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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona Erskine]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
Dr Jaq Silver is ''I am a brilliant scientist with a healthy social life who loves her work and lifegirl trying to forget. Whilst she is haunted by her past she won't let it define her. When she becomes entangled in a mystery, a mystery that could tie to some of the most horrific weapons on Earth, she doesn't hesitate and jumps straight in. We follow Jaq as she travels the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbit-hole of intrigue and betrayal, never compromising and always seeking the truth. From the ski slopes of Eastern Europe, to the sunny climes of Portugal and even making ''She is a visit woman trying to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thrillerremember. [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona Erskine|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]]<!-- Varenne Bowling -->
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===[[Equator In The Shadow of Heroes by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Nicholas Bowling]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:3Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]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, [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[:Category:General FictionIn The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|General FictionFull Review]]
It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park<!-- Golding -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008293678.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008293678/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the indignity arrival of white man against Native 'Indian'children – twin boys, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, they decide to name Riley and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidMorgan. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this booksomething's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything wrong. While everyone else is upside downcelebrating, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets Lauren starts to keep them on the ground worry – that someone out there is coming to counter the anti-gravitytake her children away, and whereif she looks away for even a second, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and therethey's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… ll strike… [[Equator Little Darlings by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Melanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThrillers|TeensThrillers]]
Aimee 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 that's all about to change. That's a 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 name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's not at the front of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney|Full Review]]
Vetty, her dad, and her little sister are about to move back to London and Vetty can't wait. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy since the death of Vetty's mother several years ago. With the girls older and Aunt Wendy getting married, it's time to get back to their lives. Vetty, mostly, is looking forward to reconnecting with Pez. She and he were inseparable - spending all their time together and knowing each other inside out, without the need for words. Vetty could do with a friend like that right now, as her inner feelings of difference get ever stronger... [[All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins|Full Review]]<!-- Dahl Rubin -->
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===[[The Courier Liberation Square by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Gareth Rubin]]===
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NaziIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied Osloby Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, 1942. There, I've given and Americans from the game awaywest. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – Dividing the Nazisnation between them, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen London soon finds itself split in this volumetwo, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and for the late 1960smurder of his former wife, when great consternation Jane is being feltdetermined to clear his name. In this timelinedoing so, Jane follows a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering trail of corruption that female victim, even though she leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all soon finds herself desperate to have died in stay one step ahead of the War… murderous secret police… [[The Courier Liberation Square by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith: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]]<!-- Lingane Lupo -->
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===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror We Are Blood And Thunder by Mark LinganeKesia Lupo]]===
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]
''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.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]  <!-- Brandi Kidd -->
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===[[Into the River Things in Jars by Mark BrandiJess Kidd]]===
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Two boys, Ben A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and Fabfrustration left by a previous case, are growing up where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a small town in Northern Australia in private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the late 80's. They do setting is Victorian London, with all the normal things that boys rich and colourful paradoxes of that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and think about girlsthe downright hideous. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from And before you're more than a happy homecouple of pages in, whilst Fab 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 son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little moneytobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, and has what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a father who lady to do!) is very violentmixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal The fact that it's actually meant to each othercure bronchial problems is by the by. So farHer housemaid, so normalbeing seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. But with And then, of course, there's the arrival of ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a new neighbour soft spot for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to changethe determined young woman. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for himIf he really exists, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about thisthat is. [[Into the River Things in Jars by Mark BrandiJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of Beneath the Sun World, A Sea by Clare ClarkChris Beckett]]===
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In 1930's BerlinSouth America, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal1990. EmmelineBen Ronson, a wayward young studentBritish police officer, Juliusarrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, an anxious middlevaguely humanoid creatures -aged art expert, with long limbs and Rachmann, black button eyes - have a mysterious art dealerstrange psychic effect on people, live in unleashing the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings fears. Ben becomes fascinated by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and Duendes, but the Naziscloser he gets, the discovery of the art allows these characters more he begins to explore authenticityunravel, vanity and self-delusionwith terrifying results... [[In The Full Light of Beneath the Sun World, A Sea by Clare ClarkChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Justina IrelandM J Lee]]===
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It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law'Two days after I s house for an evening out. Traffic was born … heavy on the dead rose up M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and started the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to walk on the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a battlefield crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''hurry. [[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee|Full Review]]
