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===[[Be Your Higher Self Friends Like These by Samesh RamjattanSarah Alderson]]===
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There are Life in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a lot bit of selfa balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-help books about: it's one of mate’s parents. She works in the most thriving sections of the average bookshopentertainment industry, but it's her job itself is probably not always easy to find the book you needone you’d covet. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self''She doesn’t have much spare time, a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us but that’s because she’s been working through some self-improvement. If they could only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve itsee her now. Even with hard work and dedicationAnd, well, actually, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us , although there’s a guide lot less of her to the spirit worldsee than there once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the chakras, karma past and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the egopeople from it. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Be Your Higher Self Friends Like These by Samesh RamjattanSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Black Light Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Laura SolomonTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Jim is It was embarrassing when a university student andleading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the saying goes, he hasnpolice didn't got his troubles know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to seeka park bench in a cemetery. His father committed suicide when he He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was young and somehow sufficient that he's never really managed to connect with his step-fatherd felt the pain of the digital transfers. His younger brother That would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficulthave been bad enough, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all thatbusinessman 's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to capture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of his friends in victims the pub. murderer, or was it someone he was about to expose? [[Black Light Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Laura SolomonTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Redemptor Domus Vera Magpie by Gamelyn ChaseLaura Solomon]]===
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A young boy arrives at ''I have murdered three husbands.'' As an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coastopening line that must take some beating, sent far from his family in but Vera's telling us the Far Easttruth. As the boy travels to the school The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a family tragedy causes the boy keeper, and it's difficult to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphanunderstand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with an uncertain futurea mandatory life sentence. Plunged into Her only friend is Shirley, a school full of danger and betrayallesbian, the boy is seen as but Vera's not one to let herself be a trophy by friends and enemies alikevictim. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the boy to attempt to clean up security of her life in prison for the pit sake of filth that the school has becomea fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Redemptor Domus Vera Magpie by Gamelyn ChaseLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom Whisperer by Jan-Philipp SendkerKarin Fossum]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesCrime|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionCrime]]
On my travels around the world, I have a tendency When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to end up Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in any bookshop that is selling English-language bookscustody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. Only, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what Iwe hear about Greta'm really looking for is the s life it seems that she'locals more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but t speak above all: the folk talesa whisper and to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. If I ever get to Burma, I wonShe't need s done her best to hunt, I can read before I make a goof her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[The Long Path To Wisdom Whisperer by Jan-Philipp SendkerKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) And So It Begins by Julia JonesRachel Abbott]]===
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Liam isnWe know there't 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'quite'' the youngest in s just a large familyhint: he doesn't have for the distinction of time being we're with two police persons. Stephanie's the baby anymore sergeant and he she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't have the ''heft'like where they' of his older brothers and sistersre heading. He's rather like one of The house is stunning, but the pebbles on last time she was here it was because there was a large shingle beach: part dead body at the bottom of the mass but easily overlooked as an individualstairs to the pool. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as sheThis time there's heavily involved in been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the Luminal Festival omens are not good and when he asked his elder stepthey enter the house they find two tangled, blood-sister, Anna, if she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him offsoaked bodies in the bed. In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that it's just a case of getting spectaclesThey both look dead, but Liamone of them moves - it's eyes are changing in a rather strange wayEvie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[Pebble (Strong Winds series) And So It Begins by Julia JonesRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Oakley HallMick Herron]]===
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Vassilia Caroline BairdWhen you've done a job for any length of time, known to all as Vthe memory, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked instincts of it stay with his defenceyou and they're impossible to forget. Starting at It was the murderous finalesame with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories man charged with looking after the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his key players, in own: the closest he comes to a tale home is the back seat of love spanning decades his car and states, marriages and tragedieshe's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. By The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the time someone else and hope that they'll deal with it/solve the truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? problem/quietly forget about it. [[So Many Doors The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Oakley HallMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity Kingdom of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Brian AndersonLouise Penny]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HistoryCrime|History]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Biography|BiographyCrime]]
Originally passed It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations estate of a crime remained in place for 82 yearswoman he'd never met. But during this time Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallengedbut the third is a stranger to them both. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on The mystery deepens when the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual menwill is read: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the heterosexual Havelock Ellismillions which she bequests at her disposal. Exploring the margins Then a body is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though: one of society and studying homosexuality was common on his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the European Continentpolice academy for drug dealing, but barely talked about in and the UK, so enquiry into the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing incident which led to his suspension as the scientific understanding head of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[The Fraternity Kingdom of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Brian AndersonLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[CookinThe Knitter' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) s Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Amy Patricia MeadeKate Atherley]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, CookinI' The Booksve been knitting for well over sixty years, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her wayfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. ItI's a bit of a poisoned chaliceve knit Aran sweaters, in more ways than one, as socks by the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficultdozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. In fact, There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspectsthey've'' been stuck. ItWould a knitter's not just that she feels herself to dictionary really be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way any help to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. me? The town might be heaving a collective sigh I was surprised by just how much I got out of relief (except not in front 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 people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened. [[CookinThe Knitter' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) s Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Amy Patricia MeadeKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Be Your Higher Self by Catriona McPhersonSamesh Ramjattan]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Spirituality and Religion|Crime (Historical)Spirituality and Religion]]
Dandy Gilver and family had made There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the arduous journey to Wester Rossaverage bookshop, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there it's not always easy to meet find the family of Mallory, her son Donald's fianceebook you need. It wasnSamesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in 't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather 'Be Your Higher Self'young'' at twenty three , a book which allows us all to be contemplating matrimonymake sense of our place in the world, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirtyas most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasnEven with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it't the sharpest pin in the cushions difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come Ramjattan offers us a guide to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Laviniaspirit world, Mallory's motherthe chakras, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by karma and reincarnation as well as information about the mother rather than age of Aquarius and the daughterego. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. answers we seek? [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Be Your Higher Self by Catriona McPhersonSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand Black Light by Tasha SuriLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral Fiction]]
Mehr Jim is a girl trapped between two culturesuniversity student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. Her His father comes from the ruling classes of the empire committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never really managed to connect with his step-father. 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, but her motherJim does his best with and for him. Jim's people were outcastsin love with a woman, Amrithi nomads who worshipped but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the spirits of looks, the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden ritesattitude, Mehr is brought to the attention (lack of ) conversational ability and the Emperorclothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriagehe's 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 pub. [[Empire of Sand Black Light by Tasha SuriLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|Short StoriesGeneral Fiction]]
Laura Solomon's publisher describes A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the short stories scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in ''Alternative Medicine'' as ''black comedy the Far East. As the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, with a twist of surrealism''an uncertain future. I'm rather glad that I didn't see this until ''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally Plunged into a fan school full of eitherdanger and betrayal, but I've come to two conclusions about the book: what the publisher says boy is correct - seen as a trophy by friends and I really enjoyed itenemies alike. The comedy is not ''too'' black With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick pit of reality when you were least expecting it. Your comfort zones are going to be invaded in filth that the nicest possible wayschool has become. [[Alternative Medicine Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Long Path To Wisdom by Erle Stanley GardnerJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'The Count of 9'local' is a hardboiled detective story written in – the 1950s. It revolves around cookbook maybe, the detective duo of Donald Lam and Bertha Cool as they attempt to solve maps definitely, but above all: the theft of priceless Bornean artefactsfolk tales. However If I ever get to Burma, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderI won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[The Count of 9 Long Path To Wisdom by Erle Stanley GardnerJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour of You Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Amelia MandevilleJulia Jones]]===
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Zoe believes Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in adding life to years a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of the mass but easily overlooked as well as years to lifean individual. Her world, like her name, is bursting So when he starts having problems with life and colourhis sight no one really takes any notice. She is He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the sort of girl who would sing a rainbow Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if she could'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. Tristan (or In fairness she's got important exams and Liam'Trees convinced that it's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam' as she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out of hospital following a prolonged stay s eyes are changing in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey placerather strange way. [[Every Colour of You Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Amelia MandevilleJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) So Many Doors by Quintin JardineOakley Hall]]===
