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ClareR (5841 KP) rated Sharp Glass in Books

Jan 5, 2025

Sharp Glass

Sarah Hilary | 2024 | Contemporary, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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I listened to Sharp Glass on audiobook through Xigxag, and I absolutely loved both the story and the narrator, Imogen Church.

A woman wakes up to realise that she’s being held captive by a man - and she has to work out how she’ll escape.

Over the course of the story, we learn who she is, why she’s captive in a cellar and who’s holding her there. The fact that the cellar is in complete darkness made my imagination run wild - as well as the imagination of the main character! What had she done? Was this revenge? Or something even more sinister?

This is a claustrophobic read and I was right there in the cellar with the woman. They all seem to be thoroughly unreliable characters: no one seems to be telling the truth. I felt that my job as the reader, was to try and detect who was lying the least!

It’s a sad story with some dark, violent themes. This novel was a really good tale, executed really well.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2310 KP) rated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in Books

Mar 9, 2018

When Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy find a magic wardrobe leads them to a new land, they also learn they hold the key to a prophecy that will end the eternal winter brought on by an evil witch. I first read this book in 3rd grade. I loved it then. I love it now. A magical story that captures the imagination.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/02/book-review-lion-witch-and-wardrobe-by.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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AT (1676 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books

Sep 3, 2018

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry

8.9

(161 Ratings)

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I LOVED Ready Player One! I read it when it originally came out, and I loved how fresh and modern the story was. It was the perfect change of pace from other books that I had recently read. The story allows your imagination to soar, and the story is continually interesting. The book is way better than the movie, though it was fun to see it in movie form. Ready Player One is a fun, easy, smooth, exciting, interesting read!

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ClareR (5841 KP) rated Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen in Books

Oct 24, 2019

Monstress, Vol. 4: The Chosen

Marjorie Liu | 2019 | Comics & Graphic Novels, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.7

(3 Ratings)

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I love everything about this series: the world building, the characters (there are some seriously evil people in this!), and the artwork is stunning (thanks to Sana Takeda, the illustrator) . This series takes me twice as long to read, purely because of the need to look at the detail in the pictures. Marjorie and Sana make such an amazing team: the imagination of these women is phenomenal. I will be preordering the next volume in the series as soon as is humanly possible!