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===[[So Many Doors Friends Like These by Oakley HallSarah Alderson]]===
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Vassilia Caroline BairdLife in London isn’t always glam, known especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to all as Vher room-mate’s parents. She works in the entertainment industry, but her job itself is deadprobably not one you’d covet. She doesn’t have much spare time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defenceIf they could only see her now. Starting at the murderous finaleAnd, well, actually, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key playersthey can, in although there’s a tale lot less of love spanning decades and statesher to see than there once was. But yes, marriages she doesn’t really have much time for the past and tragediesthe people from it. By the time the truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[So Many Doors Friends Like These by Oakley HallSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity of the EstrangedMalice in Malmo: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Brian AndersonTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Originally passed in 1885It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the law that had made homosexual relations police didn't know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to a crime remained park bench in place for 82 yearsa cemetery. But during this time He was coy about how much ransom was paid, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on but it was sufficient that he'd felt the nature pain of homosexuality appearedthe digital transfers. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter That would have been bad enough, but a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and studying homosexuality her colleagues was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to find the scientific understanding of homosexuality, businessman ''and beginning '' to capture the struggle for recognition and equality, leading kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in 1967his flat. Was one of his victims the murderer, or was it someone he was about to expose? [[The Fraternity of the EstrangedMalice in Malmo: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Brian AndersonTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Vera Magpie by Amy Patricia MeadeLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Tish Tarragon is working towards As an opening her literary cafeline that must take some beating, Cookinbut Vera' The Books, when s telling us the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her waytruth. It's The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a bit of treasure, a poisoned chalicekeeper, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is and it's difficult. In factto understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's poisoned at the meal Tish has cateredin prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, therebut Vera's no shortage of suspectsnot one to let herself be a victim. ItShe's not just that she feels herself to be superior keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (shewouldn's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out t risk the security of her way to make life difficult in prison for anyone she encounters. The town might be heaving the sake of a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sherifffling), obviously) but Tish she is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal keen on getting an education and she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's openedstudying for a degree in English Literature. [[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Vera Magpie by Amy Patricia MeadeLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) The Whisperer by Catriona McPhersonKarin Fossum]]===
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Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to When we first meet the family of Mallory, her son DonaldRagna we can't understand what's fianceegoing on. It wasnShe't that Dandy thought Donald s talking to be rather Inspector Konrad Sejer and it''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but s obvious that Mallory was rather she''old'' for him at thirty. There was also s being held in custody because of a niggling worry because Donald wasncrime which she admits she't the sharpest pin in the cushions committed. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady LaviniaOnly, Malloryas we hear about Greta's mother, but life it soon became obvious seems that Donald was smitten by the mother rather she's more sinned against than the daughtersinning. Dandy After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's done her best to make a go of her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found deaddifficulties of communicating with people. [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) The Whisperer by Catriona McPhersonKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand And So It Begins by Tasha SuriRachel Abbott]]===
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Mehr is We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die. But that's just a girl trapped between hint: for the time being we're with two culturespolice persons. Her father comes from Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, the ruling classes of probationer with her in the empire squad car, but her motherStephanie doesn't like where they's people were outcastsre heading. The house is stunning, Amrithi nomads who worshipped but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the spirits bottom of the sandsstairs to the pool. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, Mehr is brought to blood-soaked bodies in the attention bed. They both look dead, but one of the Emperorthem moves - it's most feared mystics, who force Evie Clark and she confesses to killing her into their service by way of an arranged marriagepartner. [[Empire of Sand And So It Begins by Tasha SuriRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Laura SolomonMick Herron]]===
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Laura SolomonWhen you's publisher describes ve done a job for any length of time, the memory, the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy instincts of it stay with a twist of surrealism'you and they're impossible to forget. IIt was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he'm rather glad that I didn't see s seeing and he passes this until ''on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally a fan the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of either, but I've come to two conclusions about the bookhis own: what the publisher says closest he comes to a home is correct - the back seat of his car and I really enjoyed ithe's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. The comedy best he can do with Solomon's problem is not ''too'' black and to pass it on the surrealism is gentle someone else and perhaps best described as a twist or flick of reality when you were least expecting hope that they'll deal with it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in /solve the nicest possible wayproblem/quietly forget about it. [[Alternative Medicine The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Laura SolomonMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count Kingdom of 9 the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Erle Stanley GardnerLouise Penny]]===
