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===[[A Pinch of Magic Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Michelle HarrisonAngela Marsons]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone''No Widdershins girl s past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has ever been able a wealth of information and is using it to leave Crowstoneevil intent. If we do That might seem bad enough, we'll die by but the brutal truth of the next sunsetmatter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- Lisa Gardner Hurwitz -->
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===[[Never Tell Out of the Dark by Lisa GardnerGregg Hurwitz]]===
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Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands1997. Was this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen Evan Smoak is 19 years agoold ''trained up, but theremission ready. And yet untested.'' He's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'in a tragic accident' everyone saidforeign city on an officially unofficial mission, as there was no doubt about which he executes with all the love the two had for each otherimpeccable training that his youth belies. D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or Evan Smoak is Evie about to get away with murder again? Orphan X. [[Never Tell Out of the Dark by Lisa GardnerGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour Watching You by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderLisa Jewell]]===
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After A teenage boy spies on a big blow-up fight with her mumteenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, Emily a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is left alone with following her dad. Her mum Meanwhile, a young woman has gone away on moved back home after some strange job (even though Emily didn't think time abroad, and develops a fascination with her mum even new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman'had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going ons husband in some work around the house. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mumOh, and then doesnthat teenage boy? He't come backs her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange's the mother of the girl he's spying on. Plus, secret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems man she thinks is out to be London during Victorian times, and get her is full of magical beings the woman's husband (and monsters!is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them. Whichever way you look at it, so her life can go back to normal? there's a lot of watching going on in this book. [[The Midnight Hour Watching You by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane by Kate London]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFantasy|CrimeFantasy]]
Spencer was just fifteen This novel is set about a hundred years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him diethe future. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of those things you might, thinkthe old United States is run from Center City. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets Women run this world and it is very proud of London all having defeated the timeold patriarchy. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedicMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don's instructiont, sobbing as he held the phoneare medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. But Ryan wasnAnd if that doesn't prepared work, they're sent to accept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revengework camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Gallowstree Lane Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate LondonCooch|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a CountryHome Workout for Beginners: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Ece TemelkuranJames Atkinson]]===
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A little while ago James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question me: he''Discuss s been on the factors which led toother side...'' I agreed that she There was a time when he was right overweight and wasn't certain whether it was not particularly strong. As a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' child he was leading slow todevelop. I think now This means that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst ithe ''s a flawed system I canunderstands't think of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictatorwhat it' is as rare as hens like and he knows how his clients feel: it's teethmuch more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[How to Lose a CountryHome Workout for Beginners: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Ece TemelkuranJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Others companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Alyssa SheinmelAdrian Cull]]===
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For many years now I''They needed someone ve (half) joked that I intended to blamelive forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I was the only available scapegoat'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Their daughter It was my best friend. Playing time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the scapegoat was reviewing gods brought me the least book I could do under the circumstancesneeded. '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurantsLive Forever Manual: Science, explored ethics and companies behind the most sophisticated corners of new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the globe and lived a life of luxuryanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[A Danger to Herself Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and Others companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Alyssa SheinmelAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This The City In The Middle Of The Night by Mary AdkinsCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Science Fiction|General Science Fiction]]
Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smithpure, meanwhileblazing heat, relied on Irisand totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, but his attention was on making enough money where a creature can freeze to cover his mother's nursing home fees death in Wisconsinseconds, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when totally uninhabitable. In the pressures got too much for himmiddle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. He was devastated when Iris developed Life is a terminal cancer knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and died at the age of thirty threewater from the ice are necessary for life. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in Life for the last six months inhabitants of her life January is long, and hard, and her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a book. arduous, will anything ever change? [[When You Read This The City In The Middle Of The Night by Mary AdkinsCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[The Exit Day We Met : Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Roxie CooperDavid Laws]]===
