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During her stay she learns that in his barn he is part of a group doing a Christmas play with some kids. I read the book so many times I can picture many points but it got lost in a move and I cannot remember the name.
Any help is great! Thank you and Merry Christmas! I am searching for a book I read in that was about a young girl looking for her father or he may have died. He was an inventor who left behind a lot of inventions that she used to find people. There was a character who would drain the blood of his enemies from their wrist in order to get them to be his mutations. Looking for an early 70's book- autobiography. Looking for an autobiography from the early '70's. Talks about her experiences training and showing her dog.
Was available through scholastic. Hi there as a 90s slacker a friend if mine told me about a comic novel he was reading about a producer making a film about the Wreck of the Deutschland. I think there was some problem with the nuns' costumes being too racy, or maybe safety issues, but I can't be sure. Happy times in Hammersmith pubs and semi derelict houses. I'm looking for a children's book from either the 's or late 70's. It was an illustrated storybook that was accompanied with an audio cassette of a man telling the story along with sound effects.
As I was only a child when I had it I can't remember much about it apart from there was a young person with a small wooden dog possibly that was on wheels and they head into a dark forest covered in snow. Sorry I know those details are very sketchy but thats all I can remember! I do remember loving the story so much and would love to get my hands on it again after all these years to read with my own children!
If anyone can help I'd be forever grateful!! Kaung4life Thirteen Days to Midnight sounds like the last book you described, good luck in finding all your books!! Kaung4life the last book you described sounds like Thirteen Days to Midnight, hope you find all your books! The events of this urban novel focuses on the husband after his wife kills herself in front of him and his mistress. Has anyone heard of this story? Hi I've been looking for this book hoping its not a figment of my imagination because the same year I checked it out from my middle school library, I went to go back to look for it and there was no record of it.
I can't remember BIG details but its a girl and her best friend who want to train to become soldiers for their town? And there also exist healing magic that everyone looks down upon. She visits a healing doctor in which she becomes somewhat interested in magic. I believe this magic involves talking to plants. The cover of the book, the print is a girl holding a leaf to her chest.
The hard copy of the book is just a brown book with the outline of a leaf in gold. I'm looking for a book that I read in Middle or High school about a girl who draws her own comics and gets bullied a lot for it so she retreats to an online RPG to meet a guy on it who helps her feel better and then later finds out he's a guy who goes to her school and is one of the most popular guys in school. The cover is white and has a drawing of 2 girls meeting in the middle of the book at the waist and are opposite to each other horizontally. One girl has long blonde hair and is an Elf and the other girl I think has brown hair.
It is probably a teen novel. I am looking for a book that I read in highschool around This boy found a book or a box of some sort that allowed him to go to this like spirit world. There he learned about this prophecy that he was involved in. Come to realize it was him and his sister that were needed to defeat the evil immortal. I think the sister had this blossoming relationship with one of the knowledge immortals or something like that.
I have a hard time remembering the author, titke, and basic ploy of the book but I would really love to read the series again. I think it was like 3 or 4 books. I'd appreciate any help from the very vague description lol. I am looking for a book about these girls that live in a time where people are all broke and oppressed and like this girl and her best friend who pretended to be her sister to got to the same like boarding school and like the one girls parents had money and the friends didn't and so like they trick the school with like fake id bracelets and they like have their entire lives on like technology and the school takes it away from them and they go in to some remote place in the woods and they learn survival skills and like how to use guns but it turns out the school is really an enemy like spy training school and so they escape and like they meet some boys spend the night in a cabin that is also the enemy's and so they run away that's all I know tho so.
I need help finding a book I believe its a short series, maybe 2 or 3 books total. Its about a boy that was born and mother was killed while he was young. A man took him in and raised him. He grew up and had powers many people in the book have a particular power but most keep secret. He gets arrested and has to help a King's youngest son get landed or face execution.
One of the King's advisors is also someone with powers and is trying to kill and take all other powers from those that have them. This is a fantasy series and for the life of me cant remember the name or author. It's a harlequin romance book. Hero and heroine are in love and heroine becomes pregnant. Hero's father tries to pay her off. So heroine leaves hero and have the baby.
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Hero meets his son. I need help with a title and author of a book i read in the last year or so.. Female teacher possibly named Holly who is dumped before Christmas holiday break and a male teacher a widower possibly named Simon invites her to go to a cabin in Scotland with him. It is a novel I believe it's called believers or something of the sort. The author I believe is a native American, and the book is very complex I didn't get far enough to find the underlying plot.
It's filled with underworlds and corrupt cops and murder and there's a scene where children are in hell and helping each other survive while a corrupt god tortures them. In the scene with the kids in the beggining of the book, they escape from the back of a cop car and run for hours while they're epoxied zombies bodies fall apart. The book bounces around a timeline and different settings, making it like a puzzle. There's a scene where the cop talks about how his dad would show him a crop circle or something which led to the underworld, and another scene where they find the pieces of children sewed together in the back of a native Americans car that the cops framed or something.
It sounds fucked up but it's a great book and it's been years and I am unable to find it. I thought I'd take a shot and ask around. I don't believe it's a very famous author. And the cop had took a young girl to prom and killed her. The cop could smell a storm coming. I read this book when I was younger. It's about a woman who is in a relation ship with a singer, but they fell apart because she fell in love with another man. I know the woman had a small animal.
I am pretty sure the Title had the word diva in it, but I'm not completely sure. I read a book when I was younger It's about a woman in a relationship with a singer, but they drifted apart after a while. The woman fell in love with another man, but he left her because she couldn't make up her mind at first over which man to choose in the end she chose the second man.
I know she had a little dog. I'm pretty sure the title had to word diva in it, but i'm not entirely certain. I read a book maybe years ago about an older gentleman whose wife had died and he was just existing. The wife had a beautiful garden that was just overgrown and neglected and I think a college student or grandchild - maybe - came and was trying to get him to reconnect to life.
Seems there was a flood towards the end. I might be mixing books, but would love it if someone could help me remember this book. I read a book series in the early 's called Seven. There were seven books in the series, each titled the name of the main character I believe. I cannot find a mention of this series anywhere. The characters are all former childhood friends that share a secret and have drifted apart because of it, yet believe their ill-fortune all stems from the secret they each feel responsible for shooting a friend at a birthday party when they were 8, even though it was an accident.
