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by Daniel O'Malley
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Books on the Bay
Books on the Bay rated it 12 years ago
Publisher's Description: "The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind t...
Teccc
Teccc rated it 12 years ago
3.5
MK's Reading Life
MK's Reading Life rated it 12 years ago
A fun romp. Engaging story, great lead character(s), and a wonderfully crass sense of humor. More please!
book reviews forevermore
book reviews forevermore rated it 12 years ago
Finally! First great read of 2013. Admittedly, that's because I'm hoarding [b:Days of Blood & Starlight|12812550|Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #2)|Laini Taylor|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1337964452s/12812550.jpg|17961723] and [b:The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led ...
SnowNSew
SnowNSew rated it 12 years ago
Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. I simply cannot write a review for this book. So, instead, I am going to tell you why.I really enjoyed this book as I read it, but as I thought about it in order to write a review, I actually found myself liking it less. There were many instances where belief just ha...
There is a great need for a sarcasm font. Yes, indeed!
It has a surprisingly good beginnig which goes on until the end of the book. The characters are well-defined, interesting, there's a plot within a plot and I found myself laughing out loud several times while I couldn't stop turning on the pages.On top of this, it has an ending of the main story, bu...
Bibliofiend's Bookbag
Bibliofiend's Bookbag rated it 12 years ago
3.5 stars. Interesting. Funny. Slightly weird. The concept is great but it was slow going through parts where I didn't feel like the whole story can together as well as it should. Part of that may be intentional with the main character experiencing her past and present in fragments.
Malin
Malin rated it 12 years ago
This book appeared on a lot of various book bloggers' Best of 2012 lists, and I totally see why. It's the first book in a long time that I was reluctant to put down and stop reading, even for short periods, and that I stayed awake until stupid o'clock in the morning to finish reading.A young woman s...
The Reader Ramble
The Reader Ramble rated it 12 years ago
It's refreshing to find a book that takes familiar tropes like super secret government agencies and the supernatural, and makes them its own. [b:The Rook|10836728|The Rook|Daniel O'Malley|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327619585s/10836728.jpg|15750881] is one of those. But while just that might appea...
are you going to finish that?
are you going to finish that? rated it 12 years ago
Aside/intro: I tend to laugh at the Hunger-Games-meets-Doctor-Seuss blurbs that inevitably make it onto the covers of books that aspire to be The Next Big Thing. While reading The Rook, however, I found myself trying to come up with an X-meets-Y that could actually convey how amazing this book is wi...
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