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Advantages: everything!
Disadvantages: it has to end

This is such a great book that I really do not want to ruin it for you by giving away the plot! This may mean that this review is not that long but please mark it on quality not quantity. The story begins in San Francisco with the legendary bed of Paulina del Valle, bought to show up her estranged husband. Allende is skilful in the way that she can begin a novel with a minute detail that instantly involves the reader. Paulina del Valle is of Chilean ...
...made herself and her husband (Feliciano Rodriguez de Santa Cruz) very rich not through the gold rush (although it is set during this time) but through her keen intuition of demand and supply. In recent years she has become fat through eating too many of Eliza Sommers’ delicious pastries. Eliza Sommer has opened the pastry shop because the benevolent Tao Chi’en, despite being the most successful man in China Town, gives so much of his money that he ... Read review

Advantages: fab book
Disadvantages: makes you cry

rarely does a book make me laugh or cry out load this is an expection. The reader can feel tha authers pain we travel though this tremdously pain full time with her at times at is hard to read because you feel a little voiristic but the reader is compeled to carry on. it is about the authers daughter who is dying and is coma Along side the sadness there is a tremdous story of the allede family. Allede is writting a letter to her daughter explaing ...
...her the person she is today I read this book whilst on a long haul flightt i am sure the other passenager thought I was slightly mad as one moment i was laughing out load the next i was fight back the tears. This book inspires hope and is a must read but have the tissues at the read and don't read it public! ... Read review

Advantages: Great book a book you can't put down
Disadvantages: not that action packed

...into more detail I'll end up telling you most of the main plots, so if I was you get down to the local books shop and buy the first book MISSING: WHEN LIGHTNING STRIKES, then when you've finished reading it you should read this one!!! GO AND DO THAT NOW!!!!!! ... Read review

Advantages: Amusing story and conversations, easy to understand
Disadvantages: lacks depth

...simple: imagine if the Greek Gods were still living, or existing, in a decrepit house in Islington. They are the same squabbling, bickering, incestuous family that myths were made of, but their powers are waning and they are entirely disregarded by the mortals that they consider so unimportant. Their powers and responsibilities remain true to history, but Phillips has given them appropriate, modern jobs; gorgeous Aphrodite is a phone sex worker while ...
...acutely conveys the boredom the gods are enduring by showing the mundane nature of even supposedly exciting moments and suggesting that one character's revenge on another might be 'swift and no doubt deadly, but at least it would pass the time.' The introduction of the human characters seems dull in comparison; this may be intentional, to suggest that their humdrum lives need livening up. Indeed, although they like each other, they seem barely able ... Read review

Advantages: Well written, easy to read, good characters
Disadvantages: A bit of a shaky start

Vintage is one of those books which is exactly what you expect. It has a glossy, expensive looking cover, with a model clutching a bottle of champagne, its title and author splashed across the middle of the cover in bold, gold lettering. It looks to be a glamorous, sexy read, and it does indeed deliver on its promises - and a little extra something added in there too. Vintage follows three women who enter the man's world of wine-making, well champagne ...
...Madeleine wants to produce a vintage wine of her own, and is determined to prove her critics, who don't believe a woman can create a great wine, wrong and to rise to the top of her game. Kelly Elson, a chambermaid in a hotel is also left a vineyard in a will, but unlike Madeleine, she doesn't want anything to do with it. Under the guidance of trustee Hilarian and and vineyard keeper Guy, she decides maybe there is something to be done in the wine ... Read review