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This At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is an epic love story spanning ten years hatred of 'will theyBrexit'. Not just Brexit, wonbut use of the word 't theyBrexit'. Stephanie Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and Jamie are /or the people who just can'meant t seem to be'get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the word. When they meet on an art course they This biggest turn-off has made people who have an instant strong connection but both are with other peoplenever so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. However, what I loved was that mention this in relation to this book because it's not a 'typical boy meets girlis partly about Brexit, falls but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in love and lives happily ever after' storya very protracted manner. In fact far Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, itseems, without wanting so the reader of this book has to give too much awayget through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignantauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[The Exit Day We Met : Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Roxie CooperDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well The Hidden by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaMary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleLiterary Fiction|LifestyleLiterary Fiction]], [[:Category:CookeryHistorical Fiction|CookeryHistorical Fiction]]
I thought I was getting When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a cookbook: I liked the idea of Catholic Priest, remembers a series of recipes which would make me feel happytime when he hid something very different. For once In this isn't a case story of 'if love, loss and betrayal, it sounds too good remains to be true, it probably is' - it's seen whether a case speck of getting something which could change your life for light can diffuse the better - for good - rather than a quick fix. darkest shadows of war… [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well The Hidden by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Painting Snails by Hanna JamesonStephen John Hartley]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Dystopian FictionLifestyle|Dystopian FictionLifestyle]]
Jon Keller is in It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a hotel in Switzerland in lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the remote countryside when best results. The answer would be something along the world endslines of 'try it and see'. He has no idea if Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his family A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is alive, he has no idea whatnow an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's going an awful lot more to what goes on in the nearest citya Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', or if but that isn't really what the nearest city has been obliteratedbook's about. Shocked There's a lot about rock & roll, amid the mass hysteria and exodus, Jon decides which seems to stay at be the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. Hereal passion of Hartley's not alonelife, twenty other people also stay and gradually form but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a small community. One day, when helping category for 'doing the hotel manager, Jon finds impossible the body of a girl deemed to have been killed before hard way'? Yep - that's the world endedone. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl It's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the last community on earthautobiography. [[The Last Painting Snails by Hanna JamesonStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[The Haven:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionBook 1 by Simon Lelic]]===
For those of you who have read books of life in the Nazi camps – and of course, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next step. It begins, after all, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munich, she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for work, or company, or transport elsewhere, either official or otherwise. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raised[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator):Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Alok Tripathy Kennedy -->
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner by Alok Ranjan Tripathy]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction]]
SoThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, what brought me to this book? As the owner of a small business providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a buyer of IT services I should be prison to Alex as anything the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliers, but IGermans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to 've frequently found myself the junior partner and I've regularly been let down by them. I needed to know where I could improve that relationship and'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, by looking at the situation from instigator of the supplier's point of viewdisinformation campaign, what steps I needed and returned to takefind her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alok TripathyAlex can's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some t get Justine out of his head. Has she left the answers as to how my suppliers could better help me. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner The Things That are Lost by Alok Ranjan TripathyAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay]]===
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[[image:4starA man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the body was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensSong of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay|TeensFull Review]]
Harper's life is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault of her own. Her mother has cancer and not long to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with him. And her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonetheless, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer|Full Review]]   <!-- Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson Michelle Harrison -->
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===[[Loved to Bits A Pinch of Magic by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonMichelle Harrison]]===
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''Loved No Widdershins girl has ever been able to Bits'' is the heartwarming story of a boy's love for his bearleave Crowstone. BearIf we do, we's adventures with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from ll die by the jungle to the sea. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way next sunset. The loss of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery ''don't worry, I've got one more''. But boy loves him just as he is and won't hear of him being mended. His place, after all, is in Boy's bed. [[Loved to Bits by Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson|Full Review]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- Cohen Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[Louis and Louise Never Tell by Julie CohenLisa Gardner]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|General FictionThrillers]]
