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===[[Unrest by Jesper Stein]]===
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[[image:4starDCI Steen is 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] ''Biriwita How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, killer is one of them… As the most famous school for frogs in Malawicase becomes more and more complicated, but the other students all turn their backs it soon begins to take a toll on himSteen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the killer is just too different!'' Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can remembercaught, all whatever the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blueconsequences. They think nothing of it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, But the first Ticklewater frog consequences may turn out to manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and family. be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The Frog Who Was Blue Unrest by Faiz KermaniJesper 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 Survival Game by Nicky Singer: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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Rockstar Retirement Programme:Category:Dystopian FictionHow to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson|Dystopian FictionFull Review]]
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and is on her way home to the Isle of Arran. But Mhairi's world has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by borders, checkpoints and soldiers with guns. Mhairi has made it across Africa and onto a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said for Muma and Papa. She's even made it out of the detention centre at the airport. And during this journey, Mhairi has learned that you can't rely on anyone else and you can't allow anyone else to rely on you... [[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer|Full Review]] <!-- Mazolla Lynda La Plante -->
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===[[The Story Keeper Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Anna MazzolaLynda La Plante]]===
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Audrey, It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be more than what everyone expects the first of hertwo bodies in two days, escapes from but the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the straightjacket boot of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled car by her father, who only once son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in his life threw caution to the wind midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and married way beneath him for lovepressure to get a quick result. Now a widower Four days later and remarried, he has rigorously returned another body to add to upholding what is rightthe count, what is properthe police have named their suspect, the bastion of doing what is expectedbut Tennison has her doubts. [[The Story Keeper Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Anna MazzolaLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Broken Ground by Andy JonesVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
Friends are niceAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, and couple friends are doubly niceDCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, giving you like minded people to spend but for once, she's in the right place at the right time withwhen a body is dug up in the Highlands. A pair of pairs Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, or but the fact that the dead man is wearing a couple pair of couplesNikes means that the case is Karen's. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from university, Al through work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome and though A little while later she'd come to think that she doesn't have their shared historyd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, she thought that she's a lot of fun – d prevented a bit younger than the rest of themcrime, an actress and so onbut what she said would come back to haunt her. [[Four Broken Ground by Andy JonesVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer Half Moon Bay by Fanny BlakeAlice LaPlante]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionCrime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Women's FictionThrillers]]
Set against Half Moon Bay is a small town on the backdrop west coast of Rome and NaplesAmerica, ten very different people meet on a small 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing triplittle down from San Francisco. This is Jane has just moved there, to start a story of family, friendships new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and relationships – my favouriteher husband left her. However, it was Although she has begun to find a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters little peace in their twenties or thirties. Here the characters are middle-aged with children in their twenties and rather than looking quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for love they are facing different life challenges Jane of maintaining loveher grief and loss and, empty nest syndromealso, and rousing the loss suspicions of loved ones. Essentially it the local townsfolk that she is a story of breaking out and new beginningssomehow involved in the disappearance. [[An Italian Summer Half Moon Bay by Fanny BlakeAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me by J P Delaney]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersPhantom by Leo Hunt]]===
Claire Wright wanted to be an actress, but she was penniless and living in New York. She might have had a scholarship to cover her school fees, but she still had to find the money to live in one of the most expensive cities in the world. There was a solution, although it didn't provide a regular income[[image: she became a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers4star. The job was to trap straying husbands and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules thoughjpg|link=Category: she couldn't hit on them directly - they had to proposition her. There was no intention to trap the innocent. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Believe Me by J P Delaney: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]] <!-- Laura Solomon Claire Askew -->
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===[[Hell's Unveiling All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Laura SolomonClaire Askew]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by the opportunity to read the sequelAs a news item, ''Hell's Unveiling''. school shootings always terrify me: It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''deaths are bad enough, but even the devil is not young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one to take defeat lying downof their number. HeIt doesn's out to wage war t end on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell)the day, either. Although School shootings cast a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concernedvery long shadow. Daniel is framed for May the 14th had the makings of being a crime he didn't commit and sent normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to juvenile detention shoot thirteen fellow students - and refused permission one last bullet to return to live with Marshakill himself. ThenWe follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the mother of course there are all the other children who are not only targetedmurderer, Helen Birch, but the newly- worst of all - subverted to promoted detective inspector who will investigate the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses killings and as with many foster childrenIshbel Hodgekiss, their self esteem is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Hellmother of one of the victims. [[Hell's Unveiling All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Laura SolomonClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by M J TjiaRachel 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:3In 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's 1863 and a little girl has been found murdered at the family home in Stoke Newington. A few days later and a few miles across London, a man is found dead in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chancey, courtesan and part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, if anything, does either of them have to do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leen, and the troubling events in her past which are threatening to resurface?[[A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo The Island by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsM A Bennett]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HistoryTeens|HistoryTeens]], [[:Category:Popular ScienceGeneral Fiction|Popular ScienceGeneral Fiction]]
This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to A contemporary take on the Moon landings and savage classic ''Lord of the passion for the subject drips off every Apollo by Matt FitchFlies'': a group of mismatched, Chris Baker and Mike Collinsmodern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. This Link is a story we know well fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and because prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of this school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing school quad - however ancient that we can fill quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the blanksbutt of every school joke. These shortcuts And some students are the only downside determined to the bookmake his life more miserable than others. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation of a film you will be familiar with the slight feeling that there are scenes missing and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too short. [[Apollo The Island by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Colour Me In by Nick SetchfieldLydia Ruffles]]===
