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Advantages: A book with everything you want, and one you will enjoy reading again
Disadvantages: Don't pick this up if you are in a rush, hard to put down.

This book was gripping from beginning to end. Totally enthralling reading, once you pick it up you find it hard to put it down. A book of suspense that keeps you wondering from the first page to the last. This author goes from strength to strength and just leaves the reader wanting more. You feel you can relate to the characters in her book and go along the roller coaster ride with them. All in all, an excellent book which I couldn't put down. From ... Read review

Advantages: great author with good insight into the criminal underworld
Disadvantages: most recent book-Faces, is a big let down

i own most of the Martina Cole books and each one is better than the last. If you enjoy crime mixed with a little reality, then she is the author for you. She writes with a clear understanding about the drug lords and gangs in london. I guarantee you will find any of her books hard to put down once you start reading. I am already looking out for her next book with great anticipation. Update - I have read, or tried to read a couple of Martina's more ...
...the story. Although all other books have been superb, her most recent work is quite a big let down. She seems to struggle to hold the story together in this book (Faces), and i found myself having to keep back-tracking to remember who the characters were - a big disappointment, but don't let that put you off her earlier novels as i stand by what i say - up until Faces, they were all fab! ... Read review

Advantages: mystery in maine
Disadvantages: expected slighly more on conclusion

...and couldnt but it down. Rosie Thomas's unique perceptions about the human character, whether young or old, male or female, kept me enthralled throughout. I love the mystery that she brings to her novels, and remember reading Potters House with equal enjoyment. However, this book just makes me want to spend my summers in a white clap boarded house on the untamed coast of Maine, and meet the characters that the author creates who seem to 'walk' out ...
...youth! How perceptive of Rosie Thomas to highlight the passions and dreams of first love that is evident in Doone. I loved the William/Sarah twist which was completely unexpected, although I worked out Marty from the first photograph of May playing volleyball. Overall, this was wonderful escapism and I shall miss it. Tomorrow I plan to go to the bookshop and buy another of Rosie Thomas's brilliantly crafted novels. ... Read review

Advantages: Her writing affects readers in ways so few books can
Disadvantages: It all becomes rather addictive

...encountered the first book by Stephenie Meyer quite by accident, I was browsing in Waterstones, looking for something easily digested and fantastical. I'm an adult, a mother in fact, but I don't rule out teen fiction as a potential genre. I read Twilight very quickly, entirely consumed by the power of the story and the depth of characters. I was impressed by her writing style, a fluid experience with vast emotive capacity which was entirely fulfilled. ...
...the already insane boundary but Stephenie Meyer handles it well, making reality of the character and effortlessly sliding the new character into every crucial element of the story arc. New Moon is harshly barren, devoid of the phenomenal depth of emotion for the majority of the book, reflecting events and keeping the reader on tenterhooks. This was shortly before the third book, Eclipse, was released and the UK date was somewhat later then the ... Read review

Advantages: Great writing, long books, trilogys allow in depth detail.
Disadvantages: Only 6 books!

Trudi Canavan is an Australian born fantasy writer. Her first full length published book was the "Magician's Guild", the first part of "The Dark Magician Trilogy". These books revolve around a slum girl Sonea and her difficult and unlikely rise up through the ranks of magicians, and her problems and adventures along the way. The trilogy comes to a climatic finish with the best book in the trilogy "The High Lord". The trilogy as a whole is a must ...
...is a better read than Trudi Canavan's previous trilogy. The second book "Priestess of the White" in my view is the highlight of Trudi Canavan's works so far. It should be noted that the trilogys can be (and were written to be) read independently. Over the course of Trudi Canavan's writing career she has received many accolades, and rightly so. Her books are of an extremely high standard and I highly recommend them to anyone. I await with anticipation ... Read review