Books by Caroline Overington
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3.84 of 5 Votes: 5
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review 1: I'm so glad my dad recommended this book. Now I'm looking forward to reading more of hers. I loved reading this Aussie story, written in letter form by the patriarch of the family. He's a simple yet hard working man, struggling to prevent bad things happening to his family, at th...
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3.73 of 5 Votes: 3
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review 1: I'm giving this two stars as I reserve one star for novels that I am unable to finish, but needless to say I did not enjoy this novel. I found it to be unnecessarily drawn out, the dialogue was incredibly irritating, neither central character had any endearing qualities, and the ...
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3.74 of 5 Votes: 1
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review 1: Caroline Overington's writing style is really easy to read. Again she's written chapter by chapter from different characters' perspectives. She nails the voices of various Aussies - the cop, the foster carer, the underprivileged and abused. I enjoyed the voice of the police offic...
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3.56 of 5 Votes: 2
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review 1: I didn't really like this book. The writing was ok but I don't like being on the side of someone that I can't relate to, and Snow Delaney was not a nice person. About 3/4 through I got really disturbed and basically pushed through just so that I could get to a resolution and just...
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3.36 of 5 Votes: 5
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review 1: I found this quite different to her other novels all of which I've read. It was a less complex storyline but introducing real-life works events such as the world trade centre collapse and the introduction of the World Wide Web was a clever way to hook the reader in as they would ...