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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 6 years ago
I'm not going to bother writing up a full review of why I am DNF'ing this book, but am instead reiterating a comment I just left in Lillelara's review - this contains SPOILERS, so you have been warned! "I have the book and audio at home at the moment and, as I told you, I made a start on this last...
It's a Mad Mad World
It's a Mad Mad World rated it 8 years ago
Flora Mackie was twelve when she first crossed the Arctic Circle on her father's whaling ship. Now she is returning to the frozen seas as the head of her own exploration expedition. Jakob de Beyn was raised in Manhattan, but his yearning for new horizons leads him to the Arctic as part of a rival ex...
Just Olga and her books
Just Olga and her books rated it 8 years ago
Thanks to NetGalley and to Quercus Books for sending me an ARC copy of the book that I voluntarily choose to review. Artic and Polar exploration is one of those subjects that sound fascinating but I didn’t know much about. This novel, although not claiming to be based on real historical figures (whe...
ACascadeofBooks
ACascadeofBooks rated it 8 years ago
A short version of this review was completed for the LoveReading Reader Review Panel. My thanks to them for the copy of the novel. This is the story of Flora, she was a Scottish scientist and explorer. She spent a large part of her childhood in the Arctic onboard her father's whaling boat, and as su...
Valarauco
Valarauco rated it 10 years ago
Meine Meinung: Ray, ein Privatdetektiv, soll eine junge Frau finden, doch wie? Keiner ihrer Angehörigen ist bereit ihm etwas zu erzählen. Sie alle schweigen und er tappt im Dunkeln. Nur sehr langsam und unglaublich beschwerlich arbeitet er sich vor und kämpft gegen das Schweigen der Familie Janko. W...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 11 years ago
"And so while my husband sleeps upstairs we pack–and I prepare to go into the wilderness with a suspected killer. What’s worse, a man I haven’t been properly introduced to. I am too shocked to feel fear, too excited to care about the impropriety of it. I suppose if you have already lost what matters...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 11 years ago
This was an unexpected read. I had picked up the book without reading the blurb. As it turns out, it tells the story of a private investigator who is hired to find out about the disappearance of a woman within the traveller community. One of the aspects that made the book quite entertaining is t...
Lit Lovers Lane
Lit Lovers Lane rated it 11 years ago
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Bet if you look in the Book of Quotations for this saying, you will find the cover of The Tenderness of Wolves as the illustration. Upon being lent this book, nothing about it appealed to me. Not the odd title. Not the somewhat muted, depressing cover with wolves...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees the tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. It is Mrs. Ross's knock on the door of the largest house in Caulfield that launches the investigation. Within hours she will regret that knock ...
The City Of Invention
The City Of Invention rated it 13 years ago
The Invisible Ones is a detective story set within the Gypsy community. it's narrated from two points of view: a half-Gypsy private detective who is investigating the disappearance of a young Gypsy woman; and an adolescent Gypsy boy from an isolated but tightly-knit family.The unusual setting gives ...
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