tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62608434098851748392024-03-05T19:25:51.114+00:00Toodles Book ClubIt started out as just a grown up "Reading Record" that didn't have to be signed off by a teacher, and has morphed into a Book Review Blog ... who knew that could happen?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger807125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6260843409885174839.post-56028083154786643012017-05-29T10:59:00.000+01:002017-05-29T10:59:48.991+01:00~419 ~ Dancing at Lughnasa<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196859.Dancing_at_Lughnasa" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px;"><img alt="Dancing at Lughnasa" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388378243m/196859.jpg" /></a><br />
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I would not have chosen to read this book, probably under any circumstances.<br />
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I had to though, as is is a set book for my upcoming Open University A230 'Reading and Studying Literature', which will be my last module at Level 2 (having just finished A215 'Creative Writing ... not that you need to know this!).<br />
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The front cover is appealing, and is the reason I dragged it off the reading pile in the first place - the dress seems genteel and is set in juxtaposition to the black wellingtons.<br />
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The theme of A230 is home and away, and after reading this short text I can see why it was added to the list. Not only is the home/away theme running through it, but also religion/paganism, responsibility/irresponsibility, setting rules/breaking rules and the face you project/the way you are perceived.<br />
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All round a very interesting text, if slightly intellectual read. Interestingly, it is only around 3 star review on Good Reads (more on Amazon), but that might be that you would not find it riveting if you were not studying, or interested in, humanities and the human condition.<br />
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I purchased my copy on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0571144799/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>. At the time of writing this review it is priced at £9.98, which is a hefty price for a paperback book as thin as wafer ham.<br />
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In interest of full disclosure, I was asked by Rachel to do a review for her. That having been said, I am very busy with Uni work, working and being a parent, that I have not been accepting anything recently. However, I was impressed by her pitch of the book and decided to fit in into my schedule.<br />
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At the time it was also available (and still is at the date of writing this post) available as a free Kindle Unlimited download.<br />
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Now to the book ...it was excellent and thoroughly enjoyable. Markedly so, compared to some of the complete rubbish that is turned out by a large proportion of the the US romance writers.<br />
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Why? Like a carefully chosen outfit, it provided style and comfort, yet was designed with a sense of restrained style and accomplished design. It wasn't out there smacking people between the eyes, but smoothly gliding along gathering attention.<br />
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Essentially, this is a story of young love, with a well matched pair finding themselves and each other along the way. There is an undertone of humour that underpins the author's writing ... a distinctly Georgette Heyer feel, in fact. I would love to see Rachel take this a little further in another book. The world is severely lacking Heyeresque level writing these days.<br />
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Production values were very, very high. Quality always stand out above the cheap end of the market and Rachel has managed it with ease.<br />
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I only found one error at location Location 750 - 'Naturally, could I <u>bear miss</u> out on your company?'<br />
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One highlight for me of phrasing was at Location 121 - 'In the pale evening light, the gardens were gloriously alive with emerald hues and Spring's promise of blooms to come'. What a nice bit of signposting.<br />
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The only slight negative is the cover. The quality of the content befits something more put together and stylish.<br />
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That having been said, don't judge it on the cover, pick it up and read. You will not be disappointed if you love historical romance that is well written with a funny edge.<br />
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My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1802376358">4 of 5 stars</a></h2>
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Not outstandingly brilliant prose, but giving it consideration the author created a strong narrative voice that kept me in the moment - I could clearly hear the Southern drawl, even though there was no attempt to amend the writing to achieve this - very successfully done in my opinion.<br />
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I purchased/borrowed as part of my Kindle Unlimited package, but you can download a copy <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ladies-Room-Carolyn-Brown-ebook/dp/B00941PRJK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1478540358&sr=1-1&keywords=the+ladies+room" target="_blank">HERE</a>. At the time of writing this post it's £3.49 which seems a reasonable price.<br />
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My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1800248745">5 of 5 stars</a></h2>
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<u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boring bits about purchase:</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On paper, or at least on the Kindle in this case, it was everything that I don't like: full of Americanised English and what passes for grammar, it was also fairly high on the not terribly authentic scale, but some little tiny thing kept me turning the pages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The subject matter was for the majority of the time deeply uncomfortable, and would be for any reasonably well adjusted individual, but it was a consuming read on the one hand repulsing me, and on the other full of hope that what seemed almost a hopeless situation could end in anything but an unhappy and upsetting way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only attempt to read this book if you have a strong stomach and interest in literature that is enquiring and in need of stimulation and food for thought and contemplation. If you have you will probably run the full spectrum of emotions that I have.</span><br />
