Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
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On an April evening in 1779, a woman is shot on the steps of Covent Garden. Her murderer is a young...
King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta
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The brilliantly compelling new biography of the treacherous and tyrannical King John, published to...
Let Me Lie
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'It's phenomenal, super-twisty and, incredibly, EVEN BETTER than I Let You Go and I See You' JILL...
The Crossley ID Guide: Britain and Ireland
Dominic Couzens and Richard Crossley
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This guide is a celebration of the beauty of birds and the British and Irish countryside. Aimed at...
Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics
Oliver Uberti and James Cheshire
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'Beautiful and thrilling ...a joy to study cover to cover' - E. O. Wilson 'Enchanting and...
The Husband's Secret
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The Husband's Secret is a gripping story about love, deception and how the smallest choice can have...
The Daughters of Ironbridge
7.0
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Perfect for fans of Maggie Hope and Katie Flynn - the first in a heartwarming new series set against...
Erika (17789 KP) rated At the Table of Wolves (Dark Talents #1) in Books
Feb 11, 2019
I'm glad I finally did. This is the first of a trilogy that's an alt-history in the 1930s. After the Great War, there's an event called 'the bloom' and individuals begin to have 'talents' or powers manifest. It's definitely a riff off of the X-Men, but it really worked for me in this novel. The lead character, Kim, is a 30-something who has the talent of 'spill', which is essentially compelling people to spill various secrets, though she can't exactly control it. I liked Kim because she was completely relatable and made mistakes.
I wish that the book had been longer, but now I'm anxiously awaiting for the 2nd book from the library. Luckily, the final book in the trilogy is coming out in March, so I won't have long to wait for book 3.
Sarah (126 KP) rated Seaforth Prison (The Haunted #3) in Books
Feb 18, 2019
The second book didn't have quite the same level of excitement and tension as the first, but was still enough to hook a reader and kept with "The Haunted" theme of the series.
With this third book, any "haunting" element has really been pushed into the background and I don't feel that the story is quite as compelling in this latest installment. I also read some reviews of the second book after I finished it, and one in particular mentioned the lack of variety in the swearing - and now that I'm aware of it, it REALLY started to bother me.
I know I'm going to go ahead and read the next book in the series, at least. Hopefully this will be return to the more exiting themes of the earlier books
