There are some bumps along the way as they struggle with the depth of their feelings, as well as trouble with a horrible ex and changes in their future game plans, but overall the angst level was pretty low. Their personalities were such a complement to the other and I loved how they were the light to the others dark. Wes is this ornery and grumpy guy, while Blair is a burst of sunshine. They had such great banter and back and forth. There's definitely an attraction from the start, but they develop a true connection and really get to know each other through the course of the book. I really enjoyed the gradual build up between Wes and Blair. Overall 4.5 stars Performance 5+ stars Story 4 stars This book surprised me in the best way! I loved the author's twist on the typical sports romance/tutor trope! It was so refreshing to have the hero be the tutor and not just this over the top, big man on campus jock. Fantastic Twist on the Typical Sports Romance!
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1: Everything Dies.īut it turns out my library doesn't have the right volume 1. So my original plan was to go back to the library and find New Avengers, Vol. Is Black Bolt evil? Good? Under some sort of mind control? Again. Well, I'm not sure what it does, but it doesn't look very nice. And I still have no idea what's going down, but it seems very interesting.īlack Bolt and his crazy brother are building some machine- thingy, and it. Their kingdoms are at war (for some reason), and there's lots of shifty things going on. There's this cool side-story involving Namor and Black Panther, too. It's all about the Illuminati, and some big cataclysm that's going to rock the universe if they don't figure out a way to stop it. I didn't really understand any of the backstory, but it was so good that I flew through it anyway. Since I'm not one to let a little something like total confusion stop me, I pasted a smile on my face and just kept reading. It's possible that I'm the only one who has this problem.Īnyhoo. And fuck all your confusing titles!Īvengers, Mighty Avengers, The Avengers, New Avengers, Young Avengers.īecause evidently when I'm angry, I turn into a llama. And what I actually needed to have read was this. I thought I had read volume one of this title. In turn, she introduces the other members of the family: Kate and Josh, who are struggling financially after a bad investment, and Alice and Henry, who are hosting the family for Christmas in upstate New York. With those two moods – of familial tension and of relentless loss – Strong, who is the Visiting Fiction Writer at Bates College, sets the novel into motion. “(T)hey’ll not be in Florida for Christmas for the first time in their lives because eight months ago their mother died.” “He thinks briefly he might call his mother,” Strong writes – and then explains why he doesn’t, and why Tess and Martin are traveling. 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I can't form a coherent review of all the things in this book that make me want to rage. The adult teacher is a cruel bastard adding to the fatphobia. It's like Stine wrote himself into a corner, forgot what was established, and I question how he thought this was ok for children with the extreme fatphobic comments and body horror?Įvery time I thought it couldn't get worse. It's like the kids, who KNEW this, completely said to hell with it even though things had gotten extremely bad. In the first book (spoiler alert) it's established that ripping up the pictures means everything will return to normal. Way to make any overweight child feel like shit, just give them this book (don't, please please don't). There is some intense body horror that is too much for a children's book. Most Goosebumps books don't have a sequel, a few do.and this one should not have been one of them. What the FUCK did I just read?! I have never been so angry at a book before! I've been angry yes, but the fact this is ment for CHILDREN makes it worse! As a result, Julia takes it upon herself to begin examining the death of her neighbour.ĭuring the investigation, she finds that Stefan had an altercation with local action house owner Elliot Howard at Henley Regatta. Although the local police are looking into the murder, Detective Sergeant Tanika Malik, temporarily in charge, has no experience of this kind of investigation. Beginning with the death of Stefan Dunwoody witnessed by Julia Potts, taking an evening dip in the Thames. The Marlow Murder Club is a charming murder mystery from the pen of Robert Thorogood. And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape… My Review When another body turns up, they realise they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. The local police don’t believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon joined in her quest by Suzie, a salt-of-the-earth dog-walker, and Becks, the prim and proper wife of the local Vicar. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there’s no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… The Marlow Murder Club synopsis (from GoodReads) |