Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks

Armageddon's Children by Terry Brooks


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I really enjoyed reading this book.
It is set in a postapocalyptic world where civilization has all but collapsed and people are trying to exist. It has a bit of everything from Demons to Elves, magic and monsters.
Hawk is the leader of the Ghosts, a group of children trying to exist in the ruins of a delapidated city. Then there are Angel and Logan who are Knights of the Word trying to save world as they battle the demons from The Void.
Well written and highly enjoyable.

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Sanctuary by Raymond Khoury

Sanctuary: n/a by Raymond Khoury


My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I did enjoy this book even though I thought it was very slow in places.
There was lots of factual details and rich dialogue.
The plot centres around the most dangerous book in the world.....the formula for the elixer of life.
Mia Bishop gets kidnapped in Beirut and her genetist daughter and a CIA agent embark on a deadly quest to try and release her and stop a deadly doctor from fnding the book.


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Books arrived

I was a very happy chappy today as I had two books arrive in the post.
One was a signed copy of Quantum Breach by Mark Powell that I won via Goodreads.
The second is Stranger on a Train by Jenny Diski via Bookcrossing

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult


My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I thought this book was amazing and definitely the best book I have read so far from Jodi Picoult.
The book was well written and researched. I loved the characters and the emotional rollercoaster Picoult takes them through.
I really don't want to say much about the actual storyline as I feel it would give too much away and the new reader needs to let the story unfold itself.


Synopsis from Jodi Picoult dot com:

Do we love across time? Or in spite of it? A developer has slated an ancient Abenaki Indian burial ground for a strip mall, and now strange happenings have tiny Comtosook, Vermont, talking of supernatural forces at work. Ross Wakeman is a ghost hunter who's never seen a ghost-all he's searching for is something to end the pain of losing his fiance Aimee in a car accident. He tried suicide-any number of times. Now Ross lives only for a way to connect with Aimee from beyond. Searching the site for signs of the paranormal, Ross meets the mysterious Lia, who sparks him to life for the first time in years. But the discoveries that await Ross are beyond anything he could dream of in this world-or the next. Expertly entwining a powerful drama of the heart's redemption and the disturbing real-life history of the VT eugenics project of the 1930s, Second Glance asks if truth is always something that can be measured… and if what can be measured is indeed always true.

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Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I absolutely loved this book and couldnt put it down. The story unfolds over the course of one day when a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati, who were thought long extinct, send an assassin into the vatican.Mayhem ensues with this faced paced novel.

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I found this compelling reading from start to finish.
It is about a little girl who gets horribly murdered by a serial killer and the story is told through her in heaven and how she watches over her grieving family and friends.
Beautifully written and a very emotional read.

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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel


My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book is about The Holocaust using animals. The central character is Henry who is a novelist having had one book be a huge success, finds it difficult to get published his latest offering which is about the Holocaust.
He moves away and eventually, through a series of events, leads him to a taxidermest who has written a play about The Holocaust through Beatrice and Virgil who are a stuffed donkey and a howler monkey.
I found this book strange, weird but compelling and couldn't put it down.

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