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Ruin Beach by Kate Rhodes is your stock standard, run of the mill ‘who dunnit’ crime novel.

A story set in a small island community, to pass the time by.

A novel based on the true story of Spinalonga, a leper colony established on an island off the coast of Crete.
The book is salvaged from deteriorating into a tiresomely predictable love story by the account of life on the island in the leper colony. That struggle between adversity and the emergence of the human spirit.

Lost me very quickly. Tries far too hard to be that voice of the modern Chinese American teenager. Found it contrived, coarse and abrasive. Not the slightest bit stimulating. Simply irritating.

“[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today

“One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York

“Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today

Afraid I don’t get it.

Q:

A: I breathe…
I live…
I feel…
I think…
I write…

Need to rethink this 30/04/2020

Something went wrong with this one. So much so one can’t help questioning whether it is the same author.

I would question whether Red Notice by Andy McNab was in fact written by Andy McNab. It is a new series which lacks the authenticity of the earlier books I have read. He mangles the dialogue horribly when trying to introduce the complexities of an emotional relationship. It has a clumsy story line and I suspect these books are being churned out as quickly as possible to capitalise on the writers previous success.

The only reference I could find to or quote from this anthology was a essay on street kids on Changemakers

Nothing particularly outstanding about this book. I simply enjoyed reading it.

It is a short but a powerful story about the Partition of India in 1947. A smooth, comfortable, easy read. Yet evocative and at times horribly brutal.

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Ex SAS Chris Ryan writes combat action thrillers.

OK for a light read. But tend to be a little too gung ho and melodramatic.