Changes

From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to search

Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)

Revision as of 13:12, 14 August 2018

1,234 bytes removed ,  13:12, 14 August 2018
no edit summary
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->
<!-- Lewis Stein -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17811282861912624044.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17811282861912624044/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Run Wild Unrest by Gill LewisJesper Stein]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyCrime|Dyslexia FriendlyCrime]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersThrillers|Confident ReadersThrillers]]
Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – the local attempt at tortured body of a skatepark, they find man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a huge waste ground riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the shadow open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of them… As the case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a derelict gasometer to practise toll on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag IzzySteen's younger brother with themalready troubled personal life. The following day they all want to return, as does He won't stop until the brother's schoolfriendkiller is caught, despite – and of course because of – there being a huge wolf living in whatever the siteconsequences. Can But the children survive living in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Run Wild Unrest by Gill LewisJesper Stein|Full Review]]
<!-- C M Taylor Watson -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:07156533770993454682.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/07156533770993454682/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Staying On Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by C M TaylorDominic Watson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionLifestyle|General FictionLifestyle]]
Tony Metcalfe is Even with a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestbirthday fast approaching, YorkshireI's where he'd really like m still a bit young to bereading about retirement. You suspect that Scarborough would My next life change in the pipeline will be perfecta big one, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond and it does involve leaving the Costa Verde and running 9 to 5 behind for a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it yacht and return to the UK, what with silky blue waters of the uncertainty of Brexit and everythingCaribbean, but there are only for a couple of problems. First offyear, his wife - Laney - refuses to go and then I will be back , tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to the UKcome. Also, I like work. She'd have you believe that she's not wellMy job is interesting, I get to travel, but there's a backstory there thatwhat we do matters and it's not being talked aboutbadly rewarded. Then there's the pubSo no, which isnI't doing well enough m not planning to sellretire just yet. In fact Tony's cleaning But as the swimming pools premise of expats who have left Spain this book is about planning (and returned homeif not now, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetthen when?) I was still intrigued. [[Staying On Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by C M TaylorDominic Watson|Full Review]]
<!-- Darnton Lynda La Plante -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:18471594861785764667.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/18471594861785764667/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:4starIt was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the first of two bodies in two days, but the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. Four days later and another body to add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensMurder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante|TeensFull Review]]
Jess is in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton|Full Review]] <!-- Nadin Val McDermid -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1510201262140870935X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1510201262140870935X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Broken Ground by Val McDermid]]===
===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
Bridie - Birdy - Jones 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 eleven and finding life rather harddug up in the Highlands. After her mother died, Initially it used looks as though the death dates back to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okayWWII, but now there's Birdy, Dad, an overbearing step mum, the fact that the dead man is wearing a little sister and another baby on pair of Nikes means that the way. Therecase is Karen's precious . A little room for Birdy any more and while later she'd come to think that she'd been in the only wrong place at the wrong time when she really feels happy and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loftoverheard a conversation in a cafe. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them Intervening, training themshe thought that she'd prevented a crime, and releasing them but what she said would come back to wait for them to find their way homehaunt her. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Broken Ground by Joanna NadinVal McDermid|Full Review]]
<!-- Klehfoth LaPlante -->
|-
| style=''"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''"|[[image:02413294931785659626.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/02413294931785659626/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[All These Beautiful Strangers Half Moon Bay by Elizabeth KlehfothAlice LaPlante]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel Half Moon Bay is a mystery thriller written from small town on the perspective west coast of Charlie CallowayAmerica, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, to start a new life after losing everything when her teenage girl in daughter was killed and her final years at boarding school who is plagued by husband left her mother’s disappearance. As the story progresses Although she begins to learn more about what happened 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 mothergrief and loss and, also, finding out along rousing the suspicions of the way local townsfolk that not everyone was who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers toois somehow involved in the disappearance. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Half Moon Bay by Elizabeth KlehfothAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
<!-- Fletcher Hunt -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:0751571229B079RJSJS7.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0751571229B079RJSJS7/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[When The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionPhantom by Leo Hunt]]===
A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of her very own show, to meet with the love of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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]] <!-- Novik Claire Askew -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1509899014147367302X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509899014147367302X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Spinning Silver All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Naomi NovikClaire Askew]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyCrime|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensCrime]]
Miryem comes from As a long line 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 moneylenders – but her Father isntheir number. It doesn't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family end on the edge of povertyday, until Miryem must step ineither. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes School shootings cast a person very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of great interest when she borrows being a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and returns it full one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the story through the lives of goldthree women: Moira Summers, soon becoming entangled with an array the mother of strange creaturesthe murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, from the dark beings that haunt mother of one of the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… victims. [[Spinning Silver All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Naomi NovikClaire Askew|Full Review]]
<!-- Hall Aaron -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:00082149991683690613.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/00082149991683690613/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Party Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Lisa HallRachel Aaron]]===
[[image:3star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersDystopian Fiction|ThrillersDystopian Fiction]]
Rachel wakes up in a strange bedroom, with ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the worst hangover shewalls where it's ever had and no memory of the night before. And even though she has no memorysafe, she knows at the core of her being but that something very bad has happened to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve partyan illusion. But with everyone So long as there appearing to be hiding something and are titans out there… no one giving her a straight answer to her questions, will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? [[The Party by Lisa Hall|Full Review]]is safe''
In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. 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… [[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Full Review]]  <!-- van LENTE Bennett -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:16836903461471407535.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/16836903461471407535/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Con Artist Island by Fred Van LenteM A Bennett]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]], [[:Category:HumourGeneral Fiction|HumourGeneral Fiction]]
Comic-Cons are A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a place group of wonder and sanctuary for many peoplemismatched, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comicmodern-Conday teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he's looking for both that is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exprestigious Osney School. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to navigate every dark corner understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the con school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in order years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to clear make his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorlife more miserable than others... [[The Con Artist Island by Fred Van LenteM A Bennett|Full Review]]
