Pepys Road
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9788852037177 (8852037179)
Publish date: April 2nd 2013
Publisher: Mondadori
Pages no: 504
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Business,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern
Even though I truly enjoyed this book, my overwhelming impression while in its midst was that it was totally not what I expected. Standing in the bookstore and reading the back cover, I imagined a sort of mystery, crime, thriller genre with a good dose of humor. I am not a big crime or thriller read...
Capital starts extremely promising and it really is enjoyable as a read, but it lacks character development and loses its proper London temperament along the way. The closure to the story comes through the employment of a deus ex machina almost, which makes you wonder: at the end of the day, which a...
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Imagine a Hummingbird Cam, flying around and over an older residential street somewhere in London, buzzing the houses, darting randomly from one to another, swooping in low and hovering for a brief period, then abruptly lifting up and away to another distraction. That’s what reading this book is li...
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