Second Glance is about ghosts, lost loves and unanswered questions, and people who will do anything for the ones they love.
Written by any other author this book may have been trite, and corny - but Green has a knack of letting the reader know that while everything may seem rosy there is something more ’sinister’ afoot - and when the twist came near the end, I certainly hadn’t seen it coming!
I think that as a stand-alone ‘chronicles’ this book should be appreciated - but for a reader who yearns for tales of Anne and her loved ones it left me wanting.
Breaking Dawn starts out with the fabulous wedding between Bella and Edward - and then takes the reader on a roller coaster ride, full of twists and turns, with a bit of blood and gore and romance thrown in for good measure.
Sebold has a beautiful way with words - she covers the subject of a child’s disappearance and the effects it has on those closest to her with compassion and insight.
A heartbreaking tale of two ranch hands, George and Lennie, who have a pipe dream to own their own ranch one day, where they can make their own decisions and live safely on their own.
The book is well written and gives an insight into how people with this Syndrome think and react to the wider world.
In a tale woven with fairy tales of people who can grow wings and fly away, Hoffman reveals how each character feels trapped by the hand that fate has dealt them; from a fated marriage, to a forbidden love affair, a long kept secret to drug-fuelled self-destruction.
Animal Farm is an excellent allegory; using farmyard animals who overthrow their humans in search of utopia to show that such a state of equality is impossible to achieve - because of the corruptive influence of the very power required to necessitate it.
In her powerful debut novel, Kyle takes a frank look at families and relationships, secrets and the unspoken as Alice is forced to really see and understand the events that have shaped her family and how one simple act can have devastating effects and change their world forever.
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