TINYforming Mars
Tabletop Game
TINYforming Mars is a 1-2 player game set in the distant future when mankind has mastered the...
A Small Circus
Book
A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling...
Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano
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In less than a decade, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Andy Grove founded three companies that would...
Fireside Gothic
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From the No.1 bestselling author of The American Boy and The Ashes of London comes a collection of...
Beastie Boys Book
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Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated A Window Breaks in Books
Mar 1, 2020
Tom, his wife, Rachel, and their daughter, Holly, have been through it. First their teenage son, Michael, and his girlfriend, Fiona, die in a road traffic collision when Michael was driving and if that wasn't bad enough, Holly is viciously attacked by a mugger. What's needed is for them to getaway and take Tom's boss up on his offer of time away at his secluded and secure lodge in Scotland ... what could possibly go wrong?
Written mainly from Tom's perspective, we are taken on a thrilling journey of survival; we are lulled into a false sense of security when Tom and his family arrive at the lodge but are quickly plunged into a nightmare when they are awoken by the sound of someone walking on broken glass. When Tom goes to investigate, what he sees makes his heart drop to his toes and so it begins 😰
Tom's voice is a breath of fresh air because he is not your usual macho Bear Grylls hero, he is a "normal" husband and father ... vulnerable, fearful and afraid but determined to protect his family despite not being particularly brave, strong or fit ... this made him more real somehow and because of this, you are never quite sure how this was going to end.
With an easy to read, flowing style, this book is dripping with tension and atmosphere with many hold-your-breath moments that had me gripped and eagerly flipping my Kindle® ... I couldn't read fast enough.
Recommended reading for action/thriller/suspense lovers.
Many thanks to Pan Macmillan and NetGalley for my advance copy in return for an honest review.
Speaking Memory: How Translation Shapes City Life
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Drysalter
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Winner of the 2013 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the 2013 Costa Poetry Award....
Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager
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This book was short listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2015. A man punches...
Twelve Recipes
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Winner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award...