#i was complaining about the missed opportunity with the protagonist like on friday and i got this today

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Short read. 1500 words. Rated G. Spoilers for the movie and also for the book.

Really love how this fic puts her at the center of her story. Beware of false prophets :/

I really wanted the movie to have Mollie as the protagonist. I mean she's definitely the heart of the movie. But ofc that's what fic is for. Especially when it's fic written by one of my forever favorite writers.

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A huge Soy Luna S3 rant lol

Im not complaining about simbar rn, they've been the best. But i honestly cant believe the show is gonna be over on friday. Like what even happened in s3?!?! I always payed more attention to my ship obviously lol but since they would only come out for like two minutes each episode, I have to admit i was bored out of my mind with everything else that was going on:/

The flow of the story was so odd and i cant help but feel like this story is incomplete now. I know several people have pointed out that the story was over s2 and i have to agree. The real plot ended in s2 and we had a s3 with no direction of what the show was going to be about next. It literally was just about boys and revenge.

Of Course a show could be just about that, but since this is disney the way it was all presented wasnt interesting enough, especially with how long they dragged everything with just that. They definitely did not know what to do with their secondary characters and they just came across(well at least to me) like a waste of space. All the characters could have done more. And i feel this is why s3 doesnt feel complete.

Luna had nothing going for her but thinking about relationships. So, since she is the protagonist no one else was allowed to do anything else. These characters had so much potential and this is where i get disappointed with how s3 turned out. When they would do something outside of relationships, for example skating or the open musics, absolutely nothing would happen afterwards. The characters werent further explored and they just never grew. When you would think they would do something different, they would just go back to exactly how they were before. Like when the girls formed their own group for about 3 episodes and then they just broke up. And nothing came from that but one performance.

Nothing happened with the roller band either. Didnt they have a bunch of fans?!?! Nico is not even missed because he didnt contribute anything. Nina only ever wrote something in her blog thingy to blackmail gary and she was just put together with erik for her to do something else aside from just asking luna who she likes the whole season. Jim and yam started off trying to figure out what to do after graduation but ended up in the shadow of what does luna need. Ramiro went to the red sharks then nothing. He leaves the red sharks, hes forgiven then nothing. Jazmin, oh jazmin we know nothing of her only that she loves creating content for social media. nothing else happened with her except her meeting that guy. Pelfi although cute they also didnt do much but react to either lutteo or simbar. Delfi's only arc was the fight with jazmin. It was pretty entertaining so points for them. But this is my point when theyre not revolving around luna they had great content.

The downfall of this season was the writers forgetting their other characters and just constantly repeating storylines with the main characters. And everyone else just reacting to them. All of season 3 was so predictable that my only joy was simbar lol They were the only ones not just reacting to lutteo. which is why they were a breath of fresh air. Individually, simon was just reacting to lutteo and ambar was just reacting to luna. But as simbar they had their own thing. They were trying to figure the other out with the new dynamic of ambar going full "rebel".

It was different and new and exciting. To see these characters tease each other and seeing the tension of wanting to be together but both being stubborn. Simon knowing damn well ambar was in a path of self destruction but still trying to find a way in. Ambar telling simon he needed to stop lying about his feelings for her. My only issue was when bembar became a thing. Those episodes were so messy that they actually made me less enthusiastic about simbar because i didnt get ambar, but i feel it was needed to make ambar finally snap out of it and officially leave that behind her. These past 15 episodes had ambar in her own arc as her best self not worrying about luna and thriving as a character because of that.

But of course i understand the show is called Soy Luna. I like luna. The first two seasons revolved around her being a happy girl with loving adoptive parents starting a new life away from home. She eventually gets curious about her origins and sets out to find out where she came from with the help of her best friends. While every other character did their own thing.

