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I read this and it was surprisingly good!! I only picked it up in a chairty shop as it was cheap and it was by patterson. This is not my type of book at all. At first I was slightly confused I thought Max was a boy but by the first 40 pages I realised SHE wasn't haha. I too also liked the fast pace. The chapters were a little too short for me, well over a hundred in all. But I grew to like it especially with the Sunday roast in the oven.
The book for me started when the gang split up. Max's 'story of meeting the girl and her mother was the first thing that got me into the book from then on I was able to engage the other characters and the story.
The book had many twists and turns and the ending was ready for the next book.
If you like fast paced books and do not need a book to be engulfed in descriptive detail then I would say you would like this book.
I never read young adult books I have not even read Harry Potter but with 460+ pages and a different story it really did keep me reading.
.... and it might get me thinking about reading Harry Potter at some point!
Look forward to finding and reading Maximum Ride - School's out.
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Hush hush.. I sorta guessed it but you still went out of your way to copy+paste the info on here
I agree, thank you again!
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I've read quite a few Deaver books but unfortunately not that one! I don't think it's part of a series though, it appears to be a stand alone novel so you should be fine to go right ahead.
His series novels are:
The Rune Series:
Manhattan is My Beat (1988)
Death of a Blue Movie Star (1990)
Hard News (1991)
The John Pellam Series:
Shallow Graves (1992)
Bloody River Blues (1993)
Hell's Kitchen (2001)
The Lincoln Rhyme Series:
The Bone Collector (1997)
The Coffin Dancer (1998)
The Empty Chair (2000)
The Stone Monkey (2002)
The Vanished Man (2003)
The Twelfth Card (2005)
The Cold Moon (2006)
The Broken Window (2008)
The Kathryn Dance Series:
The Cold Moon (2006)
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Hi Mollie!
what sort of books do you enjoy reading the most?
Catwoman.
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LMAO Tom
Porcelain dolls have the same effect on me.
Yeah I hate Porcelin dolls too. My Aunt had her whole front room filled with them. i used to have to sit in the dining room and read as I used to scream the place down!!
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I noticed a Jeffery Deaver book today in the charity shop for 50p called the Devil's Teardrop. I bought it as I read this thread and all the good comments. Is this one of his better books? Also is it in a series and should I wait until i get the others?
Thanks
CW.
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My favourite of all her books maybe because it was my first Christie book. I read it as a teen and I even pulled a sickie from school so I could finish reading it.
If you like who dunnits, this is the book to read.
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I bet that would be an interesting read.
I have not seen it over here, but then I am not that clued up on new releases.
Something that i will look for in the future.
Thanks for the heads up!
Catwoman.
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I keep seeing it when I go to the airport WHsmiths I pick it up everytime but then I decide that I am not in the mood for that and always put it back but by the sounds of it I might by it next time I fly, if not wait until I found it in the village.
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I used to play netball at school and played foootball at University.
Now i don't do much apart from walking everywhere and bike rides with the kids (when it is not raining). I want to try and get back into rollerblading again but I just don't get the time.
Oh and of course I play Wii Sports does that count? hehe.
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My oldest son made me a bookmark for Mother's day at school really pretty cross stictch with card to support it. Thats the one I mainly use. That one and my fella got loads of small pictures of him on one side and my kids on the other and laminated it and it is a good size for a bookmark.
I do have many though and I have a few for my textbooks. I have them all in a jamjar so I always know where they are.
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I randomly got into Sweet Valley High as there was a book in the series when the girls go to London and elizabeth thinks that Jessica's boyfriend is a Werewolf or soemthing like that, haha.
I read a few more after that but I was not a huge fan even though I do remember the show being on during the holidays.
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I have loads of True crime books and Magazines.
I recommend the Fred and Rosemary West books all I have found to be very interesting and brought out many emotions in me. I also found one about HArold Shipman (I can't think of the name at the moment) thats was also very insightful.
The last True crime book I read was the one mentioned in a previous post by Patricia Cornwell - Portrait of a Killer. I thought it was good and gave another perspective on the long debated case but I felt sometimes it went a little too off track for my own liking.
