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{{newreview
|author=Alyxandra Harvey
|title=My Love Lies Bleeding
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Solange Drake hates being the only born female vampire. Not only does she have to put up with her pheromones making her irresistible to male vampires, who all want to use her to start their own vampire families, she has a prophecy looming over her head, one that states a female Drake vampire will overthrow the current ruler to become Queen of the Vampires.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408803402</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Terence Morgan
|summary=I haven't read Jonathan Hayes' bestseller 'Precious Blood' so I was a fresh reader, so to speak. His writing biography on the inside cover of the book is impressive. My expectations were high. All the ingredients are in place for a good thriller. The location is The Everglades in Florida. Brooding, enigmatic, awe-inspiring and where we all seem to expect crocodiles to rear their heads out of the swampy waters every five minutes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099538644</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Colin Cotterill
|title=Curse of the Pogo Stick
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dr Siri Paiboun usually managed to control his reactions in front of Judge Haeng, but occasionally he forgot himself and was more insolent than usual. This time the Laos national coroner (reluctant), communist (even more reluctantly) and shaman finds himself on a road trip with the judge and the Justice Department. Nurse Dtui (pregnant and married, although not in the usual order of events) is left to run the morgue along with Mr Geung, who might, or might not be a help, but probably not in the way that you might expect. As if that wasn't enough Nurse Dtui discovers a booby-trapped corpse, there's a geriatric hit-person on the loose and Siri is kidnapped.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849160112</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nia Pritchard
|title=More Than Just A Wedding
|rating=2.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=If you like novels in which little happens as the story strolls towards its happy ending, then Nia Pritchard's sequel to 'More Than Just a Hairdresser' may suit you. If the Liverpudlian vernacular and setting pushes your buttons, then maybe you'll enjoy its light-hearted picture of Scouse life. My mother-in-law will probably love it. I'm sorry to say that it wasn't my cup of tea at all.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784124</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tonya Hurley
|title=Ghostgirl
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Charlotte Usher is desperate to be popular. She has spent the entire summer break transforming herself to try and fit in with the 'in' crowd all in an attempt to try and attract the attention of Damen, a popular and handsome jock. Yet even after all her hard work she still remains invisible at best, despised at worst. Finally, in a moment of tragic bad luck, Charlotte chokes on a gummy bear, alone in a classroom, and dies. This isn't the end of the story however, it's actually just the beginning, because Charlotte isn't going to let the little inconvenience of being dead get in her way...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755347714</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anthony Horowitz
|title=Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fans of Anthony Horowitz' Alex Rider series have had a two-year wait for this installment of our young hero's escapades and they are not going to be disappointed. He's fourteen year old now and not only is he being targeted by a hitman, he's also being pursued by a journalist who wants to tell the nation all about the fact that MI6 are using one of his tender years to do their dirty work. The trouble is that he can't be positive that it was a sniper that caused the car he was in to skid off a Scottish road and land at the bottom of a Loch. And MI6 don't seem all that bothered about the journalist, unless, that is, Alex might be willing to find some simple information from a GM crop research centre, in which case they might be able to have a quiet word with the gentleman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406310484</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathi Unsworth
|title=Bad Penny Blues
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Step into the seedy underbelly of London on the cusp of the Swinging Sixties. 'Bad Penny Blues' is the story of the hunt for a brutal serial killer targeting prostitutes in the west of the city, at the time a melting pot of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland, bohemian artists and media types, and even peers. Carnaby Street was just becoming the fashion centre of London and a new decade promised exciting possibilities.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846686784</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Celia Friedman
|title=The Wings of Wrath (The Magister Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The first part of Celia Friedman's ''Magister'' trilogy was a wonderfully dark piece of fantasy. It contained some beasts you wouldn't be surprised to come across in a horror novel and stretched the idea of magic being a draining power to an interesting place psychologically. The second part, ''Wings of Wrath'' is more of a straight fantasy novel, lacking some of the horror elements that made the first part such a draw for me, but it's still a very good read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495336</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bernard P Morgan and Rikin Parekh
|title=The Lighthouse
|rating=2
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Bob the lighthouse keeper tries to warn the village of Quark that there's a big storm on the way. They don't listen to him, so Bob just sets about making preparations anyway. When the storm comes, the villagers are in a lot of trouble, but thankfully Bob is on hand to save the day.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312764</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Peter Blackstock
|title=The Secret Symbol: The Original Masonic Documents Behind Dan Brown's Latest Bestseller
|rating=3
|genre=Spirituality and Religion
|summary=Pop Quiz. What links Scott of the Antarctic, Jim Davidson, Churchill, and Rabbie Burns? Where and when might you come a cropper trying to spell Boaz, but starting with the B? And what has three stages - unless it's thirty-three, or even ten by the York system?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683734</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jonathan Buckley
|title=Contact
|rating=2.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Dominic Pattison's life began to veer off course badly on a Tuesday in May. It's a fairly banal Tuesday. The kind of Tuesday that Dominic probably experiences quite frequently. He feels the need to tell us about it.
In detail.
And, sadly, not in a particularly engaging style.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956003869</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jessica Porter
|title=Sicilian Sunset
|rating=3
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Sarah Livingstone's jewellery business was struggling but she was still annoyed when her father called James Ross for help. Sarah and James had had a relationship some ten years earlier and Sarah really didn't want to work with him, particularly after her marriage. Most people thought that her husband's death in a plane crash had been the cruel end to a good marriage. Only a few knew that he had been about to leave her to live with another woman. It's left Sarah very reluctant to get involved with any man.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089430</amazonuk>
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