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Shelley Harris

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The plot was a bit slow, the characters seemed very real. It was just okay!
 
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karenshann | 4 andra recensioner | Dec 31, 2019 |
One of those books with a present day storyline and a past storyline, which are gradually brought together so that you have just about got the complete picture by the time you reach the last page. It's a common device, but I often find myself irritated in the early stages by things I don't understand, or things seemingly significant but for reasons I won't be told for another hundred or so pages. I had that problem here. I found it hard to get a grip on the characters - there were lots of them - but by the halfway mark I began to settle in and enjoy this book. I liked the way the author included little dramas for each character, and her description of the two bully-boys and the way they would disrupt games of football was superb. There was also a real sense of impending doom concerning the protagonist and his performance in the operating theatre. First half: slow read, second half: pageturner.… (mer)
 
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jayne_charles | 4 andra recensioner | Aug 2, 2016 |
Jenny Pepper is a normal woman living a normal life. She is a wife and mother and she runs a charity bookshop. One day she discovers something that her husband has been hiding which makes her feel quite inadequate and she decides to dress up for a fancy dress party as a superhero. But on her way to the party she turns vigilante as she manages to foil a mugging. Jenny decides that she likes being a vigilante and the power it gives her and she ends up patrolling the streets to try and solve more crimes.

I really liked the sound of this book and there were parts that I did enjoy, but I found it very hard to get into and to engage with. I'm not sure if it was the whole implausibility of it or the coincidental things that kept happening but it wasn't quite what I was hoping for. I did like the characterisations, and I found Jenny in particular to be well-rounded and strong and I enjoyed her relationship with her daughter, Martha. The ending of the book takes a bit of a different and serious turn and it felt a bit out of kilter with what had felt like more of a light-hearted style through much of the book.

I think this could have been a book that gripped me but it just fell a bit short of the mark.
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nicx27 | Apr 9, 2016 |
There are two secrets that central character was hiding. One about his current life, but the one the story is based on is something that happened on the day of the Queen's Jubliee street party in 1997. It was't really his secret and I really expected something less predictable than what it turned out to be. I couldn't really feel for or like the characters very much. The writing style, switching between present and past, is good but I felt it took to long to get to the point and that the point was disappointing when I got there.… (mer)
 
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JacqiB | 4 andra recensioner | Nov 4, 2012 |

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83
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Betyg
3.2
Recensioner
6
ISBN
13

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