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Black Hills
Author: Dan Simmons
I’d never read any of Dan Simmons work before picking this one up. I’d heard good things about Drood but that’s about it. So picking this up was a total impulse decision. I hadn’t heard anything about the book, and I don’t really trust blurbs.
In the opening sentence we meet our main protagonist, Paha Sapa, a young Lakota boy who has raced into the middle of the Battle of Little Big Horn in order to go counting coup, there he touches the dying George Custer, the infamous Long Hair, and from then on shares his mind with Custer’s ghost. The book shifts in time, usually within Paha Sapa’s life, but occasionally we get to hear from Custer. He usually talks about his wife, Libby, and the sex they had. To be totally honest this was the one bit I wasn’t that interested in. Okay, so he and his wife have a great sex life, and so…
The rest of the book though, well, it is one I recommend you take a look at.
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Tagged 10 Stars, Battle of Little Big Horn, Dragonhaven, first person narrator, George Custer, ghosts, Lakota Indians, magic, Native Americans, psychic, revenge
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Living with the dead
The plot of Living with the dead revolves around the character of Robyn; recently widowed she has moved to LA and taken a job in PR with Portia Kane, a Paris Hilton-type celebrity. Or wannabe celebrity. But when Portia is murdered Robyn finds herself the main suspect and in her confusion makes a break for it. She is helped out by her best friend, Hope Adams, and her boyfriend, Karl Marstsen. Continue reading
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Tagged 8 Stars, 813.6, Canadian author, fun, ghosts, Living with the dead, Lost 1.13 Hearts and Minds, quick read, werewolves, Women of the otherworld
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Her fearful symmetry
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
For a lot of this book I really really liked it. I never quite loved it; but for a while I did really enjoy it. The writing is great. And the premise was interesting. But it just didn’t work in the end. And I think that one of the major problems was that the character who makes this big decision, well, I just didn’t get why she made it. And I really didn’t understand why other characters went along with her. That wasn’t the only problem, it just meant that I was less forgiving of the others Continue reading
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Tagged 5 Stars, disapointing, ending is crap, ghosts, Her fearful symmetry, multiple narrators, quirks, sci-fi, twins
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Heart-shaped box
ISBN: 9780575081864 See also: Other reviews ; Joe Hill Fiction.com Jude had a private collection. He had framed sketches of the seven dwarves on the wall of his studio, in between his platinum records. Judas Coyne has just bought a … Continue reading
Beyond Black
Travelling: the dank oily days after Christmas. The motorway, its wastes looping London: the margin’s scrub-grass flaring orange in the lights, and the leaves of the poisoned shrubs striped yellow-green like a cantaloupe melon.
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Tagged 9 Stars, abuse, Beyond Black, ghosts, Orange prize nominee, psychic
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The Facts of Life
ISBN: 0753818426 I’ve read a few books now by Joyce, and this has to be my favourite so far. Set during, and just after the London Blitz of WWI, this book tells the story of Cassie, her family, and her … Continue reading
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Tagged 9 Stars, ghosts, Simon Cowell, The facts of life, World War II
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