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Rosh wrote: "The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
Mainly purple prose under the façade of a fantastical p..."
Oh no, I've been looking forward to this one!
My review for The Vagabond Viscount: Home is where the heart is Sasha Cottman
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Gildart Jackson is the perfect narrator for Dutch author Herman Koch's novel, The Ditch. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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My review for
The Lost Summers of Driftwood by Vanessa McCauslandhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Delicious Death is the second in a fantasy mystery series featuring a woman who can talk to the spirits of the newly dead and to ghosts who refuse to leave people or places.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Krystal wrote: "Oh no, I've been looking forward to this one!"I sure hope it works better for you. (And it might, if you like flower prose.)
A bit late with this review but here we go: Retribution by Sarah Barrie
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5⭐️s
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters was a fun read, but I'd hoped it would be a bit more than it was.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Maame by Jessica George
Great in audio. A good enough story.
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My review of
Birds in Flight by AA Anni Taylor in which two estranged sisters decide to recreate an Australian road trip they took with their mother 24 years previously that ended with her disappearance.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Grace of Wild Things by Heather Fawcett
A middle-grade fantasy retelling of 'Anne of Green Gables'. Quite a lot of fun!
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My review for the disturbing Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrewshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2.5 stars for
Clarke by Aussie Author Holly ThrosbyMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My reviews of In Pursuit of Happiness by Freya Kennedy
3 stars
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and
Peril in the Cotswolds by Rebecca Tope
1 star
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Dark Justice by Catherine Lee is the last in her excellent Detective Charlie Cooper series and has kept an astonishing surprise for last! review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hedy Lamarr was a true Hollywood bombshell, as this children's picture book by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara describes in an addition to the Little People BIG DREAMS series. She was beautiful and technologically brilliant.
5★ My review of Hedy Lamarr with several of the lovely illustrations and a drop-dead gorgeous photo of her
The Transit of Venus by acclaimed Australian author Shirley Hazzard, is now a modern classic that was reissued in 2021, 25 years after its first publication. Aussie sisters grow up in post-WW2 England, where their beauty is admired, but their southern hemisphere origins are disparaged. GREAT READ!
5★ My review of Transit of Venus
Tina Baker's third novel, Make Me Clean is darkly funny, original and very entertaining.5★s
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Completed two middle-grade books, both good enough and with unusual settings.1. The Town with No Mirrors by Christina Collins
A dystopian drama about society's obsession with external appearance.
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2. The Curio Collectors by Eloise Williams
An adventure story set in the Victorian period.
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Finally got around to reading Love & Virtuehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5282725671
A strange experience reading about the Sydney University college system I went through.
Lewis Fitz-Gerald’s narration renders this powerful and compelling work of Australian historical fiction with the gravity it deserves. 5★s for The Settlement by Jock Serong.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Australian author Holly Ringland is the beautiful lyrical story of a girl who grows up with hardship and loss and learns how to express herself using the language of flowers on her grandmother's wildflower farm. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ here is my review
This is a terrible, but important, story from what should be America's past. Now the nightly news is almost as bad.Ralph Ellison wrote A Party Down at the Square in his youth, but it wasn't published until decades later.
Maybe humans should slink back into the swamp. Content warning, even for the review. (no pictures!) There are many excellent reviews of it Here's mine:
5★ My review of A Party Down at the Square including a link to a PDF of the story
My review of 
Outback Deception by Suzanne Brandyn -- 5★ -- 16/02/2023
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Violet Is Nowhere by Faith Gardner
I had fun with this indie psych thriller.
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Here are my two latest reviews, both Australian books, one non-fiction, one a fiction thriller, both good reads:
On Charlatans by Chris Bowen Review here
Out of Breath by Anna Snoekstra Review here
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My review 3★
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