I can't remember what all they go through, but I do remember a few of the books plot points: One girl was an Asian adopted as a baby by a white couple and is assaulted by a friend of her parents, one boy is half-black and paralyzed in an accident, another boy whose parents run a shelter and is a sports star at the high school struggles with being gay, another girl that is a cheerleader tries to hold onto her romance with her boyfriend that went to college but he uses her instead, the other boy is trying not to outdo his brother in football, but ends up playing and stealing his brother's scholarship or maybe just gets a better one.
I would like to get this book series to hold onto for my daughter when she is in high school because it did help me and others I knew that read it get through certain traumas and hardships in school. Trying to find a book where starts of with a young lad on his way to school and on his way be picks up random objects. These were used then at school. The elastic band to keep some artwork together and the safety pin was used to help pin a girls broken dress strap.
I read it when I was at school in the 90s. I read a book about 6 years ago, it was so good. Theres this book i read about 5 years ago and i cant remember the title or anything but it was about this boy who felt like he was being watched by these strange people. He starts having these dreams of horrid scenes and his best freind whom he has a crush on later finds out they are moments in history like when he had a dream of being on a slave ship. Later on in the story the people who watch him reveal that they along with him have live basically foreverbut in different bodies and by different names.
Well thats all i can remember about it at the moment but ide like to know what its called so i can read it again. I was reading a book i was admitted in a children's hospital back in And when I was there they had a LOT of books to read.
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There was a particular book I keep rememb but not a lot of details of it. The book was about a kid who lived in a zoo. He never went to school, I think, and mer this kid that became his friend. She would play games with him and stuff. She tells him about a event of this big ball of knots that no one is able to until. And he comes along to try to untie it. That's all I can remember of it. I'm hoping someone here can help me find the book again.
I believe there was a story about this blind person going on a blind date with someone who was not blind, a character had two different eye colors, and another thing I remember are these two characters a guy and a girl who met in a church and there was this electric connection between them. Anything would be helpful, thank you. I partially read this book in college, someone had suggested, but never had the chance to finish it before returning it. I forgot the title, but I think the title was a double entendre. The book is a story being told by a primate, chimpanzee or ape.
The primate is discussing where we are heading as humans, a kind of warning about how we are impacting the environment. I do recall a metaphor where the primate describes a person believing they were flying a pedal powered craft, and the primate said, from the pilot's point of view they may believe they are flying even as we can observe they are falling, and until impact they may maintain their belief; something to that affect.
I wish I could remember the name of this book as I was enjoying it before I returned it. I read a short story in college as part of Southern gothic literature course. Story is from perspective of adolescent black boy who lives with his grandmother in Jim Crow south. I read a southern gothic short story in college that has always stuck in my mind except for the title.
The girl has nothing but disdain for her uneducated poor family and neighbors. She wants the items to decorate her city dwelling and to impress her intellectual circle. When a dog gets hydrophobia he becomes convinced that there are only bones. The dog becomes jealous when his mistress acquires a male admirer. I am looking for a romance book, I do not know the name or what year it was published just that I read it before Here is what I know. The heroine is from England and the hero is not English or American.
She had a child with him, that he did not know about. The heroine was hit by a car while walking across the street, she is very sick, has pneumonia, but the hero thinks she is a drug addict because when DFS was called on her to check on the child, because they live in poverty the heroine, the DFS person noted a white powder on the counter top, which was actually flu powder, the heroine also had a knife because she was cutting carrots.
The hero hires a nurse to take care of the heroine also. My boyfriend read a book when he was about 15, he said it had the word game in the title. He does these things for money and the price increases with every new task he is given. Samantha - I don't know the title of the children's ghost story book you're looking for, but I do know the story about the marble knight is called Man Size in Marble, by Edith Nesbit.
The one about the artist may be Schalken the Painter, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu - the artist paints a portrait of a young woman called Rose. Sorry I couldn't be more help! I'm trying to remember the name of this horror book my brother had in the 90's, i can vaguely remember the plot and the cover and nothing else. I don't know why i'm thinking font in the title was like goosebumps but this was from what i remember it was way to dark and graphic for that series.
I am looking for a book I read a few years ago. I remember there being a unicorn somewhere. Looking for a book I read a while ago about a blind woman who was raped while in college after the ordeal she isolates her self. One day a doctor shows up at her door about a surgery that could help her regain her eyesight. She's hesitant to trust him at first but eventually does. Some of its a haze but I believe her sister was getting married and while preparing she discovers the man her sister is about to marry is the man that raped her.
Looking for novel I read years ago about a man who is on a ship, does something wrong and is penalized to sail on ship after ship through many many years sailing with some of the most famous captains of all time and I believe some pirates.. Would love to read again if I could remember what book it was!!!
Looking for a book that I read in the 70s about a Native American girl. It was basically about her life but what I remember is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save a sibling's life. Looking for a book that I read in the 70s. It might have been a Scholastic book. It was about a young Native American girl and her life with her tribe. What I remember best is that she had a pet rabbit that she loved and which she eventually had to sacrifice to save the life of her sibling.
American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland when the plane crashes. The sole survivor is the baby, who is rescued and taken to Ireland. Story ends with the baby's brother meeting her and falling in love. American couple, baby and nanny on flight to Ireland. Plane crashes en route to Ireland, only the baby survives. American brother meets her years later and falls in love. Small book - Christmas theme - daughter becomes sick and a male visitor appears and acts as an angel to save the child.
Twin sisters from the same coven, one is really without a soul as a bad woman who was murdered by a demon centuries bf, who betrayed him, split the soul of two sisters The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant but she has a vision of what the end will be. The bad woman who is working with another, end up dying and only one of the two sisters can survive, as there is only one soul. Also, the coven is murdered, her sister is taken to hell, where she is impregnated by the devil or another demon, who is the one working with the bad woman. The 2nd sister is glamored into not remembering she had a twin during that time.
It ends with the 2nd sister and her baby dying as she gives the remaining soul to her sister. Some details may be a little mixed up. Twin sister comes home to join her coven, after a death in the family, and there are strange neighbors with powers, who murder someone, bury and glamor all evidence away. They take an interest in her and she ends up falling in love with the main male character, who I believe is part demon or something.
There is a prophecy that this demon tries to prevent, which is by killing each woman reborn, of the love of his life who betrayed him and he inturn killed her, after she cursed him. Lucifer or another demon, r working with this woman, and they entwines and split a soul between two sisters to hide the evidence of her rebirth, kill a lot of the coven and then steal and impregnate the other sister.
