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What Are You Reading? June 2013
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[quote=""LadyB""]I just looked that up on Amazon (never heard of it before), and have to warn everyone not to read the single review there - from the looks of it, it spoils the plot quite a bit![/quote]
If that's the case, I suggest you try reporting it to Amazon by clicking the little report button and mention spoilers. Sometimes they will remove them. I don't mind spoilers, as long as the review provides fair warning
If that's the case, I suggest you try reporting it to Amazon by clicking the little report button and mention spoilers. Sometimes they will remove them. I don't mind spoilers, as long as the review provides fair warning
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
The Twelve Children of Paris, second in Tim Willocks' Matthias Tannhauser trilogy. Willocks is a great storyteller but - extreme violence warning - this is not recommended for the fainthearted. It's set around the St Bartholomew Day's Massacre and Paris is a city is awash in blood and pitiless brutality.
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- Favourite HF book: Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
- Preferred HF: Any time period/location. Timeslip, usually prefer female POV. Also love Gothic melodrama.
- Location: Northeast Scotland
[quote=""Misfit""]If that's the case, I suggest you try reporting it to Amazon by clicking the little report button and mention spoilers. Sometimes they will remove them. I don't mind spoilers, as long as the review provides fair warning [/quote]
Done! Yeah there's no spoiler warning on this one. Shame it's the only review for the title, but then it looks like it's OOP and not very well-known.
Done! Yeah there's no spoiler warning on this one. Shame it's the only review for the title, but then it looks like it's OOP and not very well-known.
[quote=""LadyB""]Done! Yeah there's no spoiler warning on this one. Shame it's the only review for the title, but then it looks like it's OOP and not very well-known.[/quote]
I hope they take it down. I had one review where the ending was spilled out in the middle (the heroine died a tragic death). I was so ticked, yet Amazon wouldn't take it down. Grrrrr
I hope they take it down. I had one review where the ending was spilled out in the middle (the heroine died a tragic death). I was so ticked, yet Amazon wouldn't take it down. Grrrrr
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
Posted by Rocky Girl
Ruth Downie's Ruso series is delightful too- see Carla's review of Book 0ne in the Reviews section - you just need to be aware the books have different titles in the UK and the US. Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls is also known as Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls. List with alternative titles here
Don't know if you have a preferred historical period, but you might enjoy Alan Bradley's quirky and disarming Flavia de Luce series, which really rocks an eccentric '50s English country village vibe. I just love 'em. I initially thought a precocious child heroine would soon become annoying, but no way.Can anyone recommend something great? Historical mysteries preferred
Ruth Downie's Ruso series is delightful too- see Carla's review of Book 0ne in the Reviews section - you just need to be aware the books have different titles in the UK and the US. Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls is also known as Medicus and the Disappearing Dancing Girls. List with alternative titles here
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