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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) Friends Like These by Julia JonesSarah Alderson]]===
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Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest Life in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a large family: he doesn't have the distinction bit of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sistersa balancing act. He's rather like one of the pebbles on She has a large shingle beach: part of nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the mass entertainment industry, but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no her job itself is probably not one really takes any noticeyou’d covet. He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder stepShe doesn’t have much spare time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self-sisterimprovement. If they could only see her now. And, well, Annaactually, if she'll take him for an eye testthey can, she puts him offalthough there’s a lot less of her to see than there once was. In fairness But yes, she's got important exams doesn’t really have much time for the past and Liam's convinced that the people from it's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) Friends Like These by Julia JonesSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Oakley HallTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Vassilia Caroline BairdIt was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, known to all particularly as Vthe police didn't know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, is dead. Jack sits tied to a park bench in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defencea cemetery. Starting at the murderous finale He was coy about how much ransom was paid, Hall skillfully weaves together but it was sufficient that he'd felt the stories pain of his key playersthe digital transfers. That would have been bad enough, in but a tale of love spanning decades second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and states, marriages her colleagues was to find the businessman ''and tragedies'' to capture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. By Was one of his victims the time the truth is revealedmurderer, V will be dead but who else will lose their lifeor was it someone he was about to expose? [[So Many Doors Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Oakley HallTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 Vera Magpie by Brian AndersonLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Originally passed in 1885As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 yearstruth. But during this time The first two husbands, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 Gary and 1908Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symondsit's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellisparticularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but barely talked about in the UK, so Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the publications security of these men were hugely significant – contributing to her life in prison for the scientific understanding sake of homosexualitya fling), but she is keen on getting an education and beginning the struggle she's studying for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships a degree in 1967English Literature. [[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 Vera Magpie by Brian AndersonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Whisperer by Amy Patricia MeadeKarin Fossum]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, CookinWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her ways going on. ItShe's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's a bit being held in custody because of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficultcrime which she admits she's committed. In factOnly, when sheas we hear about Greta's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, therelife it seems that she's no shortage of suspectsmore sinned against than sinning. ItAfter a botched operation on her vocal chords she can's not just that she feels herself t speak above a whisper and to add insult to be superior (injury she's been left with a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of horrible scar across her throat. She's done her way best to make a go of her life difficult for anyone though: she encounters. The town might be heaving enjoys her work in a collective sigh shop and has learned ways of relief (except not in front coping with the difficulties of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that communicating with people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened. [[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) Whisperer by Amy Patricia MeadeKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[A Step And So Grave (Dandy Gilver) It Begins by Catriona McPhersonRachel Abbott]]===
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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 We know there to meet 's something very strange going on as soon as we join the family of Mallory, her son Donaldstory: we begin by hearing how it's fianceegoing to end and that someone must die. It wasn't But that Dandy thought Donald to be rather 's just a hint: for the time being we'youngre with two police persons. Stephanie'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimonys the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but that Mallory was rather ''oldStephanie doesn't like where they' for him at thirtyre heading. There The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't dead body at the bottom of the sharpest pin in stairs to the cushionpool. All This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the doubts had faded into insignificance though omens are not good and when they arrived at Applecross: enter the house they might have come to celebrate find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the fiftieth birthday bed. They both look dead, but one of Lady Lavinia, Mallorythem moves - it's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy Evie Clark and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try she confesses to put an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found deadkilling her partner. [[A Step And So Grave (Dandy Gilver) It Begins by Catriona McPhersonRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Tasha SuriMick Herron]]===
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Mehr is When you've done a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from job for any length of time, the memory, the ruling classes instincts of it stay with you and they're impossible to forget. It was the empire but her mothersame with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's people were outcastsseeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits man charged with looking after the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his own: the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr closest he comes to a home is brought to the attention back seat of his car and he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the Emperornight. The best he can do with Solomon's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriageproblem is to pass it on the someone else and hope that they'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[Empire of Sand The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Tasha SuriMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Laura SolomonLouise Penny]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesCrime|Short StoriesCrime]]
