Of Mice Not Men
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In the near future, mankind has exhausted the last of their fossil fuels and a new energy crisis...
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Piece of Dragon
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ALL I WANTED WAS SOME SUGAR. When the ice cream didn’t cut it, I went for a walk, met a gorgeous...
Early Departures
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Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, returns with another charming and powerful YA...
An Orphan of Hell’s Kitchen
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In 1914, Hell’s Kitchen is an apt name for New York City’s grittiest neighborhood, as one of the...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Gate of Shadows ( Cambridge Gothic 2) in Books
Jul 6, 2024
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Gate of Shadows ( Cambridge Gothic 2)
By Mark Wells
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A mystic portal lies open. A chilling predator stalks the night. Can an undaunted student stop the darkness from spreading?
Giles Chamberlain returns to a snowbound Cambridge after Christmas spent with his girlfriend. Determined to prove himself to her family, he sets out to discover what became of her missing brother. But when he encounters a sinister figure prowling the college’s rooftops, he suspects last semester’s creature was not the only entity to cross into our world.
After the tight-lipped Professor Gupta refuses his plea for help, Giles enlists his feuding friends to locate the otherworldly passage. As hunters and hunted converge on the portal, the students discover just how far the old academic will go to keep his secret safe.
Faced with forces beyond his imagination, can Giles conjure up the key to save them all?
Second book in the series and I really enjoyed it. Catching up with what’s happened to Alphonso as well as everything back at Cambridge. This is a really interesting read.
Whispers of the Gone
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Fifteen-year-old adventurer, Selli, is the last remaining Samúð in Haltasia – the only living...
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The Mars Migration
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"The ending of the novel had me at the edge of my seat the whole way through, a purely addictive...
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The Voice That Twists the Knife
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I am the voice in your head coming to twist the knife in the darkness. You took everything from me....
Clear
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A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during...
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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2666 KP) rated Puzzle Me a Murder in Books
Aug 2, 2024
Despite the fact that I’m not much of a jigsaw puzzle guy, I thought this sounded like a fun premise for a series. Sadly, I was wrong. I didn’t feel like the characters ever went beyond being types, and it felt like they had too many interests or skills in their background. It felt like the author was checking boxes instead of making well rounded characters. There wasn’t attention to detail, so these things bumped me out of the book. The novel could have lost 60 pages without losing anything, the pacing was that off. And the climax, while logical, seemed abrupt to me. I really did want to like it more, but I won’t give this series another chance.