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My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/688261423">5 of 5 stars</a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One of the most entertaining books I've read this year, and can't wait to catch up on the whole of this series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the time the cover and title had been a draw but as I'd forgotten all about that, and thus my expectations when starting to read it were quite low.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seriously funny and well written, and as it turns out it made the grade as one of my 'Editor's picks'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was luck enough to download this Kindle file as part of my Kindle Unlimited package (it's not now available through that), but you can get it </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Damned-Thing-After-Another-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B00EUIEKA4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1472977515&sr=1-1&keywords=just+one+damned+thing+after+another" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> ... oh, and a bargin at 99p for the Kindle version at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A piece of fiction that is not only compelling, but well thought out and executed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It focuses on a servant in the Bennet Household and mirrors from the point of view of the under stairs occupants what went on with Elizabeth and D'Arcy in Pride and Prejudice. Fair enough, this doesn't seem that exciting when one states the bare facts like that, but the skill and attention to detail that must have taken is second to none.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is so well written, with both beautiful straightforward and complicated characters that I couldn't read it quick enough.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Over the eastern hills the sky was fading to a transparent indigo. Sarah, glancing up, hands stuffed into her armpits, her breath clouding the air, dreamed of the wild places beyond the horizon where it was already fully light, and of how, when her day was over, the sun would be shining on other places still, on the Barbadoes and Antigua and Jamaica where the dark men worked half-naked, and on the Americas where the Indians wore almost no clothes at all, and where there was consequently very little in the way of laundry, and how one day she would go there, and never have to wash other people's underthings again.'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'Threads that drift along will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each other's ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.'</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It wasn't until I was putting this review together that I realised Ruth Saberton is also author of the Polwenna Bay series, which I am love too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 2680: '...a long-ago December when Dad spend all Christmas ...' - <span style="color: blue;">spent</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a nicely stranded contemporary and historical family saga, which moved me to tears at the conclusion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Without giving too much away, the plot at the end reminded me of my own childhood growing up in a village with a large and very scary Institution at one end ... so many lives ruined sometimes through genuine mental health issues and disabilities that were hidden away, and most distressingly of all, just some patients that had simply failed to keep to the strict moral code of the day or to bow down to a voice of authority.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For a first novel, it is exceptionally well done, and I look forward to more by Emily Carpenter.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20423236-the-wicked-lady">The Wicked Lady</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5809180.Brenda_Jernigan">Brenda Jernigan</a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Quite frankly, I am as fed us reviewing these mediocre offerings as you are probably reading the fact that I have nothing to say about them other than the errors etc. Stick with the reviews though, there has been much, much better reading going one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As far as this books is concerned, it was lucky to make 2 stars and not be consigned to the DNF pile out of sheer lack of production values, interest or writing skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By this point in the exercise I am so fed up that I don't think I can be bothered to list the actual errors and bug/bears, but just to be thorough I will force myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 22410: '...got a handful of jelly as she snatched him to his feet...' - <span style="color: blue;">jam in the UK, and probably historically known preserve.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 25543: 'A cool breeze <u>tease</u> Kristen's <u>lose</u> strands of hair...' - <span style="color: blue;">teased and lose is past participle of lost, so that would be loose.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peppered with errors, showing fairly low production values.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quite frankly boring, and at points in danger of getting 'DNF'. Rather than better the books in the set seem to be getting worse. So far I can find no merit, and I really wish I could. Still, literature is subjective and it is impossible to please everybody, sometimes that undefinable spark is missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Third book in the 'Gentleman Always Play Fair Box Set (from location 10575 to 16316)</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18812915-my-lady-the-spy">My Lady, The Spy</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6462331.Barbara_Devlin">Barbara Devlin</a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fourth book in the 'Gentleman Always Play Fair' Box Set (location 16322 to 21971), although as mentioned before I will be doing separate reviews and rating, and then at the end give the whole box set a rating based on sum of its parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have struggled how many stars overall to give this one based on the same criteria, given that there were not many errors it came out nearer a 3 star than 2, and thus I think I will generously go with the 3 stars. There wasn't too much else to say about it I'm afraid, it was not good, but neither was it truly terrible. Simply it suffered from the usual malaise of American grammar and a feeling of not enough true research to engender a truly authentic historical novel for that period. I am, however, quite hard to please, and others may love it and not be so bogged down with detail. It seems the more I study the subject of Creative Writing, the harder it is to please me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No highlights, and as you can see above general moaning about a feel of authenticity, i.e. 