Mog's Christmas
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The classic story of everyone's favourite forgetful cat at Christmas - now as a board book for the...
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Erika (17789 KP) rated Codename: Sailor V, Volume 1 in Books
Sep 26, 2019 (Updated Sep 26, 2019)
The Sailor V series is supplemental to Sailor Moon, featuring Sailor V, who later becomes Sailor Venus. The first volume is the origin of the character, who's real name is Minako. Minako also meets a cat with a mark on the forehead, and becomes Sailor V.
If you love Sailor Moon, the Sailor V series is a must read.
One Grave at a Time (Night Huntress, #6)
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How do you send a killer to the grave when he's already dead? Centuries ago, Heinrich Kramer was a...
Gustav Gloom and the People Taker
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Fernie What and her family move in to a new neighborhood, across the street from a dark and sinister...
Mirrorland
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Dark and devious…beautifully written and plotted with a watchmaker’s precision’ STEPHEN KING ...
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The Twelve Disasters of Christmas
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Brad has never had a proper Christmas in his entire life. And for the first time, he has the...
So not the cheeriest subject, but the way it was written - and the narration by Imogen Church - was what made me empathise with Ally. And the situations Ally found herself in were so relatable. I felt really mean laughing at her and Jeremy going out for their first few runs, but they were hilarious (and I’ve been there too!).
I even found myself talking to Ally (should I own up to this, and the fact that I was wearing headphones at the time?!), and was helpfully reminded by the 17 year old, that telling a fictitious character not to email her ex-girlfriend was pretty pointless. I stand by what I said though!
I loved this book, and it brightened my day for a week of dog walks and (the dreaded) dinner preparation!
Recommended!
Many thanks to Quercus for my original e-copy (even though I listened to it on Audible!).
ClareR (5991 KP) rated The Last House on Needless Street in Books
Mar 9, 2022
It’s also a book with just enough oddness to keep me reading. Usually, a book about missing children would be a big “no” from me, but I have to admit to being drawn in by the talking, God fearing cat. I mean, how can that not appeal to the reader?
Ted is the main character though. He lives in a rundown house on Needless Street with his talking cat, Olivia, and his daughter Lauren, who visits at the weekends. He’s a reclusive man, who boards up his windows, has spy holes to look into the garden and uses a chest freezer to keep his cat in when he’s out. He doesn’t do himself any favours - he’s odd.
And so Dee decides that he is the man responsible for the disappearance of her sister. The Police have already discounted him, but she is sure that he fits the profile of a child abductor. She finds a house for sale on Needless Street, moves in and bides her time.
This is hands down, one of the strangest, delightfully off-kilter, most uncomfortable books I’ve read in recent times. I thought I had the ending all sorted out, but there are a fair few twists and turns that will wrong-foot you throughout this frankly brilliant book.
If you enjoy an eccentric, strange, slightly horrifying book, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy this. I loved it.