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Domonique (0 KP) rated Who We Were Before in Books

May 12, 2018  
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Who We Were Before
Leah Mercer | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
This was so good, I really enjoyed it!! I liked how each chapter was told from the other person's perspective, either Edward or Zoey, and we got to see how each may have experienced the same thing on the same day but differently. This is a story of how two people losing their child have to grieve separately and kind of find out who they are again as individuals before they can come back together as a couple. It took them literally losing in each other in another country before they could truly appreciate what they had. Great read!
  
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RavenclawPrincess913 (253 KP) rated Insurgent in Books

Jul 24, 2019  
Insurgent
Insurgent
Veronica Roth | 2013 | Children, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
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8.3 (59 Ratings)
Book Rating
Title: Insurgent

Author: Veronica Roth

Read Dates: May 26th- July 23rd

Why did I choose to read this book?
I chose to read this book because it's the second book in the divergent series

Did I like it? Yes

Five things I liked about this book:
1. The story
2. The way Tris thinks
3. That Christina forgave her
4. The story between Tris and Tobias
5. The ending

One character I disliked: Edward

Do I recommend this book? Yes

Questions for you:
1. Do you like the Divergent Series?
2. If you haven't read it do you plan to?
3. Favorite Character?
  
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Deborah (162 KP) rated The May Bride in Books

Dec 21, 2018  
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The May Bride
Suzannah Dunn | 2014
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The May Bride is not, in fact, so much about Jane Seymour - although she is the first person narrator and was married in May (practically before her predecessor was cold.....) - as about her sister in law, Katherine Folliot, first wife of her eldest brother Edward (later Duke of Somerset and Lord Protector under Edward VI). Edward's second wife, Anne Stanhope, is probably better known to historians or lovers of historical fiction, but there remains something of a mystery around the fate of Katherine Folliot, which Dunn has chosen to take as the basis of this novel.

I realised I had read a couple of Dunn's previous works - The Queen of Subtleties and The Confession of Katherine Howard. Of the former, I remember thinking that Dunn must have done a lot of research into the history of confectionery, but I can't remember anything of the second book, other than it wasn't dreadful, but wasn't the best thing I'd ever read either. I feel a bit the same about this latest offering. There's a lot of detail in there about how a moderately wealthy Tudor family may have lived, but a couple of days after I finished reading it there is nothing that stands out for me. I think perhaps that Jane herself isn't very interesting and Dunn doesn't make her interesting. I think her point is that she's plain and dull and normal and gets on with things because it's just easier.... but it doesn't make for a very entertaining read somehow. Katherine herself, who is the focus of the novel also often doesn't seem very likeable, so it's difficult to like her story or to really feel sorry for her.

In summary, not a bad read and there are far worse out there, but someone it doesn't quite hit the mark for me - just a bit forgettably mediocre.
  
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Lou Grande (148 KP) rated Teratologist in Books

May 15, 2018  
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Teratologist
Edward Lee, Wrath James White | 2011 | Horror
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9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Like a Buddy Cop movie directed by Satan
THE TERATOLOGIST--a researcher of physical abnormalities--is both a disgusting and fun (short) horror novel. Something like a Buddy Cop movie, a writer and photographer go to the mansion of a young billionaire who collects people with birth defects for a single nefarious purpose: to see God.

If you've read Edward Lee's Infernal Series, you may notice the similarities in theme. It isn't just good vs evil, it's Good vs Evil. It has the same dash of irreverent humor and more than enough depravity to make it a fun read for readers with iron stomachs.

That said, this is absolutely not for the faint of heart. If you're easily offended, why are you looking at a book by Edward Lee and Wrath James White to begin with? Both are masters of the splatterpunk genre, which has given birth to the "extreme horror" subgenre. This book will gross you out. Even seasoned readers might cringe at some of the acts depicted in THE TERATOLOGIST. They disgust on a moral and visceral level, but isn't that the point?