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N.K.
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As one other reviewer has stated, I also wanted to love this book. It's got a great premise (near future environmental catastrophe in an area not too far from where I live) and some of the descriptive passages are really well crafted. And yet by the e ...more |
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| Absolutely superb. There's a delicious slow-reveal of the protagonist's character, someone who is both a mostly passive observer and an occasional monstrous mysterious entity. The story visits some of the author's main themes (totalitarianism and ult ...more | |
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Absolutely agree with this. Great premise, some lovely passages, terrible storytelling. Very frustrating.
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| A wonderfully inquisitive book that is fundamentally about belonging. As a fan of the author’s previous works (especially The Tomato Runner), I was looking forward to reading about his fictional village and it’s ever-so slightly larger neighbour. The ...more | |
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| The premise behind this book is really interesting and maybe my rating is impacted by the feeling that I didn't quite get what I was expecting. It is a reasonably good read and there are some excellent moments, but it didn't quite gel for me. There a ...more | |
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| Rather than use the formal title, I prefer to refer to this beguiling publication as "Martin's Little Book of Lies". Truth these days appears to be in the eye of the beholder and there are certainly some askew gazes going on here, not least from yer ...more | |
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| Mark Smith’s follow up to his superb debut, The Tomato Runner, has a similarly entertaining mix of the mundane careering head-first into the daft. We meet two old friends who, back when they were lads, were in a sort-of group that kind-of did a few g ...more | |
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This is a fascinating book principally because there are three stories interwoven into the whole. The main body relates to the author’s attempts to learn more about the death of a relative in a Word War 2 air crash – literally, “what happened?” In do ...more |
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| I loved this book. It might be because I’m only a few years younger than the main character and the story focuses on a brief period in the early 80s and references so many shared musical memories. There’s also the perspective of the adult reflecting ...more | |