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Rosealinea (589 KP) rated Stephen Laws Spectre in Books

Jul 14, 2019

Stephen Laws Spectre

Stephen Laws | 2013 | Horror, Mystery, Paranormal

7.7

(3 Ratings)

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Great storyline (2 more)

Lots of twists & turns

Supernatural theme

It ended a bit too suddenly (0 more)

Twists & turns galore! I couldn't put this book down!!

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Blurb:The inseparable Byker Chapter: six boys, one girl, growing up together in the back streets of Newcastle. Now memories are all that Richard Eden has left and one treasured photograph. But suddenly, inexplicably, the images of his companions start to fade, and as they vanish, so his friends are found dead and mutilated. Something is stalking the Chapter, picking them off one by one, something connected with their past, and with the girl they used to know.

Review:

So I got this book after going to a Sci-Fi convention, I met the author who was wonderful!

This book is divided into different parts, which I think helps as it is a lot to take in and can be quite heavy going. When I started to read this, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it or not. The first part is pretty heavy going (the build-up) and there is a lot of information to take in and remember but once you get past this part, it then blossoms into a fabulous book with so many supernaturally frightening twists and turns, you never know which direction it is going to go in next!

Overall, I thoroughly loved this book and if you fancy something different to read then definitely read this!!

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Milleen (47 KP) rated My Not So Perfect Life: A Novel in Books

Nov 14, 2018

This is a lovely light read. Katie has moved from Somerset and reinvented herself in London. Now her Instagram account shows a perfect existence in modern London but the reality is far less fun. Her indomitable boss Demeter has made her work life miserable and she shares a cheap flat with strange flatmates and a hellish commute to work. Life takes a turn and Katie seizes fresh opportunities to discover what she really wants, and needs, in her life. Kinsella is skilful at telling stories of our strange contemporary lives with humour, several situations make you laugh out loud. Not a heavy read but one that has great characters and a decent storyline.

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David McK (3721 KP) rated To Do and Die in Books

Jan 30, 2019

Despite a promising start, if I'm honest, I actually found this book quite hard to get into. Never really grabbed me in the way, say, a Sharpe novel does despite having a similar theme: a tale about soldiers in the midst of a war (in this case, the Crimea).

I don't think the writing style really helped either, which I found could be quite dense and needlessly convoluted, and the heavy emphasis on the vernacular of the time also meant that it was quite easy to lose track of what was going on or what the characters were even talking about!

All in all, unfortunately, not really that impressed by this book.

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AT (1676 KP) rated The Opposite of Fate in Books

Mar 22, 2020

The Opposite of Fate

Alison McGhee | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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In, "The Opposite of Fate," Alison McGhee takes a horrific situation allows the reader to go through it and come out the other side right along with her characters. There's so much to think about in the course of this story. I'd never wish any of the things that happened to the main character on anyone, but it gives several ways of looking at and dealing with it through the eyes of the various people that surrounded her and had a part in her life. It is definitely an emotionally strenuous story, but it's not so heavy that it's a burden to read. It was an interesting read, though heartbreaking at times.