What would you be like, right now, if youEvie Carter'd been born s husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. Was this a different genderdomestic dispute which had got out of hand? Would Was it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded in the same waypregnancy hormones running rampant? Or would the way you had Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all of the abovesixteen years ago, covering but there's no mistaking the stories of Louis teenager who had accidentally shot and Louisekilled her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, born on the same day, to as there was no doubt about the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in love the two had for each other a girl. Does it really make a difference, D D had no worries at the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? We all know that men and women are treated differentlytime, but this story really highlights just how things many gun accidents can one woman have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you - or is Evie about to think about how they could be... get away with murder again? [[Louis and Louise Never Tell by Julie CohenLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing to Flying Midnight Hour by Gill LewisBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in the UK After a big blow-up fight with her mum and Robel, a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move in the UKEmily is left alone with her dad. He threatens them that if they donHer mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't do think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what he saysis going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, theyand then doesn'll be sent homet come back. One day, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on She heads out to investigate and discovers a market stallstrange, strangely drawn to the bird that decorates the hat. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside secret world called the hat boxMidnight Hour, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen's storywhich seems to be London during Victorian times, finding in it an escape from her own life that and is full of hunger magical beings (and loss. monsters!) What were her parents doing here? She finds that And will she is challenged by the girl in the diarybe able to find them and rescue them, to speak up in so her own life and fight for her place in the world. can go back to normal? [[The Closest Thing to Flying Midnight Hour by Gill LewisBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Gallowstree Lane by Elly GriffithsKate London]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicatedSpencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should beThe stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (let's not call it a Just one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowayof those things you might, think. Michelle, Nelson's wife, knows about Kate and has been very understandingTragic, but then there's teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the matter streets of her affair London all the time. His friend Ryan was with a black policeman which she'd rather not have to discuss with her daughtersSpence when he was stabbed. Nelson knows about it and knows that It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, could be Timparamedic'sinstruction, sobbing as he held the phone. ThatBut Ryan wasn's a lot t prepared to cope with - and accept that's before he gets to workit was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) Gallowstree Lane by Elly GriffithsKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The Wedding Guest 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Jonathan KellermanEce Temelkuran]]===
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It was A little while ago a bridesmaid who found friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the victimquestion 's body in a rather disreputable toilet at 'Discuss the wedding venuefactors which led to... '' She didn't know who I agreed that she was right and neither did the bride or groom. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she certain whether it was furious a good or bad thing that someone had set out we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to disrupt her wedding. Baby (yes, I think now that was what people called Brearley) didnI do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't come across think of a better one, particularly as being particularly likeable, despite the fact that she said that everyone liked her, and her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer and he called on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawarebenevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The Wedding Guest 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Jonathan KellermanEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open A Danger to Herself and Others by Douglas KennedyAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyoneThey needed someone to blame, and it often feels as though that I was the intentiononly available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. Though Playing the scapegoat was the novel often feels like a pastiche of least I could do under the great American novel circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – epic or so her parents tell her. She has dined in scope, preoccupied with matters of money and literature, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramafancy restaurants, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining explored the turn most sophisticated corners of American society since the 70s, globe and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reagan. Though it takes place over lived a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, life of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themluxury. [[The Great Wide Open A Danger to Herself and Others by Douglas KennedyAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me When You Read This by Susan WilkinsMary Adkins]]===
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It's seventeen Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years since DC Jo Boden's sister, Sarah, was murdered and during which time Iris left her life since has been lived in husband at the shadow of what happenedaltar on their wedding day. Jo Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was only eleven at the time and her parentson making enough money to cover his mother' marriage broke up s nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go branding agency in New York and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifelosing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. She wasn't pleased He was devastated when Jo decided to join Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the police, but the job satisfies Joage of thirty three. She's passed her sergeant's exams but He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the Met these days it's a case last six months of dead men's shoes her life and no one seems inclined to make way for her final request of Smith is that he gets the younger generation. Still, being a detective is better than being blog published as a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itbook. [[It Should Have Been Me When You Read This by Susan WilkinsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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