The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss and Survival
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This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the...
Behind Her Eyes
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Don't Trust This Book Don't Trust These People Don't Trust Yourself And whatever you do, DON'T give...
She Came to Stay
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Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She...
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is Jonathan Coe's latest heart-breaking and hilarious novel...
Upstairs at the Party
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'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on...
Abi Morgan: Plays One
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Tiny Dynamite: When memory takes hold, when chaos takes over and when the electricity between us...
Cori June (3033 KP) rated Gideon the Ninth in Books
Jul 15, 2020
Anyway,
They were right. It is amazing, interesting read. I admit I had some difficulty getting into the first couple of chapters, however I think that was a me problem not from the narrative. Which is gothic and dark, everything that you'd expect from wizards who raise the dead and fight with skeletons would be, and so much more.
It is an interesting concept, although it read more of a mystery to me than a horror, (horror isn't really my genre, I don't have much to base it on. but most of the critics agree that it is in that genre.) and you're in space for maybe 15 pages of the book, if that much. I think there will be more space in the sequel.
The characters interacted with each other well, the tension between them all are great and I had a clear picture of each. Tamsyn kept me guessing on who was or wasn't trustworthy, and the palace that they explore was beautifully described.
Highly recommend if you want something different. This adventure isn't something you'd forget.
Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Dead Island: The Book in Books
Jul 21, 2020
Dead Island: The Book is the novelisation of the video game of the same name (Dead Island).
The first couple of chapters introduce us to the four main protagonists of the game: Sam B, Logan and Purna meet on the plane one the way to Banoi and Xian Mei is the receptionist who books them in to the hotel. The we are treated to the first of many scenes that will be familiar the anyone who has played the game, a concert with Sam B as the main act, followed up by a zombie outbreak.
The story follows the four main protagonists and the people they meet as they travel around the island in search for help, a cure or a way off the island. On their way they must work out who they can trust and how to deal with those they can't.
Dead Island the book almost follows the first game but not riptide so the ending is slightly different, there also seemed to be more guns but that may just be because the narrative is more compressed in the novel as there are a lot less side quests.
Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
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