Fiction
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Book Review- Leave No Trace
Title: Leave No Trace Author: Mindy Mejia Published: 4th September 2018 Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Rating: 3.5/5 From the author of the “compelling” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) and critically acclaimed Everything You Want Me to Be, a riveting and suspenseful thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a boy and his stunning return ten years later.There is a place in Minnesota with hundreds of miles of glacial lakes and untouched forests called the Boundary Waters. Ten years ago a man and his son trekked into this wilderness and never returned.Search teams found their campsite ravaged by what looked like a bear. They were presumed dead until a decade later…the son appeared.…
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Book Review- The Removes
Title: The Removes Author: Tatjana Soli Published: 12th June 2018 Pages: 371 Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction Rating: 3/5 stars From the New York Times bestselling author Tatjana Soli, an expansive and transfixing new novel set on the American frontierSpanning the years of the first great settlement of the west, The Removes tells the intertwining stories of fifteen-year-old Anne Cummins, frontierswoman Libbie Custer, and Libbie’s husband, the Civil War hero George Armstrong Custer. When Anne survives a surprise attack on her family’s homestead, she is thrust into a difficult life she never anticipated—living among the Sioux as both a captive and, eventually, a member of the tribe. Libbie, too, is thrown into a brutal, unexpected…
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Book Review- The Last Romeo
Title: The Last Romeo Author: Justin Myers Published: 31st May 2018 Pages: 239 Genre: Romance, LGBT, Fiction Rating: 3/5 stars James is 34 and fed up. His six-year relationship with Adam has imploded, he hates his job making up celebrity gossip, and his best friend Bella has just announced she’s moving to Russia.Adrift and single in loved-up London, James needs to break out of his lonely, drunken comfort zone. Encouraged by Bella, he throws himself headlong into online dating, blogging each encounter anonymously as the mysterious Romeo.After meeting a succession of hot/weird/gross men, James has fans and the validation he’s always craved. But when his wild night with a closeted Olympian…
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Book Review- The Water Cure
Title: The Water Cure Author: Sophie Mackintosh Published: 31st May 2018 Pages: 240 Genre: Fiction, Dystopian Rating: 2.5/5 Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia, and Sky kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them – three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake.Hypnotic and compulsive, The Water Cure is…
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Annihilation- Movie Adaptation Review
Title: Annihilation Written/Directed: Alex Garland Adapted from: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Released: Netflix March 2018 I read and reviewed the novel that this movie is adapted from at the end of 2015, and to put it lightly I really didn’t enjoy it. You can check out my pretty scathing review here. However, despite this I was intrigued to see how a director would go about adapting such an interesting and also a visually demanding idea in novel form into a movie. In terms of the visual aspects, the movie is beautiful. I watched it on my laptop and it was stunning, the landscapes and scenery that we see, but also the…