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Review: Black Widow (Jack Parlabane #7) By Christopher Brookmyre
This is the second book I’ve read by Christopher Brookmyre, the first being a sci-fi number. This was a different read but no less awesome. Brookmyre yet again delivers the addictive, dark fictional worlds we have come to expect from him, and he nails it home each time. This is a mystery/thriller series that I’m going to go back and read more of because it literally ticks all of my boxes. Thrills ✔️, murder ✔️unreliable narrator✔️ and twists ✔️ Although this was the first in series I happened to pick up, this definitely works as a standalone novel. The writing style of Brookmyre is shrewd, evocative and quite frankly spine-tingling. …
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Review: My Name is Leon by Kit De Waal
If you want a read that pulls at the heartstrings, makes you weep and hug your own children that wee bit tighter then this a book for you. This book highlights the impact, adult’s behaviour and actions affect and change a child’s psyche – for better or worse. During these years’ children develop a sense of the person they are going to become, they learn appropriate behaviour, empathy and appropriate boundaries. They learn the social skills that will carry them through life. This book examines the implications of parental abuse, racial undertones and a little boy who is struggling to find his place in the world. The cover of the…
