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Clover Moon

Jacqueline Wilson and Nick Sharratt

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Clover Moon's imagination is her best escape from a life of hardship in poverty-stricken Victorian...

The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

Alex Clark Introduces Shelf Help

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A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award A BBC Radio 4 Book of the...

Before the Fire

Sarah Butler

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It's June 2011. Best friends Stick and Mac can't wait to turn eighteen and escape their north...

Small Hands

Mona Arshi

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This book is the winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Mona Arshi's debut...

The Obsidian Chamber

Douglas Preston

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A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE. After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth,...

The Philosopher Kings

Jo Walton

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Twenty years have passed since the goddess Athene founded the Just City. The god Apollo is still...

The Sound and the Fury

William Faulkner

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With an introduction by Richard Hughes Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in...

The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Flowers in December (Flowers in December #1) in Books

Oct 5, 2020

Although Suen writes very nicely, I think she needs to work on the old "show, don't tell" part of her writing. Her protagonist Conner seems like a nice enough person, but overall, he's pretty bland, and I really felt that there were things that didn't fit well. Grief is a powerful emotion, and I felt that while reading this, that Suen held back and didn't let all of the emotions into the character or the story. Plus, there's a twist in the end that simply doesn't make sense. This could be a really lovely book, but I'm afraid it fell short for me. Sorry!