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666 Charing Cross Road (2011)

by Paul Magrs(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0755359488 (ISBN13: 9780755359486)

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English

genre

Horror

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review 1: I gave up at the end of Chapter Five. The premise was good enough, but the prose didn't engage me in the slightest. None of the characters "popped" off the page at all. After five chapters I felt I didn't know Shelley or Liza at all. They were as dull as dirty glass. Liza's viewpoint scenes swung from boring common or garden prose to a passable attempt at a New York accent and back again, which was jarring. I couldn't find any reason to care about the characters. The prose was repetitious, too.I flicked forward to the end out of curiosity. If I can read a scene about someone trapped underground with an undead army, her only ally a centuries old Scottish Bride (who spoke like thissssssssss arrrrrrrrrrrrrr), and still feel bored, I don't want to invest any more of my time in... more reading the book.
review 2: Bookshop assistant Jack befriends an eccentric book critic Liza, and also meets a sexy new bloke Ricardo. While Liza's niece Shelley, unearths a strange effigy of a Scottish Bride at the museum she works, and falls for Daniel, the distant museum curator.Liza's love of supernatural tales leads Jack puts her in touch with the proprietor of 666 Charing Cross Road, who starts sending Liza parcels of rare books. Things are going well until one of Liza's parcels contains a grimoire soaked in blood.Daniel performs a ritual from the grimoire, brings forth an old evil and things start going down hill for them all after that...Another spooky tale from Paul Magrs, told with his usual humour. We get drawn into the lives of these quirky characters just in time for them to experience the adventure of a lifetime. One involving vampires, mysterious bookshops, strange companions and a lot of danger.If you're a fan of Magrs' Brenda & Effie books then you'll also love this, and start seeing connections between the characters. less

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