Amy and Lan
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Amy Connell and Lan Honey are having the best childhood, growing up on a West Country farm - three...
Literary Fiction Coming of Age
Good Girls Die First
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Welcome to the most gripping thriller of the year: hugely entertaining, high-octane and...
ClareR (5879 KP) rated Black Cake in Books
Jul 12, 2022
I loved the chapters on the Caribbean island - I felt transported there (or at least I wished I was!). The contrast between the island and the UK was radical, and must have been a shock for the Bennett’s - and for anyone else travelling from warmer climes!
The real story is about Benny and Byron having to relearn everything they thought they knew about their mother. Even her husband hadn’t known the whole story.
This is beautifully told, and it’s one of those books where you turn the last page with a tinge of sadness.
Highly recommended.
What July Knew
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ummer, 1995. July Hooper knows eighteen things about her mother. Like number thirteen: she...
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated Hellraiser: Judgment (2017) in Movies
Oct 29, 2021 (Updated Nov 2, 2021)
So let’s get straight into this review, my first response Hellraiser Judgment sounds very familiar then it hit me, the film reminds me of Seven with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman but with the Pinhead and some Cenobites that have been thrown into the mix almost like a Seven vs Hellraiser movie.
As we’ve come to expect from the Hellraiser franchise there is plenty of those gory, blood-soaked, scenes that can make the stomach turn as well as some other uneasy scenes that make you look away, look out for the “cleansing” scene that’s one that had me heaving!
Dean (6927 KP) rated The Blackcoat's Daughter (February) (2015) in Movies
Apr 24, 2022 (Updated Apr 24, 2022)
It's a very slow paced , atmospheric Horror. The pace is rather tedious to the point it's not until the last 15 minutes that everything comes together and makes sense.
A couple of girls are left behind at a boarding school in a cold bleak February. Something sinister appears to be happening. Meanwhile another girl escapes a mental health hospital and makes her way to the School.
It's just far too slow with little happening until towards the very end. Also one of those endings that is frustrating making you think is that it? The story once you figure it out is interesting but it is badly done.
The Imposter (Dr Bloom #4)
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He doesn't just want your identity. He wants your life... No one sees him coming. A...
Hazel (2934 KP) rated Who She Was in Books
Aug 20, 2023
It pains me to say this but I found the story boring, the plot tedious, the characters totally unlikeable or memorable and the twists just meh!
Now, this is my opinion only and I have seen lots of reviews that rate this very highly so please don't take my word for it ... you can't please everyone all of the time! I also won't let this blip put me off from reading more of Tony Parsons work in the future.
Thanks must go to the author, Random House UK, Cornerstone, Century and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of Who She Was.
The Bookbinder of Jericho
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'Your job is to bind the books, not read them.' When the men of Oxford University Press leave for...
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