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David McK (3600 KP) rated Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2) in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Death is missing, presumed ... errrr .... gone, and that leads to the sort of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.

So reads the blurb on the back of the edition I read, with this being the novel where Death himself starts to really live, to come alive, as it were, when he is forced to (temporarily) retire from his position:

'Death has to happen. Tha'ts what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It can't just stop happening.'

This is also the book to introduce the Death of Rats (SQUEEK), as well as the Auditors of reality, both of whom will go on to appear and have larger roles in later books as well.

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Kelly Rettie (748 KP) rated The Couple Next Door in Books

Feb 15, 2020

The Couple Next Door

Shari Lapena | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(75 Ratings)

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Easy to read and follow (0 more)

Lots of twists

Contains spoilers, click to show

Started this book and got into it from the first chapter. A couples baby goes missing while they are having dinner at their neighbours. The husbands business is failing and hes desperate for money, and so I thought "okay I know what happened". This book starts you off thinking it's super predictable, but then more twists show all those involved. At the end when the baby is finally home, it appears all is well and a happy ending.... in the last chapter one last twist means no happy ending after all. All in all easy to read and follow, just 300 or so pages of plot twists that make you want to keep reading to get the full truth.