She becomes preganant and the bad lady tries to kill her and the only way to save herself and her sister, is to sacrifice her life and that of her child, so her sister gets the good soul. I think it somehow was entwined with the baby but some areas are vague. What is the name of book where girl is taken in by bird people and raised in a library and threatened by dragon people I know she had a friend that clung to her hair and her shoulders a lot. Please help with the name of the book? I cant remember the title if someone could please help i would appreciate it!!
This may be a short story and it's about two young boys that are twins. The "bad" twin does bad stuff and the "good" twin tries to cover it up or be helpful But in the end there is a twist and you find out it's only one boy. I read this in an English high school class in the late 80's. For some reason I think of Ten Little Indians but not sure if that's part of it.
I read a book in when I was a 6th grader about a guy who is struck by lightening and wakes up in a war. The war had Japanese or Vietnamese soldiers I forget which. I believe the story begins with him in the attic or basement of his house and looking through old war items his father had because he was a veteran. He is struck by lightening when he is riding his bike. I am not sure of anything else but I remember this book being short. I'm looking for a book I read a few years ago when I wasn't quite a young adult. I remember that it had like a pink and green cover, it was a young adult novel.
The summary of it is that there were 2 girls who were best friends but the best friend of the main character was getting "too popular" for the main character and they split ways because of that. She became a bully towards her. Then our main character went to visit her dad at work and met his new assistant and they clicked. He brought her to parties and such without the dad knowing. They had a secret relationship.
But then at the end, when it was her school dance, her former best friend was trying to take away her man because she didnt deserve someone so hot. But main character just laughed and her bf asked the former best friend to dance, knowing that former best friend was way to insecure and main character knew that he loved her for her and not because shes hot or unpopular.
It was an illustrated childrens' book in the library of the small private Catholic school I attended til I was 10 and I can still remember the pictures so clearly, and have searched for almost two decades with no luck. It has several short stories and there's faint blood splatter on nearly every page. There was a story about a couple who moved into a cottage in a small town -- the husband is warned about the stone knights in the church coming to life on a certain night and he goes to see if all is well, but only notices two fingers broken off one statue.
When he returns home, his wife is dead but in her clenched hand are the stone knight's fingers. There's one about a cowboy set to be hanged but his neck stretches crazy long and he runs around terrorizing everyone with his eyes bulged out until someone shoots him dead. There's one about a painter who meets this young woman and something about a rose and he paints her portrait and at the end finds out she was actually a ghost. And one about a homeless? They move into a castle her aunt and some cousins are in but is maybe really supposed to belong to her and her sister now I think.
She meets a handsome land owner, Adrian who has a black stallion. And then in the end they find out it was the crazy aunt the whole time trying to make her think the place was haunted and to drive her away. I am looking for a book It's about a woman who owns a civic center for her neighborhood trying to keep kids off the streets. She teaches pole dancing classes to elderly women to. He is the leader of a rock band and is known as the dark prince.
He chooses her as his mate when he is a child and now other races are hunting her to get to him. Because if they kill her they can weaken him. That is the basics of the story I remember way more than that but I can't seem to find the book anywhere now. Can someone please help me? A short story about a Native American? After the week her brother and her are brought back home and while her brother is in bad shape after spending the week eating crickets and berries, she's healthy as ever.
They ask how they did it and after she explains they don't consider it cheating since she did survive the week in the woods. She works at a marketing firm and rarely goes home to visit her father and step mom on the farm. She gets laid off and goes home to the farm to regroup. She ends up using her skills to help her parents create a vacation spot out of the farm.
Her brochure gets the attention of the high powered executive she had worked for and eventually gets her an even better position at the marketing firm. There's this book that I've been looking for. I remember a phrase on the front cover but not the title itself or the author.
The phrase is something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. In both lives, she looks exactly the same but her lives are very different. In one, she's really rich and has the ideal family and boyfriend. In the other, she's really poor and only lives with her mom. Whenever she turns 18, her parents throw her a huge birthday party at her house.
She's afraid that the party is going to last past midnight and experience the switch herself, which she's never done before. She's also met another guy in her other life where shes poor and starts to fall in love. She starts contemplating what life she wants to stay in and plans to kill one of her selves just to stop the cycle. I don't remember the author or the title, just a phrase on the front cover. The phrase says something along the lines of "would you rather have the perfect life or the perfect love. She switches at midnight every night while she's sleeping.
Her 2 bodies are exactly the same, but her lives in each are very different. In the first one, she's really rich, has the ideal family, and has the perfect boyfriend. In the second, she is poor and only lives with her mom. In the life where shes poor, she's also met a man that she's starting to fall in love with. One day, in her second life, she injures her ankle. She's worried that she'll wake up in her other life with an injury as well, but the injury doesn't transfer over. She starts to contemplate what life she wants to live in and starts experimenting on her body.
She starts off by cutting herself to see if the injury transfers over. She dyes her hair to see if it also changes when she switches back and forth. She ends up in a mental hospital because her mom thinks she's suicidal from all the injuries and changes and stays there for a while. The man that she likes works there and she tells him about her switching.
He doesn't believe her at first but she ends up proving it to him. A girl gets in trouble for partying. Gets in trouble with drugs. Judge sentences her to Africa to help at an orphanage. The kids get kidnapped sometimes to either be used for soldiers or sold. A favourite book of mine 35 years ago Two sisters? One is grateful for life's basics.
One wants the best of everything even though it is beyond her means and she loses it all. The poorer sister is the happier of the two. The book alternates between her perspective and the perspective of an alien living on the same planet. The alien finds her hiding in a cave, approaches her, and they tentatively eventually become mutuals. There was this one part I remember about the difference in a smile between species — humans smile by showing their teeth, which the alien viewed as threatening, and the aliens smiled by sticking out their tongues, which the girl didn't initially recognize as a smile.
Theres this book, that has a lot of short stories in it, and I remember reading it when i was in 5th grade. An example of one of the short stories was about this kid who wore shoes for a few months straight without taking them off to fend off bullies from killing a turtle. Another one of the short stories was about a boy who wanted to whiten his teath with whitneres, but in the end, his teath had liquified because he kept them on for too long.
I am looking for a book with a sub plot of a dad working extra hard to buy his son a coat he wanted, that all the cool kids had. Poor family, dad not one to show affection. Boy was all excited to wear it to school, Dad was quietly proud. Kids made fun of boy because jacket was a knockoff and he got in a fight over it, I think the coat was torn, he never wore it again, and dad never mentioned it.
