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Fowl Twins, The-A Fowl Twins Novel, Book 1
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Eoin Colfer
One Thrifty Reader
, November 05, 2019
I loved this book! It's a totally fun and wonderful children's adventure book aimed at kids in grades 5 - 9. Remember the Artemis Fowl series of children's books? Weren't they great? Well, this book picks up where that series left off. The Fowl twins of the title are Artemis' younger twin brothers. The twins are left home alone for a night (why would anyone leave a Fowl home alone, you say?) and in that time they befriend a troll who has popped through the earth's surface and go on the run with him. The imagination, humor and sheer fun in this book are all you would expect from the author of the Artemis Fowl series. A worthy follow-up to a legendary series beloved by children all over the world. Disclosure - I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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Dirty Dozen
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Lynda La Plante
One Thrifty Reader
, August 20, 2019
I'm a fan of the old Prime Suspect television series starring Helen Mirren as London police officer Jane Tennison so I was eager to read this crime fiction novel, which features a younger Jane Tennison as the main character. In this book, Jane has been a police officer for six years and done well - she is now a detective. At the beginning of this book, she is assigned to the famous Flying Squad - an elite group of detectives who are supposed to stop armed robberies before they occur, or failing that to catch the robbers afterward. Jane thinks this assignment is a reward for her hard work and success as an officer, but after she arrives she discovers that she is to be the squad's token woman (it's the 1980's in the book) and her boss definitely does not want her there. This book is billed as a thriller, but I'd call it a police procedural - it's as much about Jane's struggle to gain the respect and acceptance of her colleagues as it is about catching the bad guys. I enjoyed it very much. Disclosure - I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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Whisper Man
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Alex North
One Thrifty Reader
, August 20, 2019
I stayed up late and read this book in one sitting! It's a very well written, very spooky read-it-with-all-the-lights-on thriller. Twenty years ago, a child killer terrorized the British village of Featherbank. He was known as The Whisper Man, and a local cop finally caught him and put him in prison. Now another young boy has gone missing, and the boy's mother reports that someone had been whispering outside his window before he went missing, too. Did the Whisper Man have an accomplice? Or is this a copycat killer who knows way more than he should of the details of the old case? In the middle of all this, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to Featherbank for a new start after their wife and mother, Rebecca, dies suddenly. Unfortunately, they choose to buy a house that all the local kids call "the scary house" - and this house will turn out to be very, very scary indeed for Tom and Jake. Disclosure - I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
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Heather Webber
One Thrifty Reader
, August 07, 2019
This is a novel about mother-daughter relationships set in a small southern town shot full of magical realism. The blackbirds in the book are the ancestors of Anna Kate Callow, whose family of Celtic women are healers. Every night at midnight, her ancestors come through the tunnel between the land of the dead and the living world as blackbirds and perch in the mulberry trees in the backyard of her grandmother Zee's Alabama home. If a person has eaten a piece of blackbird pie (actually fruit pie) made by someone in Anna Kate's family that day, the songs the blackbirds sing between midnight and one a.m. will show up as a message from a dead loved one in that persons dreams. As the book opens, Zee has died unexpectedly and Anna Kate has arrived in Wicklow, Alabama for the first time to settle her grandmother's estate. Under the terms of the will, she must stay and run her grandmother's Blackbird Café for two months before she can sell it. During that two months, both she and another young woman her age will struggle with the expectations of their forceful mothers and come to grips with how to balance the promises they have made to their families and their own desires for their lives. Recommended.
