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Curioddity: A Novel - Paul Jenkins
Curioddity: A Novel
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Will Morgan is a creature of habit―a low-budget insurance detective who walks to and from work with the flow of one-way traffic, and for whom imagination is a thing of the distant past. When a job opportunity enters the frame in the form of the mysterious Mr. Dinsdale―curator of the ever so... show more
Will Morgan is a creature of habit―a low-budget insurance detective who walks to and from work with the flow of one-way traffic, and for whom imagination is a thing of the distant past. When a job opportunity enters the frame in the form of the mysterious Mr. Dinsdale―curator of the ever so slightly less-than-impressive Curioddity Museum―Will reluctantly accepts the task of finding a missing box of levity (the opposite of gravity). What he soon learns, however, is that there is another world out there―a world of magic we can only see by learning to un-look at things―and in this world there are people who want to close the Curioddity museum down. With the help of his eccentric new girlfriend Lucy, Will will do everything he can to deliver on his promise to help Mr. Dinsdale keep the Curioddity Museum in business.Curioddity is Paul Jenkins’ debut novel... exciting, fast-paced, and uncanny. A must-read.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781250026156 (1250026156)
ASIN: 1250026156
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
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Interrupting Soliloquy
Interrupting Soliloquy rated it
1.0 Curioddity: A Novel
Yeah. Another one star this year from me, because talk about books I really suffered through. This is a terrible book wearing the husk of a much better book, and that better book is Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Detective Agency, which, I might as well mention, is one of my favorite books of all time...
Yzabel
Yzabel rated it
3.0 Curioddity
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.] Hard one to rate… I found it full of good ideas, but the pacing threw me off, except after the 70% mark or so, when it really picked up. The beginning was tricky: slow and “dull”, which was fitting as it perfec...
...Bookfanatic
...Bookfanatic rated it
2.0 Sometimes things just don't work out how we expect...
Curriodity landed on my radar at a time when I was wanting to read something really different and unusual. So after pondering it for a few days and reading the blurb several times I thought why not? While I have to admit it was definitely unusual it also turned out that it just wasn't the book fo...
Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
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4.0 Curioddity, by Paul Jenkins
Wil Morgan lives a boring, miserable life. His landlady lets cats swarm around her house. His bathroom sink constantly rattles. He’s behind on all his rents. He’s failing at being a private detective and the clock in the building next to his office is slowly driving him insane. At least he no longer...
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