I've been looking for a children's book that my siblings and I enjoyed around and my brother, eight years my senior also loved.. Grouchy retired sea captain, irritated by a rainbow, captures it, rolls it up and stows it in a hatch in his little home. Neighborhood boy frees the rainbow which unfurls into the sky. Beautiful and fun water color illustrations. Sea captain sees the error of his ways! I have been looking for a book I read in the nineties written by an American journalist who lived and worked as a reporter in Africa.
He wrote about his life in Africa including some funny experiences. I think he worked for The York Times. Some American paper for sure. Thanks I have been trying to find it, but difficult without title or author! Looking for a book I read in the nineties about an American Journalist living and working in Africa. Cannot remember title or author. Some funny experiences he had in Africa. I think he worked for the New York Times? But was based in Africa. Thank you for helping me! I've been looking for an R rated book, I am an adult, about a woman with two daughters, works at a dentist office, and meets a man with a bad past.
The woman is also battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband. The book is about a woman with two daughters who works at a dentist, eventually meeting a man with a bad past who moves in next door. She's battling for custody of her daughters with her cheating ex husband. Things escalate with her and the man eventually. R rated book, I am an adult. I believe the series is titled "Class A. He has a pocket sized computer that he runs programs on written in BASIC, I believe and each book had programs you could run on your computer after typing them in.
I remember in one book, The protagonist meets the president, who calls him a "Class Act", and our hero wonders if the President knows what he does on the side. Another adventure has our hero paired up with a dog in a secret base in i believe the Alaskan wilderness. Protagonist goes through a series of emotions like fear, anxiety, etc because an alien ship has landed.
Protagonist describes the ship and the creatures coming out of the ship, as having hair "all over their head" - as if that was crazy weird. Big reveal at the end is that the protagonist is an extra-terrestrial and the aliens are humans from Earth. Really great story on perspective and looking at things egocentrically. And a kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player.
But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son that he knows nothing about I need help finding this book!! But, the hockey player just happens to be her ex and father of her son.. This is a book where the woman works for a company that helps kids with disabilities or illnesses.
And this autistic kid really wants to meet a certain famous hockey player. The hockey player happens to be her Ex and the father of her son. Can some on help me find this book i read it years ago its a young teen book that has a boy that has magic boots that grow with him he doesn't know where he came from all of his past he remembers about his mothers or some family member singing a line to him he starts off as a thief and meets a girl as they run him and the girl fall in love along the way he discovers that he can sing a few lines and make what he wants true but at a cost to him he will lose something as great of the value of what he wants to be done at the end of the book he trades his life for his girl companion but he comes back for he is not human so he is reborn and gets to live with his family that he thought he lost yet he found again Along the way in the middle of the book he a quires a dagger that has a string attached to his wrist that he can throw and pull back and his dagger will come back to him.
There's a fantasy book that my cousin forced me to read when I was younger and I didn't like it because it was confusing but now I want to read it it's about these people or creatures and they live in trees I think and I believe they're forced to go to war I have a memory of a scene where there in like a restaurant in one of the tree like they all live in the trees or like in the forest and they have to go to war and there's like a girl warrior there's a black group of friends and they go on and then I remember there's two brothers and they go to another dimension in one scene and when they come back one of the brothers is completely change then something happened to him like part of him died or something.
And then in the end I think that they come back after all of this and I remember like an engagement between two of the characters. I know this is very vague but I know it's a fantasy book. In this book there is a mexican girl who lives in the USa with her mother. She is made fun if at school and her only friends are two brothers they are twins. When they grow up she gets pregnant by one of the brothers, and the other one dies.
She gives birth to the baby but after a while she leaves cause she can't handle everything. After a year or so she comes back and after a row of events she lives happily ever after woth the father of her child and the love of her life. In this book a city girl quits her job to move to a farm with a man she just met.
Can somebody help me find a book. It starts with a girl trying to find her twin sister in a garrage or some shady place. It is a fantasy paranormal book maybe involves farie world non mages. In this book a girl is surgically given the face of a princess in order to be her double. The mother is leading a rebellion the king kills both mom and real princess thinking that the princess is the double. Two of my favorite children's books Sgthartman you're thinking of the book called Harrison Bergeron. Can somebody help me find this book? She ends up helping the little girls father find his daughter.
The woman and the father end up falling for each other. I think this is romantic suspense. I think I read it yrs ago I dont think it was that old but I'm not sure. When he gets out of prison he looks for his missing sister and finds out that she was involved with some sort of mafia or something similar.
To find and save her he has to work with the mafia people and was forced to blow up a train station. Can somebody pls help me with this?! When I was younger I read this great book that I just remembered and cant get out of my head. It was this book about these two foster girls whos "aunt" who was a hippie had suddenly died in the bathroom one day and the girls had buried her in the backyard and pretended to live on like nothing happened surviving by cleaning rent cabins until they fighr about whether to tell the authorities or not and one of them wants to run away.
Bwessels98 I remember a similar book that I struggle to remember the name of. It sounds like the story you summarized. Strong people were burdened with weights I've tried to find this book by googling small pieces of what I remember but I haven't found it yet. I'm looking for a book that I read when I was about 13 years old I'm 20 now I don't know very much about it, but it was a fiction book about a boy who lives in a government who decides everything for you.
Everyone has to take a "medicine" or some sort of vitamin when they go out the door, by laying their hand on some sort of device, then you get a little sting and it detects your blood, so you can't skip your daily vitamins. He eventually discovers that the drug is doing something to your brain and makes you forget stuff.
So he tries to fool the device with an apple where he put his blood on. He stops taking the drugs and his memory becomes clear. He has some sort of girlfriend and convinces her to stop taking the drug too. And if you go against the law by having I think it was "good memories" or something like that, you get the death penalty. I really can't remember any more, I hope someone can help me out!!
It starts out with a teenaged girl who falls in love but is torn by the fact that she's is embarrassed by her family and the boy she love's lifestyle. So once she goes off to college she disconnects from her family and her childhood love and marries a rich boyfriend. Once married the honeymoon phase was really but then he started to change first he would just raise his voice but then it get physical.
When she got pregnant she thought thing had changed but was still cautious but one he was just angry hit her so hard she fell and ended up going into labour. Thankfully both the woman and her baby girl were okay but once at home she tried her hardest to shield her daughter from her husband but sometimes it would be so sudden that there was nothing she could do, it got so bad that her daughter would be crying completely silent in fear of her father.
