The Persian Boy (Alexander the Great, #2)
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In the second novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the...
Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Fudge, #2)
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Sheila Tubman sometimes wonders who she really is: the outgoing, witty, and capable Sheila the...
Love After All
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High school math teacher Chelsea Gardner has the perfect plan. She’s tired of dating all the wrong...
Love Without Limits (Pink Bean #7)
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Changing the rules can open your mind Caitlin James and Josephine Greenwood have been happily in...
Lesbian Romance Leaning Erotic
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From one of the most original new voices in modern fiction comes a startling vision of a world where...
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Merissa (12929 KP) rated Trapped (Blood Rose Tales #1) in Books
Apr 12, 2023
Things change when they are attacked though and sometimes it takes the confusion of battle for you to see clearly.
A quick read but a thoroughly enjoyable one. I love the Blood Rose Tales and will be reading more.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book; the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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Charlotte (184 KP) rated imPerfect Magic (The imPerfect Cathar #1) in Books
May 11, 2023
A great start to this series and I can't wait to read the next installment. The transition between past and present is pretty good. You know exactly when it's happening with a cheeky side note to go with each chapter. I don't feel the weirdness that you sometimes get with going back and forth and I love that. The characters are well written with their own personalities that go well together considering backgrounds, age differences etc.
One character that gets me is Franc, (spoiler bad guy) the only way I can describe the way he speaks is gobbledegook.....it hurts my brain but it really makes him stand out.
Definitely a young adult read with some of the descriptiveness and combines magic and religion which is something different and intriguing.
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Justice Denied: Extraordinary Miscarriages of Justice
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An incisive examination by the bestselling author of The Mammoth Book of Gangs of some of the many...
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Golden House in Books
Jan 1, 2018
Narrated by René, an aspiring filmmaker, this account feels very similar to the likes of The Great Gatsby, in which everything is rather hyperbolic because it is written from the perspective of an outsider. Following the exceedingly wealthy Golden family, René attempts to figure out the mysterious circumstances of their arrival from India, and the subsequent, often cataclysmic events surrounding them, in which the narrator plays a part. The slow emergence of a dark history of corruption and evil is paralleled by Rushdie's perception of the rise of ignorance, untruth, bigotry and hatred, and of "The Joker" (i.e. Trump, although he is never named).
The writing is brilliant. It is discursive, sometimes addresses the reader directly, even sometimes adopts the form of a screenplay and has a wonderful voice of its own. The context surrounding the Mumbai bombings is intriguing as much of it is based on factual information. The truth is, after all, stranger than fiction.
While the style is not flawless, as the postmodern blurring between supposedly objective narrative and things René has "made up" for his screenplay did get a little haphazard, however, this may be Rushdie's attempt to reflect how "post-truths" are disseminated in a similar fashion. Nonetheless, I thought The Golden House was enjoyable. Even after all these years, Rushdie is able to adapt his writing to suit a modern generation.