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Bookreview: Acorna - the unicorn girl

Don't be fooled by the cover of this book. The title and the cover easily creates associations to cheap pulp fiction of the type filled with sappy romance, unicorns and fantasy worlds.

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Bookreview: Acorna's quest

This is the second book in a series of six books about Acorna written by Anne McCaffrey. The book can be read by itself.

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Bookreview: 1984

1984 is science fiction at it's absolute best. We enter a future version of 1984 were "Big brother" rules. This is a cracking good read, excitement and a clear political warning.

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Bookreview: Third Watch: Acorna's Children

This is a book that should never have been written. McCaffrey should never have continued this series and should have let the series die with the books about Acorna. The story is dull.

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Bookreview: The Wishsong of Shannara

This is the third book in the original trilogy about Shannara, and it doesn't disappoint. The books is at least as exciting as it's predecessors and a book every fantasy lover must read.

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Bookreview: The Rose Rent

A widow who has donated her old house to the cloister asking only for one white rose from the garden each year is kidnapped.

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Bookreview: The Hermit of Eyton Forrest

A young boy looses his parents and inherits the title Lord from his father. A body appears in the woods and a servant the young boy has befriended becomes the prime suspect.

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Bookreview: The Elfstones of Shannara

"The Elfstones of Shannara" is the second book Terry Brooks wrote in a huge series about the Shannara world and is part of the original trilogy. This is genuine fantastic reading.

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Bookreview: First Warning: Acorna's Children

Acorna's Children is the first book in a new series by McCaffrey written as a followup to the series about Acorna. The series about Acorna is quite good, this however, not so much.

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Bookreview: Dragon's Fire

This is yet a fantastic book about the dragon world of Pern by McCaffrey. The quality of her writing is back to what it was at the beginning of this series written in the seventies.

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Bookreview: Dragonsblood

Anne McCaffrey has finally let her son, Todd McCaffrey, enter the Pern world and has written two books in cooperation with him. This is the first book about Pern Todd has written.

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Bookreview: The Confession of Brother Haluin

Cadfael receives brother Haluins confessions on his deathbed. Haluin survives and when he later gets better he and Cadfael embark on a travel to repent Haluins old sins.

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Bookreview: Big Fish

Big Fish is a wonderful fairytale for grownups. A good one too. The book is amazing and completely impossible to put down. This book puts you in a good mood.

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Bookreview: An Excellent Mystery

"An excellent mystery" is exactly what it claims to be; an excellent mystery. As usual Ellis Peters doesn't disappoint and serves us a fantastic story about the detective-munk Cadfael.

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Bookreview: The Raven in the Foregate

Yet a fantastic and realistic medieval crime novel by Ellis Peters. This time around a new priest arrives in the district. The priest is a learned man with a strong belief in discipline.

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Bookreview: The pilgrim of hate

"The pilgrim of hate" is yet another fantastic middle age whodunit by Ellis Peters. The book starts a bit dull. The first 3-4 chapters are actually boring.

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Bookreview: The renegades of Pern

The reneages of Pern is of the classic McCaffrey literature. Extremely hard to put down, very exciting and quite easy to dream oneself away in.

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Bookreview: The salmon of doubt

Douglas Adams was one of the great masters of British humour. This is a post hume collection of small bits of his work. Most of it has been previously published in different magazines.

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Bookreview: The Sword of Shannara

"The sword of Shannara" was the first book Terrry Brooks wrote after discovering Tolkien. That shows. Especially the first half of the book is highly inspired by Tolkiens masterpiece.

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Bookreview: Acorna's Search

"Acorna's Search" is the firth book in the series about Acorna. While Acorna struggles to rebuild her home planet after the massive attack from the Khleevi, strange things start to happen.

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Bookreview: Acorna's People

Acorna has finally found her own people who she has yet to know. While getting to know her new people she is presented with a challenge.

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Bookreview: Deception point

Deception point is a book one discovers after reading The Da Vinci code by the same author. Deception Point is, if possible, even more exciting.

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Bookreview: Dissolution

Historical fiction has a tendency to feel a little half done and dull. C. J. Sansom however is the living proof that it's possible to write amazingly good historical fiction.

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Bookreview: Revelation

Shardlake is back again. This time with the new title sargent. Once again he has managed to stumble into a case that gets him involved in a high political game.

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Bookreview: Sovereign

Sansom has done it yet again. The third book about "Shardlake", a British lawyer in the fifteen hundreds with high contacts, is just as good as the previous two.