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Roast it: There's Nothing Better Than a Delicious Roast

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Slow Stoppers: Slow-Cooked Meals Packed with Flavour

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David McK (3372 KP) rated Biggles: The Camels Are Coming in Books

Jan 3, 2021

Technically, I'm too old for these books.

Thankfully, Amazon doesn't know (or care).

I've just re-read this for the first time in something like 30 odd years, and it's amazing how well it actually holds together all those years later.

Like 'Biggles Learns To Fly' (which I also re-read recently), this is more a collection of short stories with little in the real way of any over-arching plot: vignettes which, if the author is to be believed (and I've no reason not to) are all based on true stories that either happened to him or that he heard about during his earliest flying days in the latter stages of World War One.

While the character of Biggles may not be as popular or as well-known today as during the years in which the stories were written (the 1930 through to the 1990s), there's a reason why they have endured as long as they have ...

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Her Lifeline in Books

Jan 8, 2021

I feel bad that I didn't like this but it took far too long for anything to really happen. The death at the beginning, as sad as it was for an 11 year old, I feel like I didn't know him enough to get upset myself. Then when Tommy was in a car accident, too, it was a bit like deja vu, only I knew him a little more. I can't say I cared that much, though.

As I've mentioned before I read for the romance and it took way too long for Ward to appear back in their lives and for feelings to emerge--which then seemed to appear so easily without much effort.

And then that last 15% or so... I'd have preferred a much happier ending.

This is my third book by the author, one I've loved, the others not so much. I think I'll give the author's other books a miss for a while.

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Hazel (2934 KP) rated Good Girl (DS Grace Allendale #4) in Books

Dec 13, 2020

I have never been disappointed by anything written by Mel Sherrratt so had no hesitation in reading this, the fourth in the series, and, once again, it was as good as I was expecting and, as an added bonus, you don't have to have read the others in the series, as this works well as a standalone so don't worry!

What we have in "Good Girl" is a pretty dark and hard-hitting police procedural which follows the investigation of DS Grace Allendale and her team into the apparent mugging and murder of a young 16 year old but as Grace delves deeper, all is not what it seems.

With believable characters, an authentic and frighteningly realistic story line written at a great pace and with sensitivity, given the subject matter which is difficult to read at times, this is another excellent book.

Thank you to Avon Books UK, a division of HarperCollins, and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.