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Europe – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War Reeling from a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, tragedy and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy unable to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemycope, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through unemployed actor Arlo decides to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's get on a world of treachery, blood plane and magic. A world at war in the darkgo somewhere new. [[The War in the Dark Colour Me In by Nick SetchfieldLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild A Treachery of Spies by Gill LewisManda Scott]]===
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Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the local attempt at horrific murder of a skateparkstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, they find a huge waste ground in she's puzzled – whilst the shadow identity of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly dothe woman has been erased, even though they have to drag Izzyit's younger brother with themclear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. The following day they all want Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to return, as does a time when the brother's schoolfriend, despite – men and women of course because of – there being 1940s France were engaged in a huge wolf living in the sitedesperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. Can the children survive living As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Run Wild A Treachery of Spies by Gill LewisManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On The Anomaly by C M TaylorMichael Rutger]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionHorror|General FictionHorror]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestTomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, Yorkshirefor the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for 's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but hean anomaly's living in a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like only to sell it and return to the UK(spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, what with the uncertainty instead of Brexit being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and everything, but there are a couple Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of problemsthis book. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's Deep in a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's cave within the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools Grand Canyon our team of expats who have left Spain and returned home, adventurers find themselves trapped in order to make a bit Stephen King plot with added levels of money to try paranoia and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetconspiracy thrown into the blend. [[Staying On The Anomaly by C M TaylorMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj]]===
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[[image:4starNick 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:TeensThe Water Thief by Claire Hajaj|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 Peter Lovesey -->
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===[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:4Children 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.5star It was too good not to go viral.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersBeau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Bridie - Birdy - Jones is eleven and finding life rather hard. After her mother died, it used to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okay, but now there's Birdy, Dad, an overbearing step mum, a little sister and another baby on the way. There's precious little room for Birdy any more and the only place she really feels happy and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them, training them, and releasing them to wait for them to find their way home. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin|Full Review]] <!-- Klehfoth Webber -->
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[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]
Elizabeth KlehfothThough it's debut novel is a mystery thriller written from been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the perspective ghost of Charlie Callowayher sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, but also a teenage girl in 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 final years at boarding school who is plagued by family, her mother’s disappearance. As friends, the story progresses she begins to learn more about what happened grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her mother. After all, finding out along who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the way escape that he represents from her grief, it's not everyone was who so clear that she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers toos falling in love with him. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Elizabeth KlehfothKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Women's FictionConfident Readers|Women's FictionConfident Readers]]
A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you Samkad is living high up in from the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the lasttwentieth. Fletcher weaves together a dash But Samkad has no idea about any of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romance, (the course of which that. He has never runs smoothly,) met anyone from outside his own small tribe and an unpredictable ghosthis thoughts are focused on becoming a man. The ghost appears once a year, He's desperate for the principal star of her very own show, Elders to permit him to meet with join the love ranks of her life and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Love, joywarriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stageeven though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind.[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Summerland by Naomi NovikHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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Miryem comes from Imagine a long line of moneylenders – world in which death was no longer something to fear but her Father isn't very good at it at allsomething to aspire to. Lending freely and rarely collectingAfter discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, he leaves the family on Big Smoke for the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step inrecently deceased. Hardening her heart and collecting what In 1938 the British Empire is owed from local villagers, she becomes caught up in a person of great interest when she borrows race against Soviet spies and dealing with a pouch mole buried deep in the heart of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of goldSummerland. When Rachel White, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creaturesambitious SIS agent, from becomes suspicious about the dark beings that haunt the wood through potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to a King who's eager risk to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… uncover the truth. [[Spinning Silver Summerland by Naomi NovikHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Party Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Lisa HallK D Knight]]===
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Rachel wakes up in In the opening story a strange bedroomman whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket - and his wife. In ''A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the worst hangover she's ever had and no memory problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when the night beforeground is against him. And even though she has no memory My favourite was ''The Story of H'', she knows at the core story of her being that something very bad has happened Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve partyplease people. But with everyone there appearing After changing hands on various occasions he came to be hiding something the yard of John Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no -hoper. In one giving her of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a straight answer pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to her questionsthe line, will Rachel ever find out what happened winning the race at the party? odds of 100/1. [[Going To The Party Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Lisa HallK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[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:Humour|Humour]]but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
Comic-Cons are Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a place of wonder and sanctuary for many peoplehome there, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both including frogs. For some reason that and sanctuary with other fans and creatorsnobody can remember, plus all the chance Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exit. HoweverSo, when his rival is found deadBiriwita wins a place at Croak College, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order first Ticklewater frog to clear manage such a feat, he is filled with excitement and his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove only worry is how much he will miss his innocence friends and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatorfamily. [[The Con Artist Frog Who Was Blue by Fred Van LenteFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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