Harbor (Renzo & Lucia #2)
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Lucia Marcello is the good girl—or she used to be. The youngest mafia principessa of her family,...
Mindfulness For Students
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Life can be tough. With so many decisions to make at such a critical time, it’s easy to feel...
Into the Hurricane
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TWO PEOPLE WITH LOSSES Eli and Max both have good reasons to go to the lighthouse on Shackles...
The Body on the Beach (Fethering, #1)
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The first of a new series "The Fethering Mysteries", 'The Body on the Beach' takes us to a small...
Sarah Thompson (2 KP) rated The Heart's Invisible Furies in Books
Feb 1, 2018
A tale beginning in Ireland in the 1940s and spanning several countries and decades, it encompasses so many different aspects of life, love and death with the main focus being relationships, bigotry and sexual intolerance.
Beautifully written and somewhat Dickensian in essence, I fell in love with the characters and some of the experiences they had saddened me while others were just utterly hilarious. Cyril and his wry humour was just wonderful.
Just to add from John Boyne's note on The Heart's Invisible Furies "The desire to love and to share one's life with someone is neither a homosexual nor a heterosexual conceit. It's human".
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated The Vampire's Redemption (Undead in Brown County, #3) in Books
Sep 6, 2019
I did remember that I was Team Michael out of him and Alex but with the introduction of another lover in this, I wanted to throw my computer. Two men isn't enough in her life? She gets a third? I'm still Team Michael because he's done his best to redeem himself after the terrible crimes he committed before he was sentenced to be held on the property by Sarah's dad.
The ending has left me eager to see what happen next with Sarah and the three men in her life and I'm off to start book 4 in the series.
Frontier Follies
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A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country...
How to Develop Emotional Health
The School of Life and Oliver James
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Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different people. To some, it might mean...
How Did All This Happen?
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If you're a man of a certain age you'll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car...
Ross (3284 KP) rated She Has A Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be in Books
Jun 15, 2020
Prior to starting this book, I was only aware of Barker from his work with Dacre Stoker on Dracul, the prequel-cum-biography telling a variation of Bram Stoker's life story. This book is very different, though it also tells someone's full life story.
Jack Thatch has had a tough life already when we meet him, his parents dying in a car crash when he was very young, and he spends his childhood living with his Aunt. A chance meeting with a mysterious girl in the cemetery on the anniversary of his parents' death haunts him and each year he returns looking for her, and the mystery continues. This carries on, with a new chapter telling the events of each subsequent year, and the "burned but not burned" bodies that appear on the same day.
There is a little of a Stephen King feel about the book - telling of a young boy growing up and telling every detail of his life and his friendships and gradually letting the paranormal elements of the story build up.
The first third of the book is excellent, setting the scene and sewing the seeds of the mystery to follow and introducing the cast of characters and their interactions and conflicts. This part of the story rattles along with decent pace and the reader can get a good feeling of momentum.
The middle third ground to a halt for me. The chapters became longer, the story being told felt less important and the reduction in pace was a bit of a kick in the teeth.
But the final third this book gets going again in superb style. This could well have been an excellent story in its own right, but definitely benefits from the lengthy build-up. We gradually have one group of characters grow and come into conflict with another, all building up to an inevitable meeting.
This is a great, but long, story of special abilities, how they could impact someone's life and be abused by those in power, and how they will eventually become out of control.