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===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Horror|HorrorToffee by Sarah Crossan]]===
''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene ''I am not who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed worldI say I am, minorities are forced into conscription '' ''and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there Marla isn't who she thinks she is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]]''
''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]]<!-- Arnold Bowling -->
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In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold Life as a slave in ''Ripped Apart''ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, he continues to tell but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the story household of the Quantum twins. Born on scholar Tullus when he was a parallel worldbaby, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment his keenness to learn and were hurtled through space-time his excellent memory have made him invaluable to our earth - his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a series member of adventures ensued in the following books. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of , rather than a tribe. Twin Qwelby howeverdespised, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try to reconnect..barely human creature. [[Betrayed In The Shadow of Heroes by Geoffrey ArnoldNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Little Darlings by Pamela BrookesMelanie 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:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] 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''. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela Brookes|Full Review]] <!-- Kazan Alice Feeney -->
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence I Know Who You Are by Philip KazanAlice Feeney]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionThrillers|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionThrillers]]
Deep in Aimee Sinclair is just on the Tuscan countryside edge of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and homemaking it big time as an actor. Alone in Right now she's the forest, she meets a band sort of soldiers whoperson whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, believing her but that's all about to be change. That's a boy train and develop little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her – before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate name she was forced to avoid any situation in which take when she may feel vulnerable againwas snatched as a child. Along That's not at the way, front of her mind though when she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further comes home one day and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriafinds that her husband, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to restBen Bailey, before it's too late.has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[The Phoenix of Florence I Know Who You Are by Philip KazanAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Liberation Square by Gareth Rubin]]===
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[[image:4starIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] 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… [[:Category:TeensLiberation Square by Gareth Rubin|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 Howe -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch]]===
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The girl had once been a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely[[image:5star. 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 fairjpg|link=Category: 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? {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) by Rachel Lynch: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]]<!-- Angela Marsons Lupo -->
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]]  ''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.''
Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the eventsSo, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever Lena is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people cryptling - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on a low caste individual living in the case, but who has better knowledge city of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect itDuke's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out..Forest. Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) We Are Blood And Thunder by Angela MarsonsKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark Things in Jars by Gregg HurwitzJess Kidd]]===
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1997A child has gone missing. Evan Smoak The detective asked to take on the case is 19 years old ''trained upstill struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, mission readywhere the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet untested.. . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with 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'' Here 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 foreign city on an officially unofficial missionlady 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, which and it's clear he executes with all has a soft spot for the impeccable training determined young woman. If he really exists, that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Out of the Dark Things in Jars by Gregg HurwitzJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You Beneath the World, A Sea by Lisa JewellChris Beckett]]===
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A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom windowSouth America, 1990. Down the roadBen Ronson, a woman is convinced she knows British police officer, arrives in a man in the village and that he is following hermysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroadThese silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and develops black button eyes - have a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wifestrange psychic effect on people, meanwhile, engages unleashing the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and that teenage boy? He's her sonfears. And Ben becomes fascinated by the woman with Duendes, but the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl closer he's spying on. Plusgets, the man she thinks is out more he begins to get her is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school)unravel, with terrifying results.. Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book. [[Watching You Beneath the World, A Sea by Lisa JewellChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyCrime|FantasyCrime]]
This novel It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is set about 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 moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a hundred years pair of blue boxers dashed out into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and whattraffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's left car then ran into the path of the old United States is run from Center Cityan articulated lorry. Women run this world The driver had no chance of stopping and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchynaked man was killed instantly. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised Glancing to keep their baser instincts under controlthe hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to This was now a crime scene and the wilderness beyond resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the Central Authorityleast of Ridpath's bordersworries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Kate CoochM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss A Perfect Explanation by James AtkinsonEleanor Anstruther]]===
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James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in Enid Campbell was a workout instructor and he looks woman who, on the partface of it, had everything. He's been actively involved in Leading the health life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and fitness arena for more than twenty years splendour, glamourous locales and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineershigh expectations. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: heOnly Enid's life has been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and not particularly strongthose close to her. As a child he was slow After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the twenty-something who was born super-fit perfect subject for an explosive, moving and with an attitude problembeautifully well written debut. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss A Perfect Explanation by James AtkinsonEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments 55 by Adrian CullJames Delargy]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleCrime|LifestyleCrime]], [[:Category:Popular ScienceThrillers|Popular ScienceThrillers]]
