Reviews by valerian70

Thorn
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08/06/2020 – 02:57

The Wind

3.5 Stars This is one of those books you need to free up a good hour or so to start reading it...

Hammer To Fall
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27/04/2020 – 06:39

The Schiebers

2.5 Stars On the whole I really struggled with this book and I wasn't expecting that at all. ...

To Keep You Safe
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30/01/2020 – 05:25

Signposts

2.5 Stars The biggest issue I had with this novel was that absolutely everything is flagged up...

Gravity Is The Thing
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04/01/2020 – 07:19

Self-Help

3.5 Stars The writing is bitty and disjointed. A sentence truncated before it's meaning is...

How To Play Dead
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20/12/2019 – 08:14

Superwoman

3.5 Stars I found that I enjoyed this book less and less as it went on. Initially it was...

The Pact
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05/12/2019 – 08:29

The Ill-Conceived

There is so much that I found wrong in this book that I am not entirely sure where best to start....

17 Church Row
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08/11/2019 – 16:17

A. I.

1.5 Stars On the face of things this book starts out as a fairly standard psychological...

Sleep
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17/10/2019 – 05:40

Let it be all a dream

2.5 Stars Oh dear, this turned in to a jumbled mess quite early on in proceedings. It starts...

The Nursery
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03/09/2019 – 08:26

Young Ones

3.5 Stars After reading Asia Mackay's debut novel, Killing It, I was really looking forward to...

Live A Little
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31/08/2019 – 06:45

Road Trip

3.5 Stars Lottie, Tina and Mia; three sisters who grew up in a shattered household. Three...

Home Truths
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21/08/2019 – 06:58

Trying too hard

For me this book tried too hard to look at the darker strata of society. The small town of...

Rewind
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08/08/2019 – 06:35

Watching The Clock

3.5 Stars As is now a fairly standard trope the story starts with a murder and then works in a...

The Holiday
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19/07/2019 – 05:01

Family Secrets

3.5 Stars The plot line of this book is actually pretty good. The conceit is that a group of...