Books by Catherine Jinks
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review 1: In Victoria England orphans must do the most dangerous and unsavory jobs to survive. Birdie works with Alfred the Bogler, a man who catches and kills monsters for a living. Birdie is used as bait for the monsters who prefer to dine on children, but Birdie enjoys her job. Which is...
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review 1: I generally love books about the middle ages and this one was ok. I liked how Bablyonne is a feisty, spirited character. While she clings strongly to her beliefs that the Roman priests are bad, she hears the discourse between Father Isidore and the Perfects, and eventually grow...
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review 1: Picked it up on a free book exchange shelf while at the Dolphin Bay hotel in Hawaii (in Hilo on the big island). Crappy teen sci-fi/horror novel by an Australian author. Generation ship turns to living organism due to cosmic encounter, and its 'immune system' tries to kill all ...
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review 1: the book is about a boy named Marcus that is a computer geek and never does stuff outside. his mother takes him to a lake and take his electronics away to good some outdoors time and what not. they take a trailer and its really old and small. his mother meets up with an old frien...
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review 1: You know what hell is? Apparently, hell is having to attend a support group for vampires every Tuesday night for all of eternity. Jinks has created a more realistic group of vampires, but they're a terribly sad lot. They feel sick all the time, they struggle to meet their own mos...
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review 1: Cadel is enjoying ordinary life. Enrolled in a real college, coming home to a real family, looking forward to a normal future that doesn't involve criminal enterprises or evil masterminds---he's finally settling down. But when Prosper English is sighted, this growing peace is sha...
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review 1: I was somewhat disappointed by this one. I had quite enjoyed "The Reformed Vampire Support Group", and was looking forward to more of the same dry wit. Unfortunately, not only is the "Abused Werewolf..." lacking in a distinct narrative voice (the protagonist sounds like any 15 ye...
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review 1: I enjoyed reading How To Catch A Bogle a Victorian fantasy novel by Catherine Jinks. Birdie, the heroine, is an apprentice to Alfred the Bogler. She's bogle bait. Bogles are monsters who consume children. The action begins quickly in this one. Readers soon see Alfred and Birdie h...
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review 1: This is a fun book set in a real London at a time when many children are lucky just to get a job as a chimney sweep or an assistant to a bogle catcher. Turns out that there are many kinds of bogles who live in people's homes, out buildings or sewers. Bogles eat children. A child ...
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review 1: To be honest, I didn't really enjoy The Genius Wars. It wasn't what I expected and it wasn't as great as the other previous books of this trilogy. The only good part of this book was that we got to see another side of Prosper English. We got to see him break down from his former ...
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review 1: This isn't really much about werewolves. It's really more of an action/adventure book. Toby, the protagonist, is kidnapped early on, and most of the book is about his attempted escape, the attempted rescue, and the attempted revenge on the kidnappers, who supposedly run somethi...