madcow

Last of the mohicans

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Hello and welcome Steffi I'm sure you'll love it here.

Hello Ruth and welcome.

Hi Cath and welcome, you'll soon broaden your horizons reading wise and your 'To Be Read' list will soon become a mountain! I've found loads of new authors to try and love since joining here.

Little Shop Of Horrors

Just had a peek, looks good and adding it to my wish list!

I can honestly say he is one of mine now

Just finished Dying Light and loved it. Had me hooked from the start, I enjoy his style of writing it's easy to read and left me wanting more, so I am going to start his next one 'Broken Skin' later on this evening. There's a rapist prowling the city's cold granite streets, leaving a string of tortured women behind. But while DS Logan McRae's girlfriend is out acting as bait, he's dealing with the blood-drenched body of an unidentified male, dumped outside Accident and Emergency. When a stash of explicit films turn up, all featuring the victim, it looks as if someone in the local bondage community has developed a taste for violent death, and Logan gets dragged into the twilight world of pornographers, sex-shops and S&M. To make matters worse, when they finally arrest the Granite City Rapist, Grampian Police are forced by the courts to let him go: Aberdeen Football Club's star striker has an alibi for every attack. Could they really have got it so badly wrong? Logan thinks so, but the trick will be getting everyone to listen before the real rapist strikes again. Especially as his girlfriend, PC Jackie 'Ball Breaker' Watson, is convinced the footballer is guilty and she's hell-bent on a conviction at any cost....

I remember trying to read The Four Winds Of Heaven, can't remember who by now, and just couldn't get past the first chapter. Luckily at the fourth attempt I forced myself to continue and glad I did because I really enjoyed it in the end.

Got it on my TBR mountain, will try and bump it up now i've read your review Gyre. I have read Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake and really enjoyed them both so hopefully i will enjoy this one too.

Hello and welcome to the forum Laura.

Finally finished TCP&TW yeasterday, what a fantastic book the only thing which stopped it being a 10/10 is the ending. I put spoiler tags on it in case anyone else is going to be reading it. Highly recommended. Next to read: Dying Light by Stuart MacBride It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen's red light district. For DS Logan McRae it's a bad start to another bad day. Only a few short months ago he was the golden boy of Grampian police. But following a botched raid that leaves a PC in a coma he's palmed off on a DI everyone knows is jinxed, waiting for the axe to fall with all the other rejects in the 'Screw-uo Squad'....

June's challenge was the Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber 835 pages.

Nearly finished TCP&TW, going to slow down a bit now as I don't want it to end!

Coyote Ugly

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You shouldn't tell me things like that, I have NO will power lol.

That's the one i've ordered! A lady at work sometimes brings a catalogue in.

Ok I'll not tell you

Daphne's books have gone on hold for now whilst i concentrate on finishing TCP&TW, it's a very enjoyable read and once I start reading it I don't want to put it down, I'm really enjoying the narrative style of writing to. I will definately read more of Faber's work. Just had a quick recount of mount TBR and the total had risen to 96! I'm sure they are breeding whilst I'm at work

Because I did far better than I thought in my appraisal at work I have treat myself to a box set of 10 Daphne Du Maurier books. Ps Kat don't tell your dad!

Pricilla, Queen of The Desert

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No it doesn't feel like a huge read PDR but because of the sheer size of the book I can only read it sat at the table or in bed.