Incendiary (Hollow Crown)

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The first one is a good idea -- new information about 'May Day' comes to light -- but what he does with it (the plan is for Jasper and Petra to get it published in their newspaper) is just ridiculous. Through the novel I’ve subsequently met survivors of the 7/7 bombings in London, who of course carry far worse psychological scars – as well as physical ones. As newspaperman Cleave knows, there's no way this information could get published in a UK paper (at least not the way they plan to do it) -- but, in the Internet-age (and with streaming video) there's almost no reason they would even bother mentioning it to the newspaper first. But now she works for the Whispers, renegades fighting against the persecution of those with magic, the Moria. Like others, I picked The Other Hand off the library shelf by chance as it was the nearest book to hand whilst chasing by 2 year old round the shelves!

We also have characters who can create illusions, who can read people’s minds and who can manipulate people’s emotions. I had a lot of proplems with the majority of the book but one or two passages about grief I did recognise. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Though there was a moment of disconnection, when I just had to quickly check that I hadn’t missed a book, the author’s reasoning became ever more clear as I read further. In seeing her flawed and floundering, it is impossible not to think about how the choices we make are based on what we know, what we’ve learned.

I think your novels can definitely help the evils of the world (even if only by changing one readers opinion of a person/idea). I cannot imagine the horrors she’s been through, I thought, that could be any one of us, maybe not now, but in the future. After a depressing reading slump at the beginning of lockdown, I’ve since been on a bit of a winning streak with five-star books.Some of the side characters, like Leo and Nuria both sounded really interesting but we barely get to know anything about them. The narrator is an obsessive---the kind who alphabetizes everything in her kitchen cupboards and freezer.

I loved her edge, her hard-nosed common sense, her humour, her bluntness and most of all, how maternal she was. Regarding the attacks I can say nothing that the families of the victims haven’t already said – much more eloquently and poignantly than I ever could – because it is their story. Hi Aelish – great that you mention Roddy Doyle – I’m a huge admirer of his books for adults, and recently I discovered that he has a lot of clever, funny kids’ books that my children really love. The author tried to make up for it by throwing lots of surprising twists and turns in the end and they really worked.When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England carried out on the same day it was published. The characters felt a little flat to me, we don’t really get to know any of the Whispers aside from Ren and even then, Ren herself wasn’t the most compelling heroine, her constant self pity got a little irritating after a while. Ren has such a passionate loathing for Castian and it leads to one hell of a curve-ball cliffhanger. Renata herself has the power to remove memories from others’ heads and make them totally forget the memory.

I’m not familiar with Zoraida Córdova’s previous works but I really wanted to give this a shot because I loved the synopsis.

reads a bit too much like a Hollywood screenplay, and the secondary characters primarily serve to move the page-turning plot. They should let people believe in which ever God they want to and stop jumping up and down saying my Gods better than yours. I usually avoid books that heavily revolves around religion, but I’m glad that I still gave this a shot. The personal focus -- through the limited eyes of the narrator -- isn't the worst idea, but Cleave doesn't carry it through very well -- and he doesn't help matters by resorting to far too many scenes in which the narrator falls unconscious or asleep or gets drunk or suffers yet another psychotic break (yes, she sees her little boy all over the place, and, boy, does that get tiresome). There were definitely aspects of the book I enjoyed, the magic system was pretty cool and I liked the writing style, but the plot was incredibly slow paced and the characters weren’t as fleshed out as I would have liked them to be.