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Sophie Hannah - Little Face

Advantages: Good psychological thriller
Disadvantages: none

I recently discovered the author Sophie Hannah after being given this book as a present. I was hooked from the first page and read this in two days! When Alice Fancourt returns home after being out for the first time without her two-week old baby daught ...

JEFFJEN 11.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sophie Hannah

To die for

Advantages: Her writing affects readers in ways so few books can
Disadvantages: It all becomes rather addictive

...I encountered the first book by Stephenie Meyer quite by accident, I was browsing in Waterstones, looking for something easily digested and fantastical. I'm an adult, a mother in fact, but I don't rule out teen fiction as a potential genre. I read Twil ...

Happyjaw 16.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Stephenie Meyer

Intelligent sapphic writing

Advantages: Evocative, great story lines
Disadvantages: Long wait between works!

Sarah Waters is, perhaps, one of the most intelligent and appealing writers of sapphic stories. Her real appeal lies in her ability to tell a very good tale, in wonderful detail, without becoming boring. Often, in an attempt to provide enough detail to 'p ...

Mandy43 09.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Sarah Waters

Entertaining but also Informative

Advantages: Descriptive, funny, well written, quite gripping
Disadvantages: A bit silly at some points

Susanna Gregory is the pseudonym of a Cambridge academic and is the author of the very popular Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles, as well as the more recent Thomas Chaloner series. The Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles are set in 14th Century Cambridge and f ...

mogdred1 15.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Susanna Gregory

Kings new book on being a writer

Advantages: Insightful, humorous, great advice on writing
Disadvantages: none

I have re-posted this opinion as there were problems last night and opinion was never seen. So this is the opinion on the new book 'on writing' by Stepehen king. If you rate this opinion, do not rate my previous one or even look at it as it is the same o ...

aitchison21 23.02.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Stephen King