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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated Mansions of the Dead in Books

Mar 9, 2018

One of Sweeney's students is found murdered with burial jewelry on his body. Because of his connection to a wealthy and powerful family, it becomes a huge case. But can Sweeney figure out what that jewelry means? Another good mystery, but I didn't care for the new character of Timothy Quinn and his sub-plot.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-mansions-of-dead-by-sarah.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Hints on Etiquette: A Shield Against the Vulgar

Various Authors

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If these 'hints' save the blush but upon one cheek, or smooth the path into 'society' of only one...

MoMoBookDiary (20 KP) rated Rise: How a House Built a Family in Books

Oct 1, 2018

Inspirational. Emotional. This is a powerful 4 star read!

Truly inspirational book which tells of the power of love between a mother and her children.

Reading this you soon realise that Cara Brookins accomplished something so incredible following years of abuse. I found myself laughing, crying and at times biting my nails in horror at each inspiration chapter of this amazing family rise from their ruined old lives.

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin’s Press for the advanced copy of this book.

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Kate (355 KP) rated Time Trap (2017) in Movies

Apr 18, 2020

The trailer is better

Found this on Netflix and the trailer made the film look interesting, so as a family we settled down to watch it. i enjoyed it but my two sons thought it was terrible. Yes it took quite a while for the story to get going and all the action happened in the last quarter of an hour. Expected a few more shocks but they didn’t happen. The big question is was the film lining up for a sequel.

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Three Birds

Janice Okoh

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A startling and darkly comic drama about childhood, family and fantasy. Winner of the Bruntwood...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

Alan Bradley

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England 1950. At Buckshaw, the crumbling country seat of the de Luce family,...

Horns (2013)

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After his girlfriend's mysterious death, Iggy wakes up with mysterious horns sprouting out of his...

David McK (3425 KP) rated The Silence (2019) in Movies

Sep 2, 2020

Netflix horror drama, that more than owes a debt to the strikingly-familiar 'A Quiet Place': again, we have creatures that hunt by sound (here, of the winged variety that swarm their victim), a strong focus on a family group, and a deaf girl at the centre of it all.

While critics seem to prefer 'A Quiet Place', I actually found this to be the slightly better of the two: only slightly, mind, as neither were great (in my book).