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Amber Dickson rated Where the Crawdads Sing: 2 stars
Amber Dickson rated The Count of Monte Cristo: 4 stars
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas …
Amber Dickson rated Gravity is the Thing: 3 stars
Amber Dickson rated Too Much Lip: 4 stars
Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko
Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused …
Amber Dickson rated Honeybee: 5 stars
Amber Dickson rated Ruin: A Novel: 3 stars
Ruin (2018, HarperCollins Publishers Australia)
Ruin: A Novel by Dervla McTiernan
It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's …
Amber Dickson rated The library of Babel: 3 stars
Amber Dickson reviewed Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers and the competition between …
Review of 'Power of the Dog' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Amber Dickson reviewed The Stranger by Albert Camus
L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and …
Review of 'The Stranger' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
I attempted to read this in French, it was too soon and I struggled a lot and ended up using Google translate quite a bit which probably took away from the story. Oh well.
Amber Dickson rated The prime of Miss Jean Brodie: 4 stars
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark’s timeless classic about a controversial teacher who deeply marks the lives of a select group of students in …
Amber Dickson reviewed Wonderboy by Bryony Sutherland
Wonderboy (2014, Arrant Press)
Review of 'Wonderboy' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I think this book should have been longer, it had so much potential. So many threads of the story could have been fleshed out. The writing was original and lyrical but needed some work to become truly great literature.
Amber Dickson rated Econobabble: 4 stars
Amber Dickson rated Lock In: 2 stars
Amber Dickson rated The woman in blue: 2 stars
The woman in blue by Elly Griffiths
"In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a …