reading
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Book Crawl
if you think pub crawl but take out a few pubs and sub in a several bookshops well then I am sure you can get the picture
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Ragged Alice Review
Gareth L Powell officially the nicest man on twitter and award winning sci fi author has turned his considerable skills to crime in this wonderful novella. Set in the small welsh town of Pontyrhudd DCI Holly Craig returns to her home town to investigate a murder. Things quickly unravel as a spate of murders threaten to ruin her career but all is not as it seems as the murderer seems to be copying a murder from decades earlier. Ragged Alice is fab. I love Holly Craig she’s a damaged-yet-brilliant detective with an ability to see someone’s soul and ascertain whether they are lying. How she came by this ability is…
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The Goblin Emperor
Elves like a sit down dinner and Goblins like a buffet.
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What have I been reading
Magic Trees, Dragons, secret societies of bad ass women who will kill you. Matrilinial lineages. Queendoms. GET IN MY EYEBALLS.
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The Winter Crown by Elizabeth Chadwick – Review
This is the second part to the trilogy about Eleanor of Aquitaine. I have not read first part The Summer Crown and unusually for starting a series mid-way I don’t feel punished for not reading it. Ailenor (Eleanor) is already married to Henry at the beginning of the novel and whilst she is very fond of him she finds his lack of respect to her ideas galling. She is constantly reminding him that she is more than his brood mare to which he basically says yes dear. In that respect Ailenor feels very modern, she is very clever and there is a real sense that she knows her worth. Henry…