In desperate need for safety for her daughter she devises a plan where she packed up both of their necessities before hand. So when the husband left the mansion she would have had to pretend she's just going shopping and would dress herself and little girl to suit in order to fool the staff and the neighbors.
Once out of the neighborhood she raced to father who was the leader of a gang or club of some sort for protection she drove non stop no matter how tired es she got. Only when she was inside the gates was she relieved, she got the car and walked up to her shocked father she passes out leaving her daughter silently crying in the back seat. I can't remember the rest please help. Please help me find the name of this book. It starts out with a teenage girl who falls in love but is torn by the fact that she's is embarrassed by her family and the boy she love's lifestyle.
I think it was her first day of school and she wore her hair in braids with ribbons, and she got new shoes with ribbons, and she had buttons down her jumper. She may have brought her neighbors cookies at one point in the story. Has a wife and i think a kid. He hoes out to a bar one night and is supposed to bring his wife back ice cream and gets kidnapped or something. The kidnapper know everything about him. Brings him to a abandoned warehouse and then he wakes up in a hospital; however, he is living the what could have been life.
A children's book about two sisters an inventor and washing their dresses. Book about a cancer survivor who read and watched nothing but funny movies and it helped him beat his caner. Anyone know the book about a man with cancer who stays in his home and reads and watches only funny books and movies, and ends up getting better? It's about a girl who goes to live with her aunt and uncle, I think his name is David. He wears velvet and has golden hair. He's an alcoholic who wind up dying on a stroll through the wood in a creek.
I think the main character is studying to become a doctor or maybe a nurse in a country doctor setting. What if you cant remember the title but a Character. I recall reading this book a friend handed me in Boarding school about an Investigator he was heavy set,Balding at the top of his head loved eating dried fruit raisins that's how learnt what raisins were. The setting was Africa Egypt I think a crime perhaps murder had occurred and he was going to solve it he was great at fighting too man i miss this book but cant remember the author of title.
What if you cant remember the title but I recall reading this book a friend handed me in Boarding school about an Investigator he was heavy set,Balding at the top of his head loved eating dried fruit raisins that's how learnt what raisins were. He spared her and eventually takes her back to where his people are on the other side of the mountains. Despite her escape attempts inevitably they fall for one another but he releases her anyway.
Where his people have been hiding from the world is destroyed by an earthquake. Eventually him and her find each other agin. The romantic novel about an Irish man who lost his wife in the ocean tide, leaving him with twin daughters and was given a new bride by the tide from the future. The romantic novel about an Irish man with twin daughters who lost his wife in the storm and got sent a new bride by the tide from the future. A horror story in a small town.. I'm going crazy trying to remember this.. L looking for a historical romance about a woman who falls in love with her husband and he is murdered and his ghost comes back to help her find his killer I think Rose is in the name of the title.
I'm trying find the name of the book that I remember being made to read in school along with the movie that goes to it it's about a Native American boy who gets taken from his tribe and put into the one schools they had that was supposed to teach the kids to be American white and I believe he ran away and he ends up with an old guy who is in the rodeo. The children are named after the cities he was in when they were born. I'm looking for a book where a girl is a freshmen in college and doesn't want to rush but is asked by a girl that needs to meet her quota of recruitment.
She shows up and the head sister instantly hates her. Then the main girl gets a job at a bar as a waitress with great tips. His girlfriend had committed suicide but you find out she didnt she was killed by the lead sorority girl. She was actually killed by a sorority girl who is obsessed with. She tries to do the same to the main girl in the book. The boy and girl go to a hotspring and ride bikes up too it.
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Any idea was a good book would like to read it again but can't remember anything about the title or author or the peoples names in the book. This girl gets into Harvard at 17 and is very shy. I never got to finish the book to see who she ends up choosing but if anyone could help? The book i need is about a girl who lives in a world where they dont eat real food and the new generation has never even smelt real food. The girls dad is a programmer. She goes to some convention with a friend on the outskirts of town where she meets a boy in a run down store and he has this device that allows them to smell foods.
And hers and his hunger for real food continues to grow. They eventually run away toghther with many people after them. They go to an old friend of his that changes the way tou look and they both get changed and they go in search for the land where they eat the real food and grow crops and eveyrthing like that. Once they are there and are put to work they barley see each other anymore as they are set to diffrent jobs and different times of day. Please help i am going crazy i lay in bed trying to think of the book name but i can't and it was a reall good book.
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I'm looking for a book that the girl's husband is the rival from her political, and her husband is entering an election to be the next There's a hint of erotica too. I'm looking for a children's book with fairies of some kind. One of them likes gardening and writes a large book of plants and how to care for them. I remember a plotline where pollen from some rare seed causes them all to sneeze and they make noseclips with scented handkerchiefs.
The book is about a girl whos parents dislike her and so does the youth group from her church for doing something she believed was right, she ends up with a boy for as her partner for a science project, they begin to get along and the project involves studying puppies, he tries to get her into the game of thrones, they end up dating even though she gets grounded. I'm looking for a book about a girl who's parents and her youth group dislike because she did something she thought was right, she ends up with a boy in a science project who seems determined to get the prize they'll win, the project involves studying puppies, during this they hang out more often and he makes her watch game of thrones with him, in the end they kiss in his garage while putting up the pups, they begin to date and she gets grounded but continues to see him.
Looking for a story about a girl who got kidnapped and sold into slavery but there a crow that turns into a guy and helps her. They end up falling in love and getting married. I'm looking for a book I read maybe years ago, it was from the high school library and probably categorised as young adult fiction. It was about this deaf teenage girl who was travelling with her mum to see the grand canyon I think, and on the way they met some strange characters and the young girl kept having dreams in which she could hear.
There was a boy involved who could turn into a wolf and I think in these dreams this wolf would lead her throughout a dreamscape wilderness to find something to defeat some higher power. In the end the girl ended up having been stolen at birth by her "mother" and she finds her true parents and goes to live with them but isn't happy as she obviously has grown up with someone else as her parent.
There's a dramatic standoff at the end where the "mother" threatens to kill herself in a motel? I'm looking for a book I read maybe years ago, it was from my high school library and probably categorised as young adult fiction. I think the girl defeats the higher power in the dream and stops having the dream. I really wanna find out what it was called because it was very good and shed light on the life of a deaf lip-reader. I'm looking for a book set in Europe, there was a bus accident, one girl was pregnant, she had the baby in a restroom after the accident, and I believe she died.
