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Crimes Against Magic (The Hellequin Chronicles #1)
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How do you keep the people you care about safe from enemies you can’t remember? Ten years ago,...
Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors
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The true gods of Earth existed long before our ancestors crawled mindless upon the shore:...
Timeless Sky (Flightless Bird #4)
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When it all ends... In the tumultuous world of time travel, Livy does her best to adjust to her...
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated For Your Own Good in Books
Sep 5, 2021
This book had me hooked and I read it in super quick time. It is full of thoroughly unlikeable characters where few had any redeeming qualities and I have to admit that I actually smiled when at least one of them came to their sticky end!
The story is written from various points of view and whilst this puts you right into the heads of the characters, it does take away some of the tension and thrills but it was fun being in the heads of people who had clearly lost the plot!
This was a fun and over the top read that I would recommend to those who are able to put reality and plausibility aside for a few hours and just hop on and enjoy the ride.
My thanks go to Penguin Michael Joseph UK and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post
Oct 10, 2021 (Updated Oct 10, 2021)
It’s set in a world that we all know a little about. A Covid-19-type virus, except far more severe, breaks out and social panic ensues. Society goes ion to lockdown, hospitals are unable to cope with the sheer volume of cases, and the army is drafted in to keep order. Shops are looted, food is rationed, people die horrifically.
Edith Harkness looks back on her life as she prepares to enter the last stages of Long-Nonovirus. It’s a much more serious version of Long-Covid, where the affected person dies. Edith looks back on her life, from her childhood where she lives with her brain-damaged mother, to her years of study and consequent art prizes, and then her time in lockdown with her lover, a Bulgarian Turk.
It’s a book about love, sex, desire, illness, caring, family and grief. Those are some big topics for a slim book, but it’s beautifully told.
Now I need to read some more Sarah Hall books.
River Sing Me Home
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We whisper the names of the ones we love like the words of a song. That was the taste of freedom to...
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