The problem came about when in s3 they didnt know what to do with their protagonist. The first 5 episodes were her feeling overwhelmed with finding out she's Sol Benson and remembering a bit of her past. But that's it after that shes okay. "She's the same luna except now she's rich." Thats the whole story. Oh and she has three love interests. Oh and shes gonna bring the jam&roller team together but no one gets to shine except her and all the opportunities will go to her only. They're gonna have rivals and theyre just gonna go back and forth forever without any consequences till episode 40. The open music will have cool singing and dancing numbers and they will serve no purpose but to fill in things in the episodes except episode 10 when luna will confess her feelings for simon but jk nevermind she doesnt. Nothing ever changes.

The main focus was her love life and honestly that could have worked if it wasnt the exact same formula as season 2 with matteo. The hot and cold relationship yes no yes no. Ugh i dont understand how lutteo fans have survived for so long. I wish they had given her something more to stand for. A different character arc that wasnt just about her and matteo. Because thats what the whole season has been about. Everyone else are just there getting 1 or 2 episode arcs that really don't matter because everything will go back to normal. Simbar was lucky to get a continuous arc however they only got one or two scenes per episode and that was the highlight. Soy luna comes to an end in two episodes. And this whole week has everything revolving around luna and matteo realizing their dreams in the last 5 episodes. Just them. Jk we still have two episodes and im sure theyll show the rest "realizing their dream too" but i just cant believe they made 60 episodes of nothing.

The adults took up a lot of screentime in a storyline that just sucks. The only thing sharon's been good for is to give luna nightmares. Again everything has only been a huge plot device for luna and things a lot of times felt forced.

Well all of this was my main issue with season 3 and i wanted to share my personal opinion. Im sorry this is so long. Season 3 had its great moments but as a whole was really disappointing. I hope no one takes offense to this and although im here complaining soy luna finishing is still bittersweet. You can love something but still recognize its flaws.

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Week 23

Holy smoke! The theme of the week was ‘feeling the heat.’ 15 lessons done, PT and UT observations, EPS presentation and 3 A-Level lessons!! Also I read an entire book in one day (193 pages is the answer to your question), I successfully pan friend a sea bass so that the skin was crispy, I applied for a job and got the interview AND got a bit of a sore throat.

My UT observation lesson on Monday fell foul of the “ah I am being observed I will change the way I usually structure these lessons” thought. I was quite disappointed in this lesson because I know the class really well and their behaviour is good so I know I could have done much more with it. But opportunity no.2 is happening on Tuesday this coming week. Hopefully this one will be a cracker.

Tuesday consisted of teaching Year 9, 10 and 12, EPS presentation, AT and PT meetings and after school staff meeting. I got home and cooked a roast cauliflower and coconut dal. I have no idea where the energy comes from. I think I spent most of the week running on adrenaline. BUT ANYWAY. The Year 12 lesson was ok.. but success occurred on that front later in the week.  EPS went swimmingly. Some quotes from my PT: “This was a triumph! Genuinely engaging, beautifully organised and analysed” “Genuinely inspirational” “First rate suggestions slide and slide promoting fairer critical thinking society! Uplifting!!” She spoke to me afterwards and said I’d taken ‘the drudgery that is EPS and transformed it into something moving’ This is definitely better feedback than any I’ve ever received for a lesson! A great confidence boost, even if it was only a pass or fail situation. I got the Year 9s moving towards their assessment. They’d done research homework into an issue that they have an opinion on in preparation for writing an opinion piece. I think most of them got on board with the idea but they don’t shy away from complaining still! To be fair it probably doesn’t seem long ago to them since they last did an assessment; at least it will now be a long time until the next one!

On Wednesday I started preparing my Year 8s for their assessment. I put a lot more effort into the plans for them this week. I got them to line up outside and sorted them into groups. I gave the same poem to each group: The Eagle by Tennyson. In their groups they had to guess the order of the poem. Once  they’d sorted the poem into the correct order using rhyme, structure and punctuation as clues I got them to pick out interesting words in each line and perform the poem as a group. We watched all the performances (some were better than others) then I asked them to write the another two stanza for the poem. We mind mapped some ideas about what the eagle might do next and talked about structure some more before I set them off. 

