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Non stop adventure

Advantages: an easy read with non stop action
Disadvantages: you have read it all before

OK let me nail my colours to the mast. This is the first of James Rollins books I have read. I love his books when he writes under the name James Clemens in the fantasy genre. So I came to this adventure novel with some misgivings. Was Rollins going to be as good in this genre as he is in fantasy? Would he let his imagination let rip as he does when writing as Clemens? Well I have to say that the answer is yes and no. This is rip roaring adventure ...
...their seat as our worthy heroes suffer attack after attack from the bad guys. The main premise of the story involves Safia, Curator of theBritish Museum and how she discovers an iron heart in the museum after an mysterious lightening attack destroys her displays. Along with her ex fiance Omaha ( a poor Indiana Jones substitute), Painter Crowe, an american special agent and sundry other compatriats they set of to find a lost city which the iron heart ...

sharpmerlot 16.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sandstorm - James Rollins

Sheldons Master of the Game - Bagshawe Has Done Sidney Proud

Advantages: Great sequel
Disadvantages: None

...Game is the sequel to Sidney Sheldon's bestselling Master Of The Game and it tells the story of what happens to the Blackwell's vast family fortune and global domination as it is passed down to the next, equally ambitious and equally scheming, generation of the family. As you'll have noticed, this isn't written by the 'master of storytelling' himself, but by Tilly Bagshawe author of three novels, including 'Adored' and 'Do Not Disturb'. The reason ...
...couple of years ago, leaving behind a vast legion of fans from all walks of life. It was with this in mind that the Sheldon family approached Tilly Bagshawe to write a sequel to his 'ultimate blockbuster'. Bagshawe admits herself that this was an honour and 'more fun than any job should be', but is it any good? Well, I'll be honest; I really didn't want or expect to like this book at all. In my mind, no-one could possibly hope to match Sheldon's ...

dkm1981 13.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game - Tilly Bagshawe

The front: Mandasue Heller

Advantages: A great read!
Disadvantages: A little short!

THE FRONT MANDASUE HELLER INTRODUCTION ‘The Front’, was the first novel from Mandasue Heller and was published in 2002. Ms Heller moved to Manchester in 1982. She spent ten years living in a notorious rough area of the city, working as a singer in bands playing on the local pubs and clubs circuit. After a vicious attack on her home she decided to try to fulfil her ambition of becoming a writer. She had always enjoyed reading ...
...life on the rough estates of Manchester. Mandasue Heller is billed as being very much like Martina Cole, and I do agree with this comment. THE STORY ‘The Front’ starts with Mal, Ged, Sam and Lee, four old friends, who have decided to make some easy money by robbing their local supermarket, on a Manchester estate. This ‘job’ should have been easy for our quartet of no-do-goods; such a small supermarket on a Manchester estate would not hold ...

seanbond87 13.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Front - Mandasue Heller

An exciting adventure from the beginning to the end

Advantages: a well made fiction, that makes you read until the end
Disadvantages: i don't see any

The first thing that made me read this book was all the people's comments about this, and all the controversy about the story, and I wanted to know why everybody were talking about it, so I read it, and I agree to everyone who said that the book's amazing. It's an exciting story about a professor who finds himself in the middle of an investigation about a murder of an important man, who left a secret of years to be found out and kept by this professor ...

larissinha77 10.12.2009 · Read full review

Review of The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

A Woman's revenge

Advantages: Enjoyable investigation with good characters
Disadvantages: Too much given away too early felt unchallenged as a reader

Synopsis of the book: A young attractive woman Rachel Bowden on her mother’s deathbed hears about her father’s double life. She seeks revenge for the unhappiness this has caused both her and her dead mother, by adopting a new identity Lorna Daniels with one aim to cause as much distress and upset in the other family that John Pearson had, who were blissfully unaware of this other family. Although she discovers that John has now passed away, ...
...It begins by jilting his son Robert at the church on their wedding day, leaving him desolate and devastated. Before setting fire to Phillip’s house, who is the new boyfriend of Anna John’s wife. Then Anna starts to get mail anonymously sent advising her of Phillip having an affair with Lorna. The Police only become involved in this increasingly desperate situation when Audrey John’s mother is found dead in her house having been tied up and burgled ...

CPTDANIELS 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Paying the Price - Janie Bolitho