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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
The ''I am a girl had once been a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction trying to prescription painkillers changed her completelyforget. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide in the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off a cliff in the Lake District. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but she had no reason to investigate, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girl's school and a darker story emerged. One of the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend ' ''She is the girl who has accused a teacher of luring her woman trying to his flat and then sexually assaulting herremember. It seems that the teacher also has paedophilia on his computer, but the downloading eerily coincides with the girl's visit to his flat. What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch|Full Review]]'
Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Angela Marsons Bowling -->
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) In The Shadow of Heroes by Angela MarsonsNicholas Bowling]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event Life as a slave in Kim Stone's pastancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, starting with but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the death household of her twin the scholar Tullus when she he was six years old. Some of the eventsa baby, or at least the details of themhis keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has who treats him more like a wealth of information secretary and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth perhaps even a member of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the casefamily, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her rather than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enoughdespised, she can sort it outbarely human creature... Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) In The Shadow of Heroes by Angela MarsonsNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark Little Darlings by Gregg HurwitzMelanie Golding]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the arrival of children – twin boys, who they decide to name Riley and Morgan. But something's wrong. While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there is coming to take her children away, and if she looks away for even a second, they'll strike… [[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding|Full Review]]
1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'' He's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|Full Review]] <!-- Jewell Alice Feeney -->
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===[[Watching I Know Who You Are by Lisa JewellAlice Feeney]]===
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A teenage boy spies Aimee Sinclair is just on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some edge of making it big time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbouras an actor. The man Right now she's wife, meanwhile, engages the services sort of the young womanperson whom you think you know but can's husband in some work around the house. Oht quite remember where from, and but that teenage boy? He's her sonall about to change. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She That's the mother of the girl hea little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's spying on. Plusnot really Aimee Sinclair, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman's husband (and Ciara: Aimee is also simply the new headteacher at her daughtername she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's school). Whichever way you look not at itthe front of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Ben Bailey, there's a lot of watching going on in this bookhas disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Watching I Know Who You Are by Lisa JewellAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]===
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This novel In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is set about a hundred years into first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict East, and what's left of Americans from the old United States is run from Center Citywest. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated Dividing the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times andnation between them, if they don'tLondon soon finds itself split in two, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under controla wall running through it like a scar. And if that doesnWhen Jane Cawson't works husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, they're sent Jane is determined to work campsclear his name. In doing so, away from open society, or even worse: expelled Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the wilderness beyond highest levels of the Central Authority's borders. state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Fish Seeking Bicycle Liberation Square by Kate CoochGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson]]===
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James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a 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 me[[image: he's been on the other side5star. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feeljpg|link=Category: it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James AtkinsonCategory:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Adrian Cull Lupo -->
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Popular ScienceTeens|Popular ScienceTeens]] 
For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm In a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were sealed-off city, a few nagging health problems which were tipping my young woman, Lena, is running for her life out of balance. It was time She has been sentenced to look for a new approach death and as so often happens, the reviewing gods her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought me the book I neededup to fear - those with magic. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull|Full Review]]
''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]  <!-- Anders Kidd -->
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Things in Jars by Charlie Jane AndersJess Kidd]]===
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January A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a dying planetprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin withtake another look. One half This detective is scorching sunlighta woman, pureand the setting is Victorian London, blazing heatwith all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, and totally uninhabitableyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. The other Bridie Devine may dress in half is pure darkness -mourning, with a widow's cap and icestout, shiny boots, where but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a creature can freeze lady to death in secondsdo!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, and totally uninhabitablecreated by her chemist friend Prudhoe. In the middle is a brief twilight The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is barely survivableby the by. Life Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is a knife-edgealso somewhat remarkable. And then, stray too close to one side you dieof course, to close to there's the otherghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from it's clear he has a soft spot for the ice are necessary for lifedetermined young woman. Life for the inhabitants of January If he really exists, that is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? . [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Things in Jars by Charlie Jane AndersJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks Beneath the Prime Minister World, A Sea by David LawsChris Beckett]]===
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At the time of my writing thisSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, there is one thing uniting Britaina British police officer, and this is hatred arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use killings of the word 'Brexit'Duendes. YesThese silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people hate , unleashing the people that instigated it then disappeared, subconscious and/or the people who just can't seem to get exposing their fingers out innermost thoughts and complete it, but they also hate the use of the wordfears. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave Ben becomes fascinated by the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about BrexitDuendes, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seemscloser he gets, so the reader of this book has more he begins to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arisesunravel, with terrifying results.. Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks Beneath the Prime Minister World, A Sea by David LawsChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Mary ChamberlainM J Lee]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrivesIt really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, determined conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her collect them at his mother-in-law's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pastshouse for an evening out. Revisiting their time Traffic was heavy on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, man wearing only a Catholic Priestpair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, remembers a time when he hid something very differentbriefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. In this story The driver had no chance of love, loss stopping and betrayal, it remains the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to be seen whether the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a speck crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of light can diffuse traffic would be the darkest shadows least of war… Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[The Hidden Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Mary ChamberlainM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails A Perfect Explanation by Stephen John HartleyEleanor Anstruther]]===
