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Two Truths Diverged in the Shadow of Cape Horn

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

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In 1740, the Wager set off on a journey around the world with a secret mission to capture Spanish silver and gold. Two years later, a leaking longboat lands in Brazil full of desperate men. But these are not the only survivors of the Wager, and both captain and crew end up on trial as England attempts to determine the truth. I love a good survival story, but for some reason shipwrecks have always left me underwhelmed. Maybe it’s because I don’t like the beach. But I […]

Well, I wanted to find out what happened next

Stung V02 Cured by Bethany Wiggins

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Book two of the Stung series by Bethany Wiggins should be read after you’ve read book one, or some of the names, events and the overall concept will be lost. This time we see in Cured how it follows a character we had seen in book one but was not important to that story arc, the two main characters of book one, a few side characters from book one and a few new people. There are some mature themes such as an event happened to […]

The illustrations are nice.

Green Arrow: Stranded by Brendan Deneen

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Green Arrow: Stranded is a cozy book, yet I was unsatisfied at the end. Is there a sequel? Why should I like these people? Who are these people? Ollie Queen has an interesting set of morals: don’t kill the wild boar trying to kill you and the others but the snake is fair game? The plane crashes but four of the five people survive, but you never find the pilot? Then again, we never did see them, just some snide comments from the father of […]

If The World Was Ending, Would You Save My Life?

Black Tide by KC Jones

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When the coronavirus burst on to the American scene in March 2020, the song If the World Was Ending was cycling through the pop station airways. Its theme of finding comfort with an unlikely person at the end of the world (presumably during an earthquake) felt appropriately melancholy, and perhaps reassuring depending on what your situation was. There’s always someone to love us and we find love in desperate moments. I don’t know if KC Jones has heard that song or not but this book felt like […]

The Schoolhouse Blizzard

Maddy and the Monstrous Storm by Julie Gilbert

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Maddy  is new to the prairie, but when she and her classmates are trapped in their schoolhouse by a ferocious blizzard, she must lead them all to safety. I’d first heard of the Schoolhouse Blizzard a year or two ago, when I read Melanie Benjamin’s The Children’s Blizzard, which similarly followed a schoolteacher and a group of schoolchildren who were trapped by the snow and had to fight to survive. This book covers the same topic and themes, but in a way that is more accessible […]

An interesting take on the dystopian genre

The Last One by Alexandra Oliva

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A reality TV show launches 12 contestants into the woods, fending for their own survival and the chance to win a huge prize. The last person able to survive alone wins the money and bragging rights. Cut off from the rest off the world, they are left to their own devices to survive in the wilderness and win the competition. The producers of the show give nicknames to each contestant; our protagonist is Zoo. She’s plucky and bookish, and has a hard time adjusting to […]



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