Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
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In Hooked, Nir Eyal reveals how successful companies create products people can't put down - and how...
Neuroscience for Organizational Change: An Evidence-Based Practical Guide to Managing Change
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Understanding how employees' brains work has lasting impact in terms of meeting business objectives...
K9 Schutzhund Training: A Manual for Ipo Training Through Positive Reinforcement
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A hands-on, practical approach to training your K9 for IPO levels 1, 2 and 3. Learn how to:...
Marketing: The Core
Roger A. Kerin, Steven W. Hartley, William Rudelius and Erin Steffes
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Marketing: The Core 6e meets the needs of a wide spectrum of faculty-from professors who just want a...
Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
Christopher D. Bader, F. Carson Mencken and Joseph O. Baker
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The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal...
Merissa (13749 KP) rated Riptide (Boys of Summer) in Books
Jun 18, 2019
And that's the thing with this book. As a reader, I got it. I could see where Bass was coming from, and why he behaved the way he did. Would I make the same decisions? No, but then I'm not a sixteen-year-old boy with the same experiences as him.
With no editing or grammatical errors that jolted me, I thoroughly enjoyed this novella, and can't wait to see what happens when he goes to Ryder Bay and meets up with SnapDragon.
As a standalone, this is a great read. As a prequel to the next Ryder Bay story, it's fantastic! Definitely recommended by me.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Building Brains: An Introduction to Neural Development
David J. Price, Andrew P. Jarman, John O. Mason and Peter C. Kind
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Building Brains describes the main elements of current understanding of the mechanisms that create...
Real World Windows 10 Development: 2015
Edward Moemeka and Elizabeth Moemeka
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Emphasizing XAML and C#, this book provides readers with all the tools, ideas, and inspiration to...
Ecologies of Engaged Scholarship: Stories from Activist Academics
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Story and auto-ethnography are study methods based on decolonizing and liberating research...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Knife Edge in Books
Aug 29, 2020
The start was brilliant and had me hooked but it just went a bit "bleh" for me in the middle and although the ending was as good as the start, it just didn't make up for the middle because by that time I had lost a lot of interest and just carried on reading because I hate not finishing books. The characters were interesting but not particularly memorable enough to connect with me so I didn't really care what happened to them either way. The themes and plot of this book are up to date and you can certainly see them playing out in the real world unfortunately but it felt a little over complicated at times.
As usual, I am likely to be in the minority on this one as there have been many 4 and 5 star reviews given; maybe I was having a bad week! so I suggest you give a go for yourself. I have to say that this won't put me off reading Simon's books in the future purely based on the start and end of this particular book.
Thank you to Random House UK, Transworld Publishers via NetGalley for my copy in return for an unbiased review.