5/31/2023 0 Comments 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard![]() ![]() I will actively avoid any other books ‘narrated’ by this person again as she simply doesn’t have the vocal range, dynamism & creativity to bring the story to life. Well don’t expect that here!!! This was a narrator in the most basic sense - the equivalent of seeing an author read an excerpt from her book at a book launch. ![]() I’ve listened to several audiobooks over the last couple of years and a narrator can really create an immersive experience for the listener by making an effort to make characters sound different. But those efforts seemed pointless when the ‘Taoiseach’ was referred to several times - as those references won’t help the Yanks! The most grating part was the narrator. The author went to some lengths it seemed to make the language more US appropriate with several mentions of sneakers, carts, etc. Just remember to breathe - Jo Spain Magnificent. If you read one thriller that captures the start of lockdown in all its surreal and terrifying uncertainty, let it be this. The back & forth of the timeline was exasperating at times when the same content was trotted out verbatim, just from the perspective of another character. Catherine Ryan Howard has become my go-to writer for utterly absorbing, original stories with a killer twist and 56 Days delivers all this and more. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments De raven by Herman Bang![]() ![]() ![]() Remember their cash-and-carry runs? Billie and Chris drank like the stomach-pumped girl with the charcoal round her mouth from the video they show you in PSE at school to try and put you off drinking for life.Ĭher is welcome but only if she talks in the Wes Anderson’s Scream vocoder voice. *strikes off list*īillie Piper can come because her marriage to Chris Evans looked more fun than any other celebrity marriage. ![]() I keep thinking about Pamela Anderson being a nu-vegan and having to cook for her. Loads of medieval props are a good shout.Īlways invite the most famous person you know and pretend that their presence is NO BIG DEAL ACTUALLY. Orchestrate this kind of thing with your seating plan and strategic vodkas slipped into wine or beer. I’m absolutely obsessed with that story about Ed Sheeran accidentally getting his face slashed when Princess Beatrice fake-knighted James Blunt. They can literally get away with anything. Ideally you know the lairy guy from school because nobody ever questions why you’re friends with from-school friends. It’s always good to invite your slightly lairy friend, load him with pre-mixed caffeinated booze, and let him loose amongst the other guests. Remember when he drank too much on Love Island, lol. All you really want from a dinner party is some actual bantz and some people to shag so you can pretend you “always knew there was something between those two”. I know I’m meant to invite important thinkers or evil arseholes like Mother Theresa and Hitler but COME ON. I’ve been thinking about my dream dinner party list. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Unbreakable kami garcia book 2![]() ![]() It doesn't create a believable, living world. It doesn't tap into you on a deeper level. ![]() All these things are happening on the surface-action, romance, world-building-but nothing is happening below it. This book is what I like to think of as a "surface book". Suspense, romance, and the paranormal meet in thisĬhilling urban fantasy, the first book in a new series from Kami Garcia,īestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures novels. ![]() Along with new Legion members PriestĪnd Alara, the teens race to find the only weapon that might be able toĭestroy the demon - battling the deadly spirits he controls every step Kennedy has to take her mother’s place in the Legion if she wants to Society whose five members were all murdered on the same night. Society responsible for protecting the world from a vengeful demon - a The brothers reveal that her mother was part of an ancient secret Not until identical twins Jared and Lukas Lockhartīreak into Kennedy’s room and destroy a dangerous spirit sent to kill Sheĭoesn’t know that paranormal forces in a much darker world are the ones Kennedy Waters finds her mother dead, her world begins to unravel. Meets The Da Vinci Code in this action-packed paranormal thriller, theįirst book in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Kami Recommended by: Blythe from Finding Bliss in Books Rating: 1 part Supernatural, 3 parts super boring, 2 parts super silly. Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments All clear novel![]() ![]() At almost 1,300 pages (between the two volumes), it's instead a massive, bloated and swollen book so packed with filler and minutiae that it's hard to plough on through the novel. Blackout and All Clear should have been a brilliant, compelling and tight 400-page or so page single novel. Blackout has been well-received, and is the favourite to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel this year. The two books are set in the same 'future history' as Willis' Doomsday Book and To Say Nothing of the Dog, though it is not necessary to have read those books to understand this one. The second half is published under the title All Clear. ![]() Increasingly worried that they may have altered the course of history, they try to find one another and pool their resources.but in the chaos of the Blitz, that's easier said than done.īlackout is the first half of an enormous single novel written by Connie Willis over a period of about five years. When a historian visiting World War II Britain makes an unexpected side-trip to Dunkirk (one of the divergence points), something does change, and he and two other historians working in the same period find themselves unable to get home. ![]() The laws of time travel prevent history from being changed: major 'divergence points' in history are unreachable and history will always course-correct. Thanks to the invention of time travel, historians are now undertaking field trips into the distant (and not-so-distant past), blending in with the 'contemps' to study history in motion. ![]() |