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It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around Enid Campbell was a year woman who, on an allotment the face of it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best resultshad everything. The answer would be something along Leading the lines life of an aristocrat – full of 'try it inherited wealth and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a buskersplendour, finally got into medical school glamourous locales and is now an A&E consultant (part time)high expectations. I found out that thereOnly Enid's an awful lot more life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty''her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & rollis this an act of greed, which seems to be or an act of desperation? Exploring the real passion true story of Hartley's lifeher own grandmother, but it didn't actually fit into Eleanor Anstruther has found the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category perfect subject for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiographyan explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[Painting Snails A Perfect Explanation by Stephen John HartleyEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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When Ollie and NancyTwo men enter a police station, both tell the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the middle clutches of the night, things take a dangerous turnman who intended to kill them. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, As they escaped they ran through a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that graveyard and they were not the London above ground knows nothing aboutfirst victim. HereThe stories match, children work together to battle great evils. And there the evidence is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been compelling and each man blames the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescuedother. And Maddy intends to destroy Now the city. question is, who is guilty? [[The Haven: Book 1 55 by Simon LelicJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionHistory|History]], [[:Category:Biography|General FictionBiography]]
The final novel in Alan Kennedy''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty life and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy trainingdeath. ItCercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything death in the Germans would provideSpanish Civil War. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'Manuel Mena, Cercas' disastrous meeting with John Cabotgreat uncle, instigator of is the figure who looms large over the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missingbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. A failed mission The question at the centre of this book is one thing but no Justine whether it is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of possible for his headgreat uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost Lord Of All the Dead by Alan KennedyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Douglas LindsayRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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A man walked into It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a police station in Estoniahuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. He told a tale of having been held prisonerBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, used as a donor forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for organ harvesting and sperm donationdecades. X-rays and medical examination bear Superman is helping out this part , of his storycourse – first he was patching up the dams, but this man, or now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years agosolar energy from making further polar ice melt. His body was identified by his partnerInland, in Wyndermere, Emily King the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and by his parents - and then the body was buried. Sointolerance for being newcomers, who but something else is this man? DI Ben Westphall much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is sent hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to Estonia because do with what looks like sabotage of his background in MI6the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, but can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues 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. can… [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Douglas LindsayRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensPolitics and Society|TeensPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh.
''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave CrowstoneDesperate cry into the void over. If we do, we'll die by the next sunsetSorry about that. ''
''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. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[A Pinch Confessions of Magic a Recovering MP by Michelle HarrisonNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell Mera: Tidebreaker by Lisa GardnerDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Evie CarterMeet Mera. She's husband was shot dead the latest in his own home a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and she was found with the gun a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her handsfuture – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Was this a domestic dispute which had got Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years agoAtlantean power, but therefor Xebel's no mistaking royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the teenager who had accidentally shot world of us air-breathing humans, and killed her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone saidkill the Atlantis heir, as there was no doubt about she rushes off to get the love quest (and the two had promised throne) all for each otherherself. D D had But of course, she has no worries at the timeidea what kind of person she will meet, but just and how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about hard it will be to get away with murder again? the job done… [[Never Tell Mera: Tidebreaker by Lisa GardnerDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour Poster Boy by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderN J Crosskey]]===
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After I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dadlong time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even 'Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had'' a job) and so she is not (quite ) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure what is going onthat all he got wrong was the date. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesnCrosskey hasn't come backput a date on the nightmare. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strangeIf she had, secret world called I suspect it would not be as far in the Midnight Hourfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, which seems to I suspect it might hardly be London during Victorian times, and in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is full of magical beings (and monsters!) already happening. What were her parents doing here? And will she Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be able tempted to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back turn its fiction into reality". My only response to normal? that is: too late! [[The Midnight Hour Poster Boy by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane Critical Incidents by Kate LondonLucie Whitehouse]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when he stepped out into it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a London Street short and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him diehopefully harmonious visit. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient woman who used to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, think. Tragicbe DCI Robin Lyons, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was now just Robin Lyons, went home with Spence when he her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was stabbeddismissed from the Met. It She was Ryan who called the ambulance on going home to the paramedicroom which she's instruction, sobbing d had as he held a child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the phonetop bunk. But Ryan wasnThe room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't prepared to accept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revengegood memories. [[Gallowstree Lane Critical Incidents by Kate LondonLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship A Memory Called Empire by Ece TemelkuranArkady Martine]]===
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A little while ago a 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 The problem with the question Martine''Discuss s fiction debut is that she makes the factors which led to...'' two commonest errors in SF writing: I agreed that she was right tries to be too clever and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading she wants her fictional languages tobe complex and rich and errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst can see why she does both, but it's a flawed system I candisappointment because they't think re the blocks against which the brilliance of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teethbook stumbles. [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship A Memory Called Empire by Ece TemelkuranArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger When Spring Comes to Herself and Others the DMZ by Alyssa SheinmelUk-Bae Lee]]===
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''They needed someone to blameThere is a place on this earth that, and I was at the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friendtime of writing, is resplendent with life. Playing In the scapegoat was spring seals gambol in the least I could do under river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the circumstanceshumans have put in place.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – or if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so her parents tell her. She has dined This is a snapshot of life in fancy restaurantsthe DMZ, explored the most sophisticated corners of demilitarized zone between the globe two countries with Korea in their name, and lived a life of luxuryit's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[A Danger When Spring Comes to Herself and Others the DMZ by Alyssa SheinmelUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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