Then. Now. Always.
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Hannah Hodges can't believe her luck when she's offered a trip to sunny Spain with her best friend...
Kristy H (1252 KP) rated The Last Thing He Told Me in Books
Jun 17, 2021
"Owen's note is short. One line, its own puzzle. Protect her."
This was an excellent page-turner: a wonderful character-driven mystery that sucked me in from the very beginning. It keeps you wondering and guessing from the start. Why did Owen disappear? Is he a good guy or a bad one? We discover things as Hannah does, and the book is so engrossing. She and Bailey unravel Owen's past, becoming detectives themselves, and we get snippets from the past they do.
It's fascinating trying to piece everything together. I was frantically flipping the pages, and I read this one in only a couple of settings. The language is flowery but absorbing. In addition to the key disappearance, Dave reflects on Hannah's relationships with both Owen and Bailey. If you want to get lost in a good mystery for a couple of days (or hours), I highly recommend this one.
Thirteen Reasons Why: (TV Tie-in)
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Read this sensational mystery bestseller before you watch the 13-part Netflix series, executive...
The Sisters Chase
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A gripping novel about two sisters who are left homeless by their mother’s death and the lengths...
Creepshow 2 (1987)
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An anthology of three more eerie tales, entitled "Old Chief Wood'n Head", "The Raft", and "The...
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Spirit Prophecy (The Gateway Trilogy #2)
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wo sisters, haunted by more than their past... Just weeks after discovering each other’s...
ClareR (5561 KP) rated The Golden Rule in Books
Jun 3, 2021
This is a novel that not only looks at abusive partners and the effects their behaviours have on those around them, but also brings in such topics as Brexit, and why certain regions in the UK (i.e. Cornwall) voted for it, when it was clear that they’d get nothing out of it. It looks at poverty in London and the South West, and how the rich seem to asset strip the poor areas of the country even more, even under the pretence that they’re adding value. It’s about how a person can reinvent themselves despite the hurdles put in front of them.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and finished the last page feeling as though I’d just read a really good, satisfying book. I’d most definitely recommend it!
Bookapotamus (289 KP) rated Special Topics in Calamity Physics in Books
May 25, 2018
Blue Van Meer is a young girl studying at Harvard who decides to write about her life. Kind of a brainiac, and a bit odd, she starts with some tidbits of her childhood. Her mother died when she was very young, so she was raised primarily by her eccentric father who is a professor that moved her around a lot, from place to place. But most of the book takes place in Blue's high school years, particularly her senior year where she meets and befriends her teacher Hannah Schneider and joins an elite group of eccentrics, named the Bluebloods. And then, there is a murder.
Its a great mystery, a definite page-turner and you see how this murder has impacted Blue's life, and my goodness, it just gets better and better as you read on. I'm a big fan of Pessl's now!
Sisters at War
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1940 Liverpool. The pressures of war threaten to tear apart two sisters traumatised by their...
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Jo (37 KP) rated Honestly Ben in Books
Oct 6, 2018
Also, Rafe didn't get nearly enough page space, and because of that, my belief in their intense connection took something of a nosedive.
Way too much attention was given to Ben's dipshit teammates and to Hannah...
Now, I actually quite liked Hannah. But I did not like the fact her only purpose to the plot was as an obstacle between Ben and Rafe. She opened herself up to Ben, let him in at a particularly vulnerable and difficult point of her life, and the way he used and hurt her (however unintentionally it may have been) for the sake of sorting his own head out totally peed me off!
There's a lot of D-Rep here, which was great (although, I didn't feel like much of it was particularly well handled).
In all honesty, it was entirely Toby and Albie who saved this book for me. Love those oddballs!