by Amanda Hocking (TOR) ISBN: 978-1-447-210306 Torn is the second book in Hocking’s Trylle Trilogy. It follows the success of Switched featuring Wendy Everly, a teenager with attitude. Wendy has always felt that she was different. That was because she was switched at birth. After reuniting with her true family in Förening, Wendy has to […]
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by Tan Twan Eng (Murmidon) ISBN: 9781905802623 It took Tan, listed for the Man Booker Prize for his debut in 2007, five years to finish this book, but what a masterpiece! Not only the poetic prose, but also the plot kept me entranced, up to the last surprise where everything comes together, literally like the
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by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter (Doubleday) ISBN 978-0-857-52009-8 This is the most well written book I have ever read. That aside, the plot is not novel and its ideas are old. But who cares? At the pace you will be turning pages in this book you won’t have time to have long thoughts like
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by Rahla Xenopoulos (Penguin) ISBN 978-0-14-353016-9 Bubbles is found murdered in a field in Johannesburg back in 1949. While this story is mostly fictional, Rahla Xenopoulos has incorporated true events and woven them into a tale of childlike naivety and spine chilling darkness that leads to Bubble’s untimely demise. Growing up in dire conditions in
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