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Clumisly Written, 12 Aug 2008

**Contains very mild spoilers**

Breaking Dawn is the massively anticipated fourth book in the popular Twilight series written by Stephenie Meyer. The story picks up where the previous book, Eclipse, finishes with the main character, Bella, looking forwards to her future life with her fiancé, a vampire.

Considering the popularity of this series there has been an understandable amount of hype and excitement surrounding Breaking Dawn. Unfortunately, as the book progresses it becomes increasingly obvious that it was never going to be the classic that many fans had anticipated. In the previous three books in the series, Meyer has shown that she is an author not afraid… Read more

A Sound Start, 28 Oct 2005

This book would be interesting introduction for the reader who knows nothing or very little about pigeons, doves and dovecotes. There is an excellent guide to the different types of pigeons and a thorough (perhaps even excessive) study of dovecotes and there history. Overall well worth the money.

Not nearly as Precious, 14 Sep 2005

As an avid fan of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series I was looking forwards to reading Alexander McCall Smith's new series. I was interested to see what new and fresh character the author would come up with to compete with my affections for Precious Ramotswe. For me though The Sunday Philosophy Club fell flat. Before long it became clear to me that McCall Smith had unfortunately attempted to recreate Precious in his new female lead, Isabel Dalhousie. The truth is that where the somewhat imposing moral tones of Precious had worked in that woman, in Isabel they simply come across as overbearing. From start to finish the book felt to me like one long lecture on morals; a complaint about… Read more