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Jun 08, 2017 03:26PM

The audio is fantastic for this one

Couldn't have bloody trained last week when the kids had a week off for half term though



Donners of the Dead by Karina Halle
***A Standalone Horror Romance***
A note about this book: Donners of the Dead is set in 1851 – couples were often thrust into marriage together with short courtships, racism was widespread and not overly frowned upon, and women had little to no rights. What wouldn't fly in today's day and age was unfortunately the norm back then - it is worth keeping that in mind when reading this book.
Jake McGraw was unlike anyone I’d ever known. He was brash, rude, unapologetic and arrogant; chauvinistic, close-minded, and terribly stubborn. He was built like a tree, tall with a hard chest and wide shoulders and hands that looked like they could wrestle a bear. He was a cigar-chomping, scruffy-faced, beast of a man. I was pretty sure I hated him. And I know he hated me. But among the flesh-eating monsters in these snow-capped mountains, he was the only thing keeping me alive
The year is 1851 and pioneers in search of California gold are still afraid to travel on the same route as the tragic Donner party did years before. When the last wagon train to go into the Sierra Nevada mountains fails to arrive at their destination, Eve Smith, an 18-year old half-native girl with immense tracking skills is brought along with the search party, headed by an enigmatic former Texas Ranger, Jake McGraw.
What they find deep in the dangerous snow-covered terrain is a terrifying consequence of cannibalism, giving new meaning to the term “monster.” While the search party is slowly picked off, one by one, Eve must learn to trust Jake, who harbors more than a few secrets of his own, in order to survive and prevent the monstrosities from reaching civilization.
Jun 03, 2017 04:29AM

Will this still count for TT points?


Read: 29 May
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 140

Read: 29 May
Rating: 4 stars
Pages: 207

Read: 1 June
Rating: 4 stars
Pages:353

My favourite read so far has been The hard truth about sunshine by Sawyer Bennett, it was just gorgeous


Date read: 18 May
Rating: 3.5 stars
# of pages: 300

Date read: 21 May
Rating: 4 stars
# of pages:350

Date read: 23 May
Rating: 4 stars
# of pages: 501