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The opening chapter really draws you in with hints of past secrets and the promise of delving...
I loved Sarah Franklin's novel Shelter and from the opening chapters I'm pretty sure I'm going to...
An intriguing murder mystery set in the world of rare books - what's not to like for readers and...
The author is addressing important topics - discrimination, bias, intolerance - in what seems to...
I've never read a book by this author but from the excerpt I can understand why her books are so...
Nothing stands out about the blurb that makes me think this has anything different to offer. The...
As a fan of the original book, I find myself enchanted by the thought of being reacquainted with...
I haven't read any books by this author before but she sure knows how to hook a reader in just a...
The opening scene is dramatic and I suspect sets the mood for what will be at times a harrowing...
As a fan of historical mysteries and historical fiction in general, there's a lot about this book...
I found the Prologue very unsettling, as I guess it was designed to be and to introduce a note of...
I'm not the target audience for this book being way beyond Young Adult but I liked the...
I appreciate this is aimed at the Young Adult market so I am not the target audience. However, I...
I found the opening scene very moving and poignant given the scenes we have been witnessing...
The book has a really interesting premise but it's the way it's written, in a kind of free verse,...
Although I definitely no longer fall into the category of Young Adult, I found the narrator,...
The dramatic opening scene vividly depicts the panic of losing sight of a child in a crowded area...
I'll be honest, I didn't expect to be as attracted to this as much as I was once I'd finished...
I've enjoyed the previous books following the Brogan family in wartime London and so I'm keen to...
Although I'm definitely not a young adult and don't read fantasy, I can see that fans of the...
Whilst I can appreciate the jaunty, lively style in which it is written is designed to evoke...
The opening chapters read like a standard police procedural, although the discovery of the body...
I found it hard to get past the writing style of the first chapter. If the whole book was like...
I'm afraid I found the narrator rather irritating in her determination to be miserable, full of...
I found the opening chapter intriguing (and a little confusing) because it's setting and time...
"There is magic in books." Well, there sure seems like there will be magic in this one judging by...
As a fan of historical mysteries, I really enjoyed the first two books in the series - The...
This is not the sort of book I'd usually be drawn to but I really liked the narrative voice, the...
I'll say first of all that fantasy is not a genre I read so I'm probably not the ideal reader for...
I absolutely loved Elisabeth Gifford's last book The Good Doctor of Warsaw and have a very...
I can see this is a clever and witty retelling of a classic novel transported to the modern age,...
The author is clearly drawing on her professional experience of education and mental health in...
The prologue does what a good prologue should - give you just enough nuggets of information to...
I thought the author's previous book, The Familiars, was fabulous and the opening chapters of The...
From the excerpt, I think this book is a bit too dark and gritty for my taste (I'm a bit...
As well as being a fan of the author's John Shakespeare series, I loved the previous books in the...
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