Laura Solomon's publisher describes the short stories in ''Alternative Medicine'' It came as ''black comedy with something of a twist surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of surrealism'a woman he'd never met. I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally Another villager from Three Pines is also a fan of eitherliquidator, but I've come the third is a stranger to two conclusions about them both. The mystery deepens when the bookwill is read: what given that the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed deceased was a cleaner itseems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. The comedy Then a body is found. That's not Gamache''too'' black s only problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described enquiry into the incident which led to his suspension as a twist or flick the head of reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the nicest possible wayoutcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[Alternative Medicine Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Laura SolomonLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Erle Stanley GardnerKate Atherley]]===
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I''The Count ve been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of 9varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I' is m currently knitting blankets for a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950scharity to sell. It revolves around the detective duo of Donald Lam There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and Bertha Cool as people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they attempt 've'' been stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to solve the theft me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderit. [[The Count of 9 Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Erle Stanley GardnerKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour of You Be Your Higher Self by Amelia MandevilleSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Zoe believes There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in adding life ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to years make sense of our place in the world, as well as years most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to lifeunderstand why or how they can be overcome. Her Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, like her namethe chakras, is bursting with life karma and colour. She is reincarnation as well as information about the sort age of girl who would sing a rainbow if she couldAquarius and the ego. Tristan (or It''Tree'' as she calls him) is s a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey place. answers we seek? [[Every Colour of You Be Your Higher Self by Amelia MandevilleSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) Black Light by Quintin JardineLaura Solomon]]===
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Bob Skinner left Jim is a university student and, as the police service in Scotland saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when it he was amalgamated into one unit. He didn't believe in it then young and somehow he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree s never really managed to connect with himhis step-father. He might His younger brother would be retired but hekindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you's hardly idle: d just say that he's contracted to spend one day a week working for a media groupwas very difficult, but usually gives more. His family - six children now - is important to Jim does his best with and for him. ThereJim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the occasional private commissionattitude, although he stops short the (lack of calling himself ) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a private investigator, but he's just been presented with a problem which it's difficult lot to refusebe desired. It's not the problem Despite all that's the difficulty - ithe's the person who is asking for help. Sir James Proud was Skinner's predecessor as Chief Constable not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's been approached by a blogger who feels that actually writing ''two'' novels and he has evidence that Proud was involved in a famous murder for which a man was convicted. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison - and went reads excerpts from these to his death denying that he was guiltyfriends in the pub. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) Black Light by Quintin JardineLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self Redemptor Domus by Samesh RamjattanGamelyn Chase]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. As the most thriving sections of boy travels to the average bookshopschool, but it's not always easy a family tragedy causes the boy to find arrive at the book you needschool a vulnerable orphan, with an uncertain future. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', Plunged into a book which allows us all to make sense school full of our place in danger and betrayal, the world, boy is seen as most of us only glimpse our true potential a trophy by friends and few people ever achieve itenemies alike. Even with hard work With them locked into their scheming and dedicationplotting, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult comes to the boy to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide attempt to clean up the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age pit of Aquarius and filth that the egoschool has become. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Be Your Higher Self Redemptor Domus by Samesh RamjattanGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Long Path To Wisdom by Lisa ReganJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of PoliceOn my travels around the world, but in many ways that's something of a relief, although it does mean that she doesn't quite have the autonomy that she had. It also means that the other detectives I have a habit of calling her 'boss'. It's the autonomy bit tendency to end up in any bookshop that strikes home though when she has to watch a fellow officer being arrested for a coldis selling English-blooded murderlanguage books, but what other conclusion can you come to when and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the officer goes missingnext person, her vehicle and phone are off what I'm really looking for is the radar and there's the body of a young man in her driveway? Josie Quinn canlocal't believe that Gretchen - – the woman she brought onto cookbook maybe, the Denton police force - could be guilty of such a crimemaps definitely, but she and Noah Fraley are not going above all: the folk tales. If I ever get to have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocentBurma, and Gretchen doesnI won't seem inclined need to help themhunt, I can read before I go. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Long Path To Wisdom by Lisa ReganJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Roy LewisJulia Jones]]===
