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A Salty Dog by Procol Harum
A Salty Dog by Procol Harum
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"One of my favourite albums. I love Gary Brooker, and I loved Robin Trower when he was playing cool stuff. I never followed him after he started trying to turn into Hendrix. I didn't get it. What's he doing this for? Hendrix has already done this. Procul Harum made great music that was related to the classics, but with crazy lyrics. I still don't know what half the lyrics are about: 'Repent Walpurgis' [from their debut album], I still don't know what that means. But it was intriguing to me. A Salty Dog is beautiful, and this reminds me of an era when keyboards didn't interfere with the guitar, just like Soft Machine. It's the kind of music that takes up where 'I Am The Walrus' takes off. And these were all great singers. The only ratty singer I liked was Roger Chapman out of Family."

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Wilder Girls
Wilder Girls
Rory Power | 2019
6
8.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
I struggled with this review. This was one of my most anticipated books of the year and I just did not love it as I expected. However, the hype I built up for myself was probably a disservice to the book and in the end plays apart in my disappointment.

Overall, the book was an enjoyable read and I would still recommend it. The middle took a weird turn for me and never seemed to come back from that. I didn't like the ending although it does leave room for drawing your own conclusions. I also believe that some of the characters although your suppose to believe they are resourceful, cunning, smart seemed to believe things that they were told at face value and never investigated further. The writing was definitely able to pull me in and the story was entertaining enough to finish.
  
Initiation (The Warrior #1)
Initiation (The Warrior #1)
Rebecca Royce | 2015 | Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)
8
4.5 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
96 of 200
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Initiation ( The Warriors book 1)
By Rebecca Royce

Keep your friends close...and your enemies closer.
Rachel Clancy has had to learn the hard way that you can't always trust who you know.

Born with a specific set of genes that lets her fight monsters, Rachel has trained her entire life to kill vampires and werewolves. Unprepared for the level of deception and betrayal she faces as she journeys Upwards to battle her enemies, it's not long before Rachel finds herself on a quest that will alter the lives of everyone she knows.

Including Rachel's...

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! I found it a bit rushed in places but overall a really good concept! YA are hot and miss lately but I do like Rebecca Royces writing style! This is just another good book from her!
  
TW
Two Wrongs
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
67 of 235
Book
Two Wrongs
By Mel McGrath
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In the city of Bristol, young women are dying in mysterious circumstances. The deaths look like suicides – but are they something more sinister?

Honor is terrified that her daughter might be next. But as she looks for clues as to what really happened to the girls, she stumbles upon a link to a dark secret in her own past – one that she’s kept from her daughter.

Now Honor has the chance to avenge her child for the terrible events of years ago.

This was a pretty good read. I had a few moments as this book got home a little to close for me but I just couldn’t stop reading it. My stomach was twisted in parts. I really really felt uncomfortable but isn’t that what a good thriller is supposed to do?