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Hailed as 'The Time Travellers Wife' for teens

Advantages: Beautiful story, visual language used
Disadvantages: Slow start

Chicago 1995 - Anna, sixteen, meets the new boy at school, at first things are a little strange but once he saves her from the hands of a robber at her fathers shop, she is desperate to know more about him. San Francisco 2012 - Bennett, seventeen, has lo ...

Raimy_Readaraptor 21.01.2013 · Read full review
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Review of Time Between Us - Tamara Ireland Stone

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Time travel and romance

Advantages: Characters, plot
Disadvantages: Ending

About the book Time Between Us is the debut YA novel by Tamara Ireland Stone. It was published by Doubleday on 25th October and the book is 384 pages long. Synopsis Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and ...

linzee_loulabelle 31.08.2012 · Read full review
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The Curse Of The Lemony Blyton

Advantages: Clear, precise writing, lots of educational and amusing asides.
Disadvantages: Horrendously mercenary, hopelessly derivative.

Violet, Klaus and their baby sister, Sunny Baudelaire are three very unlucky, very sad children. Their beloved parents have recently perished in a fire at their home. Not only have they lost their mother and father, but they have also lost all their pos ...

jillmurphy 17.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket

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The Beginning Starts Here

Advantages: Dark tone creates interest / Narrative is original / Play on words is imaginative
Disadvantages: incest theme may raise eyebrows / A little short and sometimes rushed

Book Info: Name: The Bad Beginning Author: Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) Released: September 1999 Series: Book one in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' Awards: Nevada Young Readers Award, Colorado Children' ...

dan_pentagram 31.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket

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The Good Beginning of a Great series

Advantages: Good plot and twists, easy to read
Disadvantages: It's not a happy book

...Lemony Snicket (pseudonym of Daniel Handler) writes the dark comic children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events. After reading the back of the first book in this series I was intrigued and wanted to find out more. The back of the book is written as ...

bluejules 04.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket

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