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Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a shortcut through Kenton Woods. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that large family: he thought doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he was physically responsible, but because Lendon had refused to allow doesn't have the local children to use ''heft'' of his driveway as older brothers and sisters. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a shortcut to school, forcing them to cut through large shingle beach: part of the woods if they were latemass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. Lendon wasnHe doesn't a popular man - want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he would say that lawyers never are asked his elder step- partly because of his attitudessister, Anna, if she'll take him for an eye test, but his incessant womanising had made she puts him a lot of enemiesoff. When Lendon was murdered In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that it's just a couple case of months after Jennygetting spectacles, but Liam's death, there was no shortage of suspectseyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[The Woods Murder Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Roy LewisJulia Jones|Full Review]] <!-- Betty Rowlands Hall -->
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===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) So Many Doors by Betty RowlandsOakley Hall]]===
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Melissa Craig should have been getting on with writing her latest mystery novel but she'd been sidetracked into working on the script for a pantomime. It wasn't a traditional panto, but a spoof for the birthday party of a local millionaireVassilia Caroline Baird, known to be held on Halloween. It's got all the hallmarks of a mystery ''and'' a pantomime and it looks as though cast and audience are all in for a good time with the rehearsals being held in a luxury hotel. WellV, they were until one member of the cast turns up is dead . Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the cellar lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the bottom murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key players, in a steep flight tale of stairslove spanning decades and states, marriages and tragedies. What was he doing there and why By the time the truth is the hotel manager acting so strangelyrevealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) So Many Doors by Betty RowlandsOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Peter F HamiltonBrian Anderson]]===
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Apparently Originally passed in 1885, the term ''space opera'' was coined law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in 1941 as a pejorativeplace for 82 years. It was borrowed But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not from go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the high-brow musical art formnature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, but from as well as the common or garden 'soap opera'heterosexual Havelock Ellis. It related to a particular kind Exploring the margins of science fiction which society and studying homosexuality was common on the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hackyEuropean Continent, grindingbut barely talked about in the UK, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''. It would be fifty years later before so the term started to be re-appropriated publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to cover – if still the same themes scientific understanding of distant futureshomosexuality, military conflictand beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, heroism and a simplistic set leading to the milestone legalisation of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentsame-sex relationships in 1967. [[Salvation The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Peter F HamiltonBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Susan FletcherAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cureThe Books, treatments have advancedwhen the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. At the beginning It's a bit of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and the tales her motherpoisoned chalice, Charlottein more ways than one, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and as the head of the sounds they made on breakinglibrary committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. Charlotte would ''list bones like continentsIn fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. Clara would only escape the house after her motherIt's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's death - of a tumour at the age Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardensway to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. Her growing knowledge The town might be heaving a collective sigh of tropical plants led to relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the offer of fact that Binnie died face down in a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershiremeal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened. [[House of Glass Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Susan FletcherAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Under the Ice A Step So Grave (DCI JansenDandy Gilver) by Rachael BlokCatriona McPherson]]===
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It's eleven days to Christmas Dandy Gilver and family had made the cathedral city of St Albans is looking particularly festive with a covering of snowarduous journey to Wester Ross, but this belies the atmosphere: Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the body family of a young girl has been found frozen in the local lakeMallory, her son Donald's fiancee. DCI JansenIt wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young''s only lead comes from Jenny Brennan - at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but can you put any credence on statements made by the sleep-deprived mother of a four month that Mallory was rather ''old child, particularly one who claims to have seen visions? '' for him at thirty. Can you believe her statements that sheThere was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn's been sleep-walking t the sharpest pin in the middle of cushion. All the night doubts had faded into insignificance though when she find evidence 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 the mother rather than the police have missed? daughter. When another girl goes missing the tiny city is in melt-down Dandy and for Jenny it all seems close Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to home. Far too close put an end to homethe engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Under the Ice A Step So Grave (DCI JansenDandy Gilver) by Rachael BlokCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds Empire of Sand by Laura WeymouthTasha Suri]]===
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Five years ago EvelynMehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to Amrithi nomads who worshipped the safety spirits of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around the streets of Londonsands. In the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents to join themCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, Evelyn prayed Mehr is brought to be anywhere else. A plea that was answered by The Woodlands. One moment in grey London and the next surrounded by a rich green forest, attention of the three children were transported from one world trapped in warEmperor's most feared mystics, to another on the brink who force her into their service by way of its ownan arranged marriage. [[The Light Between Worlds Empire of Sand by Laura WeymouthTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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