For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so farTwo men enter a police station, it was working out OK. Time has passed though both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people narrowly escaped the clutches of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balanceman who intended to kill them. It was time to look for As they escaped they ran through a new approach graveyard and as so often happens, they were not the reviewing gods brought me the book I neededfirst victim. ''Live Forever Manual: ScienceThe stories match, ethics the evidence is compelling and companies behind each man blames the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like other. Now the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. question is, who is guilty? [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments 55 by Adrian CullJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Lord Of The Night All the Dead by Charlie Jane AndersJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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January ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a dying planet. It wasnjourney to uncover the author's lost ancestor't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, s life and totally uninhabitabledeath. The other half Cercas is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivableSpanish Civil War. Life is a knife-edgeManuel Mena, stray too close to one side you dieCercas' great uncle, to close to is the other, you die and yet figure who looms large over the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for lifeFrancisco Franco's forces. Life Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the inhabitants centre of January this book is whether it is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[The City In The Middle Lord Of The Night All the Dead by Charlie Jane AndersJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit DaySuper Sons: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister The PolarShield Project by David LawsRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersGraphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
At It's the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britainnear future, and this every coastal city – including Metropolis – is hatred in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America'Brexit's biggest exodus for decades. Not just BrexitSuperman is helping out, but use of course – first he was patching up the word dams, but now he'Brexits mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. YesInland, in Wyndermere, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or refugees from the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out coast are suffering bigotry and complete itintolerance for being newcomers, but they also hate the use something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the wordcity. 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 But itcan's safe t possibly have anything to return, when all mention do with what looks like sabotage of it has subsided. I mention this in relation the flood barriers and the efforts to this book because it is partly about Brexitcorrect the climate, but because can it too seems ? Four young children begin to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, piece together clues that it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. can… [[Exit DaySuper Sons: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister The PolarShield Project by David LawsRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionConfessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]===
When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Joe find their worlds upended – Society|Politics and are swiftly forced Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to confront their pastsreview the memoir of a Tory MP. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers Not only am I a time when she concealed her Jewish identityleft-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, and Joebut I, a Catholic Priestalong with everyone else, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story am currently subject to the debacle of loveparliament, loss government and betrayalBrexit, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the darkest shadows absolute dearth of war… [[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|Full Review]]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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===[[Painting Snails Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen John HartleyByrne]]===
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ItMeet Mera. She's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around the latest in a year line of young women intent on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for the best resultsthemselves. The answer would be something along Her father, the lines king of 'try it Xebel, sees some cotton wool and see'. Then I considered popular science a hunky man in an arranged marriage as Stephen Hartley failed his A levelsher future – after all, did an engineering apprenticeshipMera's mother, became a buskerthe territory's warrior queen, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time)long dead. I found out that thereMera doesn's an awful lot more t fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean get Xebel out from ''Casualty''under the cosh of Atlantean power, but that isn't really what the bookfor Xebel's aboutroyalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to be the real passion world of Hartley's lifeus air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, but it didn't actually fit into she rushes off to get the quest (and the entertainment genre eitherpromised throne) all for herself. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard way'? Yep - that's it will be to get the one. It's autobiography. job done… [[Painting Snails Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen John HartleyByrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Poster Boy by N J Crosskey]]===
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[[image:4starI first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality".jpg|link=Category My only response to that is:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] too late! [[:Category:Confident ReadersPoster Boy by N J Crosskey|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Kennedy Lucie Whitehouse -->
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===[[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse]]===
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[[imageWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' 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 now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a child:4starshe would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the top bunk. The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCritical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse|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 Martine -->
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) A Memory Called Empire by Douglas LindsayArkady Martine]]===
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A man walked into a police station The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in Estonia. SF writing: He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and sperm donation. X-rays rich and medical examination bear out this part errs on the side of his story, but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and making them unpronounceable by his parents - and then the body was buriedmost readers. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6I can see why she does both, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on 's a plane. His last experience disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of flight was more than enough for one lifetimethe book stumbles. [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) A Memory Called Empire by Douglas LindsayArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Michelle HarrisonUk-Bae Lee]]=== [[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:For Sharing|For Sharing]], we'll die by the next sunset. ''[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – BettyThere is a place on this earth that, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on at the isle time of Crowstonewriting, infamous for its surrounding marshes and is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in the neighbouring inescapable prisonriver – not venturing too far, for their entire livesfear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. The middle sisterIn the autumn, salmon come upstream, Bettylooking doleful as well they might, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember they will spawn and she is determined that nothing and no-one will die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent her them from seeing everything that the world has to offerdoing so. But This is a snapshot of life in setting out to do just thatthe DMZ, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bagname, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets it's the eye and could possibly be the key to their problemworld's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[A Pinch of Magic When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Michelle HarrisonUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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