A lady on the bus wrapped the baby and left her on a doorstep, the rest of the book intertwines the life of the baby and a young boy that was on the bus also. I can't remember the name of a book that I read, it was set in Europe as I recall, there was a group of people from a small town that went on an excursion in a bus and they have an accident, some of the group die in the accident, but one young pregnant girl has her baby right after the accident, the baby is delivered by 2 ladies from the group and one lady takes the baby girl and leaves her on a doorstep, the rest of the book is about the intertwining of the lives of the baby girl and a young boy that had also been on the bus.
Im looking for a book i read about 10 years ago. Its about a girl who goes to live with a family member. She goes to viset the kid when shes not allowed to. I'm looking for a book that I read when I was a child. It was a chapter book but it had a few pictures. I believe it was a series but I only had one of them. It was either two sisters or two cousins who solved mysteries.
One if the girls had short curly hair, glasses and was kind of an ugly duckling. The other girl was I think named amy and she had long blonde hair. The other girl was always a little jealous of her. The book I had, they traveled to the woods and there was an island with mystery lights.
I'm looking for a children's picture book about a little girl who didn't want to go to sleep because she didn't want to miss anything. I think she had older siblings in the story. Later in the story, she has a really good dream and didn't want to wake up because she didn't want to miss anything in the dream.
She has long braided hair and is also a virgin. I know they can join minds at intimate times too. I'm looking for 2 books I read in prison. The groom gets all the women of the town to make her a wedging quilt from odd pieces of cloth. Anyone knows these books. I can't remember the names or author. I remember reading a book about a girl who lives in a "perfect world" where the government decides everything for you. The whole place is surrounded by wall panels, in a globe shape.
Her job is basically sitting in a chair and clicking any panel that flickers. One day she sees a panel flicker a bit outside of her designated zone, but when she checks it out something happens and she gets a warning. If you get 3 warnings, you are kicked out of the place. Her mother was kicked out of the place a long time ago. She remember that she got one strike because she was on the swings and went too high.
The flickering panel scenario gives her 2 warnings in total. At 18, all of the warnings are removed and you get a second chance. At 18, you also determine your future husband. You're also not allowed to wear white unless you work for the government. She finds her mother's wedding dress and wears it to the place where she will find her new husband, and there's two pictures that flash for her name. Then rebels come and attack the place and grab her but she escapes.
I don't remember much after that except she somehow gets out of the utopia and finds out that people live outside the little bubble she's lived her whole live. She doesn't trust anyone, there are bombs, people die, she goes back into her old bubble home. The master of the whole bubble place comes to her and he's fishy. Her mom is actually alive and she is the master of the rebels.
Her mother wants her to take over, she says no, mother goes crazy, and she kills her. The girl is obviously shook and she ends up in a box that messes with her mind and actualizes her nightmares. There a boy involved too, idk how though. I know it's messy and all over the place, but that's what I remember. If anyone knows what this is or if it sounds familiar to you, please let me know! My email address is randomarmy gmail.
I am looking for a book that is about a boy who lives in a small town in Russia. Growing up he hears a story about a monster that leaves people who see it paralyzed. One day someone in the town becomes paralyzed and no one knows why. It started off with the brother gambling and he use the house as a last resort. The man who won is the second son of a duke I believe. The sister was the head and she was furious when she found out what he did.
They had no money and had owe the butcher. After a while he invited his family to the house. He also fell in love with the sister. I am looking for a book that I am sure is out of print.
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It is about a young Slavic girl who is sent to her Aunt and Uncle and the traditions she learns from her family and young male cousin. I am looking for a book I am sure is out of print. It is a book about a young Slavic girl who is sent to her Aunt and Uncle for a visit. Upon her visit she learns the traditions of her heritage and has adventures with me make cousin.
Looking for this book I read as a 12 year old in the s, I'm guessing the book was late s. They have adventures and coming-of-age experiences such as going to their first party etc. Any thoughts would be much appreciated: I read a short storri in my English lit textbook in and I can't remember the title. It's about a woman who walks into a butcher's shop and they comment on how out of place she seems because she seems like she would be poor and has a plain face but she's dressed like she keeps herself well and she wasn't dirty like most common people.
In her time she really is poor but she uses the door to go back in time to where her money is worth more and that's how she supports her family. And her husband makes the comment that he doesn't know how she does so much with so little and even though they're poor they don't feel poor because she makes everything seem much bigger than it really is.
I'm looking for a vintage board book with a lion that has long hair and the animals thought it was spaghetti. The illustrator uses stuffed animals for the scenes. I had a book circa A new woman enters I read this short story in middle school, I believe, and for the life of me, I cannot find it. Basically, it was a story about a Caveman tribe, but the main character was a child born with a gimp, or twisted, foot and so was set in a cave to be killed by wolves as a baby but was rescued by an old woman who was slightly outcast from their society.
The boy grows up and walks with a crutch most of the time, and decides he will prove himself after being provoked by the tribe hunters saying he will never be able to catch up with them. So the boy runs off and joins a pack of wolves and learns to hunt through a lot of trial and error in these vicious mountains. He comes back and shows the hunters how to really hunt and it turns out the boy was the son of the leader of the clan.
It almost sounds like the new "Alpha" movie. I know this is a long shot but I am looking for a book about a girl who wanders into the forest or woods and comes across this man who says he is waiting on something. While he is waiting he tells her stories of fairy kingdoms and goblins I believe.
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That's all I can remember but this has been annoying me for years that I can't remember it. Allon hatches an elaborate scheme to part al-Assad with his fortune and to find the Caravaggio. The plan involves selling a forgery of Van Gogh's painting 'Sunflowers' painted by Allon to al-Assad's buyer and to hack al-Assad's secret accounts and steal the cash. For the hacking scheme Allon's team co-opts a woman named Jawal Nawaz - a Syrian-born, German citizen who works in a bank that al-Assad uses. Allon's plan requires lots of travel plus assistance from various 'series regulars' including Ari Shamron - former head of 'The Office' the Israeli spy agency ; Eli Lavon - an ex-spy who's now an archaeologist; Uzi Navot - the current director of The Office; Navot's wife Bella - an expert on Syria and terrorists; and Christopher Keller - an assassin turned good guy sort of.
Several features of Allon's plan are completely unbelievable for example, a banker keeps the only records of al-Assad's secret bank accounts in a notebook in his pocket Leah lost her sanity after being injured by a bomb that killed her and Allon's son Daniel. Leah's mind replays the bombing constantly, but she has occasional moments of clarity - and these scenes are disturbing and sad. I won't say any more about the plot, except that Allon shows he's an honorable, stand-up guy.
