This
book kept me up past my bedtime! It was so gripping and also so readable.
The
characters are well-rounded and believable, and the interplay between them is
as intriguing as the actual mystery they are trying to solve.
Because it’s a
series, I already "knew" and cared about Robin, the female lead, so when she
spends half the book in real and growing peril, there is an inescapable sense of
dread.
The final reveal was satisfying (if horrific), and I didn’t see it
coming, but it was the ride that I enjoyed as much as the destination.
'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph
'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian ________
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.
The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.
In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ellacott decides to infiltrate the cult and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito…
I
actually only ranked this book four stars out of five initially (I’m a harsh
marker), but I couldn’t get it out of my head. Imagine a cross between theNarnia series and theHarry Potter series, but all the main characters are
Edmund/Malfoy types. People sometimes do heroic things, but there are no heroes
here.
It’s all much more muddy. This is a fantasy novel set in the real world,
at least to start with, but there are also heavy elements of horror, and I
think that’s why it put barbs into my brain – the things that happen to
important characters are traumatic, unforgettable, and often very sudden.
A
book that stays with you, whether you want it to or not.
What I loved about this book is that it was a love
story, but not a romance. It’s so unusual to have the central love story of a
book be a platonic friendship.
Sam and Sadie become friends as children, and
despite breakups, bad relationships, misunderstandings, and tragedy, their
friendship survives.
This
is also a novel about computer games, but you don’t have to be a gamer to
appreciate it. I think, as with Ready Player One (a favorite of mine),
it helps to be a particular age so that you can remember early computer games,
but I was drawn into the description of inventing and building a game, even
though I have almost no experience of that because the relationships between
the characters carry the story.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
'I just love this book and I hope you love it too' JOHN GREEN, TikTok
Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is…
Let Hugh
MacDonald's Rambles Round Glasgow transport you to mid-nineteenth
century Glasgow – to a busy, grimy, burgeoning city and to the towns and
villages that would soon be swallowed up by its progress.
From the
"rural-looking village of Govan" in the south to the "spot
called the 'Bear's Den'" in the north, MacDonald will take you through
familiar Glasgow locations and regale you with tales of their legends and
history.