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Bob Skinner left the police service in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unitVassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead. He didn't believe Jack sits in it then and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree with him. He might be retired but he's hardly idle: he's contracted his cell refusing to spend one day a week working for a media group, but usually gives more. His family - six children now - is important talk to himthe lawyer tasked with his defence. There's Starting at the occasional private commissionmurderous finale, although he stops short Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of calling himself his key players, in a private investigatortale of love spanning decades and states, but he's just been presented with a problem which it's difficult to refusemarriages and tragedies. It's not the problem that's By the difficulty - it's time the person who truth is asking for help. Sir James Proud was Skinner's predecessor as Chief Constable and he's been approached by a blogger revealed, V will be dead but who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved in a famous murder for which a man was convicted. else will lose their life? He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison - and went to his death denying that he was guilty. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) So Many Doors by Quintin JardineOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Lisa ReganBrian Anderson]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeHistory|History]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Biography|CrimeBiography]]
Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of Police, but Originally passed in many ways that's something of a relief1885, although it does mean that she doesn't quite have the autonomy law that she hadmade homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. It also means that But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the other detectives have a habit nature of calling her 'boss'homosexuality appeared. It's They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she has to watch a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murderEuropean Continent, but what other conclusion can you come to when barely talked about in the officer goes missingUK, her vehicle and phone are off so the radar and there's the body publications of a young man in her driveway? Josie Quinn can't believe that Gretchen - these men were hugely significant – contributing to the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty scientific understanding of such a crimehomosexuality, but she and Noah Fraley are not going to have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocentbeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined leading to help themthe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Lisa ReganBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Woods Murder Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Roy LewisAmy Patricia Meade]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
[[image:3Tish 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 a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. In fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters.5star The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front 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 people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeCookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade|CrimeFull Review]]
Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woods. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that he thought he was physically responsible, but because Lendon had refused to allow the local children to use his driveway as a shortcut to school, 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 attitudes, but his incessant womanising had made him a lot of enemies. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after Jenny's death, there was no shortage of suspects. [[The Woods Murder by Roy Lewis|Full Review]]<!-- Betty Rowlands Catriona McPherson -->
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===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel A Step So Grave (Melissa Craig 4Dandy Gilver) by Betty RowlandsCatriona McPherson]]===
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Melissa Craig should have been getting on with writing 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 meet the family of Mallory, her latest mystery novel but sheson Donald'd been sidetracked into working on the script for a pantomimes fiancee. It wasn't a traditional panto, but a spoof for the birthday party of a local millionaire, that Dandy thought Donald to be held on Halloween. Itrather ''young''s got all the hallmarks of a mystery at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''andold'' a pantomime and it looks as though cast and audience are all in for him at thirty. There was also a good time with niggling worry because Donald wasn't the rehearsals being held sharpest pin in a luxury hotelthe cushion. Well, All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they were until one member 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 cast turns up dead in the cellar at mother rather than the bottom of a steep flight of stairsdaughter. What was he doing there Dandy and why is Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the hotel manager acting so strangely? engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Murder at the Manor Hotel A Step So Grave (Melissa Craig 4Dandy Gilver) by Betty RowlandsCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Empire of Sand by Peter F HamiltonTasha Suri]]===
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Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as Mehr is a pejorativegirl trapped between two cultures. It was borrowed not Her father comes from the high-brow musical art formruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, but from Amrithi nomads who worshipped the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind spirits of science fiction which the coiner (sands. Caught one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hackynight performing these forbidden rites, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''. It would be fifty years later before the term started Mehr is brought to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes attention of distant futuresthe Emperor's most feared mystics, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set who force her into their service by way of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentan arranged marriage. [[Salvation Empire of Sand by Peter F HamiltonTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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