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===[[Unrest by Jesper Stein]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Confident ReadersThrillers]]
Samkad DCI Steen is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to assigned a puzzling case – the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot thathad the area swarming in police. He has never met How could anyone from outside his own small tribe have been murdered and his thoughts are focused left in the open with so many police on becoming site? Unless the killer is one of them… As the case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a mantoll on Steen's already troubled personal life. Hewon's desperate for t stop until the Elders to permit him to join killer is caught, whatever the ranks of consequences. But the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Bone Talk Unrest by Candy GourlayJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Hannu RajaniemiDominic Watson]]===
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Imagine Even with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire bit young tobe reading about retirement. After discovery of My next life change in the afterlifepipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the recently deceased. In 1938 silky blue waters of the British Empire is caught up in Caribbean, but only for a race against Soviet spies year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of Summerlandmany working years still to come. When Rachel WhiteAlso, an ambitious SIS agentI like work. My job is interesting, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agentI get to travel, she must decide how far she is willing to go what we do matters and how much she is willing it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to risk to uncover retire just yet. But as the truthpremise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued. [[Summerland Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Hannu RajaniemiDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by K D KnightLynda La Plante]]===
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In It was February 1979 in the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket strike- and his wife. In ridden 'Winter of Discontent'A Grey Day'' an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse when a body was discovered in the Gold Cup when the ground is against himPeckham. My favourite It was ''The Story to be the first of H''two bodies in two days, but the story first - that of Foinavon. H is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please peopleyoung woman - would remain unidentified for some time. After changing hands on various occasions he came to The second - an older lady - was found in the yard boot of John Kemptonher car by her son. H (or Foinavon) was entered Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the Grand National midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and considered pressure to get a no-hoperquick result. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence Four days later and galloped another body to add to the linecount, winning the race at odds of 100/1police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by K D KnightLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Ground by Val McDermid]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingCrime|For SharingCrime]] ''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!''
Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home thereAs the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, including frogs. For some reason that nobody can rememberbut for once, all she's in the Lake Ticklewater frogs are blueright place at the right time when a body is dug up in the Highlands. They think nothing of Initially it. Solooks as though the death dates back to WWII, when Biriwita wins 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 Croak Collegethe wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, the first Ticklewater frog to manage such she thought that she'd prevented a featcrime, he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and familybut what she said would come back to haunt her. [[The Frog Who Was Blue Broken Ground by Faiz KermaniVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante]]===
===[[The Survival Game by Nicky Singer]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]], [[:Category:Dystopian FictionThrillers|Dystopian FictionThrillers]]
Mhairi Anne Bain is fourteen years old and Half Moon Bay is a small town on her way home to the Isle west coast of ArranAmerica, a little down from San Francisco. But Mhairi's world Jane has been ravaged by climate change and the mass movement of people and it is one defined by bordersjust moved there, checkpoints to start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and soldiers with gunsher husband left her. Mhairi Although she has made it across Africa and onto begun to find a little peace in the quiet, seaside town, one day a plane to Heathrow - which is more than can be said child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Muma Jane of her grief and Papa. She's even made it out loss and, also, rousing the suspicions of the detention centre at local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the airportdisappearance. 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 Half Moon Bay by Nicky SingerAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola]]===
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Audrey, Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a complex mix futuristic kind of flights of fancy and seriousnesspickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, wanting, needing, to be the more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from sunlight you see and the straightjacket of her homeeasier your life. Where every actionFor leechers like Nova, every thoughtfour hundred storeys below the surface, every yearning life is controlled tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by her fatherlegendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, who only once in his life threw caution Nova can sneak up to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower city, leech some byts and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expectedat least make rent. v[[The Story Keeper Phantom by Anna MazzolaLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Four All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Andy JonesClaire Askew]]===
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Friends are niceAs a news item, and couple friends school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are doubly nicebad enough, giving you like minded but even the young people who survive are always going to spend time with. A pair be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of pairs, or a couple of couplestheir number. 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 she It doesn't have their shared historyend on the day, she's either. School shootings cast a lot very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of fun – being a bit younger than 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 rest lives of themthree women: Moira Summers, the mother of the murderer, Helen Birch, an actress the newly-promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and so onIshbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[Four All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Andy JonesClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Fanny BlakeRachel 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:4starIn 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.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:Women's FictionGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Women's FictionFull Review]]
Set against the backdrop of Rome and Naples, ten very different people meet on a small 'Taste of Italy' sightseeing trip. This is a story of family, friendships and relationships – my favourite. However, it was a departure from the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters in their twenties or thirties. Here the characters are middle-aged with children in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, and the loss of loved ones. Essentially it is a story of breaking out and new beginnings. [[An Italian Summer by Fanny Blake|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me The Island by J P DelaneyM A Bennett]]===
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Claire Wright wanted A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies'': a group of mismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to be an actress, but she was penniless and living in New Yorksurvive on a deserted island. She might have had Link is a scholarship to cover her school feesfish out of water. Newly arrived from America, but she still had he is finding it hard to find settle into the money venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to live in one understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the most expensive cities slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the world. There was a solution, although it didn't provide a regular income: she became a decoy for a firm butt of divorce lawyersevery school joke. The job was And some students are determined to trap straying husbands and tape them as they propositioned hermake his life more miserable than others. There were rules though: she couldn't hit on them directly - they had to proposition her. There was no intention to trap the innocent. [[Believe Me The Island by J P DelaneyM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Colour Me In by Laura SolomonLydia Ruffles]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] Reeling from a tragedy and I was delighted by the opportunity unable to read the sequelcope, ''Hell's Unveiling''. It's probably not much of a spoiler unemployed actor Arlo decides to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal'', but the devil is not one to take defeat lying down. He's out to wage war get on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as a 'goody two shoes' in Hell). Although a strong person, she's vulnerable where her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit and sent to juvenile detention plane and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, 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 Hellgo somewhere new. [[Hell's Unveiling Colour Me In by Laura SolomonLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder Treachery of Spies by M J TjiaManda Scott]]===
