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David McK (3557 KP) rated The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World in Books

May 8, 2022

I picked this up on sale for something like 99p on Kindle.

I have to say, I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it.

I mean no disrespect, but I did find this quite hard to get through, and really not at all what I was expecting from the blurb/description on the link I followed to purchase it - I'm not sure why, but it just didn't gel with me.

Oh, some of the bits actually *about* the dinosaurs were interesting enough, but I did - generally - find them to be wheat amongst the chaff, rather than the 'main course' (which, I felt, was more about the contemporary exploits of the author).

Oh, there's no doubt he knows his stuff; maybe this was simply a case where expectation did not meet reality and maybe, if I had known pre-purchase that this was more about the state of palaeontology today than about the age of the dinosaurs my view may have been different?

Anyway, it's read cover to cover now. Doubt it is one I will be heading back to anytime soon.

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Discovery Moon (Gladstone Shifters #5)

Alexander Elliott

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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True Elders. The most powerful and influential wolf shifters in existence. Unfortunately, there...

MM Steamy Romance Paranormal

The Touch (The Cotiere Chronicles, #2)

Michelle Bolanger

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The Nachhaltig have lived among ordinary humans for centuries, but an ancient grudge has driven them...

Paranormal Romance

ClareR (5869 KP) rated The Anniversary in Books

May 15, 2023

The Anniversary

Stephanie Bishop | 2023 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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This is one of those books where I’m glad I commit to the 30% rule. After the first stave (I read it on The Pigeonhole, so it was split up over 10 days), I wanted to give up. I felt pretty much the same after day 2, but at day 3, I wanted to know what had happened. I wanted the Ruth, and I was all in!

It’s a very introspective book, lots of descriptions of places, people, scenes and above all, feelings. JB has a lot of feelings, although she appears to be in a state of shock for a majority of the novel. I mean, her husband falls off the ship they’re celebrating their anniversary on. Not an ideal situation!

And then the truth starts to come out about the reality of their marriage.

The word “marmite” has been bandied around quite a lot regarding this book, and I’ve come down on the “like it” side. It’s certainly a book that gave me a lot to think about - even when I wasn’t reading it!