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Review Tag: Adventure
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Manchester 1888. Photography is a new leisure activity and a mark of wealth. However, people who have attended Toby’s photography shop undergo personality changes. They become less…
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Valour is having a nightmare again, of creatures of folklore and old gods. The assassin does not have time to dwell on her thoughts though. She has…
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Paige Mahoney has always dreamed of escaping Scion and returning to the free world beyond, where her mere existence doesn’t make her a criminal. Yet now that…
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This book is a sequel to Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, although a note in the cover states you can read A Pirate’s Life For Tea as…
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Looking for a fantasy book set in a ‘What If?’ version of 16th century Antwerp? What about if that novel is all about heists, too? But… what…
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Prefect Tom Dreyfus works for Panoply, a small police force whose sole focus is maintaining the democratic rights of the residents of the habitats orbiting the planet…
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I’m delighted that Philip Reeve has produced another MORTAL ENGINES novel. This one is perhaps even better than the four preceding it. It introduces us to a…
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Sorcery and Small Magics is a wonderfully fun book. It is the first in a trilogy set in the fictional world of Miendor, where wizardry exists, as…
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This is an absorbing slow burner, but once it gets going, thrilling and compelling. Cora Sabino has a direct link with the alien named Ampersand. They converse…
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