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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionTeens|Science FictionTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
The problem with Martine's fiction debut 'I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries a woman trying to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readersremember. I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. [[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|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]]<!-- Lee Bowling -->
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ In The Shadow of Heroes by Uk-Bae LeeNicholas Bowling]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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There is a place on this earth that, at | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the time arrival of writing, is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in the river children – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumntwin boys, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well who they might, for they will spawn decide to name Riley and die, if they reach their birthing groundsMorgan. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing soBut something's wrong. This While everyone else is a snapshot of life in the DMZcelebrating, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their nameLauren starts to worry – that someone out there is coming to take her children away, and itif she looks away for even a second, they's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. ll strike… [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ Little Darlings by Uk-Bae LeeMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy I Know Who You Are by Eleanor O'ReillyAlice Feeney]]===
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The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicatedAimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. A loving irish family Right now she's the sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, their love binds them together – but that's all express about to change. That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that in very different ways. Howevershe's not really Aimee Sinclair, when misfortune strikes she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the family they are name she was forced to work together in order to understand each other again, take when she was snatched as with a family as complicated as the Augustts itchild. That's not always what is spoken that makes at the most sense. Things are shaken up further front of her mind though when Granny Mae-Anne moves in she comes home one day and takes chargefinds that her husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest to hold the family together Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[M for Mammy I Know Who You Are by Eleanor O'ReillyAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days Liberation Square by James WallmanGareth Rubin]]===
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Most things you can replaceIn an alternate 1952, but one of the things which you simply can't replace is timeSoviet Troops control British Streets. Even though we know thisAfter D-Day goes horribly wrong, we fail Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to use what we have wiselybe rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. We have more leisure timeDividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, but thata wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's not how it feels: a high value husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, Jane is put on how we spend our working hoursdetermined to clear his name. In doing so, but there's Jane follows a low value on leisure. Unfortunately we now know how trail of corruption that leads her right to work the highest levels of the state – and not how soon finds herself desperate to ''live'': we need to ''learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on stay one step ahead of the onerous task of teaching us how to do this. murderous secret police… [[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days Liberation Square by James WallmanGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People by Jill Jonnes: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]]<!-- Johnson Lupo -->
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew by Milly Johnson]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionTeens|Women's FictionTeens]]  ''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.''
I liked this book. Whilst not necessarily ''On the other side of the locked gates is a page-turnermasked lady, Constance, this was determined to find a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from the Queen of chick lit, Milly Johnsonway back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer. [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew by Milly Johnson|Full Review]]''
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Things in Jars by Kate ToughJess Kidd]]===
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Life A child has just hidden behind gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a corner and stuck previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a foot out as Rhona Beech came pastprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. She This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and Mark had been together scientific progress jostling for nine years space beside superstition and it was beginning to feel ''settled''a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. Then Mark announced that heAnd before you'd got re more than a job couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in Canada half-mourning, with a widow's cap and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''notfast'' bit thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of the sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Wellsomething, well, she wasnlet't completely on s say recreational, created by her own: she had friends and family, but chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's not actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the same as having that special someone in your lifeby. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, that someone who makes you part of a couplecourse, there's the ghost. So Rhona had to start againRuby Doyle, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and thereit's clear he has a lot of difference between being in soft spot for the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirtiesdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Things in Jars by Kate ToughJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Beneath the World, A Sea by Kerry WattsChris Beckett]]===
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The story had begun some twenty years earlier when two boys raped and killed Sophie NichollSouth America, 1990. Jack Mackay was - on the face of it - from Ben Ronson, a decent familyBritish police officer, but he was the ringleaderarrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. Daniel Simpson was a followerThese silent, but he still raped Sophie vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and he could black button eyes - have stopped what happened but didn't. Sophie's body was found in a shallow grave by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and the boys were arrested, tried exposing their innermost thoughts and sentenced to five years in a young offenders institutionfears. There were those who thought that Ben becomes fascinated by the sentence was too lenientDuendes, even for fifteen-year-old boys and Sophie's elder brotherbut the closer he gets, Tomthe more he begins to unravel, was one of thesewith terrifying results.. He wasn't going to let the matter rest. [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Beneath the World, A Sea by Kerry WattsChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee]]===
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[[image:4It 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'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 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 the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun.5star This was now a 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 hurry.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersWhere the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who is both mentor and friend[[image:5star. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination and sense of the future has led him to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier and work less back breaking. His latest endeavour is something on an entirely different leveljpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], however - it's a.... ''flying machine''! Imagine that! [[The Boy Who Flew by Fleur Hitchcock:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to 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 perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]] <!-- David Hewson Delargy -->
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===[[The Savage Shore 55 by David HewsonJames Delargy]]===
