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Hello and Welcome to Dumpy Little Unicorn
Dumpy Little Unicorn is a new blog and podcast. This site is currently under construction please come back soon to check out my posts and podcast.
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Review: Shattered Minds by Laura Lam
Shattered Minds by Laura Lam is the second of her Pacifica novels. It isn’t a sequel to False Hearts but it does have links between the two. Shattered minds is a tense thriller with a cast of flawed characters. Lam conjures a tense yet vibrant world and creates characters the reader can empathise with even when they are dark. Carina is an ex neuroscientist with a dark secret. A zeal addict on the slippery slope to oblivion when one of her ex-colleagues, Mark hacks her zealscape to give her information about her old company Sudice. She knows he must already be dead. This is fast paced and feels quite cyberpunk.…
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Here we go again.
Things have been rather busy the last couple of months. My partner and I have had to move house which was the hugest upheaval plus exceedingly busy at work. Followed by the absolute joy that was Nine Worlds. I’ve been thinking and I need to shake the blog up a little bit again. How I’m not one hundred percent sure but I’m going to make it a bit more vibrant and be a bit more varied in what I do here. Basically watch this space for some changes over the coming weeks. Look out for the long overdue review of Lords and Ladies, Maskerade and Carpe Jugulum as well as…
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Jane's Great Re-read: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – the verdict
As I previously mentioned Chamber of Secrets was always my least favourite of the series and I think my memory let me down a bit with this. This is a good thing because it was much much better than I remember. I think there are parts to this story that really don’t make sense until you read The Half-Blood Prince and that’s okay but it feels a little bit foggy in places. I think part of the issue is that my memories of the book are tainted by the film adaptation. Dobby is far less annoying in the book than he is in the film. The humour is far more…