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Sophie Hannah - a game for all the family

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SouthWestmom · 12/01/2016 14:24

Now I know,why it was only £3 - one of those books where nothing would happen like that.

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SouthWestmom · 27/02/2016 22:59

I'm going to Google day four

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SouthWestmom · 27/02/2016 22:58

No the child's secret?

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StealthPolarBear · 27/02/2016 22:53

Oh are you talking about day four? No definitely no tree, it's set on a cruise ship

StealthPolarBear · 27/02/2016 22:53

If you're talking about shut eye I don't think I'm there yet. I have only read a few pages but can't remember a thing about it.

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SouthWestmom · 27/02/2016 22:52

Child not Chad!
Funny how two.people can have such different opinions!

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SouthWestmom · 27/02/2016 22:51

Yes with the tree? I hated it, so flowery. And sickly sweet wishes the Chad made.

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StealthPolarBear · 27/02/2016 22:50

Which one? Childs secret?
I've just read day four, anyone else? I really liked it, more than the first of those.
I'm currently reading something that I'm struggling to ge into, the shut eye.

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SouthWestmom · 27/02/2016 22:46

Stealth I just put that in the recycling bin, unread. Please post back to take the piss out if it.

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StealthPolarBear · 27/02/2016 22:35

Yep, along with Friday on my mind and broken promise

StealthPolarBear · 27/02/2016 22:34

Shit I think I just bought the child's secret today. Will I ever learn?

SalemSaberhagen · 27/02/2016 22:32

Don't do it salt! I'm normally an ardent SH fan but 'The Narrow Bed' is awful. 2D characters who are not explored, half completed subplots and the most ridiculous motive I've ever heard in my life for being a serial killer.

Actually, I half want you to read it so you can be as incredulous as I was Grin

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SouthWestmom · 25/02/2016 22:16

Nope.
Star for me

However I just read Things we have in Common and it is very very odd. Good, but weird.

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saltedcaramelhotchoc · 25/02/2016 21:47

Ok I must ask - has anyone cracked and bought her new one on the strength of the blurb?! I haven't yet but it sounds intriguing as ever...

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SouthWestmom · 16/02/2016 08:21

One thing I've realised is that trying a free sample does avoid the badly written books. Not the gaping plot holes though.

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Hygge · 15/02/2016 15:17

I pre-ordered that one salted, so I'll get to it eventually, but with a wary eye now.

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SouthWestmom · 14/02/2016 16:47

Someone on my FB page has recommended 'things we have in common' Which has a review comment by Sophie Hannah on the front, so I'm trying that.

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saltedcaramelhotchoc · 13/02/2016 22:06

Well - don't bother with A J Waines No Safe Place - tosh, despite stunningly positive Amazon reviews.

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SouthWestmom · 12/02/2016 15:21

Well sadly I'm about forty pages into another crap attempt at what seems to be the current faddy genre -missing child.

The child's secret by Amanda Brooke.

Terrible dialogue, lots of telling not showing and a hero with a mysterious past. There's even an eccentric old landlady who is bound to die at some point.

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saltedcaramelhotchoc · 12/02/2016 12:58

I loved that book about the Frasers. I like her books generally actually.

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SouthWestmom · 11/02/2016 22:55

www.goodreads.com/book/show/24640590-the-sudden-departure-of-the-frasers

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SouthWestmom · 11/02/2016 22:54

Molly, be strong. You are anonymous.

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SouthWestmom · 11/02/2016 22:53

HyggeGrin

I looked at behind closed doors; about a relationship?

I've just remembered a brilliant book I read , sort of a thriller type but no gore. About a couple who bought a posh house for some bargain price and then the wife becomes obsessed with the previous couple.

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saltedcaramelhotchoc · 11/02/2016 21:06

Alex Marwood The Darkest Secret is good. Just downloaded Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris for 99p - looks worth a try; has anyone read it?

mollyonthemove · 11/02/2016 19:00

I probably only like the orphan choir because I live in Cambridge too! In fact she doesn't live too far from me. Her poems are good though. Went to see her about 20 years ago and she was very funny.

mollyonthemove · 11/02/2016 18:58

I may borrow it from the library.....