Drowned Under
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Eggnog notwithstanding, travel agent Cyd Redondo is not looking forward to the holidays. The borough...
Cheddar Late Than Dead
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A bridal shower gone bad quickly becomes the swiss of death, and grilled cheese shop owner Carly...
ClareR (6037 KP) rated The Illusions in Books
Aug 21, 2023
It’s the late 1890’s and The Greatest Magician is ready to hand over his mantle (wand?) to George Perris. George meets Eadie Carlton, a photographer and pioneering film-maker, and decides that he wants to try and incorporate her work into his show.
Cecily Marsden finds herself alone again when her con artist master dies suddenly, and she gets a job in the house of his nephew. But the nephew has some secrets of his own. Luckily, Cec meets a kind gentleman who only wants to help her and take her away from her employer.
Cec, George and Eadie soon find themselves working together on the greatest magic show, and Cec has to try and save the performance from sabotage.
I loved this: there’s stage magic, a bit of ‘real’ magic and the excitement of the modern age and film. It’s exciting (will the show go on?), romantic (will they EVER get together?) and frankly magical (of course!).
I’m so glad I read this, it really did start my summer holidays on a high!
Ziggy's Gift (Liverpool Boys #5)
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Ziggy My life is complete. I have a loving husband, a loyal and faithful dog, and a circle of...
Crescent City Christmas Chaos (Vintage Cookbook Mystery #4)
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Have yourself a merry little . . . murder? Ricki James-Diaz gets the best present ever when her...
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Merissa (13590 KP) rated You Otter Know (Part of: Double-Booked for the Holidays) in Books
Nov 24, 2025
You may want to hold onto your hat for this one, as the pacing is FAST. In twelve or thirteen chapters, you get an entire year, a pregnancy, and a relationship from meeting to marriage; all at breakneck speed.
I would have preferred a little more show and less tell, but it's a cute, easy read that begins and ends at Christmas. If you're not looking for anything more than that, then this is the one for you.
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Nov 24, 2025
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ClareR (6037 KP) rated The Only Story in Books
Mar 7, 2018
This is a book to be savoured and to have time taken over it. It just seems so personal and private, and frankly, I felt nosey reading it. It illustrates a 19 year old boys great love - a 48 year old woman who he meets at a tennis club during his holidays from University. This love endures through disapproval of both families and many hardships before the end.
It was interesting that the book moved through the use of first person when the love was new and exciting, second person when the relationship began to encounter problems and third person at the end when he is more detached from his lover, Joan. Watching the slide of someone in to addiction and eventually, dementia, was a particularly sad part of the novel, with his personal guilt and inaction increasing the melancholy and sadness of the whole situation. At the end of this book, I finished the last page and found myself sitting and thinking about it for a while. It really is a very affecting book.