This set me up nicely for my PT observed lesson with Year 8 the following day where I got them into different groups and gave each group a stanza from the poem The Jaguar by Ted Hughes. They tried to find the correct order (it was a lot harder this time) and I helped them along by alerting them to the rhyme scheme. There was a great moment where a boy said “lion and sun don’t rhyme” and I got to explain about half-rhymes. I got the whole class to perform the poem with actions, as per the day before, then I told them their task: for their assessment they have to write a ‘mirror’ poem to this one. It has to be from the point of view of the jaguar and similar in length. That is all the instruction I wanted to give them, because how prescriptive can you be with poetry, but I devised a planning sheet for them with suggested themes for each stanza. We mind mapped ideas again then I played some jungle noises and got them to fill it in in silence. Another lovely moment in this lesson was when I got them thinking about whether they could empathise with the jaguar, trapped in its cage in the zoo. Eventually one of them said ‘like school!’. I did think ‘Ha! What a risk!’ but I know my PT well enough to know that she would get it. I told them that that was the whole point of poetry, to find connection, through words/art, to others, to momentarily dispel loneliness, to empathise and feel understood. I don’t know how much of it they absorbed but the intentions were there. I am excited to see what they come up with in the assessment.

Thursday also was the day of Year 12 success. It was lesson round 2 of the influence of second wave feminism on detectives in crime fiction (how niche can you go?). It was brilliant. I did a quick recap of the extract then set them in groups and gave them key quotes from the extract printed out on A4 to annotate. I successfully executed some logistical magic so that each student was presented with an analysis of a quote and had to present a different quote to a peer. I got some quick feedback form that exercise then I set them up with a debate. There was a scene in the extract I chose where the protagonist, Pam, sits down to watch Cagney and Lacey (this got a laugh from the Head of English); on the show an up and coming female police officer is in mad pursuit of a serial rapist despite little evidence. Lacey tells her to leave it off but she doesn’t because it turns out she had been raped and the guy was never caught. It ends with the officer killing the rapist. I got my Year 12s to debate whether second wave feminism would condone or condemn the actions of the officer. It was a bit slow to start but then that wonderfully-sometimes-useful human trait kicked in: rivalry.

Thursday was also the day of invite to interview! Wow. It is great to know that I have an application that works. I have to teach a 20 minute non-fiction lesson to a mixed ability Year 7 class. I currently have no idea what to do and suddenly all the lessons I have ever taught for non-fiction seem boring. 

Friday was a squeeze, as in, when you have to squeeze the very last bit of toothpaste out the tube and it’s definitely not enough to have healthy teeth or minty fresh breath. I taught a lesson on legal highs to a random Year 9 class for Lifeskills. This was followed by a very lesson teaching a very docile version of Year 10, a final planning lesson for Year 8 and a road accident of a Year 12 lesson. Yes, I had read the entire book the day before and no, the extract I had chosen wasn’t great. I was so drained I could have fallen asleep on the spot. Still, it was a shame to teach such a bad ‘un after such a good ‘un the day before. I just had to let it go. 

Of course, just because I’d taught 4 lessons didn’t mean the work was finished. I splodged my way through RP3 and took all the Year 9 assessments home. 

I am one million times excited for only 6 lessons this week (I miss my busiest day because of interview), although look how that 5 lesson week turned out!?

Some things I learnt this week:

- move the boy, diffuse the boy (it works). - I can teach good lessons without a PowerPoint. - I am pretty much a motivational speaker. - I can teach A-Level when I plan sufficiently (planning sufficiently includes annotating the text you’re looking at in minute detail and knowing exactly what you want the students to get from it). - Sea bass needs 3-4 minutes in olive oil in a non-stick frying pan, skin side down, then 1 minute on the other side. Done.