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''The Count It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of 9'a woman he' d never met. Another villager from Three Pines is also a hardboiled detective story written in liquidator, but the 1950sthird is a stranger to them both. It revolves around The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the detective duo millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a body is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though: one of Donald Lam his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and Bertha Cool the enquiry into the incident which led to his suspension as they attempt to solve the theft head of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderthe Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[The Count Kingdom of 9 the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Erle Stanley GardnerLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour of You The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Amelia MandevilleKate Atherley]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life to years as I've been knitting for well as over sixty years to life. Her world, like her name, is bursting following patterns of varying complexity with life and coloursuccess. She is I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the sort of girl who would sing dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a rainbow if she couldcharity to sell. Tristan (or There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they'Treeve'' as she calls him) is the oppositebeen stuck. Fresh Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey placeit. [[Every Colour of You The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Amelia MandevilleKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) Be Your Higher Self by Quintin JardineSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Bob Skinner left There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the police service in Scotland when most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it was amalgamated into one unit's not always easy to find the book you need. He didnSamesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in 't believe in it then and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree with him. He might be retired but heBe Your Higher Self's hardly idle: he's contracted to spend one day , a week working for a media group, but usually gives more. His family - six children now - is important book which allows us all to him. There's make sense of our place in the occasional private commissionworld, although he stops short as most of calling himself a private investigatorus only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, but he's just been presented with a problem which obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to refuseunderstand why or how they can be overcome. It's not Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the problem that's chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the difficulty - it's age of Aquarius and the person who is asking for helpego. Sir James Proud was SkinnerIt's predecessor as Chief Constable and he's been approached by a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved in a famous murder for which a man was convicted. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison slim book - just 128 pages - and went to his death denying that he was guilty. so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) Be Your Higher Self by Quintin JardineSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self Black Light by Samesh RamjattanLaura Solomon]]===
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There are Jim is a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of university student and, as the average bookshopsaying goes, but ithe hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's not always easy never really managed to find the book you needconnect with his step-father. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential but Jim does his best with and few people ever achieve itfor him. Even Jim's in love with hard work and dedicationa woman, obstacles present themselves but she finds him repulsive and it's difficult to you can understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to : the spirit worldlooks, the chakrasattitude, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age (lack of Aquarius ) conversational ability and the egoclothing all leave a lot to be desired. ItDespite all that's he's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the answers we seek? pub. [[Be Your Higher Self Black Light by Samesh RamjattanLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) Redemptor Domus by Lisa ReganGamelyn Chase]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of PoliceA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, but sent far from his family in many ways that's something of a relief, although it does mean that she doesn't quite have the autonomy that she hadFar East. It also means that As the boy travels to the other detectives have school, a habit of calling her 'boss'. It's family tragedy causes the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she has boy to watch arrive at the school a fellow officer being arrested for vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Plunged into a cold-blooded murderschool full of danger and betrayal, but what other conclusion can you come to when the officer goes missingboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, her vehicle and phone are off it comes to the radar and there's boy to attempt to clean up the body pit of a young man in her driveway? Josie Quinn can't believe filth that Gretchen - the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty of such a crime, but she and Noah Fraley are not going to have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocent, and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined to help themschool has become. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) Redemptor Domus by Lisa ReganGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Long Path To Wisdom by Roy LewisJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking On my travels around the world, I have a shortcut through Kenton Woods. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second- not that he thought he was physically responsiblehand escapist tales as the next person, but because Lendon had refused to allow what I'm really looking for is the 'local children to use his driveway as a shortcut to school' – the cookbook maybe, forcing them to cut through the woods if they were late. Lendon wasn't a popular man - he would say that lawyers never are - partly because of his attitudesmaps definitely, but his incessant womanising had made him a lot of enemiesabove all: the folk tales. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after JennyIf I ever get to Burma, I won's deatht need to hunt, there was no shortage of suspectsI can read before I go. [[The Woods Murder Long Path To Wisdom by Roy LewisJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]] <!-- Betty Rowlands Julia Jones -->
