It all starts when Holly Kendrick’s husband is killed in a hit and run, she is also injured and whilst still in the hospital, a mysterious man turns up with an offer they can’t refuse. I love an original thriller and ‘Good as dead’ definitely fits the bill. Highly recommend picking this up if you enjoy a twisty domestic thriller with multiple POV’s and a thought provoking plot. A real throw the book down, open mouthed, and explain the plot at the speed of light to my partner just to wrap my head around it sort of twist. What made this book for me was the JAW DROPPING twist that I just did not see coming. I normally don’t enjoy a large amount of narrators but I think it really worked for this story, with following the past and present as well. Suspenseful and full of twists, this also takes a deep look at the question “can money buy happiness?” The ripple effect of the impact of one single decision was vast and I found myself constantly questioning what I would do in this situation. This is a fast paced, intricately deceptive plot, weaving a story of grief, anger, payback, loyalty and greed. This took me a little while to get into, but once I was stuck in, I was stuck! Told via multiple POV from the wife and the daughter to the neighbors and the “fixer”, we get a front row seat to a whole lot of secrets and action.
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"This is a book that readers won't be able to put down.A magnificent novel and one of the best books this reviewer has read this year." - Romantic Times (4-1/2 Stars) "The very best kind of sequel: as lush and evocative and true as the first, with all the same sense of mystery, giving us the world and characters we already love, and yet with a new story and a wonderfully new perspective on the whole dazzling world and pantheon the author has built." I've got a special place in my heart for political intrigue, so this book was a delight through and through!"- Cassandra Clare "In the first book of Jemisin's richly detailed Inheritance trilogy, an outcast heroine must find a way to hold her own amid the treachery of her grandfather's court. *Thank you to Netgalley and Legend Press for my ARC in exchange for an honest unbiased review * It’s eerie, full of suspense, with a little romance thrown in for good measure, not to mention some salacious propositions! Victorian London is brought deliciously to life in this creepy gothic storyline, and especially the popularity of spiritualism, it’s simply oozing with atmosphere. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris as an understudy with D’Allaire but she’s also here to discover who killed her sister Evie, but unlike Evie, Lenna is rather sceptical about the afterlife, never mind contacting the dead.Īfter the seance, D’Allaire’s services are required in London by the London Seance Society, to solve a high profile murder, and accompanied by Lenna, the two will find themselves in extreme danger as they battle some of the most powerful men in London, because Lenna is determined to avenge Evie’s death, regardless of whether that person yields power or not. Not unnaturally, D’Allaire is very popular both with grieving widows and investigators alike. Leading the seance is acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire, who has a talent for bringing forth murder victims, in order to discover the person responsible for their deaths. It’s 1873, and on the outskirts of Paris, France, a seance is about to commence in the eerie confines of an abandoned chateau. The key word that distinguishes spirited children from other children is "more" - more intense, more persistent, more sensitive and more uncomfortable with change. In Raising Your Spirited Child, Third Edition, beloved parenting expert Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, Ed.D., offers ALL parents and caregivers a glimpse into what makes their spirited children behave the way they do. You are not alone! Many parents are dealing with the same challenges. Revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller that has helped millions, now providing the most up-to-date research and even more effective, practical tips and strategiesĭo you ever wonder why your child behaves the way he or she does? Are you struggling with tantrums and meltdowns? Do you find yourself getting frustrated and feeling like you’re at the end of your rope? This adaptation of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014) should be required reading for all middle and high schoolers-and their teachers. An excellent read, dismantling American mythologies and fostering critical reasoning about history and current events. An accessible, engaging, and necessary addition to school libraries and classrooms. ReviewsĪn important corrective to conventional narratives of our nation’s history. Photos of Reese and Mendoza by Durango Mendoza. The young reader’s edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, based on the original edition by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Also, with passionate feelings about a great many characters I had no firm opinion on either way before, particularly Guinevere. I started out immensely exasperated with it and finished as an emotional wreck. Most surprising of my favourites from 2016, though, is Le Morte d’Arthur, which I read as research and thus didn’t review. It’s about hockey-playing, pie-baking college vlogger Eric Bittle, and it’s warm, fluffy and immensely lovable. Usually I am drawn to neither of those things, but wow is this story a delight. If you sign up to Tansy’s newsletter you can also get a free copy of the ebook, which I DID, and I love.