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I haven't read enough of the book yet to have a sense of where it is going just yet but I am...
I'm afraid this book will definitely not be for me based on the excerpt. It's far too violent and...
The start of the novel sucks the reader right in with suspenseful and foreboding drama but then...
The informal tone combined with the first person narrator is a bit jarring for my own reading...
Full disclosure, my usual genres of preference do not include serious murder mysteries (comedic...
The book begins by pulling the reader in right away. Reading the premise before I read the...
The writing style goes from formal to informal in a way that feels very inconsistent and the...
At first I thought it was a slow start but within the first couple of chapters I am already quite...
This is such an uncommon theme and it feels suspenseful right from the start. The characters are...
The dialogue and descriptions move quickly and suspensefully, though it feels a bit disorienting...
The first few chapters read strike me as laborious and slow. There seems to be a lot of...
I am not usually fond of novels about war, especially when there is a lot of war discussion in...
This is a book about a family of unlikeable characters. It hasn't quite captured me yet in a...
I found the beginning rather slow going, and the tone is gratingly melodramatic. I'm not entirely...
The prologue draws you in with the mysteriousness and suspense right from the start. The writing...
I really like the premise and setting of the book, and for that alone I would be interested in...
A book that seems to jump right in and pull the reader into the story fairly quickly, looks...
The first look suggests a promising start - I look forward to reading the book more fully, but it...
I loved the way this book started out. It's dark and exciting and incredibly suspenseful. I'm not...
Based on a first look summary read, this looks like an interesting and complex story about an...
The cover is lovely and I think reflective of the premise of the story - from the first page it...
This looks like a very promising revisit of Treasure Island inspired by a Chinese historical...
From the first chapter the book's narrator grabs your right away in a conversational, informal...
The writing style itself looks promising and draws one in right away but I do find the whole...
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