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The Book Charmer, Volume 1
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Karen Hawkins
One Thrifty Reader
, July 30, 2019
I adored this book! It starts strong and remains strong to the very end. This is magical realism in a small southern town in the vein of Sarah Addison Allen but with a charm all its own. Sarah Dove is the seventh daughter of the Dove family, an old family in town whose daughters all have magic. Sarah's magic is that books talk to her, telling her which person in town needs to read them. As the town librarian, she makes sure that book gets to the right person. Such a lovely idea! Sadly, her beloved small town of Dove Pond is failing. The population is dwindling, they have no jobs for the young people, and most of the downtown storefronts are vacant. People are worried. Luckily, the town lore is that whenever the Dove family has seven daughters something good happens for the town. As a seventh daughter, Sarah has always thought she would save the town but she has no idea how to do that. Then Grace Wheeler, broke and with crushing family responsibilities, comes to town and Sarah realizes that it is her job to befriend Grace and help Grace save the town. This is a lovely novel of friendship, family, belonging and finding home. Highly recommended. I received a digital ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
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Nearly Normal Family
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MT Edvardsson, Rachel Willson Broyles
One Thrifty Reader
, July 11, 2019
This domestic suspense novel set in Sweden is very well written, and the translation from Swedish to English is excellent. A married couple (husband a pastor, wife a lawyer) find their eighteen year old daughter puzzling. This is not so unusual, perhaps. Her arrest for the murder of a well-known man in his thirties, however, is very unusual. The night the murder happened, the daughter was out late and her parents didn't know where she was. However, the father woke up when she arrived home and saw her slip into her bedroom. When his daughter is sent to trial, the father/husband/pastor faces a huge question: should be say his daughter arrived home earlier than she did, using his status as a pastor to help away the jury into believing him, to save his daughter?
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Magic for Liars
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Sarah Gailey
One Thrifty Reader
, July 11, 2019
For adults who love Harry Potter - that's how I'd categorize this fantasy debut novel that centers around a mystery. Our heroine is one of a pair of sisters - her sister has magic (and went to a boarding school for children with magic) while our heroine is just an ordinary person. Now grown up, our heroine is a P.I. while her sister teaches at that boarding school. Their worlds collide when a murder happens at the boarding school and the headmaster thinks the police have fingered the wrong person for the murder. She hires our heroine to find the real killer. The writing in this book is terrific. BUT - and this is a big but - the author doesn't let her writing style get in the way of the plot. Something interesting happens in every chapter - which isn't the case in most books with beautiful writing. Highly recommended.
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Wilder Girls
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Rory Power
One Thrifty Reader
, July 11, 2019
This is definitely the best book cover I've seen this year. It is genius! It also accurately and artistically conveys the storyline of the novel: an all-girls boarding school on an island in Maine is suddenly and mysteriously infected by the Tox, a horrible disease that kills many of the girls and the teachers and does weird things to the bodies of those who survive. They go blind, develop gills on their necks, all sorts of terrible things - everyone is afflicted a little differently, but the afflictions are all ghastly. They are totally cut off from the mainland except for a two-way radio and a supplies boat. Even with the supplies boat, they never have enough food to eat or fuel to keep warm. They develop into tight-knit groups who help each other survive. When one of the girls disappears and her friend is determined to find her, the action really heats up.
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Book Charmer
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Karen Hawkins
One Thrifty Reader
, July 11, 2019
I adored this book! It starts strong and remains strong to the very end. This is magical realism in a small southern town in the vein of Sarah Addison Allen but with a charm all its own. Sarah Dove is the seventh daughter of the Dove family, an old family in town whose daughters all have magic. Sarah's magic is that books talk to her, telling her which person in town needs to read them. As the town librarian, she makes sure that book gets to the right person. Such a lovely idea! Sadly, her beloved small town of Dove Pond is failing. The population is dwindling, they have no jobs for the young people, and most of the downtown storefronts are vacant. People are worried. Luckily, the town lore is that whenever the Dove family has seven daughters something good happens for the town. As a seventh daughter, Sarah has always thought she would save the town but she has no idea how to do that. Then Grace Wheeler, broke and with crushing family responsibilities, comes to town and Sarah realizes that it is her job to befriend Grace and help Grace save the town. This is a lovely novel of friendship, family, belonging and finding home. Highly recommended.
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Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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Kim Michele Richardson
One Thrifty Reader
, July 11, 2019
I had no idea that there had been a group of blue-skinned people in Kentucky! I'm really fascinated by this and will definitely be doing some research to find out more about them (and hopefully, what caused this unusual skin tone). To make her main character a blue-skinned person who is also a pack horse librarian was a stroke of genius on the author's part. I also didn't know that the WPA had funded traveling librarians who brought books to people - and taught them to read those books. This is a fascinating book that brings these two very interesting historical facts together in a great story. This book also has a great title. In a related note, I actually saw one of the librarians at my local library reading this book a couple of weeks ago!
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