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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela Brookes]]===
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela BrookesCategory:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''  ''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is a woman trying to remember.'' 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]]<!-- Kazan Bowling -->
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===[[In The Phoenix Shadow of Florence Heroes by Philip KazanNicholas Bowling]]===
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Deep Life as a slave in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italyancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and homebut Cadmus has it much easier than most. Alone in Taken into the forest, she meets a band household of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes scholar Tullus when he was a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the waybaby, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey his keenness to Florence sees learn and his excellent memory have made him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links invaluable to his own family historymaster, Celavini must revisit who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the past he shares with Onoriafamily, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to restrather than a despised, before it's too late..barely human creature. [[In The Phoenix Shadow of Florence Heroes by Philip KazanNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===
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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]]
===[[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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 Alice Feeney -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Know Who You Are by Rachel LynchAlice Feeney]]===
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The girl had once been a promising athleteAimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but injury and then addiction that's all about to prescription painkillers change. That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her completely. Eventually before and she knows that 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's not really Aimee Sinclair, but she had no reason to investigate, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girl's school and Ciara: Aimee is simply the name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a darker story emergedchild. One of the pupils goes missing That's not at the local fair: her best friend is the girl who has accused a teacher front of luring her to his flat mind though when she comes home one day and then sexually assaulting finds that herhusband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. It seems that the teacher also has paedophilia on his computer, but the downloading eerily coincides with the girl's visit to his flatDisappeared completely. What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Know Who You Are by Rachel LynchAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Liberation Square by Angela MarsonsGareth Rubin]]===
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Someone In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's pastfirst occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, starting with and Americans from the death of her twin when she was six years oldwest. Some of Dividing the events, or at least the details of nation between them, are not public knowledgeLondon soon finds itself split in two, but whoever a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is behind this has a wealth arrested for the murder of information and his former wife, Jane is using it determined to evil intentclear his name. That might seem bad enoughIn doing so, but the brutal truth Jane follows a trail of the matter is corruption that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on leads her right to the case, but who has better knowledge highest levels of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? murderous secret police… [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Liberation Square by Angela MarsonsGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
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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[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz: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]]<!-- Jewell Lupo -->
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===[[Watching You by Lisa Jewell]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]  ''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. 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.'' ''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.''
A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the roadSo, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he Lena is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops cryptling - a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband low caste individual living 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 city of the girl he's spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the womanDuke'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 bookForest. [[Watching You We Are Blood And Thunder by Lisa JewellKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Things in Jars by Jess Kidd]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]===
[[imageA 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 private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era:4startechnical 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, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's 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 the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyThings in Jars by Jess Kidd|FantasyFull Review]]
This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States 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 and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they'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]] <!-- James Atkinson Beckett -->
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Beneath the World, A Sea by James AtkinsonChris Beckett]]===
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James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives 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 mysterious forest to investigate a member spate of 9 Parachute Regimentkillings of Duendes. These silent, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a lot to me: he's been strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the other sidesubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. There was a time when Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child gets, the more he was slow begins to developunravel, with terrifying results.. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Beneath the World, A Sea by James AtkinsonChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: ScienceWhere the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments Book 2) by Adrian CullM J Lee]]===
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For many years now IIt really shouldn've (half) joked t have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that I intended to live forever his relationship with his wife and that so farchild is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was working out OKmoving steadily. Time has passed though and although I'm Then a man wearing only a great deal fitter and healthier than most people pair of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of balancean articulated lorry. It The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was time killed instantly. Glancing to look for the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I neededgun. ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics This was now a crime scene and companies behind the new antiresulting seventeen-aging treatmentsmile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tipss worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Live Forever Manual: ScienceWhere the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments Book 2) by Adrian CullM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night A Perfect Explanation by Charlie Jane AndersEleanor Anstruther]]===
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January is Enid Campbell was a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlightwoman who, pureon the face of it, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitablehad everything. The other half is pure darkness Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in secondssplendour, glamourous locales and totally uninhabitablehigh expectations. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edgeOnly Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, stray too untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to one side you dieher. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to close to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the othertrue story of her own grandmother, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from Eleanor Anstruther has found the ice are necessary perfect subject for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is longan explosive, moving and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? beautifully well written debut. [[The City In The Middle Of The Night A Perfect Explanation by Charlie Jane AndersEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister 55 by David LawsJames Delargy]]===
