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|title=In The Dutch Mountains

|author=Cees Nooteboom

|rating=4.5

|genre=Literary Fiction

|summary=Often, when asked if what I’m reading is a good book I hesitate before answering, trying to decide what the asker really means. Do they mean is it exciting? Funny? Full of interesting characters? Recently, someone asked me that and when I hesitated they gave me this as a clarifier: “Are you better off for having read it?”. In this instance, yes. I think I am. However, despite coming away from this book with a strong positive feeling about it, it’s also left me a little befuddled.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782067191</amazonuk>

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Luca Vero, his servant Frieze, and his clerk Brother Peter are investigating signs of the end of the world. Accompanied by Lady Isolde and her servant Ishraq, they arrive in Piccolo just before the mysterious Johann, a young body claiming to be called by God. He's followed by a horde of children who he's leading on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Even though his grandiose claims that the sea will part for them would seem absurd if anyone else said so, he's so charismatic that Luca and Isolde believe him - could he really be chosen by God? Or is he leading the children, and Luca and Isolde, into tragedy?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077341</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Alexander Gordon Smith~~

~~|title=The Fury: The Director's Cut~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Teens~~

|summary=I chose The Fury expecting a zombie novel. It isn't what I was expecting at all. The official press release describes the Fury as ''a zombie book without zombies''. This book has several things in common with the zombie genre; a group of survivors, in this case all children struggling to survive against a world that wants to destroy them. Unlike the typical zombie book, those affected by the fury are not the mindless living dead. They are ordinary people who go about ordinary lives with one exception. When they get near one of these children they are gripped by an uncontrollable urge to rip them apart, and everyone on the planet, other than a very small group is affected. Parents murder their children, other children will kill their best friends and total strangers will give up everything to destroy them. After they have killed them, they will go back to their ordinary lives. The world will continue unchanged - at least for now. What makes these children different? Why does the whole world want them dead? Who is infected - and with what?

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571303854</amazonuk>~~

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