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets<!-- Anstruther -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784631647. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history foreverjpg|link=http://www. In the changed world, 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 allamazon. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendantco. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Reviewuk/dp/1784631647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart''Two men enter a police station, he continues to both tell the same story ; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of the Quantum twinsa man who intended to kill them. Born on As they escaped they ran through a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment graveyard and they were hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in not the following booksfirst victim. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in The stories match, the bush - adopted by a Bushman family evidence is compelling and made part of a tribeeach man blames the other. Twin Qwelby howeverNow the question is, who 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... guilty? [[Betrayed 55 by Geoffrey ArnoldJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Lord Of All the Dead by Pamela BrookesJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to achieve uncover the wonder that author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but searching for the sounds meaning behind his great uncle's death 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 problemSpanish Civil War. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what youManuel Mena, Cercas've been working ongreat uncle, without anything else being thrown into is the figure who looms large over the mixbook. You need a story which engages the He died relatively young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumpswhilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, eitherCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Reading - and ''learning'' The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Lord Of All the Dead by Pamela BrookesJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The Phoenix of Florence PolarShield Project by Philip KazanRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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Deep in It's the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italynear future, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in the forest, she meets need of a band of soldiers whohuge flood barrier, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to avoid any situation relocate in which she may feel vulnerable againAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. Along Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the waydams, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As but now he digs 's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and uncovers links to his own family historyintolerance for being newcomers, Celavini must revisit but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the past he shares city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with Onoria, in what looks like sabotage of the hope that they can lay flood barriers and the ghosts of their shared history efforts to restcorrect the climate, before can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it's too late... can… [[Super Sons: The Phoenix of Florence PolarShield Project by Philip KazanRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Watch Us Rise Confessions of a Recovering MP by Renee Watson and Ellen HaganNick de Bois]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensPolitics and Society|TeensPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
Jasmine and Chelsea go to a high school with an excellent reputationSigh. 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]]
Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Rachel Lynch Paige -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Mera: Tidebreaker by Rachel LynchDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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The girl had once been Meet Mera. She's the latest in a promising athlete, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completelyline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide in Her father, the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a cliff hunky man in the Lake District. It worried DI Kelly Porteran arranged marriage as her future – after all, but she had no reason to investigateMera's mother, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girlterritory's school and a darker story emergedwarrior queen, is long dead. One of Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the pupils goes missing fella involved at the local fair: her best friend all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the girl who has accused a teacher cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of luring Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to his flat the world of us air-breathing humans, and then sexually assaulting her. It seems that kill the teacher also has paedophilia on his computerAtlantis heir, but she rushes off to get the downloading eerily coincides with quest (and the girl's visit to his flatpromised throne) all for herself. What is going onBut of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, but - most importantly - where is Faith? and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Mera: Tidebreaker by Rachel LynchDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Poster Boy by Angela MarsonsN J Crosskey]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event I first read 1984 in Kim Stone's pastschool, starting with in the death of her twin late seventies when she was six years old1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of the events, or at least the details us may have breathed a sigh of them, are relief that Orwell's nightmare had not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it (quite) come to evil intentpass. That might seem bad enoughOthers, I think, but were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the brutal truth of date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreatednightmare. Stone probably - wellIf she had, certainly - shouldn't I suspect it would not be on as far in the casefuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, but who has better knowledge I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happened to her than she does? happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. If her boss can just turn a blind eye to Sadly. Frighteningly. In the effect it's having on her for long enoughblurb, she can sort Christina Racher says "…but keep it out..far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: Or can she? too late! [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Poster Boy by Angela MarsonsN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark Critical Incidents by Gregg HurwitzLucie Whitehouse]]===
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1997When 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. Evan Smoak is 19 years The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untesteddaughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'' He's in d had as a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the impeccable training that his youth beliestop bunk. Evan Smoak is Orphan XThe room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories. [[Out of the Dark Critical Incidents by Gregg HurwitzLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You A Memory Called Empire by Lisa JewellArkady Martine]]===
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A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman The problem with Martine's fiction debut is convinced that she knows a man makes the two commonest errors in the village SF writing: she tries to be too clever and that he is following she wants her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, fictional languages to be complex and rich and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages errs on the services side of the young woman's husband in some work around the housemaking them unpronounceable by most readers. Oh I can see why she does both, and that teenage boy? Hebut it's her son. And a disappointment because they're the woman with blocks against which the conspiracy theories? She's the mother brilliance 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 bookstumbles. [[Watching You A Memory Called Empire by Lisa JewellArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyFor Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|FantasyConfident Readers]]
This novel There is set about a hundred years into place on this earth that, at the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left time of the old United States writing, is run from Center Cityresplendent with life. Women run this world and it is very proud In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear of having defeated being slashed open on the razor wire the old patriarchyhumans have put in place. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn anddie, if they don't, are medicalised to keep reach their baser instincts under controlbirthing grounds. And Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from open societydoing so. This is a snapshot of life in the DMZ, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's the Central Authorityworld's bordersleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Kate CoochUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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