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At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting BritainTwo men enter a police station, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of both tell the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, same story; they were kidnapped and/or narrowly escaped the people clutches of a man who just can't seem intended to get their fingers out kill them. As they escaped they ran through a graveyard and complete it, but they also hate the use of were not the wordfirst victim. 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 stories match, 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 evidence is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to compelling and each man blames the actual Brexiting in a very protracted mannerother. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so Now the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Herequestion is, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. who is guilty? [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister 55 by David LawsJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden Lord Of All the Dead by Mary ChamberlainJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to identify uncover the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her motherauthor's lost ancestor's possessions, Dora life and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pastsdeath. Revisiting their time on Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Channel Islands during World Spanish Civil War II. Manuel Mena, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identityCercas' great uncle, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very differentis the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. In Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this story dictator. The question at the centre of love, loss and betrayal, this book is whether it remains is possible for his great uncle to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse hero whilst having fought for the darkest shadows of war… wrong side. [[The Hidden Lord Of All the Dead by Mary ChamberlainJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Stephen John HartleyRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle bookhuge flood barrier, but you're not going to get advice built on what to plant when and where for the best resultsits coast by Wayne Enterprises. The answer would be something along But the lines of 'try it and seerising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levelsSuperman is helping out, did an engineering apprenticeshipof course – first he was patching up the dams, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is but now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that therehe's an awful lot more to what goes on in mining the asteroid belt for a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but rare dust that isn't really what s perfect for blocking the book's aboutsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. There's a lot about rock & rollInland, in Wyndermere, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's liferefugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it didncan't actually fit into possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing flood barriers and the impossible efforts to correct the hard way'climate, can it? Yep - Four young children begin to piece together clues that's the one. It's autobiography. it can… [[Painting Snails Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Stephen John HartleyRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Haven: Book 1 Confessions of a Recovering MP by Simon LelicNick 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.
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When Ollie and Nancy, Desperate cry into the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turnvoid over. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels Sorry about 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]]
At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Kennedy Paige -->
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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[[image:4starMeet Mera. She's the latest in 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 a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. 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 Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Mera:Category:General FictionTidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|General FictionFull Review]]
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? [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- Douglas Lindsay Crosskey -->
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Poster Boy by Douglas LindsayN J Crosskey]]===
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A man walked into I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a police station long time in Estoniathe future. It came and went quickly enough. He told Some of us may have breathed a tale sigh of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donationrelief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his storyOthers, but this manI think, or were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years agodate. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. His body was identified by his partnerIf she had, Emily King and by his parents - and then I suspect it would not be as far in the body future are 1984 was buriedwhen I first read Orwell. So If she had, who is this man? I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because A lot of his background what happens in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Westphall cannotSadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, will not, get on a planeChristina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. too late! [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Poster Boy by Douglas LindsayN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic Critical Incidents by Michelle HarrisonLucie Whitehouse]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]] ''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone. If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. ''
When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home'A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire liveshopefully harmonious visit. The middle sisterwoman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, Bettybut was now just Robin Lyons, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her was dismissed from seeing everything that the world has to offerMet. But in setting out She was going home to do just that, the room which she'd had as a child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew 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 - would have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set the top bunk. The room was redolent of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and could possibly be the key to their problemthey weren't good memories. [[A Pinch of Magic Critical Incidents by Michelle HarrisonLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell A Memory Called Empire by Lisa GardnerArkady Martine]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeScience Fiction|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersScience Fiction]]
Evie CarterThe problem with Martine's husband was shot dead fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in his own home SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she was found with wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the gun in her hands. Was this a domestic dispute which had got out side of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediatelymaking them unpronounceable by most readers. It might have been sixteen years agoI can see why she does both, but thereit's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accidentdisappointment because they' everyone said, as there was no doubt about re the blocks against which the love brilliance of the two had for each otherbook stumbles. D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[Never Tell A Memory Called Empire by Lisa GardnerArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderUk-Bae Lee]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
After There is a big blow-up fight with her mumplace on this earth that, at the time of writing, Emily is left alone resplendent with her dadlife. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is In the spring seals gambol in the river – not quite sure what is going venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open onthe razor wire the humans have put in place. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mumIn the autumn, and then doesn't salmon come back. She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hourupstream, which seems to be London during Victorian timeslooking doleful as well they might, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And for they will she be able to find them spawn and rescue die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them, from doing so her . This is a snapshot of life can go back to normal? in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The Midnight Hour When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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