Many reviewers remark that Daniel Silva's 'Gabriel Allon' stories are formulaic, and they are. But the books are well-written - with good plots and interesting characters. I'd highly recommend "The Heist " to fans of espionage thrillers. You can follow my reviews at http: Aug 06, Elizabeth A rated it it was ok Shelves: I'm a huge Gabriel Allon fan, but I humbly disagree with many of the rave reviews of this, the 14th book in the series. Can it really be summer without time spent with my fave Mossad assassin and art restorer? Every year I have the publication date marked in my calendar, and eagerly await the new release of one of my fave characters in a contemporary series.
As I look at my reviews of the previous books in this series, I see that my ratings have been dropping, but how can I resist a I'm a huge Gabriel Allon fan, but I humbly disagree with many of the rave reviews of this, the 14th book in the series. As I look at my reviews of the previous books in this series, I see that my ratings have been dropping, but how can I resist attending the reunion of the Barak team every summer?
This one is the worst in the series so far. It is rather formulaic and the writing seems rote. The characters are recycled without any additional depth added. The story is almost the same as a couple others in the series, just updated with Syrian troubles. I almost did not finish it, and that makes me sad. If you have yet to read about the exploits of the man named like an archangel, I would highly recommend reading some of the earlier books in this series.
But skip this one. I'll be waiting to see if there is a new installment next July. Silva, give this junkie a good fix. View all 8 comments. Jul 28, B. Stateham rated it it was amazing. Three pages into the novel and you do a collective sigh of relief as a big smile spreads across your lips. You know that feeling; it's the one you get when you realize you've found a novel that is an instant guarantee it's going to take you on a great, well paced, interesting ride into the dark underworld of espionage.
Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon, the top of the game assassin for the Israelie Mossad, is at his best in this one. Allon has never been one-dimensional as a character. He's always bee Three pages into the novel and you do a collective sigh of relief as a big smile spreads across your lips. He's always been a complex soul with his own specific ghosts to deal with. But this journey is a classic. You'll have to read the book for yourself. But I'd lay money down if I had any money, by the way on the table and bet that you'll fall in love with Gabriel Allon.
Jul 18, Monnie rated it really liked it. I love a great hero; from Tarzan to Perry Mason to Harry Potter, the good guy gets my attention every time. Over many years of reading, favorites have emerged - characters whose personalities are so appealing that I look forward to reading about them again and again and, were it possible, with whom I'd love to share a beer or two and what I have no doubt would be interesting conversation for a couple of hours.
These guys have been on my Top 10 list for quite some time now in case any are unfam I love a great hero; from Tarzan to Perry Mason to Harry Potter, the good guy gets my attention every time. These guys have been on my Top 10 list for quite some time now in case any are unfamiliar to other readers who might want to give them a try: Forest ranger Joe Pickett author C. Manhattan bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr Lawrence Block 8. Prison chaplain and former police officer John Jordan Michael Lister 7. Psychologist and police consultant Dr.
Alex Delaware Jonathan Kellerman 5. Cleveland private eye Milan Jacovich Les Roberts 4. The mysterious Roarke, husband of police lieutenant Eve Dallas J. British agent James Bond Ian Fleming 2. Boston private investigator Spenser Robert B. Parker And in the No. None other than art restorer and accomplished Israeli spy Gabriel Allon, who's the star of this book. In it - the 14th in the series - his beautiful and younger wife, Chiara, is pregnant with twins; they've been living in Vienna, where Gabriel is helping restore a major work of art.
When a friend discovers the torture and murder of a former British diplomat who apparently has turned to trafficking stolen art, Gabriel begins to investigate - learning that the works of art may be a cover for a Syrian dictator to hide scandalous amounts of money. The chase, as usual, takes Gabriel to several countries where he dons different disguises as he and his team put together an involved operation to bring the dictator to his knees and, hopefully, locate the stolen art in particular, a Caravaggio that's been missing for decades. Many characters from previous books return in this one, and perhaps a little too much space is given up to explanations of who they are for the benefit, I suppose, of making sure new readers know the background rather than simply trying to fill up pages.
But in the end, it's a great adventure and a pleasure to read. I always enjoy the historical information that's sprinkled liberally throughout even if it's not always factual. I honestly can't say this book is the best of the bunch, but it sure held my attention throughout. View all 4 comments. Aug 24, Lewis Weinstein rated it it was amazing Shelves: It is, as some have said, somewhat formulaic, but the formula works so well it is not at all objectionable, at least to me.
Silva stays just close enough to actual current events to make it very real, and events since it was written make it even more real, almost like historical fiction in the present instead of the past. More about politics and less about the heist. Started out good and then, for me, went south. I kept on with it because George Guidall is one of my favorite narrators. Aug 02, Tim rated it liked it. This story would have been better if not for meandering throughout Europe in the midst of an operation.
There was minimal relevancy for the distraction. In additon to better editing, this novel could have used a better ending. View all 3 comments. Jul 23, Tucker Elliot rated it it was amazing. To catch a mysterious collector of stolen art and a murderer, Allon resorts to stealing a masterpiece to use as bait … but when the identity and motivation of the collector are revealed, the stakes are raised and what began as a murder investigation evolves into a massive intelligence operation. The tradecraft, plotting and characters are phenomenal. The prose, dialogue and pacing are even better.
Jul 14, Malia rated it liked it Shelves: Beautiful young woman in distress? Ueber competent team of Israeli agents? Silva's Allon series has, for a while, been feeling a bit repetitive. Repetition does not have to be a bad thing if it is clever, but I fear such was not the case with his latest installment in the series.
I have read them all, so I feel equipped to pass this judgement. Allon is, as ever, stiff and utterly humorles 2. Allon is, as ever, stiff and utterly humorless, but in the past his team or Keller have somewhat balanced that deficit. Unfortunately, his team plats only a tiny part in this story. Another issue I take with this book is the way a Silva connected the art heist with current events in Syria.
It felt forced and almost as though he was taking advantage of the tragedy to sell a book. This is probably unfair, but it bothered me nonetheless. In terms of the writing and art historical research, this book was on par with others in the series. I particularly enjoyed learning more about Caravaggio, an artist I have always found quite intriguing. All in all, however, this book just wasn't what I hoped it would be. Find more reviews and bookish fun at http: Another largely familiar installment in one of my most reliable which must mean, at some level, favorite , even if I don't really love them primarily-when-I'm travelling serial fiction series.