Ĭheck, Please!, meanwhile, is a web comic about sport. Magical university, alternate universe geek culture, a quirky band, sneaky mythology references, what is not to love? You can listen to it here. Tansy Rayner Roberts’ Fake Geek Girl was originally published in Review of Australian Volume 14, Issue 4 and is also available as an ebook, but I heard it on the podcast Sheep Might Fly and just adored everything about it. I haven’t reviewed as much this year – partially because I was reading more non-fiction as research for Ladies of Legend, but partially because some of my favourite stories to come out of this year weren’t in traditional formats. I almost wrote ‘Top 10 Reads of 2017’, so that tells you how prepared I am to write this post. Love and Romanpunk – Tansy Rayner Roberts The Girls at the Kingfisher Club – Genevieve Valentine Please note: You can expect to find naughty, knotty scenes of steamy passion along with a lot of potty-mouth language and some violence. This is the sixth book in the Alphabits series, and should be listened to in order for maximum enjoyment. But once all their ducks are in a row, the bad guys had better beware! You do not want this team of protective alphas on your tail. These former soldiers and officers of the law have to do things by the book - even when it tears them apart to do so. Just when Cy thinks he’s got things figured out, a sweet, intense little cat turns his world upside down - and unintentionally brings answers to both the Alphabits’ current case and Cyrus’ estrangement with his family. But his team has helped fill that void until now. Ever since he and his family stopped talking, he’s had to get used to being alone. He loves having someone to care for again. The only thing that makes him feel less alone is knowing that half his team are dealing with the same issues. And now, he will do anything to find him, no matter what it takes.Ĭyrus Novak has his hands full fostering a teenage former thief going through puberty. Never would have known his true mate was out there.īut he does know. He never would have scented his mate’s scent on the helicopter pilot. If his brother River hadn’t joined them, Leaf never would have been caught in a flood and rescued by the Alphabits. Leaf Erikson didn’t mean to get caught up in STAHP’s craziness. For more information on the types and causes of retinal detachment see the National Eye Institute’s website at: Retinal detachment can cause permanent visual loss or permanent reduction of visual function, especially if the macula is involved, in which case it is considered a medical emergency in the United States. 3) Exudative, in which fluid accumulates between the neural retina and the retinal pigmented epithelium pushing the two apart the retinal tissue is not torn. 2) Tractional, in which some force (usually contracting cells or vitreal “strands”) acts on the surface of the retina to pull it away from the retinal pigmented epithelium. In this form the retina experiences a physical tear through the retinal layers and the torn retina peals away from the retinal pigmented epithelium by the movement of fluid into the space between the two. There are three recognized types of retinal detachment in clinical practice: 1) Rhegmatogenous, the most common type. It also creates a greater distance between the photoreceptors and their sole blood supply, the choroidal circulation.Ĭlinical retinal detachments occur as different types When the retina is separated from its normal position apposed to the RPE surface, it is said to be “detached.” This detachment creates a pathological, fluid-filled space between the neural retina and the retinal pigmented epithelium. The retina is firmly attached to the apical surface of the retinal pigmented epithelium, or RPE (see earlier retinal anatomy sections). Lewis, Kenneth A Linberg, Edward Barawid and Mark V. “It has no political views, it has no religious beliefs, it has no cultural hang-ups, it ha no respect for a badge, it has no concept of time or geography. “A virus exists only to find a carrier and reproduce,” Eph goes on, while lights flash and sirens wail in the background. “You don’t like terrorists? Try negotiating with a virus,” he begins, as the agents (no longer) in charge listen and his associates Nora (Mía Maestro) and Jim (Sean Astin) exchange bemused looks: like you, they’ve heard a version of this speech before. It’s only a couple of minutes before The Strain delivers those heroes in the form of the unfortunately named CDC doctor Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll).Ĭonfronting a government agent who’s about to order men with guns inside the plane, Eph provides instruction. Such clueless, non-intuitive individuals tend to take up space in scary stories, so you can instruct them in your mind (“Don’t go in there!”) while anticipating the arrival of the smarter, more intuitive heroes. They’re called “first” for a reason, right? But still, a pair of air traffic controllers at JFK stand before a plane that’s just landed and gone dead on the runway, wondering whether they should approach it, knowing that an unknown terrible event has occurred. “Shouldn’t we wait for first responders, sir?” Yeah, this might seem the reasonable question when facing an airplane crisis. “It’s not scary to scare you for no reason.” – Miguel Gomez, Los Angeles Times Gamache learns that Jane never allowed anyone to go beyond the kitchen in her home. Yolande takes legal action to prevent the police from entering Jane’s home. They also meet with Peter and Clara Morrow, Jane’s friends and next-door neighbors, as well as Yolande Fontaine, Jane’s niece and next of kin, who was not on good terms with Jane. Ben’s mother, Timmer, who died about a month before Jane, was a friend of Jane’s. Gamache and his team investigate the local archery club owned by Ben Hadley, the man who discovered Jane’s body. Examining the crime scene, they find evidence that Jane was killed by an arrow in a possible hunting accident. He is accompanied by his second in command, Jean Guy Beauvoir, as well as a recently certified agent, Yvette Nichol, who is eager to impress but fails to integrate with Gamache’s team. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, homicide investigator for the Sûreté du Québec, leads the investigation. Jane is found dead in the woods on Thanksgiving Sunday, just two days after deciding to submit her artwork for an exhibition for the first time ever. The plot of Still Life centers on an official investigation following the death of Jane Neal, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who lived in the small town of Three Pines in Quebec, Canada. |