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oashackelford's Reviews (354)
I read a lot of books where someone goes missing, but usually they don't come back halfway through the book. I thought this was such a good twist! I never figured out the ending and I felt like I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I do wish there was less swearing in the book, I feel like Bel uses the f-word too much in an effort to show that the main character is trying to push everyone away from her all the time, but I still wish we could have established that and then found other ways to show it.
Still, I never guessed where Rachel was, or who had her, and I feel like I am going to think about this one for a few weeks.
Still, I never guessed where Rachel was, or who had her, and I feel like I am going to think about this one for a few weeks.
This was incredibly well written and so it gets five stars, but I hate crying and heart wrenching books, so in terms of vibes it gets a 2.5 from me. I really wish this didn't tug on your heartstrings so much, but the author captures the guilt of surviving a spouse so well. Kate feels like a real person who is holding herself together as best she can.
At the end, in the author's notes when you learn she lost her husband when they were young it makes sense as to how she is able to capture the heartache and the guilt so well.
At the end, in the author's notes when you learn she lost her husband when they were young it makes sense as to how she is able to capture the heartache and the guilt so well.
A librarian encouraged us to read this book once when I was in high school, and I never got around to it, but now I am really glad that I read it. This was fascinating and a really fast read.
I really love Detective Hawthorne, I think that he is funny and he is a really good straight man to Anthony's more overdramatic solvings of cases. I like that the answer is always more simple than it seems. I do want to know though whether or not it really was Kara Grunshaw that was messing with his production, or if it is just really hard to get filming time in London. I think that the struggle with filming things that are supposed to be London, is that it has such iconic and recognizable architecture that you can't sub in another city and fake it.
I would not recommend this book to anyone who can't stand the F word. Horowitz does not use it crazy often, but all the police officers do say it quite a few times.
I would not recommend this book to anyone who can't stand the F word. Horowitz does not use it crazy often, but all the police officers do say it quite a few times.
I didn't like this one as much as the first one, I think that it is always harder to figure out what the characters should be doing next when you wrap up the first novel. However, I do think that Shusterman propels his characters in the right directions. I think that this book is a good set up for what is to come. Also I hate the Mason Starkey character, I hope that he gets what is coming to him. I understand that it is their policy to save every kid that could be unwound, but my goodness, I think that they might be better off jailing some of the unwinds who could bring the whole operation down. The kids were far safer before people like Roland and Mason got there.
In this adventure, Hawthorne and Horowitz are called to a literary festival on the Island of Alderney to discuss their new book The Word is Murder. The morning after attending a part at the lookout, the sponsor of the festival is found dead on the property. Of course it will be difficult to figure out who killed him as he is the most disliked man on the island. It is up to Hawthorne to discover whodunnit, and Anthony, his unwilling Watson, to document it.
I always love it when you think the mystery is all wrapped up, but of course the police have had it wrong the whole time. I also really love Hawthorne's sense of morality. He won't excuse murder, even if it seems justified. My favorite thing about these books though, is that Anthony cannot seem to wrap his head around Hawthorne, but Hawthorne likes him and keeps brining him along.
I always love it when you think the mystery is all wrapped up, but of course the police have had it wrong the whole time. I also really love Hawthorne's sense of morality. He won't excuse murder, even if it seems justified. My favorite thing about these books though, is that Anthony cannot seem to wrap his head around Hawthorne, but Hawthorne likes him and keeps brining him along.
I really do not like Mason Starkey, and I am really excited to see how the author will take care of him by the time this series is over. I am still liking these, but I do hope the author is working towards a solution sometime in the near future, because at some point the storylines start to repeat a little bit.
I really like the way this book, and the war, ended. I do want to know more about how people got on with their lives in the aftermath of all of this, but I also like being able to draw my own conclusions a little bit.
I like Ariel Lawhons books, I just wish that they were a little less heavy. I understand that life would have been harder in a lot of ways the further back in time you go, but I feel like sometimes she gives the impression that no one had a good day, or no one had fun unless that fun led to having a family. I know that there probably isn't space in the book for the main character to just sit, or have a boring day because she wanted to keep the pace of the book moving, but again I feel like people had days off.
That being said this book is exceptionally well written, and once I got through the first few chapters I found that I was increasingly fascinated with the status that came with being a midwife. For the freedoms that it gave you alone, you would think more women would sign up for the job.
That being said this book is exceptionally well written, and once I got through the first few chapters I found that I was increasingly fascinated with the status that came with being a midwife. For the freedoms that it gave you alone, you would think more women would sign up for the job.
I really love it when Shusterman does a collection of short stories that go with the series, he did this with Scythe also and I love the added perspectives of the stories. I love that we can still read them without them taking away from the overall plot and flow of the main books