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Uncommon Friends: Keeping Chickens the Animal Lovers’ Way

Grazyna Witkowska

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Ask not what your chickens can do for you; ask what you can do for your chickens. Gone are the...

chickens non-fiction home and garden

Shadow of Murder (A Mac Faraday Mystery #14)

Lauren Carr

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You can't move to the next chapter of your life without tying up loose ends in the previous. True...

Mystery Thriller Fiction Paranormal Crime / Detective

ClareR (5686 KP) rated Nightcrawling in Books

Aug 27, 2022 (Updated Aug 27, 2022)

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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This is a firm five star read for me. It’s visceral, heartbreaking and beautifully written.

Kiara, 17 years old, gets drawn in to prostitution and is picked up by a group of corrupt cops who like to ‘invite’ young sex workers to their parties. And a lot of these girls are too young. Kiara included.

It really angered me that people who were supposed to take care of and protect people, young black girls included, should take advantage and blackmail them.

Kiara and her neighbours son Trevor, live in poverty. Kiara has stopped going to school, so has no qualifications and no one will employ her. Trevor’s mother goes missing for days at a time, and Kiara sees children's services as a last resort, wholly unacceptable. So to feed them and to pay the rent, she walks the streets, sells sex, and does what the cops want her to do. These men made me feel quite murderous, actually.

Nightcrawling made me feel emotionally exhausted, but I had to read every page. It’s a story that drags you in, grabs your attention, and doesn’t let go until the last page. The fact that it’s based on a true story makes it even more saddening.

If you’re up for a challenge, I’d recommend this. It deserves its place on the Booker Prize long list.

Many thanks to The Pigeonhole.

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Port in a Storm (Sinners #8)

Rhys Ford

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San Francisco SWAT Lieutenant Connor Morgan and Crossroads Gin drummer Forest Ackerman make an odd...

Contemporary MM Romance Crime Police

Night Reader Reviews (683 KP) rated Ronaldo: The Phantom Carrot Snatcher in Books

Jan 9, 2020

What I liked best about his book was how Ronaldo chooses to put his new friend over getting an award for himself. (0 more)

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Ronaldo: The Phantom Carrot Snatcher by Maxine Sylvester was a wonderful children's book. It is a cute story about a reindeer and his friend at the Flying Academy. The story teaches about the value of friendship and what it means to put your friend's well being before personal gain. It alos brings up judging someone on their personality and not on how they look.

Ronaldo is a level two cadet at the Reindeer Flying Academy and wears his two snowflakes that show his rank on his jacket with pride. He consistently stays at the top of his class and is in the running for getting the Golden Snowflake for having the best speed overall for the year. His best friend, Rudi is in fourth place but that dose not seem to affect their friendship.

One day after completing his flying challenge Ronaldo sets down his bag with camrots in it to watch Rudi finish his challenge. When the friends return to eat the carots they find the carrots are
missing and this is not the first time this has happened. On the way home the two friends discuss how to find the animal responsible for the missing carrots. Not too far from his home Ronaldo meets Ernie who is lost. He agrees to help Emie find her family again in secret. Rudi helps develop a plan to get a message to Ernie's family but it will cost Ronaldo the speed record. Ronaldo decides that helping a friend is more important than breaking a record and takes the risk to help her.an award for himself.

What I liked best about his book was how Ronaldo chooses to put his new friend over getting an award for himself. Ronaldo and Rudi also overcome their fear of The Forest of Doom in order to help Ernie and Ernie saves Ronaldo from bullies. There really isn't much that I did not like about this
book. If I had to pick something it would be that I could have done without the fart jokes, but I understand the appeal they have to younger children.

Target readers for this book are elementary students. Second grade students shoulhandle this book without a problem. Some words may need to be looked up but not too many of them. Having to look up a few words would help expand a young child's vocabulary so that is just another plus for this book. I rate this book a perfect 4 out of 4. This book has a great story line that moves along steadily and the chapters are short enough that they do not discourage young readers. The characters are cute and even the artwork is done nicely.

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