The good, the bad and the bookish

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

Sunday, August 1

Without Fail - Lee Child

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Jack Reacher – former army cop, now wanderer – is back in his sixth adventure. Inadvertently assisting an elderly pair of itinerant musici...
Friday, July 30

Libba Bray: Rebel Angels

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It is the 1895 Christmas holidays and one young lady in particular is looking forward to getting away from school and spending time with fri...
Wednesday, July 28

How Starbucks Saved My Life - Michael Gates Gill

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After a quarter of a century at one of New York's most prestigious advertising companies, 63-year-old executive Gill was taken out to br...
Wednesday, July 21

Penelope Farmer: Charlotte Sometimes

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A young girl wakes up to find that she has travelled backwards in time forty years and is living in the body of another girl. The two trade ...
Tuesday, July 20

Threshold - Sara Douglas

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Startled by the abrupt arrival of debt-collectors, a young glassmaker drops the vase that could have paid off her father’s debts; instantly ...
Friday, July 16

Pride/Prejudice - Ann Herendeen

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Charles always knew he'd one day need to take a wife, but he never dreamed he'd find a woman who would catch first his eye and then ...
Thursday, July 15

Mercedes Lackey: The Serpent’s Shadow

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A young half-caste female doctor returns to England from India after the suspicious death of her parents, hoping to hide from their killer a...
Tuesday, July 13

Dead Beat - Val McDermid

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Kate Branningan is a Mancusian, independent, and a PI. Her usual remit involves data tracking, phone calls and hours in front of a computer ...
Monday, July 12

Where Underpants Come From - Joe Bennett

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One afternoon, after purchasing six pairs of underpants (a five pack of everyday undies and a more flattering pair for special occasions), B...
Saturday, July 10

Some Nerve - Jane Heller

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Ann Roth is a celebrity journalist based in LA, but unlike most, she has a strong sense of ethics - she doesn't twist the truth, report ...
Friday, July 9

Poppy Z. Brite: Love in Vein-Tales of Vampire Erotica

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From the back of the book- Beyond fear, beyond horror, beyond temptation, there is a realm of the senses that only the boldest may enter. An...
Thursday, July 8

Where Serpents Sleep - CS Harris

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Sebastian St. Cyr is asked to help investigate what appears to be an accident - the deaths of eight prostitutes in a house fire. There are, ...
Wednesday, July 7

Fade - Robert Cormier

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The only mystery Paul Moreaux knows of is a family photograph, taken just before the first World War, before the family moved from Quebec to...
Tuesday, July 6

Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander - Ann Herendeen

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Phyllida Lewis has few prospects, despite her good birth and curvaceous figure - at her one and only Season she received but one expression ...
Monday, July 5

The Birthday Present - Barbara Vine

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Married Tory MP Ivor Tesham is a rising star in the dying days of the Thatcher government. He also has a keen taste for bondage, and a long-...
Sunday, July 4

Wake - Robert J Sawyer

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Caitlin Decker is an ardent blogger, a high school student, gifted at maths, and she’s been blind since birth due to a condition called Toma...
Friday, July 2

Die Trying - Lee Child

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Former MP Jack Reacher is idly walking down a Chicago street one morning when his path intersects with that of a young woman exiting a dry c...
Thursday, July 1

Eloisa James: Desperate Duchesses

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On returning from an extended stay in Paris a disenchanted Duchess needs to entertain herself in the face of continued marital neglect. She ...
Sunday, June 27

Earth to Hell - Kylie Chan

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In the eight years since her love, John Chen - also known as Xuan Wu, God of the Northern Heavens - was exiled from earth, Australian Regent...
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