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ItWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it's 1863 and a little girl clear that she has been found murdered at killed in the family home same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in Stoke NewingtonWorld War Two. A few days later Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a few miles across London, a man is found dead time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a similar way outside the opulent townhouse of Heloise Chanceydesperate, courtesan brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and part-time detective. Could they be connected? And what, if anything, does either of them have more secrets come to do with Heloise's maidlight, Amah Li Leen, and Inès discovers that there are many in the troubling events in her present who would rather their past which are threatening stay buried – and many who would kill to resurface?keep secrets safe… [[A Necessary Murder Treachery of Spies by M J TjiaManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo The Anomaly by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsMichael Rutger]]===
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This incredible graphic novel is a love letter to Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Moon landings and Youtube era. Join the passion intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for the subject drips off every Apollo ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by Matt Fitchtheir own acting, Chris Baker Derek Acorah and Mike Collins. This Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is a story we know well and because the starting point of this the authors take a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in the blanks. These shortcuts are the only downside to the book. If you've ever read Deep in a comic book adaptation cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a film you will be familiar Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into 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 shortblend. [[Apollo The Anomaly by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Water Thief by Nick SetchfieldClaire Hajaj]]===
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Europe – 1963. The world Nick is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives middle 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 wedding preparations when he decides to flee leave his fiancée behind in London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into take up a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught post in a quest some un-named west African country providing engineering support for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search building of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. Ita children's a world of treachery, blood and magichospital. A world at war in the darkHe has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The War in the Dark Water Thief by Nick SetchfieldClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Gill LewisPeter Lovesey]]===
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Meet Izzy and AshaChildren 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. Bullied away from The problem was that when the local attempt at dust settled a skateparkskeleton, they find sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a huge waste ground few hundred years old, was visible in the shadow loft of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly do, even though they have to drag Izzy's younger brother with themthe half-demolished building. The following day they all want to return, as does the brotherlad's schoolfriend, despite – father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and of course because of – there being a huge wolf living in hurried the siteboy away. Can Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the children survive living in corpse from a cherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the urban wildernesscontrols left him eye to, alongside such obvious dangers? er, eye socket with the corpse and the picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not to go viral. [[Run Wild Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Gill LewisPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Only Love Can Break Your Heart by C M TaylorKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]]
Tony Metcalfe is a Yorkshireman through and through and being honestThough it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, Yorkshireforever 14. It's where he'd really like to be. You suspect something that Scarborough would be perfectbrings her comfort, but he's living in also a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde and running a pubconstant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like She has to sell it and return to the UKshine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, what he presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the uncertainty of Brexit grief and everythingloss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, but there are a couple of problems. First offwho wouldn't fall for gorgeous, his wife popular Reiko Smith- Laney - refuses to go back to Mori? But while she falls in love with the UK. She'd have you believe escape that shehe represents from her grief, it's not well, but there's a backstory there so clear thatshe'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 have left Spain and returned home, falling 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 meetlove with him. [[Staying On Only Love Can Break Your Heart by C M TaylorKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The Truth About Lies Bone Talk by Tracy DarntonCandy Gourlay]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]
Jess Samkad is living high up in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hannatwentieth. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess Samkad has no intention idea about any of telling 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 how she feels. Insteadto join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that even though he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possibleknows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[The Truth About Lies Bone Talk by Tracy DarntonCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi]]===
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[[image:4Imagine 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 Summerland, 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.5starWhen Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersSummerland by Hannu Rajaniemi|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 K D Knight -->
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Elizabeth KlehfothIn the 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 ''A 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 's debut novel 'The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a mystery thriller written from kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the perspective yard of Charlie CallowayJohn Kempton. H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and considered a no-hoper. In one of the most dramatic runnings of the race, a teenage girl in her final years pile up occured at boarding school the 23rd fence. Foinavon, who is plagued by her mother’s disappearance. As had been many lengths adrift, cleared the story progresses she begins fence and galloped to learn more about what happened to her motherthe line, finding out along winning the way 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 toorace at odds of 100/1. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Elizabeth KlehfothK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls by Carrie Hope Fletcher]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ParanormalFor Sharing|ParanormalFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, [[:Category:Womenbut the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!'s Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in Biriwita hails from the first page and takes you on Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a roller coaster ride towards the lasthome there, including frogs. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill of romanceFor some reason that nobody can remember, (all the course Lake Ticklewater frogs are blue. They think nothing of which never runs smoothlyit. So,) and an unpredictable ghost. The ghost appears once when Biriwita wins a yearplace at Croak College, the principal star of her very own showfirst Ticklewater frog to manage such a feat, to meet he is filled with the love of her life excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends 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 stagefamily.[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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