A book I also recommend is a book called Born to Kill. It coinsided with a TV series about the Psychology of Serial Killers and the whole Nature vs nurture debate. Great for people who are interested into the psychology of Crime but don't want all the techinical jargon with it
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Hi and welcome!
It is really easy to settle in
Catwoman
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Hi Catwoman, welcome to the Forum. I'm quite new myself but it seems okay so far
Yeah I have seemed to settle in quite well.
Everyone is friendly and I don't feel worried about posting a comment.
I think I will be here for a while
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Hello and welcome. Good luck with your move, the USA is a beautiful country, not as good as Canada tho
Happy Reading
Haha! I have only been to Canada once but will go back again. I loved it and I only managed to go to one city (Montreal) and I want to see other cities.
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I rarely give up on a book, sometimes I'm just not in the mood for a book, so I'll read something else and go back to it later, if I'm half way through and not enjoying it, unless I really absolutely can't bear to go on then I usually just finish to see the ending.
I am Exactly the same. Sometimes I start a book and if by the first 60 pages i can't seem to get in the flow i will put it down and start again another time.
I think there has been one book where I have tried over and over and over again to get into it but I just couldn't. I was at least half way through it but the book was so bad it was more painful then pulling my wisdom teeth out.
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Thanks again for the welcomes everyone!
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I like that they are flawed. You don't get the feeling that Ms Slaughter worked her way down a character list, ticking character traits off as she went.
They are troubled and unreasonable, they have petty conflicts and doubts. These aren't placed in the books as plot devices, they don't forward the story in any way. Yet because of these negatives, and funny bits we have real characters, not ones gathered from a central character shop!
I totally agree with you again!!
I remember I was sat in a starbucks/costa in Heathrow airport and I was reading the part about Will walking that dog and I was laughing so much that I forgot that I was in a coffee shop. I look around and see a bunch of tourists looking at me and laughing at me, haha
I think that episode says it all really... Slaughter knows how to make a good characters.
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I think Blindsighted was one of my favourites too, the start of a great series. Not usual for the first of a series to be one of my favourites, I usually like it when the characters are more developed, but this one was great.
I agree I even had an idea on the character who was dead. Something I very rarely get.
I also agree with you chrissy Slaughter's way with her characters is for me her greatest ability. I never forget the charactors in her books they are like for me real people that I have meet on my journeys around the world. They do seem in so many ways real, with real issues, troubles and traits. If that makes sense.
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Totally agree. He is so complex, so endearing, so vulnerable. I tread the line between wanting to give him a long overdue maternal hug, and wanting him to investigate if I'm ever murdered!
Oh I am with you on that!!!! Thats the amazing thing about books. I have this picture of him in my head about what he is like, and so do you. I love how the book shows him one minute to be vunerable yet in the next chapter he is strong, masculine, just god damn awesome!!
Roll on till I read Genisis.
We will have to compare notes!
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The whole book is a series of O.M.G's!
Prepare for brain ache and emotional responses as it all comes together.
Oooooh I like OMGs. Reminds me of 'Blindsighted' that gave me alot of OMG's.
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'Skin Privilege' is an absolute dynamite read, brilliantly written. If you like Karin Slaughter you will really appreciate this one.
As far as I know 'Genesis' is supposed to be a Will Trent/Grant County cross over book. I adore the character of Will Trent, so actually did a little happy dance when i heard this!
Yeah that was like me. I was like whooo hoooo. I found him different to other main characters I have read previously. I like the fact that there is still a lot to learn about him, yet I feel for him already. We learnt alot about his issues and the problems he faces and how he deals with them. I can't wait to see how his character grows.
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Karin Slaughter is my favourite author. I personally like the way I can feel for the characters. I had a break with ficton books for a while but I am going back to them and SKIN PRIVILAGE is next on my TBR pile. I know that once I have rea that one I will go out and buy the next ones. I have to go and buy the books in order of release if I have already started to read them like that.
As for Genisis. Dear god I can not wait. Just reading the posts is making me salivate! haha
I loved Will trent as a Character and I was hoping that Karin Slaughter would bring him into some books in the future.
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Hi and welcome I hope you have lots of fun and interesting conversations!
CW