this is when hundreds of thousands or millions of starlings dart around in the sky like some weirdly choreographed dance. In Russia, female cops dressed like this are being disciplined, though, to be fair, it was the short skirts, not the high heels, that were the cause of the Interior Ministry's ire.

The entire unit of 20 female cops, in the city of Aguascalientes in Central Mexico, were disbanded because they were hurting the force's image. I'm sure Joaquín Guzmán aka El Chapo, would disagree.You may guess something so sinister waiting for those guys at the amusement park. You’re absolutely right! I enjoyed this book, but found the resolution to the case not satisfying, as it did not feel not earned. The murderer experiences a break with reality at the end, and it felt like a too swift and easy wrap-up to what till then had been a compelling story. I'm more of a plot-driven fan, but I did enjoy the character introspection and the frisson of tension amongst the group. Some parts of the story did lag for me and could do with an edit, however, by the end of the book I had so many intense feelings for these characters. How can you feel so much outrage/sympathy/hope/despair/anger for fictional people? Somehow, Nell Pattison was able to give me all the feels.

This book is billed as “Detective D.D. Warren #2.” There is much more of D.D. in this story than in book one, but it is still very much Bobby Dodge’s show. This is Bobby’s first case as a detective, and while he has a lot to learn, he has good instincts, other than letting himself have feelings for a woman who’s a key part of the case. D.D. seems to be a hard-core cop. She’s all business. I’d like to know what’s under that tough exterior. We know that she and Bobby tried and failed to have a relationship. I do like observing the interplay between Bobby and D.D. and the unease that lies beneath the surface of their interactions. So now she's seen it. She knows what's out there. It doesn't make anymore sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror - the fear of the unknown - to terror - the fear of the known. Terror is almost a comfort at this point, a familiar friend." One to one correspondence is important because it's a precursor for nearly all other mathematical concepts. Perhaps one day, after I've forgiven and forgotten what Ms Gardner did to DD, I might relisten to this and end up with a 5-star book. After all, I detested Tess Gerritsen's Jane Rizzoli but Jane changed and now I'm hooked on the series. Trigger/Content Warnings: murder, blood and gore, suicide, murder of children, loss of parents, loss of a sibling, homelessness, homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, animal death, high-demand religion/cult (mentioned)A copy of this book was kindly provided to me by Netgalley and Thomas & Mercer in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! *** Learning to count to 10 is an essential area of a child's development, so anything that gives children some extra support is valuable. 'Hide-a-Saurus' infuses the topic with excitement, helping children to recognise numbers and improving counting skills within a fun context. This is the graphic adaptation of Kiersten White’s 2022 survival-horror-in-an-amusement-park novel Hide, which I did try to read earlier this year, but just could not get into it. However, it did work MUCH better for me as a graphic novel! Some of what made the text-only novel difficult for me persists here—namely the rapid, whiplash changes in perspective and jarring leaps in time—but having the visuals helps a lot! The artwork by Veronica and Andy Fish is engaging and bold. In this story we follow fourteen contestants competing in a Hide-and-Seek contest at an abandoned amusement park. During her investigation (with the reluctant help of Dodge and Warren), she discovers a possible link with a serial killer that abducted and tortured a young girl several years before her family left Boston.

If you read much YA fiction, you’ve probably come across author Kiersten White before, either from her And I Darken trilogy, a gender-bent retelling of the life of Vlad the Impaler, to her Camelot Rising series, which puts a more feminist spin on the story of Arthur and Guinevere. (And don’t sleep on the Bram Stoker Award-winning Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein!)In all of Pattison’s works there is a character who is deaf. I absolutely love this because it has taught me so much that I did not know before. This book was no exception, and I ended up learning so much about cochlear implants! I love this unique take that Pattison uses to raise awareness. I loved the idea and as a loyal fan of the author, I was so intrigued to read her contemporary horror adult debut! I do definitely think the graphic novel version is the best way to read this book. The illustrations add so much more meaning to the story. I actually was expecting something different to this when I went into it, some more horror and less adventure. Not that there isn't horror and gore of course, and the monster too, but it wasn't what I expected. January 8, 2023 – @77% I think the story has become confusing, but I will finish it tonight. The narration is still grating, distracting from my listening experience :(

Hide follows a group of seven friends in a nature group. During one of their excursions one of them is killed, but which of them did it? The rest of them must race to try and save themselves. When I saw that the book was being developed into a graphic novel I might have screamed and spun around in a circle and it's worth every ounce of excitement I had. If you want to read something truly spooky with a terrifying storyline then look no further than Hide! The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon’s classic Harvest Home, Netflix’s Squid Game, and the social commentary of Jordan Peele’s film oeuvre and mixes these with a revelatory pacing reminiscent of Spielberg’s Jaws.”— BooklistHide-a-Saurus Dinosaur Counting Worksheet - If your EYFS children are still working on their counting and are quite ready for addition just yet, this worksheet is perfect. Children need to count how many dinosaurs they see and write the number in the circle. Other novels include Mooncranker's Gift (1973) (winner of the Heinemann Award), Stone Virgin (1985), and Losing Nelson (1999). He counts William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers as his major influences.