<!-- Tonkin Ruffles -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:19033856791444937685.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/19033856791444937685/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Colour Me In by Boyd TonkinLydia Ruffles]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ReferenceTeens|ReferenceTeens]]
Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, Reeling from a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try tragedy and give equal credit unable to the translatorcope, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go unemployed actor Arlo decides to before I die, and I might even then have missed out get on a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, plane and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thinggo somewhere new. Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Colour Me In by Boyd TonkinLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
<!-- Tanoh Scott -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:19121455610593072286.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/19121455610593072286/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Day A Treachery of the Orphan Spies by Dr Nat TanohManda Scott]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|General Historical Fiction]]
Saga When Inspector Inès Picaut is eighteen and, like many eighteen-year oldscalled to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls she''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts s puzzled – whilst the identity of foodthe woman has been erased, and learning about girlsit's clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Living in an affluent, liberal Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and protected suburb, he has back to a good life. However, time when the suburb is men and women of 1940s France were engaged in Africaa desperate, where childhoods can be snatched in an instantbrutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. When his friends As more and family more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are dragged into the conflict raging around many in the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he present who would rather their past stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate buried – and many who would kill to stop him? keep secrets safe… [[The Day A Treachery of the Orphan Spies by Dr Nat TanohManda Scott|Full Review]]
<!-- Doyle Rutger -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:14088968851538761858.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14088968851538761858/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle:Category:Horror|Horror]]===
[[image:5starTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of 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 paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Anomaly by Michael Rutger|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 Hajaj -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:07088991371786073943.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/07088991371786073943/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Great Believers Water Thief by Rebecca MakkaiClaire Hajaj]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT General Fiction|LGBT General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
''The Great Believers'' follows a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis Nick is in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in 1985, the reader follows Yale London and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the hands building of a conservative Americachildren's hospital. Thirty years later Fiona, a devoted friend to Yale, He has no idea what he is searching for her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtgetting himself into. [[The Great Believers Water Thief by Rebecca MakkaiClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
<!-- Daykin Peter Lovesey -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:05713267810751570672.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/05713267810751570672/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Chloe DaykinPeter Lovesey]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]] 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]]
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 Webber -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:14721223721406369055.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14721223721406369055/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Russian Roulette Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Sara SheridanKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Teens|Crime (Historical)Teens]]
Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It makes 's something that brings her comfort, but also a pleasant change constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandmabeen two. She has to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, a world-weary cop he presents her with as many hang-upsan escape. From her family, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleaguesfriends, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft the grief and works out in the gym after work, boxing loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with After all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the lawwouldn't fall for gorgeous, and a refusal to faint at the sight of blood, but popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have falls in love with her in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees escape that he represents from her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisisgrief, thereit's no reason not to be polite, is there? so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[Russian Roulette Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Sara SheridanKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
<!-- Ramirez Gourlay -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:ETDWB1788450175.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/ETDWB1788450175/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[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|HorrorBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
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:4. 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 facility5star. 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: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]] <!-- Ramirez Rajaniemi -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:DIAYG1473203287.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/DIAYG1473203287/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Summerland by Steven RamirezHannu Rajaniemi]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorDystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|HorrorScience Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersParanormal|ThrillersParanormal]]
Still battling Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead''afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up to rescue him in a race against Soviet spies and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – dealing with a mole buried deep in the virus mutating, and the infected getting smarterheart of Summerland. When Dave discovers Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly go and those closest how much she is willing to him? risk to uncover the truth. [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Summerland by Steven RamirezHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
<!-- Ramirez K D Knight -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:TMWImD1986586898.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ESNCNG41986586898/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Tell Me When I'm DeadGoing To The Last: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Short Stories About Horse Racing by Steven RamirezK D Knight]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorShort Stories|HorrorShort Stories]]
A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski In the opening story a man whose wife has had a long road to recoverydeserted him visits Sandown with little money, but finally feels like hecomes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day''s getting an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his life backhorse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. Then - a plague hits the town My favourite was ''The Story of H'', turning the majority story of the population into flesh-hungry monsters Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who crave only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the taste yard of humansJohn Kempton. Fighting to survive - Dave's urge to hide away H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and drink is strong considered a no- will he fight to live when hoper. In one of the chances most dramatic runnings of survival are so slim? With the hordes of race, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the undead growing fence and galloped to the security forces outnumberedline, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[Tell Me When I'm DeadGoing To The Last: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Short Stories About Horse Racing by Steven RamirezK D Knight|Full Review]]
<!-- Brooke Fieldhouse Kermani -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17890139921785899953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17890139921785899953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFor Sharing|CrimeFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the day, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night beforeBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. He'd been following a Porsche on Many creatures find a difficult routehome there, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the roadincluding frogs. The passenger, a man, was deadFor some reason that nobody can remember, but all the woman was still aliveLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. ''I'm FreiaThey think nothing of it...''So, she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviewswhen Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, 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 Ticklewater frog to manage such a run-down practice based in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewisfeat, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link he is filled with the dream of the night before was too excitement and his only worry is how much for Pulse to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure of the mysteryhe will miss his friends and family. [[The Gilded Ones Frog Who Was Blue by Brooke FieldhouseFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->
|}
Retrieved from "http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/Special:MobileDiff/149907...150151"

Navigation menu