All The Rage (DI Adam Fawley #4)
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A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells...
Dragon Age: The Last Flight
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The Grey Wardens are heroes across Thedas once again: the Archdemon has been defeated with relative...
The Starbucks Experience: 5 Principles for Turning Ordinary into Extraordinary
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WAKE UP AND SMELL THE SUCCESS! You already know the Starbucks story. Since 1992, its stock has risen...
jmercado (1 KP) rated The Jewel (The Lone City, #1) in Books
Jan 15, 2018
Royalty comes with its perks in the Jewel but it also comes with its flaws.
Royalty cannot bear their own children (well they can but they come out deformed and pass away).
So they seek and purchase Surrogates. Once a female who has hit puberty test positive to be a Surrogate they are taken and kept at a facility to be auctioned off to these Royals.
We follow the story of Violet and her journey after being sold.
This story does have a romance but the story is more politically driven.
There were some faults that made this book a 4 instead of a 5.
Firstly the beginning just exploded with information and didn't really easy you into the plot. There were multiple times I had to reread the sections to understand what was going on or who certain people were.
Secondly the romance in this didn't give us much build up. I mean I do like the couple but there was not much to go progression wise.
Other than that this book was beautifully written and once I pushed through the 1st half I could not put it down.
Can't wait to read the rest of the series.
The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles
Piero Antinori and Natalie Danford
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The head of Italy's first family of winemaking reflects on the Antinoris' six-hundred-year legacy...
Cassie Osbourne (6 KP) rated An Officer and a Spy in Books
Nov 9, 2018
Towards the beginning, I was a little disappointed in the book. The writing style is brilliant and how faithful it is to actual events is great but in some ways, this is also its downfall. The conspiracy went on for years which makes the pacing very slow in parts and incredibly quick and exciting in others. All the characters in this book, even the tiny bit characters, were real people tied up in the affair; however, none of these characters has any real development until the very end and only for a short amount of time. As someone who favours character-driven story arcs rather than plot-driven ones, this was very frustrating for me to read as they all seemed to be very one dimensional (with the exception, perhaps, of Henry) and it doesn't really make any of them terribly likeable.
All that being said, I did very much enjoy the last two hundred or so pages where the pace really picked up and became exciting as everything seemed to come together rather than people sitting on files and information - but this is, of course, the nature of courtrooms and trials.
Although I probably won't read this book again, I am glad that I did as it introduced me to an interesting army conspiracy in France that I will definitely be doing more research in to.
Characters - 6/10
Atmosphere - 9/10
Writing Style - 8/10
Plot - 7/10 (score majorly affected by pacing)
Intrigue - 6.5/10 (as above)
Logic - 10/10 (real events so difficult to score lower)
Enjoyment - 6.5/10 (again pacing and lack of character development)
Score average - 7.8/10
Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Zombie's Y'All in Books
Jan 12, 2018
The story was a different take on zombies, which in this zombie infested market is hard to accomplish. The zombies are ghost zombies destroying one of Savannah's most well known attractions, it's ghosts.
The characters remind me of Carl Hiaasen's. The smart, the goofy and the clueless. All unique and entertaining. This is a very character driven novel.
My only complaint was the use of the Asian stereo type when the characters had a conversation. I did not feel this was necessary. Although, over all I would recommend this book.
The Identicals
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Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands...
Ghettoside: Investigating a Homicide Epidemic
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This is The International Bestseller - As Read on BBC Radio 4. Why would you kill your neighbour?...