Ambon: The Truth About One of the Most Brutal POW Camps in World War II and the Triumph of the Aussie Spirit
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'a compelling account of one of World War II's most brutal prisoner of war camps' DAILY TELEGRAPH In...
Ross (3284 KP) rated The Change 2: New York: The Queen of Coney Island in Books
Nov 2, 2020
In the first New York book, we meet Grace, who is trying to reunite with her brother, an inmate of Rikers before The Change. Trying to get safe passage up the Hudson river, she has to ask the Queen of Coney Island for a boat and permission. On the way to do so, she meets up with God (as you do), and enters the former Coney Island amusement park. It is populated with odd people and creatures, some of whom are real, some of whom are formerly real and brought back to life due to the change, others are physical embodiments of ideas and film characters.
Grace and God are given a seemingly simple task to achieve before being given safe passage, but it inevitably turns out to be a very difficult and dangerous one.
The book has a very different feel to the first, London-based one, with a very odd Alice in Wonderland feel to it, with crazy characters helping the one seemingly normal one to her goal.
The one thing that is consistent with the London book is the feeling of wanting more at the end. This time the character had a goal and (spoiler alert) she didn't achieve it by the end of the book.
Super Cooking Games: Cooking Joy, Best Cook!
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Board the cruise ship and go on a cooking adventure with Cooking Joy! This highly addictive...
LEGO® Ninjago™: Shadow of Ronin™
Games and Entertainment
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There is a new threat in Ninjago, and he goes by the name of Ronin. With help from his army of dark...
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated Camino Winds in Books
Aug 20, 2020
It's easy to feel the storm and its tension through Grisham's picturesque writing. Leo hits quickly and the devastation that follows is bad. The post-hurricane feeling on a nearly abandoned Camino Island seems oddly aligned to the pandemic--at least when I read this in May--or it's easy to read that sense into everything I read.
Still, despite the hurricane and the murder and other various killings, this is actually a fun read. Grisham gives us an engaging mystery, and I love his "good versus evil" formula. It always works so well for him and this is one of his breezier presentations. While there isn't much depth, it's a fast read with interesting characters and a snappy mystery. 3.5 stars.
Knights of Stone: Bryce (Highland Gargoyles #3)
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What happens when love interferes with plans, during the most unfortunate of times? Gargoyle...
Adult Paranormal Romance
Her Dark Curiosity (The Madman's Daughter, #2)
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To defeat the darkness, she must first embrace it. Months have passed since Juliet Moreau...
The Family Plot
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From the author of The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door, a family obsessed with true crime...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2395 KP) rated An Eternal Lei in Books
Mar 28, 2022 (Updated Mar 28, 2022)
I wasn’t sure I was ready to pick up a book set during the pandemic we’ve been dealing with the last couple of years, but I found I enjoyed this one. The pandemic is part of the backdrop, and it avoids many of the controversies we’ve had to deal with. We get several sub-plots, but I found they kept me engaged and didn’t distract from the main mystery. I was engrossed the entire time and couldn’t wait to see how everything was going to be resolved. The characters are strong, and seeing them react to the pandemic as well as the mystery really helped develop them. The characters speak in a form of Pidgin, but after the first few pages, I was used to it, and I had no trouble reading the story. This was a good virtual visit to Hawai’i.