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It's tempting to view M.J. Bassett's endangered species as Lionsgate's attempt to cash in on the revival. The trailer shows a skinny, sweaty, mid-level executive guy on safari with a brood treating him like the pathetic nerd he seems to be. We are introduced to the rebellious teenage girl with the shaved head who despises her own privilege; her new century hippie boyfriend; a younger brother who is probably gay; and a mother who wears pants in the family (even if they look like shorts).

I don't have a problem with shaved-headed girls, gay teens, hippies, or strong women. However, I'm growing tired of the doofus-daddy archetype in entertainment that incongruously portrays straight white men as both hopelessly incapable and as oppressive bullies who have ruined the planet, society, culture. , fashion, etc. Pop culture dads have ditched wisdom typefaces to limping taps that constantly need to be put back in their place - however ill-defined this place is.

Oddly enough, this phenomenon transcends race, but still falls under the rubric "Whiteness". Go figure it out.

If you think I'm reading too much into the politics of this film, consider the following lines of dialogue, addressed (directly and indirectly) to the patriarch of the Halsey family, Jack (Philip Winchester): “The old white men in suits are on the move. screw it up for us ”And“ Violence, corruption, child labor - all for [cobalt cell phone] ”.

Endangered species surface themes are so much on the nose that they might as well be zits. Fortunately, Bassett (and co-writers Paul Chronnell and Isabel Bassett - the director's daughter, who also plays Jack's daughter, Zoe) are interested in more than a regular Colonizer Comeuppance story. Which means there is some cosmic justice for Exxon Jack's executive, but the rest of the family learn ugly truths about the progressive American bubbles they have happily and critically bounced into. on daddy.

From the first minute, things go wrong for the Halseys. Their flight to Kenya is choppy. The truck they hired to visit Amboseli National Park turns out to be a junker (“I asked for a Mercedes,” Jack tells a guide with a smirk). Zoe insists on bringing glass water bottles on the trip - all of which shatter when the family's transport is loaded by a rhino after Jack smashes a security fence in order to disprove his reputation for safety.

Also in glass: the insulin vials that would have been nice to have as a diabetic mom Lauren (Rebecca Romijn) struggles in the sun. In no time, the group broke up and ran into a leopard, ravenous hyenas, and ultimately a team of poachers and their ruthless leader - the truly evil imperialist capitalist that Zoe probably thought her father was up to. that he comes face to face with the real thing.

I won't spoil the details of the Hawleys again. The trailer has done it before - including what is, in context, a really mouth-to-mouth shock that I'm embarrassed to say that made me jump. Bassett and his company have come up with a very effective and lush little thriller, which saves the most contrived plot elements for the last act and instead relies on the primitive fear of helplessness in the face of nature to carry a big part of the story.

What makes the movie a staple, however, is the deconstruction of the archetypes I listed at the start of this review. The film's title obviously refers to the animals that Mitch and his team of locals hunt, slice, and sell on the black market. But it also suggests that the nuclear family, represented by the Halseys, is also in danger of disappearing. Yes, families come in all shapes, sizes, dynamics, etc.

For much of the film, Jack is the stand-in for Friday the 13th Crazy Ralph - the character who warns everyone to use common sense in the face of very obvious peril. The problem is that any authority he could exercise in his job is completely undermined by the people who don't work for him (as well as his own pride). He refuses to acknowledge his discomfort that his son, Noah (Michael Johnston), has a boyfriend, even though everyone can see him. He angrily threatens to cut off his daughter's cell phone and cancel her summer concert tickets when Zoe gives him an attitude.

The other film "Endangered Species", which is endangered by raging animals this weekend, differs from "A Quiet Place Part II" in many ways, especially in that its characters cannot stop jerking - with correspondingly less concern from the audience to survive under extreme stress. MJ Bassett's South African-produced thriller has an American vacation clan doing the wrong things in a Kenyan wildlife sanctuary. Needless to say, to the sorrow of our protagonists, the local fauna quickly notices that there are fresh snacks available in the savannah.

