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A Very Faint Echo

Advantages: Very readable, some good storylines
Disadvantages: Very long and complex and need to have read previous books recently.

Way back in the mid-1990s I was staying at a Bed and Breakfast in Inverness and talking to the landlady about local historical sites, this led to a conversation about standing stones. She suggested I read a fictional book related to local stones called C ...

Meggysmum 10.05.2011 · Read full review
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Review of An Echo in the Bone - Diana Gabaldon

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"Alice's Adventures Under Ground", "Wonderland" but different

Advantages: Beautiful book, lovely Pictures, witty and entertaining story
Disadvantages: It's not as polished as "Wonderland", it's a little private and there isn't so much of it

"You probably know the story better as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and it's sequel "Alice Through the Looking Glass" are two of the most renowned and the most loved works of children's literature. They are also ...

JadeSarah 31.05.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Alice's Adventures Under Ground - Lewis Carroll

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what do you do when someone thinks they know you?

Advantages: its a Meg Cabot book
Disadvantages: not everyone likes Meg Cabot

I bet you've been expecting me to have another review on a book by Meg Cabot, since I reviewed "The Mediator: Mean Spirits", and that was just 2 days ago. So I presume you'll be expecting another one sometime, well I'm sorry to disappoint you but you'll h ...

Jonni_boi 15.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Avalon High - Meg Cabot

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In A Dark Dark House...

Advantages: A good read, a page-turner, easy to relate to the characters
Disadvantages: Only because I'm old and fussy!

...After having read Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells, I thought I would try some of his other books, so I borrowed Abomination from the library. This is a 206-page novel for ‘older readers’ that was published in 1998 and shortlisted for t ...

KarenUK 21.06.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Abomination - Robert Swindells

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Secret of the cellar

Advantages: thought provoking and imaginative
Disadvantages: none

Book information --------------------- Title: Abomination Author: Robert Swindells Year Published: 1999 Length: 208 pages Publisher: Corgi Childrens ISBN: 0440863627 Price: £4.99 The Author ------------- Swindells was born 20th March ...

tiger645 21.04.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Abomination - Robert Swindells

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