|summary=Imprisoned and sentenced to death for the crimes he feels were caused by his creation and not his drive to bend the reach and morals of medical science, Doctor Frankenstein is given a way out of the guillotine's grasp, and gains a loyal adherent in the misshapen form of Carl. They move on to work together at a charitable hospital, which serves merely as a front for the Doctor's usual experiments, transplanting body organs, reviving corpses or bits thereof, and bringing new forms of life to the world. Cue yet another problematic creation, with an unfortunate way of leaving a trail of violence and vehemence, but with another innocent female to tender him, in this respectful and intelligent sequel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556235</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A B Saddlewick
|title=Monstrous Maud: Scary Show
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=If you have a [[:Category:A B Saddlewick|series of books]] set in a school, all to feature a different aspect of school life, you are duty bound it seems to feature a talent contest for the pupils. This series is no different, although of course the school is. It's where Maud goes, and she's the only human. So her fellow pupils can do formation vampire bat flying, or a wicked spell casting, and even the invisible girl will join in, ''showing off'' her gymnastics. What hope the poor human girl Maud, who has pretended to be an evil nasty 'Tutu' all year just to try and fit in?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780551738</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Lean
|title=A Horse For Angel
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eleven year old Nell feels as though her life is a list of pointless activities that she didn't choose and that she doesn't enjoy; the drama club, the maths tutor, the swimming lessons and the endless waiting for her busy, single mum between them all. Nell is looking forward to spending two restful weeks with her Grandma over the Easter holiday but at the last minute she discovers that she is to stay with relations that she doesn't know. Nell has a secret and when she travels to her Aunt's home she takes a suitcase containing her secret with her and on the first day of her stay she has a chance encounter with a local girl, Angel, who has secrets of her own. Despite the initial hostility between the two girls they gradually realise that they must learn to trust each other if they are to care for the things they love.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007455054</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Barbara Pym
|title=A Glass of Blessings
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Wilmet Forsyth is a married woman, childless and living a life of leisure. She and her friend Rowena met their husbands - both Majors - in Italy, where they served as Wrens during the war. Rowena now has three children and her husband David might just be developing a wandering eye. Wilmet's husband, Rodney, is still ''Noddy'' to his mother with whom they live. Unburdened by children or domestic responsibility Wilmet lunches or shops and becomes involved in the social life of the local church, St Luke's. But it's her relationship with Piers, Rowena's somewhat wayward brother, which might pose the biggest threat to her comfortable, if rather boring existence.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085805</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joyce Carol Oates
|title=Daddy Love
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=A short while ago, I read [[The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates]] and was moved by the sheer emotional impact of the stories it contained. This was especially true of the title story, which looked at the impact on a family torn by the disappearance of their daughter. The synopsis of ''Daddy Love'' suggested a similar impact, given the nature of the story and what I'd recently discovered about the power of Oates' writing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781850658</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Stella Whitelaw
|title=Money Never Sleeps
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Fancy Jones is a crime writer. Actually, it’s Francine Double-Barrelled name but her brother never got further than being able to pronounce ‘Fancy’ and the name stuck. Her Pink Pen Detective stories are one of the main reasons that she was invited to attend a writers’ conference in Derbyshire. But Fancy has other reasons for going: in London someone is trying to kill her. It was difficult to think otherwise when you only just avoid being pushed in front of a tube train and have a rucksack hurled at you as you get on a bus. The bubble-wrapped piece of concrete hurled through the bedroom window as she slept convinced her - if she still had any lingering doubts. There was just one problem: the attacks continued when she got to Derbyshire and it soon became clear that she wasn’t to be the only victim.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0719807476</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=J E Ryder
|title=Blood Pool
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Samantha Shelley was surprised to become the owner of a boatyard when her husband died in a cliff fall. She had worked in the East Devon boatyard - run it in fact - for quite some time but it's the men of the Shelley 'blood pool' who have always inherited the land for the past two hundred years. She was aware of ill-feeling against her in the village, but her priority was to keep the business running as smoothly as possible for herself and for the staff she employed. There was some support in the village - an old friend, known to one and all as 'the Prof' - had always been there for her and willing to listen to her outpourings or just to chatter as she drank coffee. Then he disappeared in violent circumstances.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AR0XFX2</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=George Mann (Editor)
