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.Got You Back
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by: Jane Fallon

August 15, 2008
This book started off really well, the characters were believable and the plot was interesting enough to get me hooked. When the plans for revenge were unfolded between the two women, I couldn't put the book down. I wanted to see what they were going to do to him and with each new drama, I was drawn further and further in as James' life unfolds dramatically around him with seemingly no idea who's behind it all. But then something odd happens, it's almost as if the author had a change of heart half way through because the story goes from this, to a less dramatic story of a woman getting over the break up of her marriage and moving on to a new relationship. The one "big event" that was planned early on in the book (that I was really looking foward ... Read More:
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.The Final Reckoning
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by: Sam Bourne

August 04, 2008
I loved the book the Righteous men and after finishing it went and bought the Last Testament. Although I loved the first book, the second did nothing for me. This book had blown me away. I just cant put it down.

Well worth a read.
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.Devil May Care (James Bond)
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by: Sebastian Faulks

May 28, 2008
I suppose that Penguin, who publish the novels of the late Ian Fleming these days, had to do something to mark the centenary of his birth. And indeed they have - they've commissioned a modern-day author to write a brand new James Bond adventure.

They have chosen Sebastian Faulks - and rather than attempt to do what the movies have already done and relocate Fleming's spy to the modern day, Faulks has taken this achetypal 1950s fictional secret agent and only moved him on a few years - to the mid-60s, where we find him on leave while recovering from his last Fleming adventure, and feeling over the hill and generally past it.

Faulks does a reasonably good job of writing in the style of Ian Fleming -with all of the good and bad things ... Read More:
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.Tan Lines: A Novel of Sex and Sunburn
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by: J.J. Salem

May 02, 2008
I bought this book for holiday and if I had had anything else to do but read in the sun I would have binned it. The characters where drawn as cartoon stereotypes (too bad or too good) I didn't like any of the characters and the end was obvious from the beginning. First time I've read a Jackie Colllins reviewed book (or one of hers) - I won't again. The book ended up in bits in Greece!
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.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)
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by: Winifred Watson

April 24, 2008
Like almost everyone, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am a great admirer of the actress Frances McDormand and I think she may excel as Miss Pettigrew if the screen adaptation lives up to the speed and panache of the original story. Yes, ... the original story ... It is definitely of the Cindrella variety and none the worse for that. Some have seen the influence of others in its origins - but none has yet pointed out the faint echoes of a memorable short story by W.S. Maugham about the unexpected London triumph, both social and sartorial, of a mature widow called "Jane". Now I don't exactly remember the date of Somerset Maugham's story (it may have been written before Miss Watson's or afterwards) and so one may have influenced the other to a degree. As to the ... Read More:
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.Revelation (Matthew Shardlake 4)
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by: C.J. Sansom

April 04, 2008
Have read all four of the Shardlake series, all brilliant. I am now having withdrawal. Sansom has you totally engrossed, you can picture the scene, a detailed version of the violent times of Henry V111. I cannot find a single fault. Will there be anymore, please.
If you like historical whodunnits, these are for you, difficult to put down, extremely well written, who needs television.
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.Centurion (Roman Legion 8)
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by: Simon Scarrow

August 07, 2008
I've enjoyed all Simon Scarrow books todate, escpecially this series, however I disagree with the other reviews in that I don't feel this book is stronger than previous eagle books. For me it, like the last few, lacks the pace of the first four in the series.

That said I still enjoyed and eagerly await the next installment.
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.The Game
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by: Neil Strauss

December 06, 2007
What a discovery!!! I bought this book as part of some research for my own book and I was very pleasantly surprised.

I never made the connection that Mr Strauss was the co-author of the much lauded Motley Crue's "The Dirt".

Ok, the stories in this book may seem a bit stretched or hard to believe, but hey, it's Americans we are talking about. What I have to say is that reading this book made me look back on my failures and successes at picking women, and it was almost uncanny to read word by word where I went right and wrong.

The Game is a bit of a cross between Queer Eye For The Straight Guy cum Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus cum any rock and roll tale of debauchery you care to think of.

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.Acheron (Dark Hunter) (Dark Hunter)
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by: Sherrilyn Kenyon

August 07, 2008
Ash's story is hinted at throughout the other books and he finally gets his own book. The trouble with this book is that is it very, very long and the first part dealing with Ash's history and detailing his many and varies abuses is especially so. I understand the concept that the past shapes the present, but being exposed to every violent and horrific act perpetrated on Ash desinsitises the reader to the extent that you become inured to it almost. I simply can't understand why you would want to detail pages and pages of abuse, hammering your point home rather than allowing the reader a little breathign space.

Yes the first part of the book does hold all the valid information you will need to understand Ash but it is much too long. The second part I found myself drawing back from. ... Read More:
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.Goodnight, Beautiful
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by: Dorothy Koomson

July 02, 2008
A fantastic book, couldn't put it down, have read all of DKs books but this is by far the best. Experienced a rollarcoaster of emotions reading it!! The characters stay with you long after you've finished the book. A must!!!!
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