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Don't Go
Don't Go
10
9.5 (4 Ratings)
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Another amazing novel from this best selling author. Scottoline has once again taken amazingly chiseled characters and whipped up a plot line that will suck you in, turn you inside out, and make you want more. This is beyond 5 stars worthy but I can only give it 5 on here so that's what I will do. It is definitely one you don't want to miss! Grab it now and fall in love with Scottoline's phenomenal writing style.
  
Seal Team Flix
Seal Team Flix
2019 | Fighting
'This is a design of silent moments and held breath giving way to furious high fives and sore bronchial passages. It’s novel and quite addictive. It’s even extremely difficult propelling repeated play and focused intensity. Take all that and cram it inside that massive box of cardboard goodness and you have one of 2018’s most definitive releases.'

Charlie Theel, Geek & Sundry
https://geekandsundry.com/seal-team-flix-is-a-wild-blend-of-first-person-shooter-and-flicking-discs/
  
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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) Mar 21, 2019

I'm not usually a fan of dexterity games, but sometimes one breaks thru... Need to try this maybe.

The Rum Diary
The Rum Diary
Hunter S. Thompson | 1998 | Fiction & Poetry
I found this book at on a bench at a park and could not put it down.

The Rum Diary is an early novel by Hunter S. Thompson. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998.

In this tale you will read about drinking rum, eating burgers, some journalism, rum, the twisted minds of people, rum and more rum while following a American journalist working at a paper in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  
Mystic Vale: Vale of the Wild
Mystic Vale: Vale of the Wild
2017 | Card Game, Fantasy, Game Expansion
Vale of the Wild adds new mechanics to the Mystic Vale game, enabling new and novel strategies. It adds leaders, which can focus your game and give you a boost in the slow early game. It also adds cards that care about corruption, either by having as few cards in your field as possible, or as many red symbols as possible for extra points. It adds variety to the lone original strategy of as many green symbols as possible
  
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Dead to Writes
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Cassie Ellis is ready to celebrate the launch of her first mystery novel when someone starts killing her contacts. Who could it be? I really connected with the characters and can't wait to spend more time with them. The pacing of the story was a bit uneven, but I still found the book hard to put down.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-dead-to-writes-by-cathy.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Final Curtain
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Aging star Polly Pepper has landed a job in Glendale for the summer reprising her leading role in Mame. But when the director is murdered the second day of rehearsal, she has to clear a co-star. The book is fun and the characters are wacky, but the novel can be overwritten at times.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-review-final-curtain-by-r-t-jordan.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
The Thinking Woman&#039;s Guide to Real Magic
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic
Emily Croy Barker | 2014 | Fiction & Poetry
6
7.7 (3 Ratings)
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Interesting concept and brilliantly reimagined worlds (0 more)
Characters are stiff and the plot is a long winded variation of Pride and Prejudice. (0 more)
Don't get me wrong, I love magic and Pride and Prejudice and the ability to commiserate with a fictional English grad student on the development of a thesis, but I was mostly underwhelmed by this novel. I wanted it to be so much better than it was. Still decent, but it had the ability to be amazing.
  
The Girl at the End of the World
The Girl at the End of the World
Richard Levesque | 2013 | Dystopia, Young Adult (YA)
7
7.5 (2 Ratings)
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It was a good dystopian fiction. I like how the female was a very strong protagonist. Most fifteen year olds I know would not survive so it seemed a bit unrealistic in that was because she was not a prepper family. That did not distract from the story though. It was well paced and had a good flow. It was a stand alone novel not part of a series and sometimes we need those in our reading lives.
  
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Erika (17789 KP) rated Armada in Books

May 27, 2018  
Armada
Armada
Ernest Cline | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.6 (16 Ratings)
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This was a solid second novel from Ernie Cline. Of course, the concept was not new, it definitely took from Ender's Game, Flight of the Navigator, etc, but the book wasn't pretending to be an original concept. A video game training the mass population in case of an alien invasion was the storyline.
The only thing I didn't like was the ending... regarding the 'aliens' reasoning for attacking. It was a nice, easy, and quick read.
  
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Natasha Pulley | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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Awesome
I absolutely loved this book. I found the characters fascinating, complex and believable. I genuinely couldn't predict which way the story was going to go and I love the fact that it was set in a kind of steampunk Victorian England setting. I especially enjoyed the beautiful descriptions of Mori's clockwork. I get that this probably isn't everyone's cup of tea, I think it's a 'love it or hate it' kind of novel but I definitely loved it.