|title=Encounters of Sherlock Holmes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=
Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring icon of English literature; perhaps as popular today as he was back in the late 1800s, maybe even more so with the advent of TV and film adaptations of his adventures. Indeed, such is the lasting appeal of the character that since the death of Conan Doyle there have been literally hundreds of works published, picking up where the original stories left off.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781160031</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Guy Adams
|title=Countess Dracula
|rating=3.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=1970s Hollywood, and a small group of people on a rough-and-ready coach tour round the stars' homes and scenes of scandal gets diverted to the completely ruined mansion once owned by a true golden couple. Cue a major flashback to the days when cinema idols Frank and Elizabeth were living there, and growing a very singular approach to sex, drugs and each other. Their career – jointly and separately – has been going downhill, hers irreparably as talkies have proven she is not the home-spun American dream, but Hungarian. A freak accident suggests that, like her compatriot and namesake, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the blood of young women will turn back the clock on Elizabeth's years, and make her youthful, the vivacious beauty of old. Cue a descent into the kind of excess that only Hollywood can produce…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553864</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=A B Saddlewick
|title=Monstrous Maud: Horror Holiday
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=And you think you have it tough… Maud is the only human at a school entirely populated by monsters – vampires, zombies, invisible people and so on. So just put yourself in her shoes when it's parents' evening, trying to divert her family from realising the truth about everyone and everything around them. Worse than that, try and put yourself in her shoes when it's revealed that she has to get an impossibly high score on an essay to not be kept back a year and lose contact with all her best friends. Worse than that, empathise with Maud as her folks meet another pupil's family at the parents' evening, and they therefore agree to go on holiday with a family of werewolves… at full moon…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178055172X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Julia Gregson
|title=Jasmine Nights
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The temptingly titled Jasmine Nights starts promisingly. Saba, a talented singer whose gift to the war is entertaining the troops, comes from an unhappy family background, and one that has little patience for the opportunities for women brought about by war. Dom, a fighter pilot who has sustained injuries, is feeling displaced - the war has changed his world forever.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409103048</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Megan Miranda
|title=Hysteria
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Shunned by many of her former friends after killing her boyfriend in self-defence, and unable to remember the details of his death, Mallory feels haunted by his presence. When her parents send her to boarding school, will this be a chance for a fresh start, or will her past catch up with her even there?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408834847</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Angela Banner
|title=More and More Ant and Bee
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Right at the beginning, when you're just starting to read books which have more words than pictures, you need a book that's structured to help you. You need a book which is comfy to hold in small hands and which has a firm cover so that everything keeps ''straight''. You need to share the reading and to know which words you're going to read and you might perhaps appreciate a ''hint'' in the form of a picture which will help you to get the word all on your own. Most of all though, you need to have a proper story and a feeling that you've achieved something when you get to the end. You need Ant and Bee.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405266732</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Shiba Ryotaro
|title=Clouds above the Hill: A Historical Novel of the Russo-Japanese War, Volume 2
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=If Volume 1 built up the characters of Masaoka Shiki and the Akiyama brothers, Volume 2 is a book more about war than about people, at least as individuals. Very early in this volume, Masaoka Shiki passes away at a very young age and so fades from the story. Shortly afterwards, as the war with Russia becomes more inevitable and Japan's preparations for this really kick into gear, the Akiyama brothers blend a little more into the cast of characters working on the war effort and whilst their names appear fairly regularly, we don't follow their stories as closely as before.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415508843</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K A S Quinn
|title=The Queen at War (Chronicles of the Tempus)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Katie Berger-Jones-Burg is puzzled. Living with her former pop-star mother in a New York apartment she is having strange visions. It seems she has forgotten all about her previous time travelling adventures (in The Queen Must Die) although someone appears to be trying to send her some clues to prompt her memory. Her friends from Victorian England, Princess Alice and James, are facing difficulties of their own, with a very sick friend and also the threat of war. They need Katie's help, but how can they get her to travel back in time to them?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848870558</amazonuk>
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