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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

Laurie Lee

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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is a beautiful and moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed...

Barometer Plus - Altimeter and Barometer PRO

Weather and Navigation

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Barometer Plus app measures air pressure and altitude using the built-in barometric pressure sensor...

Stardom: Hollywood

Games and Entertainment

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Start a new life as an aspiring actor in Stardom: Hollywood, and go from nobody to A-list celebrity!...

ToGo! Bolivia

Navigation and Travel

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"ToGo! Bolivia" is a navigation system with complete Bolivian maps that works without an internet...

ToGo! Spain

Navigation and Travel

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"ToGo! Spain" is a navigation system with complete Spain maps that works without an internet...

Rachel King (13 KP) rated The Comeback Cowboy in Books

Feb 11, 2019

The book starts out with much promise, as Ty and Adele have instant chemistry. Even though both have reservations about their relationship, it is obvious to the reader that the pair are good for each other, both romantically and on the ranch.
Ty is easily a rather likable guy, as he is able to humble himself enough to seek help for his career, as well as put aside his own competitiveness for the sake of the concerns of others. Adele, on the other hand, never really seems to mature beyond who is she is introduced in the beginning as. She uses the demise of her parents' marriage and her mother's promiscuous behavior to validate her avoidance of Ty, and later, her lies to him. Even when her mother comes to make amends and change her lifestyle, and she learns more about her parents' marriage, Adele still continues in her own bad behavior. Her behavior is also rather hypocritical from what she claims to want from life.
The ending was a disappointment simply because Adele never really changed her behavior - she only did what she was supposed to thanks to her meddling grandpa. If she had actually managed to make herself stop telling lies without being cornered into it, I likely would have liked her more.

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated The Mars Room: A Novel in Books

May 6, 2019

Rambling and unclear

I really struggled reading this book. It isn't an extraordinarily long book, but it feels like it as the entire thing drags on and rambles on far too much. You know if someone tells you a story in real life and they go into far too much detail and you're just begging for them to shut up and get to the point? That's pretty much how this book is. It rambles off into completely irrelevant and unnecessary stories about the characters, but then doesn't bother later down the line to let us find out what happened to some of them. For a book that has chapters from the point of view of numerous different characters it really does not do a good job in tying any of these up. There is even one character who has very short, disturbing chapters who I'm pretty sure is never named, and having finished the book I still havent got a clue who this is meant to be. It's all very confused.

This had potential with the plot, but sadly it was very poorly executed. I really had to force myself to finish this one and the only satisfaction I got at the end was that it was finally finished.