Ross (3284 KP) rated The Bitter Twins in Books
Sep 10, 2018
While there is action aplenty here, as with the first book I found sections of it dragged quite a bit and I lost momentum. But once they were passed I rattled through the rest of the book.
Williams' narrative style is very heavy on the descriptions of people and places and I did find myself having to speed-read the last quarter of the book as it was getting a little tiring (there were times I would read a whole page and got nothing out of it). This is fine if you want a very very immersive experience and to picture everything exactly as the author intended, but I like to imagine things my own way sometimes so was content to scan through and pick up on the events and dialogue without the overly elaborate descriptions.
A good story in a very interesting world full of good quality characters and action.
UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says
Donald R. Prothero, Michael Shermer and Timothy D. Callahan
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UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the desert surface along the coast of...
Horse Music
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Matthew Sweeney's tenth collection of poems is as sinister as its dark forebears, but the notes he...
Dead Writers in Rehab
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When literary reprobate Foster James wakes up in a strange country house, he assumes he's been...
First Frost
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Autumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old...
Donna C (199 KP) rated London's No.1 Dog-Walking Agency in Books
Mar 25, 2021
This is Kate MacDougall's account of setting up a dog walking service in London, before anyone else was doing it. She leaves her office job at Sotheby's after knocking over one too many valuable objects and starts off walking one dog.
As the number of dogs increases, she has to bring in other walkers. We hear about some of the dogs, some of the strange owners, the successes and failures of the walkers, and the stages of Kate's life over a period of about ten years.
I found it entertaining, sometimes funny and there is a bit of sadness of course as dogs don't go on forever. Kate's mum is a bit of a hoot with her expectations of how life should go, and Kate's life is chaotically not living up to that.
The dogs are lovely despite some of their issues, the owners are trying their best for their dogs (although some shouldn't have them as they have no clue!), and it is an enjoyable and quick read.
BookInspector (124 KP) rated Alice in Brexitland in Books
Sep 24, 2020
I really liked the story itself, it has some fun twists in it and it is incredibly funny. I don’t remember when the last time I read a book with such great illustrations and silly songs. This book looks like children’s book, but it is an adult read. (well, kids can colour in the pictures if you like). Even though this book is a humoresque read, it has some great deep political monologues in it as well.
I really enjoyed this book, and through humoresque writing, it showed, that British politics is one big, messy hotpot. So if you interested in politics and fed up with those serious debates, grab it, read it, enjoy it, and give it to your kids to do some colouring. Everybody wins! 🙂
Wild Beauty
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Love grows such strange things. Anna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers garnered...
Young Adult LGBTQ Fantasy Romance
Infected (Releasing the Magic #1)
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What's the worst that could happen? Sit down and let me tell you. The Void Virus has been let...
Keep Clear: My Adventures With Aspergers
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A wonderfully bittersweet, funnystrange account of living unwittingly with Asperger's syndrome. ...
Aspergers Autobiography Non-Fiction