Goodbye to Boleyn: West Ham's Final Season at Upton Park and the Big Kick-off at Stratford
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West Ham's final season at the Boleyn Ground was always going to be memorable. It featured a new...
Merissa (13378 KP) rated The Magician (The Necronomicon Guardian #1) in Books
Aug 31, 2020
This is a quick read and the pacing is fast too. It mostly takes place within 24-hours so hold onto your hats. Although you don't meet any of them in depth, there are numerous characters to tantalise and tease. Personally, I want to see more from Glenda. As for Blade, well, we'll just have to see what his story is in future books.
As with all of Maya Daniels' books, it is full of snarky humour and action. I get the feeling this is just the start of a brilliant adventure for Charlie and I can't wait to see what happens next. A wonderful start to a new series and definitely recommended by me.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Charming Falls Apart
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Allison James is a people pleaser and rule follower, but the day before her thirty-fifth birthday,...
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The Immortalists
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A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by...
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Becoming Magic (Sleight of Hand #5)
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Carole Barnes once believed she would make her own way in Hollywood, but those days are long gone,...
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The Raven and the Pig (Celwyn #2)
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As the music dies, the magician Celwyn is mortally wounded. His darker, immortal brother Pelaez...
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The story follows Ryhalt Galharrow, a captain in the Blackwing, a group of soldiers and enforcers working for the supreme magician Crowfoot. They are charged with keeping order along the Range and tracking down dissenters and run-aways.
Galharrow quickly finds himself embroiled in a plot and a battle to save the republic from itself and the evil Deep Kings and their hordes of mutated zombies.
The narrative is extremely gritty and at times you can almost smell the filth and second-hand brandy.
While you are thrown into it without warning and without preamble, this is to McDonald's credit, as the reader pieces things together quite quickly, or can make up their own mind about how things look and work.
To sum this up, I would say it was like Mark Lawrence or Joe Abercrombie ghost-writing a Brandon Sanderson plot - with the best aspects of both sides (the gritty dialogue from the grimdark authors with the intricately designed magic system and urban landscape of the plotter).
A superbly crafted story with excellent flowing prose.
Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated The Year We Turned Forty in Books
Apr 9, 2019
Seeing as this is the year that I turn 40, I was intrigued by this book. If I had the opportunity to go back in time and relive a year of my life, would I do it? I think that I would. I don't think that I would think twice about it. There are a lot of things I would like to change about the past, and having the ability to do so, sounds great.
For Claire, Jessie and Gabriella, they have some serious issues to get through and see if they can't fix the second time around. From the death of a parent, to an award winning career and an affair, will going back in time make things different in this new life? Will things be better or worse?
Di Stefano
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"Better than Pele". (Diego Maradona). "One of the greatest footballers ever." (Sir Alex Ferguson)....
Some Very Interesting Cats Perhaps You Weren't Aware of
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Writer and illustrator Doogie Horner knows just what it is about cats that so obsesses and delights...