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Micheline van Riemsdijk and Qingfang Wang
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In today's global knowledge economy, competition for the best and brightest workers has intensified....

The Complete Mushroom Hunter: Illustrated Guide to Foraging, Harvesting, and Enjoying Wild Mushrooms - Including New Sections on Growing Your Own Incredible Edibles and off-Season Collecting
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Do you know your mushrooms? This is the only mushrooming book that will introduce you safely and...

Widows in European Economy and Society, 1600-1920
Beatrice Moring and Richard Wall
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"A terrific piece of work". JANE HUMPHRIES, Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls...

Bokashi Composting: Scraps to Soil in Weeks
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Bokashi is Japanese for "fermented organic matter." Bokashi composting is a safe, quick, and...

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What is that makes urban myths so persistent but many everyday truths so eminently forgettable? How...

Great British Parks: A Celebration
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In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
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A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class...
Indianapolis Union and Belt Railroads
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In an era dominated by huge railroad corporations, Indianapolis Union and Belt Railroads reveals the...

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Burn (Nava Katz, #6) in Books
Jan 6, 2021
My Kindle Unlimited membership runs out in a few days and I've been struggling to get into this, which is strange considering I read the fifth book not long ago and love these characters.
I'll try again in a few months, start from the beginning again and see if I can get into it then (I really hope so!)
14th April
So, I'm trying again--not from the beginning--and hopefully after a few other good urban fantasy stories, I can get into this...
And I did, sort of.
2.5 stars.
I think this book has way too much going on. We skip a lot of little extra bits that would have been explained fully in earlier books, but just get a short paragraph that paraphrases into the basic facts.
The rest of the series has been long, and let it be known I'm not a fan of books longer than 350 pages, but this one seemed to go on forever. It seemed to take an age for 1% to pass and considering we get bombarded by stuff happening, I expected it to go quicker but in my opinion it went slower.
I lost interest in parts and skipped paragraphs just wanting the major fights to play out so when that had ended at about 88% (I think) and the story carried on...well, I started to lose interest once again. The main thing I was waiting for in those last few chapters was Drio to pull his finger out and tell Leo how he felt.

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Cade (The Society #1) in Books
Jun 9, 2021
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Cade ( The Society book 1)
By Mason Sabre
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The first heart-pounding instalment in Mason Sabre's Paranormal and Urban Fantasy, Society Series. What seems like an innocent run in the woods, might just end Cade MacDonald's life...
Cade MacDonald is a man who has always had a sense of right and wrong. He fights for justice and does not back down in the face of danger. As a member of Others, a supernatural race of powerful, fierce shifters, who do not accept or sympathise with any Humans, or any race other than their own, he now finds himself in a battle with the Other Society’s leaders as they oppose his attempt to save the life of a young half-breed.
Fighting to do the right thing, Cade is simultaneously faced with the unexpected attraction he feels for his best friend’s sister. Having grown up with Gemma, he is confused and torn at the strong pull of his wolf towards this beautiful tiger.
Willing to accept any repercussions of his rebellious actions, will he go as far as to lose the love of his life in the process?
While on the whole I did enjoy this and it was better written than most shifters books I’ve read in the past I found it lacking something. The characters felt really stiff and sometimes forced. I do think it shows promise and like I said I did enjoy it overall.