Gideon Boot - Richie Spice

Advantages: Unputdownable
Disadvantages: none I can think of

...I love books. I will read one, maybe two a week (time allowing), but never seem to get around to writing reviews about them. Writers get writers block, I get reviewers block. So, my first book review. Gideon is a book I picked up whilst browsing around Asda a year or so ago, I picked up the paperback copy for the measly sum of £3.84. The book is by an author I had never heard of before, but on reading the back of the book I thought 'what the hell I'll give it a go'. The book starts with an unknown character having a nightmare, the same one he has had for most of his life (at this point what the nightmare is is not apparent). This character then decides that he needs to talk to someone, he confides in his local priest, who after taking the confession he is now 'filled with terror'. Who is this person?? What has he... Read review

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Advantages: Hollywood insight, It girl memoirs, unique, drug experiences are interesting
Disadvantages: drugs, may seem shallow to some people

... Tell me the truth, Nicole Richie [A review of her novel "The truth about diamonds"] What is it? "The truth about diamonds" is a novel by celebrity Nicole Richie. This book tells a bit of her life, but written from an interesting perspective. Nicole Richie writes as the best friend of a girl named Chloe. Chloe goes through similar events to what Nicole Richie has gone through in her real life - being adopted, taking drugs, becoming famous and making vicious friends. Thus Nicole Richie avoids ridiculing herself, hurting the friends she described in the novel and she also does very well at oberserving her own behaviour in the past and projecting it into Chloe. Who is Nicole Richie? Nicole Richie is singer Lionel Rcihie's adopted daughter. She used to be best friends with Paris Hilton and became famous by staring in "The... Read review

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Advantages: New concept of vampire story
Disadvantages: Can seem strange to start with when you think you are reading the end first

...This book has quite an interesting layout. It starts with the Gideon the bad-guy getting shot by three of the unfortunate women he has been tormenting. The assumption you make is that you are being told the end at the beginning. I never read the last page in case I die before I finish the book, although I know plenty of people who do! So to start with I didn’t like this book very much. But I stuck with it while it described some of the other characters in the book, and before long I was hooked. I wanted to know who the strange young men were, who were driven to kill each other. Although sickened by their murderous deeds, they were absolutely powerless to disobey the commands from within their heads. They had the ‘Rage’. They had to find and kill ‘The Other’. So they could be ‘The One’... Read review

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