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=='''23 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Onyi Nwabineli
|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?
|isbn=0861546873
}}
=='''30 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CYV674G2
|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)
|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
}}
=='''4 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Stuart Douglas
|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?
|isbn=1803368209
}}
=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?
|isbn=1839945184
}}
=='''13 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1635866847
|title=The Lavender Companion
|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
}}
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''1 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''== <!-- Ellory -->{{Frontpage|-author=Max Boucherat| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|The Last Life of Lori Mills[[image:1542007232.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]===Confident Readers[[image:3star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for We meet Lori on the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for evening she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps got the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise house to herself – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outsideno neighbour to pop in, thenbabysitter poorly, and two inside. And inside her fathermother at work, Henrykjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? lonesome. What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professorcould possibly go wrong? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''5 SEPTEMBER'''==<!-- Renee Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526613689.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526613689/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and Snuggled in a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventuallyblanket fort, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]] <!-- McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241365953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241365953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Hewitt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509896465.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magicmain intention, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him log on to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dyingVoxminer, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayalsworld-building, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!critter-- Sedgwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788542347.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542347/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] This collecting game that is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read hit in quite some time. The novelLori's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard of. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's about But first Lori has a real place, the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]] |} {|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''19 SEPTEMBER'''==<!-- Jamie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1908745819.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908745819/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Sometimes when people suggest tiny inkling that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didnstormy night doesn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of find herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course this book had my name entirely on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly. [[Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie|Full Review]]|} {|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''3 OCTOBER'''== <!-- Jansson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:190874572X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/190874572X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson (Author)her own, Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator) ]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Back at the beginning of the century I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort of friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Janssonthen she finds something even more spooky. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and that I eagerly awaited For the ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work server she and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them. [[Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator) |Full Review]] <!-- Susan Hill -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1784742783.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1784742783/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky her bestie and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could nobody else should be. He's back at work after a long break able to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his lifeenter shows signs of tampering. When he's not at work he's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. It's the usual story of a broken-down carmalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and a phone which won't make a call. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement her safe place in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubt. [[The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler) by Susan Hill|Full Review]] <!-- Thakur -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140638853X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140638853X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]]game has been doctored – well, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sophia Thakur's debut anthology where is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation girl to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. [[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur|Full Review]] <!-- Jamie Smart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:bookreviewercentre.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910989460/ref=nosimturn?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Flember: The Secret Book by Jamie Smart]]isbn=== 0008666482[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] A mysterious island. A strange and mystical power called Flember. A boy-inventor called Dev, who uncovers a long forgotten secret. And a giant, red robot bear?! The sleepy village of Eden is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure. [[Flember: The Secret Book by Jamie Smart|Full Review]] <!-- Jamie Littler -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241355222.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frostheart by Jamie Littler]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] FrontpageWay out in the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. There, a little boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them... and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. But life is about to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his family . . . ? Frostheart by Jamie Littler|Full Review]] <!-- Moriarty -->|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jenny Lecoat[[image:1913101037.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913101037/reftitle=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]Beyond Summerland | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns of their terrible fate at the hands of pirates. And why should she be? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a baby. They swanned off to have adventures, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happy. [[The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''31 OCTOBER'''==<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->4|-| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|General Fiction[[image:1447281357.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life Jean lives on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''3 NOVEMBER'''== <!-- Eoin Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008324859.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008324859/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away Jersey with skulduggery any time soon because her mother where they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever celebrating the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help end of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''7 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Keret -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent businessoccupation. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home firstDuring the war, though, no – heJean's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told father was arrested for listening to just stick around on his own a banned radio and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make soldiers took him happyaway one night, leaving Jean and so he thinks her mother waiting for years for news of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibithim. And it's then As the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''12 November'''==!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0316316849.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] When William Abbey fails to prevent British finally free the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns Channel islands from the weight of the curse upon himNazis, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in otherswar is finally over, he also learns their hopes rise that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit they will finally learn what became of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''14 NOVEMBER '''== <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786695227him.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The beginning of this excellent story But will leave the reader more than truth come as a little confused: who is the man in the green suitrelief, or will it raise further questions around what is else happened during the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cavewar? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience Who was the informer who told the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as Nazis about the strange man, who seems to radio? And what other secrets have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosimbeen kept throughout the occupation?tag=thebookbag-21]] | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1846976537===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]]
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