Books tagged with: anxiety
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![A Taste of Blood WineFreda Warrington]()
FantasyA Taste of Blood Wine is romantic. It’s chock full of smoldering description, intrigue and mystery, dark love, and all sorts of gossip and twists and turns. The novel follows Charlotte, the daughter and lab partner of a scientist, as she rapidly falls for the vampire Karl. But then the plot thickens...
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![Before MarsEmma Newman]()
Science FictionBefore Mars is the third book set within the authors Planetfall Universe. As the name suggests it's actually set before the events of Planetfall and After Atlas. After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on the Red Planet to begin her job as geologist and in-residence artist. She already m...
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![Love BitesRy Herman]()
HorrorThe best thing about genre fiction is that it provides such a wide array of ideas. Take the concept of a vampire novel. You may immediately think of gothic buildings and lace, but you could easily read a modern vampire novel that is violent and full of action. Love Bites by Ry Herman goes in a...
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![Dark LullabyPolly Ho-Yen]()
Science FictionThey all tell you that having children is not easy, but nothing prepared us for the first six weeks of having a defenceless little t y ke in the house. You may have read the books, been to a few classes or asked r elatives and friends, but when it comes down to it, this is all on your shoulders al...
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![The OffsetCalder Szewczak]()
Science FictionThere is one solution that would benefit our climate massively, but it is a bitter pill to swallow. Less humans. We are the cause of pretty much all the issues that the Earth is currently having and when we are gone, it will happily float around the solar system without us. A little bit grubbier, bu...
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![The Fan Who Knew Too MuchNev Fountain]()
General FictionCozy crime comes in all sizes, but it still has an odd name. The characters may be eccentric, the setting twee, but when it comes down to it, there is still a dead person lying on the carpet. Marple had her village with its higher crime rate than Gotham, Poirot had various summer vacation spots, Jes...
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![Home SickRhiannon Grist]()
HorrorFor many the idea of moving to the county is a dream, the ability to slow down and learn to live better in the natural world. For others like Tamsin it is an escape, an escape from the city in which she felt alone, escape from the company she worked for after the recent incident that has seen her go...
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![The Long ShoeBob Mortimer]()
General FictionI have a confession to make before we start. I came to Bob Mortimer's third novel slightly worried that I had run out of things to say about Bob Mortimer. This is the danger of reviewing a number of the author's books in a short space of time. By the third outing, you have already spent your best li...
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