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===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel Pebble (Melissa Craig 4Strong Winds series) by Betty RowlandsJulia Jones]]===
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Melissa Craig should have been getting on with writing her latest mystery novel but sheLiam isn't ''quite''d been sidetracked into working on the script for youngest in a pantomime. It wasnlarge family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't a traditional panto, but a spoof for have the birthday party ''heft'' of a local millionaire, to be held on Halloweenhis older brothers and sisters. ItHe's got all rather like one of the hallmarks pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of a mystery the mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival andwhen he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she' a pantomime s got important exams and Liam's convinced that it looks as though cast and audience are all in for 's just a good time with the rehearsals being held in a luxury hotel. Wellcase of getting spectacles, they were until one member of the cast turns up dead but Liam's eyes are changing in the cellar at the bottom of a steep flight of stairsrather strange way. What was he doing there and why is the hotel manager acting so strangely? [[Murder at the Manor Hotel Pebble (Melissa Craig 4Strong Winds series) by Betty RowlandsJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation So Many Doors by Peter F HamiltonOakley Hall]]===
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Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art formV, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'is dead. It related Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''lawyer tasked with his defence. It would be fifty years later before Starting at the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the same themes stories of distant futureshis key players, military conflict, heroism and in a simplistic set tale of values – more literarylove spanning decades and states, more expansive worksmarriages and tragedies. The term By the time the truth is now taken as compliment. revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Salvation So Many Doors by Peter F HamiltonOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[House The Fraternity of Glass the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Susan FletcherBrian Anderson]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta''Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease Edward Carpenter and whilst there is still no cureJohn Addington Symonds, treatments have advancedas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. At Exploring the beginning margins of the twentieth century it meant that Clara society and studying homosexuality was confined to her home, living life through a window and common on the tales her mother, CharlotteEuropean Continent, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable but barely talked about bones and in the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape UK, so the house after her mother's death - publications of a tumour at these men were hugely significant – contributing to the age scientific understanding of thirty nine - homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led equality, leading to the offer milestone legalisation of a job stocking a newlysame-built glass house at Shadowbrook sex relationships in Gloucestershire1967. [[House The Fraternity of Glass the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Susan FletcherBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Under the Ice Cookin' The Books (DCI JansenTish Tarragon Mystery) by Rachael BlokAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. It's eleven days to Christmas and the cathedral city a bit of St Albans is looking particularly festive with a covering of snowpoisoned chalice, in more ways than one, but this belies the atmosphere: as the body head of a young girl has been found frozen in the local lakelibrary committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. DCI JansenIn fact, when she's only lead comes from Jenny Brennan - but can you put any credence on statements made by poisoned at the sleep-deprived mother meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a four month old childDarlington, particularly one who claims to have seen visions? Can you believe see), but that she actively goes out of her statements that way to make life difficult for anyone she's been sleep-walking encounters. The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in the middle front of the night when she find evidence sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the police have missed? When another girl goes missing the tiny city is fact that Binnie died face down in melt-down and for Jenny it a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all seems close that keen to home. Far too close come to homeher cafe once it's opened. [[Under the Ice Cookin' The Books (DCI JansenTish Tarragon Mystery) by Rachael BlokAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Laura WeymouthCatriona McPherson]]===
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Five years ago EvelynDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the safety family of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around the streets of LondonMallory, her son Donald's fiancee. In the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to join them, Evelyn prayed be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be anywhere else. A plea contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was answered by The Woodlandsrather ''old'' for him at thirty. One moment There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in grey London and the next surrounded cushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by a rich green forest, the three children mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and Hugh were transported from one world trapped in war, considering whether or not they should try to put an end to another on the brink of its ownengagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[The Light Between Worlds A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Laura WeymouthCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish Empire of Sand by Alan DurantTasha Suri]]===
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When Dak's dad dies very suddenly, from Mehr is a heart attack, Dak is left feeling lost and alonegirl trapped between two cultures. His mum is lost inside Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her own griefmother's people were outcasts, struggling to take care Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of herself, let alone care for Dak, and so he escapes to the local aquarium - somewhere that both he and his dad had lovedsands. But then he discovers that actuallyCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, his dad has turned into a clownfish and Mehr is living at brought to the local aquarium! What will Dak do when attention of the aquariumEmperor's future is in questionmost feared mystics, and he may potentially lose his dad all over again? who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. [[Clownfish Empire of Sand by Alan DurantTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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