The contentious human dynamic makes this outdoor suspense exercise one where we start looking for the four-legged performers too early. Smooth and scenic, but increasingly silly, in the end it has become perhaps the most preaching nature conservation adventure with a wrong head since the infamous “roar” 40 years ago. Lionsgate is released in digital, VoD and limited-edition cinemas. Blu-ray and DVD will follow on June 1st. Exxon manager Jack Halsey (Philip Winchester) is a Type A who is dissatisfied with his family vacation before it even starts. He would have preferred a beach resort to expensive safari vacationer Lauren (Rebecca Romijn), whom he insisted on. They are sped towards it in a rickety little plane that he is also holding, while the children duly notice that Dad sneaks up alcohol to deal with, while Mom turns a blind eye.

These young adult children also have their own problems with him: son Noah (Michael Johnston) is close to his father, but at the same time feels that his homosexuality is not fully accepted. Daughter Zoe (Isabel Bassett) never misses an opportunity to indict Jack's privilege as a white man or to point out that he is not her "real" parent (Lauren's first husband died when she was a baby) while working on the annoying older one Hippie friend clings (Chris Fisher as Billy) She's invited. Noah's own friend is expressly absent.

Papa complains about the less than luxury rental car they pick up at the airport, but then he has secretly cut corners on the travel budget. (It's not that it's just cheap: Although he neglected to tell her, Lauren accidentally discovers that he just lost his job due to an oil pipeline scandal.) Indeed, Jack has the expensive "Safari." “Part of their safari excursion not booked. So they leave the resort the next day for a "self-guided" tour through the nearby national park, which is hardly recommended. They also evade registration at the entrance gate, leaving park rangers unaware of their identity, medical issues, or itinerary. This is just one terrible mistake among many who can quickly leave the family stuck in the middle of a scorching hotspot with no guide, water, or cell service. Two of them were wounded and their car was turned over by an angry rhino. Diabetic Lauren's insulin supply is another victim. So the only two fully functional passengers, Noah and Billy, set out on foot to get help. Again, this turns out to be a very bad idea, as one party is excluded from an animal attack, which is the only hair-raising interlude here. The happier group crawls back to the van, which has aroused unwanted interest in a pack of hyenas.

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Can four pictures really sum up my week? Well, if I’m being honest they come pretty close. Reading, paperwork, sunny skies and traffic jams. That’s what I’ve been up to. The sunny skies makes a nice change. Well … not a change exactly, it’s becoming quite repetitive now, but hey – we mustn’t complain.

So how has your week been? Good? Good. I had a pretty awesome one by all accounts. Monday, despite being at work (boo hiss) I had a pretty fabulous day as I was Netgalley approved for one of THE books I have been most anticipating all year, the first in James Oswald’s brand new Constance Fairchild series, No Time To Cry. Now I was in Dublin training on Monday so I started reading it in my lunch break. Carried on reading it in the airport where I was only disturbed by a small false fire alarm, boarding the plane and driving home. I know! Annoying right? Carried on reading when I got home, finished around two a.am. I am completely gutted now as reading it so quickly means I have ages to wait for the next book in either series but by ‘eck. It was good. Sooooooo good. This was my only Netgalley this week, but that’s no bad thing lol. And as I arrived home to a signed copy of The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir courtesy of Goldsboro Books too, the day was pretty good all in all.

Tuesday was a work day (boo hiss) but I crammed in some reading in the evening, even though I was absolutely shattered from my early morning book binge. Wednesday was a little more exciting as I drove down to London for an early morning (six a.m.) appointment the following day, Whilst there it felt only polite to head along to the London launch for Louise Voss’ The Old You and Doug Johnstone’s Fault Lines. The sacrifices one makes for blogging huh?