'entryway' (location 16796) and 'sidewalks' (location 17040)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 17632: 'Just when things were getting interesting, she was relegated to the <u>position of hall monitor</u>.' - <span style="color: blue;">I rest much case about authenticity of language or phrase for historical novels, especially ones centred around England.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The story started quite well with an attempt at humour, but failed to add up to anything substantial. It simply did not gel I am afraid, in fact I would go so far as to say that the pace of the plot was on the slow side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately gaining no more stars that its already reviewed counterpart (for the same reasons) and also a few errors. I looked hard, but could not come up with any highlights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 4759: 'dash the flew blocks.' <span style="color: blue;">ARGGGH blocks, we do not have 'blocks' and it is most definitely not correct in novel about England - lack of bloody research. This is one step down from 'gotten'.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Purchased as Kindle Unlimited as a Box Set Compilation:<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href=%22https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12393249-my-lord-wicked%22%20style=%22float:%20left;%20padding-right:%2020px%22%3E%3Cimg%20border=%220%22%20alt=%22My%20Lord%20Wicked%22%20src=%22https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1313700081m/12393249.jpg%22%20/%3E%3C/a%3E%3Ca%20href=%22https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12393249-my-lord-wicked%22%3EMy%20Lord%20Wicked%3C/a%3E%20by%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/298660.Cheryl_Bolen%22%3ECheryl%20Bolen%3C/a%3E%3Cbr/%3E%20My%20rating:%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1626858742%22%3E3%20of%205%20stars%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%20Purchased%20as%20Kindle%20Unlimited%20as%20a%20Box%20Set%20Compilation:%20'Gentlemen%20Always%20Play%20Fair'.%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EThis%20is%20the%20first%20in%20that%20set,%20and%20I%20am%20hoping%20that%20the%20remainder%20of%20them%20will%20be%20more%20interesting%20and%20less%20predictable%20and%20Americanised%20attempt%20an%20an%20historical%20romantic%20novel%20-%20granted,%20it's%20not%20the%20worst%20one%20I've%20read,%20but%20it%20was%20far%20from%20the%20best%20either.%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EThere%20were%20several%20errors,%20and%20I%20have%20the%20lack%20of%20conjunctions,%20kept%20knocked%20off%20a%20star%20from%20its%20ultimate%20rating.%20As%20usual,%20the%20errors/bug%20bears,%20and%20in%20this%20case%20no%20highlights,%20will%20be%20published%20on%20my%20blog%20when%20I%20get%20around%20to%20adding%20the%20relevant%20post%20on%20there%20(%3Ca%20target=%22_blank%22%20href=%22http://www.toodlesbookclub.blogspot.com%22%20rel=%22nofollow%22%3Ehttp://www.toodlesbookclub.blogspot.com%3C/a%3E).%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E%20%3Cbr/%3E%3Cbr/%3E%20%3Ca%20href=%22https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/19643428-kay-bolton%22%3EView%20all%20my%20reviews%3C/a%3E" target="_blank"> 'Gentlemen Always Play Fair'</a>. In the box set it is location to 4404.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the first in that set, and I am hoping that the remainder of them will be more interesting and less predictable and Americanised attempt an an historical romantic novel - granted, it's not the worst one I've read, but it was far from the best either.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There were several errors, and the usual lack of conjunctions, I knocked off a star from its ultimate rating beause of this</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As usual, the errors/bug bears, and in this case no highlights are:-</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 1428: 'I have come to gt your <u>permission have Bay Lady</u> saddled'</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 2212: 'She slid her feet to the steps <u>and count</u>.' </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 2954: ' ... to lep from he sofa and trot over to the window, where he leaped upon it sill.'</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 2998: '... Morton while his brother played at host.'</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 3102: '... him being the head of the family and all.'<span style="color: blue;"> [insert snot of derision here!]</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 3571: '... he wrote him.'<span style="color: blue;"> [insert further snort]</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 3733: '... and gladly took the drank he offered.'</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Location 4034: 'Never had he sullied the memory of the lovely blond with the dancing the blue eyes.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I will do a separate review for the other books in the box set. Each will get a star rating, and then at the end I will also rate the entire box set.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Happy reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kay</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25167714-runaway-summer">Runaway Summer</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3295197.Ruth_Saberton">Ruth Saberton</a></h2>
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My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1625861335">4 of 5 stars</a></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I mention something is a 'slow burner' that is not necessarily a derogatory term as far as I am concerned, and this book proved to be a slow burner of the decent type classification.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No surprises, to going the phrase of a well known advert, 'it does what it says on the tin', and I would class as a no-strings attached holiday or wet Sunday afternoon read that is pleasant and unassuming. I enjoyed, and will read the other books in the series, because I am a nosy cow, not because it was some huge piece of writing with major plot twists woven through it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The production values seemed very high indeed, and I found no mistakes - trust me when I say I look quite hard for them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Amazon Kindle Unlimited purchase for me, but it's available <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Runaway-Summer-Polwenna-Bay-1-ebook/dp/B00UU0BEP0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467658053&sr=8-1&keywords=runaway+summer" target="_blank">HERE</a>. At the time of writing this post the Kindle price is £2.99, having been reduced from £9.99 (that's quite steep).</span><br />
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