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The other hand by Chris Cleave

Advantages: I will read it again
Disadvantages: my friends all want to borrow it

...this book because I read the blurb and I was intrigued because there wasn't much of a blurb. Two lines about how two women meet and their lives are changed forever. Is that it? you might say or if you're at all like me you'll have to buy it because you will have to know what it's all about. But here is the honest bit the main reason I bought this book is because it was under a fiver in Tesco. Ok so I promise not to give anything away, I know people ...
...about the story because I don't want to spoil it for you. I can tell you why I loved it though. I took the book on holiday with me recently not expecting much more for my fiver than a throwaway beach read. But the story was so well written that I could hardly put it down. It is told from the poin of views of the two central characters and almost immediately you can't help but feel an affinity with them. What I loved most about the book is how the ...

satc_gal 25.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Other Hand - Chris Cleave

Tell Me Something - not one of Adele Parks' best

Advantages: An easy chick-lit read
Disadvantages: Slightly implausible in places

Despite working in quite an academic field and considering myself more intelligent than my hair colour would suggest, I love a good chick-lit novel! I've read all of Adele Parks'other books and consider her the best author in the genre - her books draw you in with their clever plots and well-developed characters, and I've found all of them totally addictive. So I was very keen to read this new one, 'Tell Me Something', which published in Jan 09. ...
...sexy photograph featuring some desirable shoes and the title in swirly pink writing. I got hold of this from a book-swapping website, but it's available on Amazon priced £3.86. I have to say I was underwhelmed initially, after the first couple of chapters. I'm always a bit ambivalent about books set in foreign countries as sometimes it seems that the author just wants to show off with irrelevant knowledge of a country they know well (the only thing ...

d10an9 10.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Tell Me Something - Adele Parks

Frequent liar points are clocking up & Lucy's got choices to make

Advantages: Brilliant reading in every way
Disadvantages: None at all

Lucy left Australia when she was 16 and now, nine long years later, she is returning for the first time to go to a wedding. It's been too long since she last saw her friends and now Molly, her best friend, and Sam, her first love, are getting married - to each other. But Lucy is now happy with her life living in a beautiful flat in London with her gorgeous lawyer boyfriend, James, and with a job that she couldn't love more. But just as the plane ...
...Sam's very sexy surfer brother, Lucy can't help wondering if she'd be happier elsewhere. My opinion After reading and absolutely loving my first book of Paige Toon's, Cashing Daisy, I was quite excited to start on the second of her books that I had, Lucy in the Sky. The book is split between Lucy's holiday in Sydney and her life at home in London and it does feel like a very big line of distinction between the two, so much so that it actually ...

frankiefromings13 09.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lucy in the Sky - Paige Toon

Review of the second book from the twilight saga, New Moon.

Advantages: Beautifully written, unvolves many secrets, adventurous.
Disadvantages: Slow moving, becomes a little repetitive.

...the emotions and helplessness. New moon is beautifully written and from my experiences has a true intake of what it means to be young and in love. However, as we lose hope in Bella's happiness she once again finds strength in Jacob. New moon has many new adventues and plots that once again reading this I found myself imerged into it. I highly recommend it to youngers teenagers and fans of the first book from the saga, Twilight. ...

RockieLou 09.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

Fun, twisted and educational!

Advantages: fast paced, informative, fun
Disadvantages: slightly annoying lead character

Due to working in the debt management industry, i thought I ought to read this, and I'm glad I did! I hadn't come across David Gaffney before, but theres something twisted going on inside him! I didn't expect a book to have so many twists, be so engaging, and so informative, whilst also providing loads of humour. 3 seemingly separate stories collide to provide a drug induced comic thriller, with the lead character struggling to cope with his creditors, ...
...All this, and Gaffney still manages to convey some very sobering points on how to deal with debt problems. Administration orders, bankruptcy proceedings and the Consumer Creit Act all get a part in this thriller! I'd thoroughly recomended this for anyone struggling with debt or working with it! ...

Mowgs1 09.11.2009 · Read full review
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