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===[[The War in the Dark Unrest by Nick SetchfieldJesper Stein]]===
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Europe DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War tortured body of a man found in a seemingly never ending threat cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the lives of everyday peoplearea swarming in police. What they don't know however, is that How could anyone have been murdered and left in the real cold war is fought open with so many police on site? Unless the borders killer is one of this world, far from prying eyes at them… As the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, case becomes more and is forced into a tensemore complicated, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in it soon begins to take a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses ittoll on Steen's already troubled personal life. Racing against He won't stop until the enemy, Christopher killer is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian bordercaught, all in search of something unholy – born of whatever the power of white fire and black glassconsequences. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in But the dark. consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The War in the Dark Unrest by Nick SetchfieldJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Gill LewisDominic Watson]]===
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Meet Izzy and AshaEven with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. Bullied away from My next life change in the local attempt at pipeline will be a skateparkbig one, they find and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a huge waste ground in yacht and the shadow silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a derelict gasometer year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to practise oncome. Also, which they duly doI like work. My job is interesting, even though they have I get to drag Izzytravel, what we do matters and it's younger brother with themnot badly rewarded. The following day they all want So no, I'm not planning to return, retire just yet. But as does the brother's schoolfriend, despite – premise of this book is about planning (and of course because of – there being a huge wolf living in the site. Can the children survive living in the urban wildernessif not now, alongside such obvious dangersthen when? ) I was still intrigued. [[Run Wild Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Gill LewisDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by C M TaylorLynda La Plante]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, YorkshireIt was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 's where heWinter of Discontent'd really like when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfectthe first of two bodies in two days, but he's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running first - that of a pubyoung woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to sell it Sergeant and return to finds herself in the UK, what with the uncertainty midst of Brexit an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and everything, but there are pressure to get a couple of problemsquick result. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses Four days later and another body to go back add to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not wellcount, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who police have left Spain and returned homenamed their suspect, 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 meetbut Tennison has her doubts. [[Staying On Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by C M TaylorLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Ground by Val McDermid]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:4starAs 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensBroken Ground by Val McDermid|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 LaPlante -->
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===[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante]]===
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[[image:4Half 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.5star 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]]
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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a mystery thriller written leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the perspective of Charlie Callowaycity you live, a teenage girl in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearance. As the story progresses she begins to learn more about what happened to her mothersunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, finding out along four hundred storeys below the way that not everyone was who she thought they weresurface, life is tough. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by strangers toolegendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[All These Beautiful Strangers Phantom by Elizabeth KlehfothLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Carrie Hope FletcherClaire Askew]]===
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A thoroughlyAs a news item, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the lastfact that this was done to them by one of their number. Fletcher weaves together a dash of It doesn''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (t end on the course of which never runs smoothlyday,) and an unpredictable ghosteither. The ghost appears once School shootings cast a year, very long shadow. May the 14th had the principal star makings of her very own show, being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to meet with the love of her life shoot thirteen fellow students - and re-enact her deathone last bullet to kill himself. A tragic accident with We follow the roots buried deep within story through the whole array lives of human nature. Lovethree women: Moira Summers, joythe mother of the murderer, careHelen Birch, friendshipthe newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stagethe mother of one of the victims.[[All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Claire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Naomi NovikRachel Aaron]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all. Lending freely 'You want me to be like everyone else and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on spend my life hiding inside the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns walls where it full of gold's safe, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings but that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryeman illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik|Full Review]]
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]]  <!-- Hall Bennett -->
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===[[The Party Island by Lisa HallM A Bennett]]===
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Rachel wakes up in a strange bedroom, with A contemporary take on the worst hangover shesavage classic 's ever had and no memory 'Lord of the night beforeFlies'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a fish out of water. And even though she has no memoryNewly arrived from America, she knows at he is finding it hard to settle into the core of her being that something very bad has happened to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve partyvenerable and prestigious Osney School. But with everyone Who knew there appearing to could be hiding something and no one giving her a straight answer so many strange traditions to her questions, will Rachel ever find out understand? And what happened at kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the partyschool quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[The Party Island by Lisa HallM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Colour Me In by Fred Van LenteLydia Ruffles]]===
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Comic-Cons are Reeling from a place of wonder tragedy and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found deadunable to cope, Mike is forced unemployed actor Arlo decides to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence get on a plane and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorgo somewhere new. [[The Con Artist Colour Me In by Fred Van LenteLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation A Treachery of Spies by Boyd TonkinManda Scott]]===
