Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) rated The Best Girls in Books
Jul 10, 2019
We’re never told of the narrator’s name, only that she is a sixth grader. More importance is put on the sons of the family. Our narrator’s family is poor. In order to help with the money problem, our narrator makes a shocking choice.
This is a very short story, but it is written very well. I felt like I was in the story. It is a sad story though.
The Foster Child
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When child psychologist Imogen Reid takes on the case of 11-year-old Ellie Atkinson, she refuses to...
The Lockdown Tales
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Seven women and three men leave the city to avoid a pandemic. They isolate together in a local farm,...
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The Boneless Mercies
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Frey, Ovie, Juniper and Runa are the Boneless Mercies: girls hired to kill quickly, quietly and...
Not His Christmas (Not This Series Book 4)
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Not everybody loves Christmas and Eoin, Harbinger of Smoke and Darkness, can’t believe his new...
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ClareR (6256 KP) rated The Only Story in Books
Mar 7, 2018
This is a book to be savoured and to have time taken over it. It just seems so personal and private, and frankly, I felt nosey reading it. It illustrates a 19 year old boys great love - a 48 year old woman who he meets at a tennis club during his holidays from University. This love endures through disapproval of both families and many hardships before the end.
It was interesting that the book moved through the use of first person when the love was new and exciting, second person when the relationship began to encounter problems and third person at the end when he is more detached from his lover, Joan. Watching the slide of someone in to addiction and eventually, dementia, was a particularly sad part of the novel, with his personal guilt and inaction increasing the melancholy and sadness of the whole situation. At the end of this book, I finished the last page and found myself sitting and thinking about it for a while. It really is a very affecting book.
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The People Next Door in Books
Mar 20, 2022
I couldn't get into the plot ... it seemed to drone on and without much of a purpose, little excitement or thrills. I couldn't get into the characters .. I found them quite one-dimensional and boring and whilst I don't usually have a problem with suspending reality when reading thrillers, let's face it if you can't do that in a fiction book when can you, but this was just a tad OTT even for me and don't even get me started on the ending!
As I said, I am extremely sad to be so negative about this book but I certainly won't stop eagerly waiting for Tony Parson's next instalment and, if other reviews of The People Next Door are anything to go by, I am in the minority with this one so I urge you to give it a go.
Many thanks to Random House UK / Cornerstone and NetGalley for my copy in return for an honest, unbiased and unedited review.
Sarah (7800 KP) rated Kubo and the Two Strings (2016) in Movies
Nov 4, 2017
Still it's a very enjoyable film and much better than the majority of animations that are released of late.