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Reggio, in Calabria. It's Two men enter a strange placepolice station, closer to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himself. He was an illegal immigrant both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and like most narrowly escaped the clutches of his kind he was simply looking for a way man who intended to earn kill them. As they escaped they ran through a decent living with a little dignity. Back in Nigeria he was an independent man graveyard and now he is no better than they were not the monkey who sits in a cage on the bar he tendsfirst victim. The area stories match, the evidence is ruled by compelling and each man blames the Mafiaother. Further afield there are Now the Camorra and the Cosa Nostraquestion is, but here it's the 'Ndrangheta and the local boss who is known as Lo Spettro - the ghost - as he's rarely seen, but he's one of the Bergamotti clan, but even that's not their real name. guilty? [[The Savage Shore 55 by David HewsonJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out Lord Of All the Dead by Cara HunterJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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It was ''Lord Of All the end of Dead'' is a journey to uncover the Christmas holidays author's lost ancestor's life and Felix House death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in an elite area of Oxford was on firethe Spanish Civil War. Two children were dragged from the inferno: oneManuel Mena, a toddlerCercas' great uncle, was pronounced dead at is the scene and figure who looms large over the other, a boy on the cusp of his teens, book. He died in hospital some days later. But where were the parents? Were their bodies in what remained of the house and which was being steadily cleared, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley itrelatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's one of forces. Cercas ruminates on why his most disturbing casesuncle fought for this dictator. He's still not got over The question at the death centre of ''this book is whether it is possible for his'' son and there's every sign that his marriage is on great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the rockswrong side. For his team it's just a heartbreaking, exhausting case. [[No Way Out Lord Of All the Dead by Cara HunterJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of WestminsterSuper Sons: The MPs Who Changed Politics PolarShield Project by Rachel ReevesRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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It''Women in Westminster have changed s the culture of politics near future, and the perception of what women can do'' ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have been elected over the course of the past century have fought and highlights their victories. It every coastal city – including Metropolis – is remarkable that the history in need of female Members of Parliament began in 1918a huge flood barrier, the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage built on equal terms with menits coast by Wayne Enterprises. Although Constance de Markievicz was But the first female elected to Parliamentrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, it was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women forcing many people to take her seat relocate in the House of Commons and pave the way America's biggest exodus for women decades. Superman is helping out, of the future. It course – first he was not long after in 1924 that patching up the first female MPdams, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign rare dust that's perfect for female rightsblocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Within 100 years there has been a gradual revolution of change Inland, in politics and to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. HoweverWyndermere, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved refugees from the way coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for subsequent women politiciansbeing newcomers, are consistently overlookedbut something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. In But it can''Women t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into flood barriers and the spotlight efforts to document correct the history of British female political history from 1919 climate, can it? Four young children begin to 2019. piece together clues that it can… [[Women of WestminsterSuper Sons: The MPs Who Changed Politics PolarShield Project by Rachel ReevesRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona Erskine]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersPolitics and Society|ThrillersPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
Dr Jaq Silver is a brilliant scientist with At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a healthy social life who loves her work and life. Whilst she is haunted Recovering MP 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 a visit to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thriller. [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Equator Mera: Tidebreaker by Antonin Varenne Danielle Paige and Sam Taylor (translator)Stephen Byrne]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of Meet Mera. She's the Wild West outside the walls latest in a line of a theme parkyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete FergusonHer father, who bristles at the indignity king of white man against Native 'Indian'Xebel, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in sees some cotton wool and a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – and womanafter all, Mera's mother, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelidterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. But this book is about so much more than Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the 1870s USAfella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the attendant problems with gold rushescosh of Atlantean power, pioneer spirits and racial genocidefor Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. He finds himself trying So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to find this book's version the world of Utopiaus air-breathing humans, namely and kill the EquatorAtlantis heir, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets she rushes off to keep them on get the ground to counter quest (and the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterpromised throne) all for herself. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and Latin America between him and it… how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Equator Mera: Tidebreaker by Antonin Varenne Danielle Paige and Sam Taylor (translator)Stephen Byrne|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:TeensPoster Boy by N J Crosskey|TeensFull 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 Lucie Whitehouse -->
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===[[The Courier Critical Incidents by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Lucie Whitehouse]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, IWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 've given the game away. For in a book that centres around a murder, Igoing home've told you who did when it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has refers to remain your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used to be seen in this volumeDCI Robin Lyons, which splits its time between one of warbut was now just Robin Lyons, when a young woman sees went home with her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing thirteen-year-old daughter after she will never see her alive again, and was dismissed from the late 1960s, when great consternation is being feltMet. In this timeline, She was going home to the room which she'd had as a maverick agent is back in town, one who might child: she would have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she the bottom bunk and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have died in the War… top bunk. The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories. [[The Courier Critical Incidents by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Lucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes A Memory Called Empire by Alexander McCall SmithArkady Martine]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know Iproblem with Martine'm a die-hard fan of AMS. s fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: 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 she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in be complex and rich and errs on the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parametersside of making them unpronounceable by most readers. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the kneeI can see why she does both, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and but it's a case of potential werewolves. Theydisappointment because 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 blocks against which the crime, rather than brilliance of the victimbook stumbles. [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes A Memory Called Empire by Alexander McCall SmithArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]  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 There is a place on this earth that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring at the children time of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strangewriting, austere mansion is resplendent with little life. In the spring seals gambol in the way river – not venturing too far, for fear of expectationbeing slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. Victor, In the politician is not at home. But Esisautumn, his wifesalmon come upstream, is. A beautiful but isolated womanlooking doleful as well they might, Esis shows little interest in her children for they will spawn and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not much more prevent them from doing so. This is a snapshot of life in Julian. She directs him towards his roomthe DMZ, the library demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in which he will teach the childrentheir name, and it's the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with foodworld's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The Rose, When Spring Comes to the Night, and the Mirror DMZ by Mark LinganeUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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