A fabulous evening in the gallery of Collyer Bristow on Beford Row in some wonderful company. So nice to catch up with old friends, Vicki Goldman, Joy Kluver, Jacob Collins, Anne Cater, Karen Cole, Mary Picken, Barry Forshaw and Marina Sofia. I met Daniel Pembrey who is lovely, and of course it was a chance to say hi to the lovely Karen Sullivan again and also the effervescent Meggy who was in her element and perhaps more than a little high on chocolate cake ;), One of the biggest surprises of the night was seeing Thomas Enger there – totally not expecting that but just shows what a fab team the Orenda guys are as he flew in all the way from Norway to give his support to the launch.

Book wise I picked up a signed copy of Fault Lines (I already had The Old You from earlier in the year at the Orenda Roadshow in Warwick) and an arc of Good Samaritans by Will Carver, an arc I have been rather jealous of having seen arriving with all my blogging compadres.

Driving home from Tottenham on Thursday was pure hell. Hell I tell you! Left at three and, with a series of delays, accidents and general nonsense to contend with, plus a very late breakfast stop at four thirty p.m., I finally arrived home just before eight. You’d think I’d be unhappy about that right? Well normally I would be but I managed to finish an audio book and then, when you arrive home to a massive parcel with your TBC auction wins in it, well you can’t stay in a bad mood for long can you? Such a wonderful sight to see.

What was in it? Well … Random, Snapshot, Cold Grave, Witness The Dead, In Place of Death, Murderabilia and The Photographer by Craig Robertson and The Unseen, The Price, The Harrowing and The Book of Shadows by Alexandra Sokoloff. Oh, plus some Ferrero Rocher and a Bloody Scotland t-shirt. Tidy.

Friday it was back to work and some rather dull but essential meetings and a lot more spreadsheet work. You’d think I’d be flagging by this point, and normally you’d be right, but an email from the lovely Karen Sullivan put a big smile on my face and not even talking coffee pods, cost centre reports or proof of delivery capture could get me down. More on that later in the week 😉

Saturday and Sunday … well a little walking and more reading plus a whole lot of review writing. I’m a little behind. Unlike my actual behind which is currently anything other than little hence my need for all the walking, even in this heat… saw some cygnets down a the local canal basin though so that was nice. And the books I have been reading are awesome which is also nice 🙂

Book purchase wise I was quite good really. For me. No new audible, just the one Netgalley above and only three book purchased, two pre-orders and one free short story. They were The Night She Died by Jenny Blackhurst; Death’s Door by Paul Finch and No Further Questions by Gillian McAllister.

Books I have read

No Time To Cry – James Oswald

Undercover ops are always dangerous, but DC Constance Fairchild never expected things to go this wrong.

Returning to their base of operations, an anonymous office in a shabby neighbourhood, she finds the bloodied body of her boss, and friend, DI Pete Copperthwaite. He’s been executed – a single shot to the head.

In the aftermath, it seems someone in the Met is determined to make sure that blame for the wrecked operation falls squarely on Con’s shoulders. She is cut loose and cast out, angry and alone with her grief… right until the moment someone also tries to put a bullet through her head.

There’s no place to hide, and no time to cry.

Oh my life how I loved this book. Constance ‘Con’ Fairchild is a brilliant new protagonist who I am looking forward to getting to know. Very different in tone and style from the Inspector McLean series, it still bears James Oswald’s natural style of a twisted and complex story, with just a hint of something … supernatural, captivating characters and feisty determination. He may give his leads a very privileged start in life but he never quite lets them get comfortable. Loved it. And if you’ve not read any books by Mr Oswald yet, this is a great place to start. I’ll be reviewing later in the year, may do a taster review later in the month (ebook publication is late July) and you can preorder your own copy here. Do it. you know you want to.

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The Killing Habit – Mark Billingham

How do you catch a killer who is yet to kill? We all know the signs. Cruelty, lack of empathy, the killing of animals. Now, pets on suburban London streets are being stalked by a shadow, and it could just be the start.

