In the Blood - Andrew Motion

Advantages: Ambitious and hugely well-written
Disadvantages: I suspect most people won't read it anyway...

...It’s pretty darned easy to poo poo Andrew Motion. This country has a strong tradition of needling poet laureates, and let’s face it anybody with any sense would let out one enormous sigh of worry and career-sliding foreboding when that peculiar title were bestowed upon them. Some don’t even feel it necessary to know too much about the work of the laureates before commencing the aforementioned poo pooing. When Andrew Motion had the apparent audacity to explain to his less than keen public that his 1989 novel The Pale Companion was nothing less than the first of a series of twelve, well, suffice it to say there was enough poo pooing to fill a rather large sewage plant. Now don’t get me wrong, I can’t stand here before you as some sort of defender of this particular poet laureate, good grief, no. Of the relatively little I have read... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: you'll finish it real quick it is so compelling
Disadvantages: you'll need clinical help afterwards

...hmmm... so it's american trash, my english teacher threw a fit at the prospect of me reading it, it is still really compelling and heart rendering. A girl of 12 called cathy has 2 brothers and a sister. their father dies tragically in a car crash one evening so the mother being unable to support them on her own packs them off to her parents. Due to loads of circumstances they end up getting locked in an attic for 4 years, the youngest boy is murdered by the mother and cathy and her eldest brother have sex. so it's well twisted, but that's whats good about it. The worst thing is that its based on a true story, so it can be well upsetting. but its worth reading, though the sequals should really be avoided, Virginia Andrews as they say is trying to squeeze blood out of a stone with them.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average helpful

Advantages: It is a good and easy read and well worth the time
Disadvantages: end was a bit short for the buid up nevertheless a good read

...This book is well written as all james patterson books are and with Andrew Gross co writting its well worth a read. The story follows on from the prevous book 1st to die where four women create the women's murder club to solve a murder with Lynsey Boxer San Franciseco's only woman homicide detective. Cindy Thomas a reporter, assistant D.A Jill Bernhardt and an medical examiner Claire Washburn they use there skills to track down a cold blooded killer who seems to be killing at random but is there a hidden agenda. I really enjoyed this book and it was a good follow on from frist to die the reamergence of her farther after all them years and the lost of her in the first book it creates a real up and down rollacoster ride of emotions which is felt right through the book.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful