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|title=The New Hunger: The Prequel to Warm Bodies
|author=Isaac Marion
|rating=5
|genre=Dystopian Fiction
|summary=I normally review a book within a day or two of finishing it. I couldn't with this one. I loved this book, but I did feel dissatisfied with the ending, and I thought perhaps I was missing something - and I was. This book was written as a prequel, and most of the readers will have already read ''Warm Bodies''. I found something so unique in Isaac Marion's writing style, and something about this book so compelling that I couldn't quite bear to rate it down, but neither was I happy with a 5 star rating with such as lacklustre ending. It felt like half a book to me. So - in order to review this fairly - I felt I had to read the author's first book. After reading it I am no longer disappointed in the ending. It isn't after all the end - it is just the beginning of one of the best books I have ever read.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587726</amazonuk>
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|summary=Jamie, Laura, and baby Poppy have had a few mishaps here at home, so when the opportunity comes to flit off to the land down under, and start a new life in Australia, they’re more excited than they are apprehensive. It might get them out of the rut they’ve fallen into, and it will definitely give them the sort of warm glow that comes from living under the, erm, warm glow of the sun. There’s really no reason not to go.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444767070</amazonuk>
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|author=Kate Mosse
|title=The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This book of 14 short stories and a short play is based on the idea
of haunting. Sometimes the haunting is the ghostly kind and sometimes
something psychologically deeper and more primal. All the stories drift to
us from different eras, both past and recent, but all have one thing in
common: they centre on a troubled person. For instance we meet Gaston, a
French child who witnesses an odd event on the beach just after losing his
parents. In the inevitably touching but beautiful ''Red Letter Day'' we
travel to a French castle with a woman who has an appointment with the past.
If you want something completely different, there's ''The Duet'' which draws
us into a fascinating dialogue and then hits us with a sting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148041</amazonuk>
}}
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