DI Tom Thorne knows the psychological profile of such offenders all too well, so when he is tasked with catching a notorious killer of domestic cats, he sees the chance to stop a series of homicides before they happen.

Others are less convinced, so once more, Thorne relies on DI Nicola Tanner to help him solve the case, before the culprit starts hunting people. It’s a journey that brings them face to face with a killer who will tear their lives apart.

Mark Billingham has a real knack for taking real life cases and spinning them into an occasionally gruesome, always compelling, what if kind of scenario. The book starts in an almost surreal way with Thorne tasked with capturing a cat killer of all people, and ends in a way no-one could have foreseen, Gripping, action laden and with the wonderful pairing of Thorne with his exact opposite, Nicola Tanner once more, this is irresistably good. I’ll be reviewing soon but you can get your own copy here.

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A Patient Fury – Sarah Ward

When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death.

Three bodies discovered – a family obliterated – their deaths all seem to point to one conclusion: One mother, one murderer.

But D.C. Childs, determined as ever to discover the truth behind the tragedy, realises it is the fourth body – the one they cannot find – that holds the key to the mystery at Cross Farm Lane.

What Connie Childs fails to spot is that her determination to unmask the real murderer might cost her more than her health – this time she could lose the thing she cares about most: her career.

This was my first Connie Childs book, although I have the others on my kindle waiting patiently. I know I’veprobably missed quite a bit in Connie’s first outings but I have to say i really liked her, a determined officer, stubborn even, who is not willing to let things go just because she is ordered to do so and who has great instincts which she knows to trust. A harrowing case involving the death of a child puts the whole team on edge. Clever plotting, excellent writing and a guarantee I’ll be back for more. I\ll be reviewing as part of the tour later in the month but you can buy a copy here.

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Dancing on the Grave – Zoe Sharp

In one of the most beautiful corners of England, Something very ugly is about to take place…

A sniper with a mission… a young cop with nothing to lose… a CSI with everything to prove… a teenage girl with a terrifying obsession…

There’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the calm of an English summer is shattered.

For newly qualified crime-scene investigator, Grace McColl, it’s both the start of a nightmare and the chance to prove herself after a mistake that cost a life.

For Detective Constable Nick Weston, recently transferred from London, it’s an opportunity to recover his nerve after a disastrous undercover operation that left him for dead.

And for a lonely, loveless teenage girl, Edith, it’s the start of a twisted fantasy—one she never dreamed might come true.

A standalone CSI led thriller this involves a high profile murder, a killer on the loose with a very unstable young woman at his side. High tension, high action and with brilliantly drawn characters this is another top class read from author Zoe Sharp and highly recommended. I’ll be reviewing on the tour later in the month but do yourself a favour and bag a copy here.

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Four books – not too shabby all things considered. It’s been a busy week. Less so on the blog but I am meant to be slowing down…

The Note by Andrew Barrett

A Meditation on Murder by Robert Thorogood

Death on Dartmoor by Bernie Steadman

After He’s Gone by Jane Isaac

Guest Post: Robert Dugoni – Author of A Steep Price

The week ahead is pretty full on. I’ve a few blog tours starting tomorrow with The Death of Mrs Westaway by Rith Ware and A Summer Scandal by Kat French; How Far We Fall by Jane Shemilt and Gone To Ground by Rachel Amphlett.

I’ll also be taking part in an exclusive cover reveal on Wednesday so do stop by. I promise you that you really want to see this. Love it.

My week will otherwise be made up of work, reading, reviewing and – wait for it – actual writing. Yes, you read that right. No more messing about. I will be writing. Eek. No pressure.

Have a fabulous and hopefully sunny and book filled week all. See you on the other side.

Jen

Rewind, recap: Weekly update w/e 01/07/18 Can four pictures really sum up my week? Well, if I'm being honest they come pretty close.