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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2478 KP) rated Orphan X (Orphan X, #1) in Books

Mar 9, 2018  
Orphan X (Orphan X, #1)
Orphan X (Orphan X, #1)
Gregg Hurwitz | 2016 | Thriller
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9.0 (4 Ratings)
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Evan Smoak is a former secret operative who now uses his training to help those in danger. But his latest client may be more than he can handle when someone tries to kill her at their first meeting. Can Evan keep her safe?

While the book seems to start slowly, it soon becomes apparent that everything is important to the story being told here. It quickly turns into a book you can’t put down with twists and action that leave you anxious for the next in the series. Evan can be a bit of a superhero, but the seeds are planted to fully flesh him out as this new series progresses, and I can’t wait to see that happen.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2016/05/book-review-orphan-x-by-gregg-hurwitz.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Sjon recommended Fish Can Sing in Books (curated)

 
Fish Can Sing
Fish Can Sing
Halldor Laxness | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry, Humor & Comedy
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Set in Reykjavík at the turn of the 20th century this novel has a Chaplin-esque quality in its celebration of how the good values of society are to be found among those clinging to its lowest rung. Álfgrímur is an orphan living with an old couple who have opened their small farm to the misfits and the meek. A nearby graveyard becomes the boy’s playground, and it is there he is discovered to have “the pure tone” while singing at funerals of the lost and lonesome. From their gravesides he goes into the world to become a singer. It is my favorite book by Laxness, not least because it is his attempt to understand why someone like himself, born in a town of 10,000 people, found the right melody to transform the stories of a small world into world literature."

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