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Page turner!

Revisado: 03-03-25

Honestly kept me guessing all the way. Bo & Alice both dealing with the skeletons of their closets, but in such different ways, with unexpected but satisfying consequences. Also, beautiful Cumbria always a great setting for a story. Great read.

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Deep dive

Revisado: 04-08-24

This was a deep dive into a whole library of people and places and Lucashenko brought the stories and characters together across generations and places masterfully. I felt like I was watching time unravel. This was my first Lucashenko, now I can’t wait to read her other books.

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Good read

Revisado: 11-19-23

The story is beautiful and so overdue. The style needs a little smoothing for my taste, but the characters were well developed from their historical counterparts. I was shocked to hear at the height of this asylum’s history it held 10,000 women. I hope Victoria Mas continues to unfold hidden women’s s history and tell many more overdue stories. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys historical novels.

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Hilarious & uplifting

Revisado: 08-23-22

I loved this! It tastes of Werther’s Originals. The characters of these stories are beautifully woven together through a first person voice that observes and reflects an imposter perspective while at the same time reassuring me that these characters belong perfectly in their worlds. Also, I laughed out loud loads because it is just hilarious.

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Traumatising

Revisado: 05-28-20

I wouldn’t give this book to a child under 13, or anyone fond of animals. It’s about an underage kid and his dad volunteering to go to WW1 with their horses, after the dad promised the dead mum he would not let their son enlist.
First the dad dies, then the kid’s friends die, then at the end of the war he has to shoot his own horse because the army will not bring it home. The kid has no family to return to. Even his dream girlfriend got engaged while he was away at war.
The treatment of the war horses is brutal and graphic. There is no happy ending, just desperate sadness and graphic violence.
It is beautifully read by the author, but you would have to be someone with no emotions to enjoy this book.

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A bit disappointed

Revisado: 02-27-19

In the first half of the book, lead character Don is portrayed in a childlike way that feels patronising. As Don becomes more self-aware, the characterisation takes on more depth and becomes an easier read. It’s very entertaining in parts, and I expect the 2nd and 3rd in the series to be more interesting than the first, as Don’s life becomes more complex.

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Didn’t want it to end

Revisado: 09-10-18

This isn’t a book I couldn’t put down, because it is dense so I enjoyed chewing on it one bite at a time. But I was really sad when it came to an end. A really beautifully told tale of a millennial and her bees. Well narrated. Definitely one I will enjoy over again.

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Interesting read, well written & well narrated.

Revisado: 05-19-18

Cytowic’s book is really well structured, systematically introducing and integrating aspects of the synaesthetic experience using case studies. He walks through the history and present day perspectives of cognitive and psychological theories and the scientific evidence from neurobiology and genetics. Although it is very well narrated, I think I will be purchasing a print copy too as there’s so much interesting info to reference and review.
This is a great starting point to get an overview of synaesthesia, published at just the right time in history when neuroscience can revive a real scientific study of this phenomena and its relevance to so many aspects of perception, learning and the multiverse of neurodiversity.

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A bit of a slow story

Revisado: 02-28-15

This story could have been told with half the word count, but it gets better in the second half.
It is well narrated and quite interesting.

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