Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China Today, How it Got There and Why it Has to Change
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This is a comprehensively updated account of where China stands today, covering the generational...
Seventyseven Clocks
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'The newspapers referred to it as the case of the seventy-seven clocks. There was quite a fuss at...
The Bunker: Volume 2
Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari
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"There are shades of The Twilight Zone, Lost and Stand by Me in The Bunker, but it's also a bit of a...
A Land
Robert Macfarlane and Jacquetta Hawkes
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The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost...
David McK (3419 KP) rated Angels and Demons in Books
Jul 4, 2021
And, like, I'm sure, many others, I actually read that sequel first, only later discovering it was such (although, admittedly, not a direct sequel) and going back to read the first on the series.
This is the one largely set in and around Rome, with a high-tech ticking time-bomb counting down in Vatican City as the Cardinals all meet to elect a new Pope following the death of the previous incumbent of that role. It also makes lots of the (supposed?) divide between religion and science, drawing on lots of conspiracy theories and bringing back into the realms of popular culture that old secret society, the illuminati.
I have no problem with any of that, and I do like a bit of derring-do, mystery and romance, but even I found it hard at times to swallow some of the outlandish scenarios and set pieces of this novel - I think, for me, the icing on the cake was the surviving-a-jump-out-of-a-helicopter-without-a-parachute bit towards the end!
Enemy Strike 2
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The epic battle continues in this action packed Alien First Person Shooter (FPS) It has been many...
The Black Widow
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Bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding international thriller—one that...
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The Perfect Family
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The bestselling author of the The Swap explores what happens when a seemingly perfect family is...
ClareR (5716 KP) rated Cloud Cuckoo Land in Books
Oct 29, 2021
There are three main timelines, four characters, and an ancient text that connects them all.
Anna lives in Constantinople just before the Ottomans bring down the wall and claim it as their own. Omeir is one of those Ottomans, a reluctant cog in their war machine.
We go forward 500 years to a hostage situation in a US town library, where a disillusioned teenager, has planted a bomb on the bookshelves. An old man, an ex-soldier who has taught himself Ancient Greek, has translated a very old book and turned it into a play. He is upstairs in the same library.
Then, on to the future where a girl, her family and a number of other scientists, explorers and volunteers, are all on a spaceship at the start of a long voyage that they know they’ll never see the end of. And disaster strikes.
I didn’t want this book to end. I had a huge book hangover when this ended, and I’m very certain that I will need to read this again. It’s perfection.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this.
Merissa (12045 KP) rated The Heart (Ice Dragons Hockey, #2) in Books
Dec 17, 2018
This is a great story, with a humorous start in the kitchen between Jo and Alex. Jo has her own reasons for not wanting a relationship, the same as Alex does, but that doesn't stop them from being attracted to each other, and wanting more. There is an air of suspense with this book too as Jo has to deal with different situations all connected by a bomb. With additional stories involving Gooley, and the twins, there is definitely something here for everyone.
Very well written, with no editing or grammatical errors to disrupt the reading flow, this is a wonderful addition to the series. Definitely recommended by me, and I'm looking forward to Gooley's story which is coming next.
* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and my comments here are my honest opinion. *
Merissa
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