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Consider, if you willWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, translated fiction. Some say itshe's impossible puzzled – that if a book was so good in one tongue whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, 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 clear that she has actually doubled been killed in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy'')the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the introduction here so smartly puts it history of this woman – ''and back to a privileged means time when the men and women of passing border posts, 1940s France were engaged in a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian statedesperate, the Republic of Letters''brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. We here at the 'Bag regularly try As more and give equal credit more secrets come to the translatorlight, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have Inès discovers that there are many 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 to before I die, present who would rather their past stay buried – and I might even then have missed out a zero. It many who would take as long as a fortnight's holiday kill to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing. Should it take our time? keep secrets safe… [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation A Treachery of Spies by Boyd TonkinManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Anomaly by Dr Nat TanohMichael Rutger]]===
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Saga is eighteen and, like many eighteenTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-year oldsFiles episode, his prime concerns are listening to what his mum calls for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''hop-hipan anomaly''only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, eating copious amounts instead of foodbeing scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and learning about girlsYvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. Living Deep in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has a good life. However, cave within the suburb is Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and family are dragged conspiracy thrown into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionaryblend. 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 Anomaly by Dr Nat TanohMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
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[[image:5starNick is in the middle of 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 building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Water Thief by Claire Hajaj|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 Peter Lovesey -->
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===[[The Great Believers Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Rebecca MakkaiPeter Lovesey]]===
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Children love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn''The Great Believers'' follows t going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a group building through one of friends whose lives are devastated by those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the AIDS crisis dust settled a skeleton, sitting in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning an armchair and clad in 1985clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, was visible in the loft of the reader follows Yale half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and his friends as they come to terms with hurried the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the hands of corpse from a conservative America. Thirty years later Fionacherry picker, a devoted friend an unfortunate adjustment to the controls left him eye to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on er, eye socket with the corpse and the streets of Paris, trying picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurtgo viral. [[The Great Believers Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Rebecca MakkaiPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Chloe DaykinKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Teens]] Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, it's not so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber|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 Gourlay -->
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===[[Russian Roulette by Sara Sheridan]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
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[[image:4. 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 lady5star. 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? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Russian Roulette by Sara Sheridan: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]] <!-- Ramirez Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 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|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|HorrorParanormal]]
In Imagine a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of the third and final part of afterlife, the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' seriesBritish Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, Dave Pulaski is headed to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retributionthe Big Smoke for the recently deceased. With In 1938 the events of book two still weighing heavily on Dave, he struggles British Empire is caught up in a race against the rage burning inside him Soviet spies and saves Sasha – dealing with a young escapee from mole buried deep in the secret testing facilityheart of Summerland. As events come to a climaxWhen Rachel White, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, how much she is willing to risk to uncover the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? truth. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Summerland by Steven RamirezHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You GetGoing To The Last: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Short Stories About Horse Racing by Steven RamirezK D Knight]]===
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Still battling In the zombie hordes who first appeared opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''Tell Me When IA Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. My favourite was ''m DeadThe Story of H'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to rescue him the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and his wife Hollyconsidered a no-hoper. But things only get worse – with In one of the most dramatic runnings of the virus mutatingrace, and a pile up occured at the infected getting smarter23rd fence. When Dave discovers Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the truth behind fence and galloped to the contagion it will drive him past all limits line, winning the race at odds of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? 100/1. [[Dead Is All You GetGoing To The Last: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Short Stories About Horse Racing by Steven RamirezK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorFor Sharing|HorrorFor 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!''
A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a long road to recoveryhome there, but finally feels like he's getting his life backincluding frogs. Then - a plague hits the townFor some reason that nobody can remember, turning all the majority Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humans. Fighting first Ticklewater frog to survive - Dave's urge to hide away manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and drink his only worry is strong - how much he will he fight to live when the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing miss his friends and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..family. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Frog Who Was Blue by Steven RamirezFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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