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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionTeens|Literary FictionTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives ''I am a massacre that destroys her family and homegirl trying to forget. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes '' ''She is a mercenary – desperate woman trying to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable againremember. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|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]]<!-- Watson and Hagan Bowling -->
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===[[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling]]===
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[[image:4starLife as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensIn The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|TeensFull Review]]
Jasmine and Chelsea go to a high school with an excellent reputation. It places strong emphasis on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged to join clubs and associations. But Jasmine is fed up with her drama group because she's always typecast in the loud, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black and resents the angry black woman trope). And Chelsea is fed with poetry club because the only poetry it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. So, along with friends Isaac and Nadine, they start a new group called Write Like a Girl. [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan|Full Review]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Golding -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Little Darlings by Rachel LynchMelanie 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]]
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] The girl had once been a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. 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 is the girl who has accused a teacher of luring her to his flat and then sexually assaulting her. 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]] <!-- Angela Marsons Alice Feeney -->
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Know Who You Are by Angela MarsonsAlice Feeney]]===
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Someone Aimee Sinclair is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with just on the death edge of her twin when she was six years oldmaking it big time as an actor. Some of Right now she's the events, or at least the details sort of them, are not public knowledgeperson whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it that's all about to evil intentchange. That might seem bad enough's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, but she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreatedname she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldnThat't be on s not at the case, but who has better knowledge front of what happened to her than mind though when she does? If comes home one day and finds that her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enoughhusband, Ben Bailey, she can sort it out.has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Or can she? Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Know Who You Are by Angela MarsonsAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark Liberation Square by Gregg HurwitzGareth Rubin]]===
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1997In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Evan Smoak After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is 19 years old ''trained upfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, mission readyand Americans from the west. And yet untestedDividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar.'' HeWhen Jane Cawson's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all husband is arrested for the impeccable training that murder of his youth belies. Evan Smoak former wife, Jane is Orphan Xdetermined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Out of the Dark Liberation Square by Gregg HurwitzGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You by Lisa Jewell]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
A teenage boy spies 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 time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he's spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Watching You by Lisa Jewell:Category: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]]<!-- Cooch Lupo -->
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===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle We Are Blood And Thunder by Kate CoochKesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 
[[image:4star''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.''
This novel is set about a hundred years into ''On the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left other side of the old United States locked gates is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times anda masked lady, if they don'tConstance, are medicalised determined to keep their baser instincts under controlfind a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. And if that doesnBut now she won't work, theyhide who she is any longer.'re sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Things in Jars by James AtkinsonJess Kidd]]===
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James Atkinson A child has all 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 qualifications which you need child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a workout instructor private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in setting is Victorian London, with all the health rich and fitness arena 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 twenty years and he spent nine years as a member couple of 9 Parachute Regimentpages in, Royal Engineersyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. He has another qualification which means Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a lot to me: hewidow's been on cap and stout, shiny boots, but the other side. There was tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As lady to do!) is mixed with a child he was slow to developnugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. This means The fact that he it''understands'' what its actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's like the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than clear he has a soft spot for the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problemdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Things in Jars by James AtkinsonJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: ScienceBeneath the World, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments A Sea by Adrian CullChris Beckett]]===
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For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so farSouth America, it was working out OK1990. Time has passed though and although I'm Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a great deal fitter and healthier than most people spate of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out killings of balanceDuendes. It was time to look for These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a new approach and as so often happensstrange psychic effect on people, unleashing the reviewing gods brought me subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: ScienceDuendes, ethics and companies behind but the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like closer he gets, the answer more he begins to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tipsunravel, with terrifying results... [[Live Forever Manual: ScienceBeneath the World, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments A Sea by Adrian CullChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Charlie Jane AndersM J Lee]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionCrime|Science FictionCrime]]
January is a dying planet. It wasnreally shouldn't exactly pleasant to begin withhave happened. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and totally uninhabitable. The other half child is pure darkness and icehanging by a thread, where a creature can freeze is off to death collect them at his mother-in seconds, and totally uninhabitable-law's house for an evening out. In Traffic was heavy on the middle is M60 (a brief twilight that is barely survivablematch at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Life is Then a man wearing only a knife-edgepair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, stray too close to one side you die, to close to briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the other, you die path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and yet the heat from naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the sun hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a crime scene and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the inhabitants least of January is longRidpath's worries, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Charlie Jane AndersM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister A Perfect Explanation by David LawsEleanor Anstruther]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersLiterary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|ThrillersHistorical Fiction]]
At Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the time face of my writing thisit, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred had everything. Leading the life of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use an aristocrat – full of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappearedinherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the wordhigh expectations. 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 the room until itOnly Enid's safe to return, when all mention of it life has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexitbeen plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, but because it too seems untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted mannerher. Just as we have After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhereher sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, it seems, so or an act of desperation? Exploring the reader true story of this book her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has to get through a lot from Europe before found the title's theme really arises. Hereperfect subject for an explosive, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveablemoving and beautifully well written debut. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister A Perfect Explanation by David LawsEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden 55 by Mary ChamberlainJames Delargy]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrivesTwo men enter a police station, determined to identify both tell the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora same story; they were kidnapped and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to confront their pastskill them. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers As they escaped they ran through a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, graveyard and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very differentthey were not the first victim. In this story of loveThe stories match, loss the evidence is compelling and betrayaleach man blames the other. Now the question is, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… who is guilty? [[The Hidden 55 by Mary ChamberlainJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails Lord Of All the Dead by Stephen John HartleyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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It's very difficult to classify 'Lord Of All the Dead'Painting Snails'is a journey to uncover the author': originally I thought that as its lost ancestor's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when life and where death. Cercas is searching for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed meaning behind his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that theregreat uncle's an awful lot more to what goes on death in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas'great uncle, but that isn't really what is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's aboutforces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be The question at the real passion centre of Hartley's life, but this book is whether it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have is possible for his great uncle to be a category hero whilst having fought for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the onewrong side. It's autobiography. [[Painting Snails Lord Of All the Dead by Stephen John HartleyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, It's the police officer tasked with guarding our young heronear future, are abducted and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in the middle need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the nightrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, things take a dangerous turnforcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Rescued by DodgeSuperman is helping out, Ollie is taken to of course – first he was patching up the Havendams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels rare dust that 's perfect for blocking the London above ground knows nothing aboutsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. HereInland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, children work together to battle great evilsbut something else is much worse. And there A major bout of food poisoning is an immediate enemy to fighthitting the city. Ollie would But it can't possibly have been anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends flood barriers and the efforts to destroy correct the city. climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Super Sons: The Haven: Book 1 PolarShield Project by Simon LelicRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Things That are Lost Confessions of a Recovering MP by Alan KennedyNick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics 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.
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The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[The Things That are Lost Confessions of a Recovering MP by Alan KennedyNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Mera: Tidebreaker by Douglas LindsayDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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A man walked into a police station in EstoniaMeet Mera. He told She's the latest in a tale line of having been held prisoner, used as a donor young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for organ harvesting and sperm donationthemselves. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part Her father, the king of his storyXebel, but this sees some cotton wool and a hunky manin an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, or the man he says he territory's warrior queen, is - John Baden - died twelve years agolong dead. His body was identified by his partnerMera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, Emily King and by his parents - and then is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the body was buriedcosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to Estonia because the world of his background in MI6us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, but that brings some baggage with it tooshe rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. Westphall cannotBut of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will notmeet, and how hard it will be to get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. the job done… [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Mera: Tidebreaker by Douglas LindsayDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic Poster Boy by Michelle HarrisonN J Crosskey]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone[[image:5star. If we dojpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]], we'll die by the next sunset. ''[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – BettyI first read 1984 in school, Fliss in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and Charlie – who went quickly enough. Some of us may have lived on the isle breathed a sigh of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire livesrelief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. The middle sister Others, BettyI think, 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 were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the world has to offerdate. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover Crosskey hasn't put a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generationsdate on the nightmare. From their ancestors If she had, I suspect it would not be as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstonefar in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all . A lot of which are more than meets what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the eye and could possibly blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be the key tempted to their problemturn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[A Pinch of Magic Poster Boy by Michelle HarrisonN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell Critical Incidents by Lisa GardnerLucie Whitehouse]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Evie CarterWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home's husband when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was shot dead in his own now just Robin Lyons, went home and with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was found with dismissed from the gun in her handsMet. Was this a domestic dispute She was going home to the room which she'd had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might as a child: she would have been sixteen years ago, but there's no mistaking the teenager bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who had accidentally shot and killed knew her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, as there was no doubt about the love well - would have the two had for each othertop bunk. D D had no worries at The room was redolent of the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? and they weren't good memories. [[Never Tell Critical Incidents by Lisa GardnerLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour A Memory Called Empire by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderArkady Martine]]===
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After a big blow-up fight The problem with her mum, Emily Martine's fiction debut is left alone with her dad. that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think she tries to be too clever and she wants her mum even ''had'' a job) fictional languages to be complex and rich and so she is not quite sure what is going errs onthe side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mumI can see why she does both, and then doesnbut it't come back. She heads out to investigate and discovers s a strange, secret world called disappointment because they're the Midnight Hour, blocks against which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full the brilliance of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? the book stumbles. [[The Midnight Hour A Memory Called Empire by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Kate LondonUk-Bae Lee]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into There is a London Street and asked a complete stranger for helpplace on this earth that, begging him not to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one at the time of those things you mightwriting, thinkis resplendent with life. TragicIn the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed for fear of being slashed open on the streets of London all razor wire the humans have put in place. In the timeautumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbedMountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. It was Ryan who called This is a snapshot of life in the ambulance on DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the paramedictwo countries with Korea in their name, and it's instruction, sobbing as he held the phone. But Ryan wasnworld't prepared to accept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenges least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Gallowstree Lane When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Kate LondonUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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