Book Review: Orson Scott Card’s The Lost Gate
Danny North is an outsider in his own family. A boy with no talent in a house of secrets, great expectations, and so many rules, isolated far from town, from other people.
Danny North is an outsider in his own family. A boy with no talent in a house of secrets, great expectations, and so many rules, isolated far from town, from other people.
Six year-old Zoe York’s crude drawings are her visions of the future and make her a target for evil. It’s a search that takes Remy to dark places – and his soul may pay the price.
Rivals, companions, lovers, complete opposites. A photographer and a photojournalist on a road trip to explore an American summer. And each other.
For Celebrity magazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, very private, horror-story writer Hunter Brown had become a personal quest.
A freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to Camp Half-Blood, where Piper will discover why her boyfriend no longer recognizes her and what trouble her father is in.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library Cardington Crescentby Anne Perry historical mystery in a paperback edition that was published by Fawcett Books on April 12, 1988 and has 304 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, A Christmas Hope, Dark Tide RisingEighth in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt mystery series set in late 19th century London. My Take As ever, Perry does a lovely job of recreating the sense of the late 19th century through the dialog and the mores, culture, and styles of the time. The part I don’t understand is why Emily and George and Aunt Vespasia are even staying at the Marches. They all live in London. Why would they be spending weeks at a house where they can’t stand its matriarch or her son?? I also resent the summary on […]
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