The good, the bad and the bookish

Biased, candid and subjective book reviews of whatever we happen to be reading

Tuesday, March 31

Keri Arthur: Kissing Sin

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The second book in this series picks up pretty much where the first book ( Full Moon Rising ) left off. Our heroine wakes up naked in an all...
Monday, March 30

City of Ashes – Cassandra Clare

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Clary Fray’s been through a lot – in the space of just weeks she has gone from being the only child of a single mother to discovering a brot...
Sunday, March 29

Pagan in Exile - Catherine Jinks

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Saladin's army has taken Jerusalem, and the Knights Templar are seeking warriors to mount a new Crusade to reclaim Christianity's ho...
Saturday, March 28

Smart vs Pretty - Valerie Frankel

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In every sisterhood there's a smart one and a pretty one - the Greenfield girls are no exception. Smart Frank (Francesca) and pretty you...
Thursday, March 26

Katherine Neville: The Eight

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For centuries the nuns of Montglane Abbey have protected a mystical chess set said to have belonged to Charlemagne, the pieces of which cont...
Wednesday, March 25

They're Only Human - James Grieve

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While Susie and her mother travel through France they're both shocked when a bull fighting exhibition ends in the prolonged deaths of tw...
Monday, March 23

Pagan’s Crusade – Catherine Jinks

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There aren’t many options available for orphan boys living in Jerusalem in the 12th century – when Pagan runs away from the monastery that r...
Sunday, March 22

The Mystery of Breathing - Perri Klass

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Neonatologist Maggie Claymore is devoted to her career, to the saving of the youngest and most innocent of lives. Her life is orderly and co...
Friday, March 20

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

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‘Outlier’ is a statistical term that refers to data that falls outside the general standard deviation of a bell curve, the remarkably differ...
Thursday, March 19

Island in the Sea of Time – SM Stirling

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The first hint Marion Alston, captain of the Coast Guard training windjammer Eagle, had that something’s wrong is when the magnetic card com...
Wednesday, March 18

My Voice Will Go With You - Sidney Rosen (ed)

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Milton Erickson was a psychotherapist who used stories as an integral part of both teaching and conducting therapy. The stories often seemed...
Tuesday, March 17

The Snow Tiger - Desmond Bagley

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When Ian Ballard's grandfather sends him to Christchurch, he knows he'll be heading into trouble - he hasn't been back to the sm...
Monday, March 16

Virus on Orbis – PJ Haarsma

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When all the adults on the seed ship Renaissance died, it fell to their children to meet the terms of the contract – a year of work on each ...
Sunday, March 15

Dancing on Knives – Jenny Pausacker

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Wrenched from Sydney and her friends in the aftermath of her father ending his marriage to live with the Slut, Rochelle has to adjust to liv...
Saturday, March 14

From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris

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Sookie Stackhouse is back, her love life as complicated as ever and the paranormal world around her no simpler. Still reeling from the doubl...
Friday, March 13

One Coffee With - Margaret Maron

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Sigrid Harald is a detective, like her dead father, but as one of the few women in a male-dominated field she has to tread carefully. When a...
Thursday, March 12

Dies the Fire - SM Stirling

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At 6:15PM on March 17th, 1998, an electromagnetic pulse of unknown origin knocked out every modern technology - planes fell from the skies, ...
Wednesday, March 11

A Cry From the Dark - Robert Barnard

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Bettina Whitelaw left the small town of Bundaroo behind her when she migrated to England. Now a well-known and well respected author, those ...
Tuesday, March 10

My Best Friend Has Issues - Laura Marney

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Alison, Scottish and friendless, has moved to Barcelona to change her life. Still recovering from a severe bout of glandular fever that not ...
Monday, March 9

The Not-So-Perfect Man - Valerie Frankel

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Frieda, the recently widowed mother of four-year-old Justin, runs a gallery and supplements her income with Gregg's insurance policy. Gl...
Sunday, March 8

The Agony of Alice - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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Alice McKinley is on the verge of adolescence but, with only an older brother and her father, she's a little short of guidance. She hope...
Saturday, March 7

Something Blue - Emily Giffin

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Darcy Rhone used to have it all - thinner and prettier than Rachel, her best-friend-forever, Darcy was engaged to Dex - gorgeous, wealthy an...
Friday, March 6

The Chronicles of Blarnia - Michael Gerber

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When Pete, Sue, Ed and Loo Perversie are sold (well, to be fair, rented) to a scientists for child experimentation they had no idea that the...
Thursday, March 5

Firestarter - Stephen King

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In 1969 college student Andy McGee decided to take part in a government-sponsored experiment on campus - he and a group of other students w...
Wednesday, March 4

Robin McKinley: Sunshine

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A woman is kidnapped and chained up with a hungry vampire. As part of a battle of wills with their captor he refuses to kill her. In thanks ...
Tuesday, March 3

Fake ID – Walter Sorrells

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Chass and her mother have always been ready to move at short notice. For most of her life Chass thought of it as a game – her mother would p...
Monday, March 2

Night Game - Christine Feehan

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When Special Forces paranormal squadron member Gator Fortenot is tasked with saving Iris 'Flame' Johnson, another victim of the gene...
Sunday, March 1

Firestarter - Catherine Forde

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Fifteen-year-old Keith dotes on Annie, his charming, bossy and precocious three-year-old sister. When his mum has to go away for a training ...
Saturday, February 28

Babyproof - Emily Giffin

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Claudia Parr never wanted children, not even for a moment. They're fine for other people, but not for her. This had been a relationship ...
Friday, February 27

The Mercedes Coffin – Faye Kellerman

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When Hollywood music producer Primo Eckerling is murdered execution-style, billionaire computer genius Genoa Greeves sees similarities with ...
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