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the disappearance.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHalf Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante|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 Hunt -->
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===[[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]]===
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''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985, the reader follows Yale and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at the hands of a conservative America. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai:Category: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]] <!-- Daykin Claire Askew -->
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Chloe DaykinClaire Askew]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Crime]] As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who 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, either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the mother of the murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew|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 Aaron -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Sara SheridanRachel 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:Crime Garrison Girl (HistoricalAttack on Titan)by Rachel Aaron|Crime (Historical)Full Review]]
It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the law, and a refusal to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? [[Russian Roulette by Sara Sheridan|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Island by Steven RamirezM A Bennett]]===
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In A contemporary take on the third and final part savage classic ''Lord of the Flies''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series: a group of mismatched, Dave Pulaski is headed modern-day teenagers must fight to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retributionsurvive on a deserted island. With the events Link is a fish out of book two still weighing heavily on Davewater. Newly arrived from America, he struggles against is finding it hard to settle into the rage burning inside him venerable and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facilityprestigious Osney School. As events come Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to a climax, and Dave finds himself pursued understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by both an exhow fast they can run round the school quad -military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alivehowever ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the stakes butt of every school joke. And some students are higher determined to make his life more miserable than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? others... [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Island by Steven RamirezM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Colour Me When I'm Dead In by Steven RamirezLydia Ruffles]]===
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Still battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead''Reeling from a tragedy and unable to cope, Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up unemployed actor Arlo decides to rescue him and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, on a plane and the infected getting smartergo somewhere new. When Dave discovers the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Colour Me When I'm Dead In by Steven RamirezLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One A Treachery of Tell Me When I'm Dead Spies by Steven RamirezManda Scott]]===
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A recovering alcoholicWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, Dave Pulaski she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has had a long road to recoverybeen erased, but finally feels like heit's getting his life back. Then - a plague hits clear that she has been killed in the town, turning same way that traitors to the majority of resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the population mystery will lead Inès deep into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste history of humans. Fighting to survive - Dave's urge to hide away this woman – and drink is strong - will he fight back to live a time when the chances 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 so slim? With many in the hordes of the undead growing present who would rather their past stay buried – and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave... many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One A Treachery of Tell Me When I'm Dead Spies by Steven RamirezManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Anomaly by Brooke FieldhouseMichael Rutger]]===
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It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the day, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top formYoutube era. He'd had a disturbing dream Join the night before. He'd been following a Porsche intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on a difficult route, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. yet another search for ''Ian anomaly'm Freia...'', she saidonly to (spoilers) actually find one. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviewsImagine if, the first was with an up-and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based in an old London house and headed instead of being scared by Patrick Lloyd-Lewistheir own acting, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the dream starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a job. He couldn't resist the lure Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the mysteryblend. [[The Gilded Ones Anomaly by Brooke FieldhouseMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up The Water Thief by Allyson JuleClaire Hajaj]]===
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'Speaking Up' has a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use of language Nick is in media, education, religion, the workplace and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body middle of research from the mid twentieth century wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the present daybuilding of a children's hospital. Reading it, we feel that she He has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault and the Kardashians with equal rigourno idea what he is getting himself into. [[Speaking Up The Water Thief by Allyson JuleClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Michelle SacksPeter Lovesey]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
I'm not really sure what to say about this book[[image:4. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Crime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't 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, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and 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 go viral. [[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart Only Love Can Break Your Heart by John WebleyKatherine Webber]]===
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George Engleheart was one of Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the leading portrait miniaturists ghost of Georgian Londonher sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, with but also a career lasting from the 1770s constant reminder that she has to the Regency eramake up for being one when there should have been two. He was also one She has to shine bright enough for both of the most prolificthem. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, painting nearly 5her friends,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of the grief and loss that continue to scar them being of King George III)all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. Throughout most of After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clientsrepresents from her grief, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee bookit's not so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart Only Love Can Break Your Heart by John WebleyKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race by Eirlys Hunter]]===
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It's easily done[[image:4. You nip off to fill everyone's water bottles, and your mum starts to fret in case you don't make it back before the train leaves. Mum gets off to find you, you make it back in good time but she doesn't, and hey presto, four children and a parrot disappearing into the unknown with no money, no home and not a parent in sight5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Mapmakers' Race by Eirlys Hunter: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]] <!-- Ware Rajaniemi -->
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===[[The Death of Mrs Westaway Summerland by Ruth WareHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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I've only just got Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into psychological thrillers soSummerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerland. When Rachel White, despite being an international best-sellerambitious SIS agent, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until now. Butbecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, I can see why she's must decide how far she is willing to go and how much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book and can't wait she is willing to risk to get started on her previous three books nowuncover the truth. [[The Death of Mrs Westaway Summerland by Ruth WareHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Race to Save the RomanovsLast: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Short Stories About Horse Racing by Helen RappaportK D Knight]]===
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The basic facts about In the deaths of Nicholas opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and Alexandra, some his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of which were deliberately obscured at whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the time for various reasonsground is against him. My favourite was ''The Story of H'', have long since been establishedthe story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. For After changing hands on various occasions he came to the last few months yard of their lives John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in Russia the former Tsar Grand National and Tsarinaconsidered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, their children and few remaining servantsa pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescuedwho had been many lengths adrift, in July 1918 cleared the revolutionary regime had them all shot fence and bayoneted galloped to death in circumstances whichthe line, once winning the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europerace at odds of 100/1. [[Going To The Race to Save the RomanovsLast: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family Short Stories About Horse Racing by Helen RappaportK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|ThrillersFor 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!''
It's not pleasantBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the first time Marcus and Tessa meet DaveLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink think nothing of an eye something awful happensit. Tessa isn't thereSo, Marcus isn't lookingwhen Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, 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 first Ticklewater frog to buy lunch for everyonemanage such a feat, they're a little relieved to return to their villa he is filled with excitement and live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave his only worry is a nice chap, how much he will miss his friends and although of course they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intensefamily. [[Take Me In The Frog Who Was Blue by Sabine DurrantFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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