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What sets this novel aside from other novels that share the same genre is that it relies on characters discussing the travels of time jumpers rather than showing those jumps in action.
With its title, A Dancer in Blood, by Kate Green, this book captured my intention. It sounded intriguing and I was curious as to who would want to kill a dancer, and why.
As a reader, I would tell myself, ‘Just one more chapter’ and then Cooper would go and make the characters do something crazy or dangerous, or put them in situations that surely, they won’t get out of.
Not all dating app predators will stop at money or a place to crash. Some may want to steal your identity. Others may cut out your body organs to sell on the black market.
Having been hurt, Amira makes the rash decision to upend her life, leaving behind her rich folks and her college course to head back to the only other area she has ever really known.
Lot’s of politics, not so much death, and hardly deceit when it’s all out in the open. A book of several stories that need better connection.
Even if you expect the unexpected, it probably still won’t be enough…
This book comes with a trigger warning due to the sexual abuse and incest. Proceed with caution.
As I started turning the pages, what I actually got was recollections of The Goonies and Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Dickens. I knew within a few pages that I was going to enjoy the adventure ahead.
An explosion of bitter, vile, stark realities that make for tough reading.
In many ways the lyrics bring to mind Eminem in his early days