More of the same in most ways - and that's perfectly OK - with a few basic twists none of which I found uniquely compelling. Not my favorite, by any means, but also most definitely not one of the more disappointing ones, either. It is what it is I'm more than a dozen books into the series, and I'm co Another largely familiar installment in one of my most reliable which must mean, at some level, favorite , even if I don't really love them primarily-when-I'm travelling serial fiction series.
I'm more than a dozen books into the series, and I'm confident I'll eventually get through to the end or until the author gives up. I can't imagine starting with this book - for me, it makes sense to consume them in order, particularly to the extent that most of the cast return, and, like the story line, evolve from book to book.
Sep 07, Jeffrey rated it liked it Shelves: Daniel Silva's latest Gabriel Allon novel "The Heist" is a decent enough read, but it lacks the panache of the earlier books in the series and the essential characteristics of a thriller. The entire novel is predictable, except for the ending, which is a big let down. The series has always been formulaic, but Silva has been able to put Allon in new situations, new plots and still keep the action semi-fresh. Although every book starts the same as Allon is interrupted restoring a famous masterpiec Daniel Silva's latest Gabriel Allon novel "The Heist" is a decent enough read, but it lacks the panache of the earlier books in the series and the essential characteristics of a thriller.
Although every book starts the same as Allon is interrupted restoring a famous masterpiece, investigates on his own or with a few others some nefarious situation, then calls in his special group, who all convene, smarter than any other spy or terrorist, and destroy in most cases the fiendish terrorist or enemy. I was still kind of believable for the familiarity and because Silva is a good writer. Long time fans are probably very satisfied with this book, but anyone who likes a good thriller that has thrills and murders, a traitor or two, should look elsewhere.
This is like seeing a lion in a zoo instead of in the wild. They both look the same, but one is a savage beast and one is not. Julian Isherwood, the owner of an esteemed English gallery and Allon's sometimes secret helper is found by the Italian police in the home of a murdered art dealer - Jack Bradshaw, who turns out to be an ex-agent of MI6. The Italian Art Squad extorts Allon into investigating, and from these small beginnings, Allon swiftly figures out that Bradshaw was a dealer in stolen art that was being sold to a mysterious figure, who may have possession of a classic piece stolen many years ago.
But really, why would Allon even agree. Its just not believable. Swiftly Allon plans to lure out the big player by offering him a stolen masterpiece, and the action is interesting if somewhat uneventful, but the plan backfires as the courier is taken off the board. But naturally a lead develops -- how --the dead guy left an envelope specifically addressed for Allon, which lays out who Bradshaw was working with and who is Mr.
And now, Allon assembles his team to go after Mr. Big, who is more than any old art collector, but the head of an evil nation state. Does the plan work, it could but there is a setback, a captured innocent who must be traded for a ton of cash. Move on, try your luck somewhere else. Jul 15, Bob rated it it was amazing.
One of the best, if not the best in series; one of those novels you can't read fast enough but regret finishing. Silva adds one of his best female characters ever into a mix of art theft and computer bank theft. Terrific in every way. Aug 10, L. Starks rated it it was amazing.
Depth of action, great research, sympathetic characters and a strong feeling of portent for Allon both personally and professionally combine to make this another excellent book by Daniel Silva. London art dealer, and friend of Gabriel Allon, Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon the scene of a chilling murder in Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. The dead man is a fallen British spy named Jack Bradshaw with a secret. He has been trafficking in stolen artworks and selling them to a mysterious collector.
To free his friend Gabriel agrees to undertake a mission They sa London art dealer, and friend of Gabriel Allon, Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon the scene of a chilling murder in Lake Como and is being held as a suspect. They say it takes a thief to catch a thief and our protagonist comes up with a plan to steal Van Gogh's Sunflowers as bait. When the book opened it appeared to be simply a story of greed and the darker side of the art world but it moves quickly to the world stage and the civil war in Syria. From Venice to the criminal underworlds of Corsica and Marseilles.
From the boulevards of Paris, Geneva, and London. The only stop on the global stage missing in this outing is Washington, D. Adrian Carter may be missing is this story but the rest of Gabriel's team, including Christopher Keller the former SAS soldier, work with him on a daring plan that if successful will recover a missing masterpiece.
Daniel Silva's novels always seem to reflect current events and this novel is no exception and reminds the reader of ongoing brutal civil war and it's impact. This was like the greatest hits of Gabriel Allon - Silva brought back the best of the best secondary characters from previous novels: Christopher Keller, Don Orsati, the goat! He worked them all together beautifully into a taut international thriller that had me on the edge of my seat. Aug 14, Nancy rated it it was amazing. Another great thriller from Daniel Silva.
I will be sorry if this series ends. Really enjoyed the parts about the theft of fine art. This is the fourteenth book in the Gabriel Allon series that I read and, to be honest, I'm getting a little tired of them. The story was good, full of action, the usual stuff of Silva's books.
But it's more of the same Silva stuff, no creativity here. Daniel Silva clings to the formula he has been using since 'The Kill Artist', where Allon appears for the first time, and he only has to add some updates on the Middle East struggles, some new female character who will have a key-role in the whole o This is the fourteenth book in the Gabriel Allon series that I read and, to be honest, I'm getting a little tired of them.
Daniel Silva clings to the formula he has been using since 'The Kill Artist', where Allon appears for the first time, and he only has to add some updates on the Middle East struggles, some new female character who will have a key-role in the whole operation, and, hey presto! This time, the background is Syria, and it's kind of amazing how Silva manages to link that conflict to the stealing of Old Masters' works.
Yes, I know it's only fiction, but it felt a bit forced. I was also a bit annoyed with the expressions the author used, for instance, in the dialogues. I have to admit that I really dislike when people say "what's that? So Silva decided I don't know if he did that on the previous book, because I cannot remember to "plant" this expression everywhere in this book. My eyes rolled so much during this reading. Concerning the language and writing style, still, there was another thing that annoyed me, also in the dialogues, and it was the way Gabriel talked with other characters.
It was so ominous and mystery-like, with Gabriel always having the last word. Now that I think of it, I'm a little sick with Gabriel Allon. He's becoming a god-like character, that does everything really well, everyone looks up to him. The man is a hero and fourteen books of this is becoming a little too much. But, despite these rantings against Silva and Allon, I am pretty confident that I will read the next book. And, after some more eye-rolling, I will rant again. Only to read the following book.