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Book Review- The Lost Causes
Title: The Lost Causes Author: Alyssa Embree Schwartz & Jessica Koosed Etting Published: 5th September 2017 Pages: 344 Genre: YA, Mystery, Fantasy Rating: 3.5/5 Misfits. Outcasts. And the only ones who can find a killer. They’re the last people you’d ask to help with anything, much less a murder investigation. The rich girl, the obsessive, the hypochondriac, the addict and the hot-tempered athlete—people think they’re beyond help. Lost causes. But where the world sees losers, the FBI sees its only hope. With the help of a dangerous serum, the FBI erases the teens’ past problems and unlocks a psychic ability within each of them. In return, all they have to…
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Book Review- Kid Normal
Title: Kid Normal Author: Greg James and Chris Smith Published: 13th July 2017 Pages: 400 Genre: Children’s fiction Rating: 4.5/5 The first book in a laugh-out-loud funny adventure series for 8+ readers from popular radio personalities Greg James and Chris Smith. When Murph Cooper rocks up to his new school several weeks into the beginning of term, he can’t help but feel a bit out of his depth. And it’s not because he’s worried about where to sit, and making friends, and fitting in, or not knowing where the loos are. It’s because his mum has enrolled him at a school for superheroes by mistake. And unlike his fellow students,…
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Book Review- The Late Show
Title: The Late Show Author: Michael Connelly Published: 18th July 2017 Pages: 400 Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Series: Renee Ballard #1 Rating: 3/5 stars From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a new thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she’s been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn’t want to part with: the brutal beating…
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Book Review- The Fourth Monkey
Title: The Fourth Monkey Author: J.D Barker Published: June 27th 2017 Pages: 416 Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery Rating: 4.5/5 For over five years, the Four Monkey Killer has terrorized the residents of Chicago. When his body is found, the police quickly realize he was on his way to deliver one final message, one which proves he has taken another victim who may still be alive. As the lead investigator on the 4MK task force, Detective Sam Porter knows even in death, the killer is far from finished. When he discovers a personal diary in the jacket pocket of the body, Porter finds himself caught up in the mind of a…
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Book Review- The Space Between the Stars
Title: The Space Between the Stars Author: Anne Corlett Published: June 1st 2017 Genre: Sci-Fi, Fiction, Space, Fantasy Rating: 3.5/5 In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a devastating virus reduces most of humanity to dust and memories.All Jamie Allenby ever wanted was space. Even though she wasn’t forced to emigrate from Earth, she willingly left the overpopulated, claustrophobic planet. And when a long relationship devolved into silence and suffocating sadness, she found work on a frontier world on the edges of civilization. Then the virus hit…Now Jamie finds herself dreadfully alone, with all that’s…