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Some more book reviews
Dark Places
By Jon Evans

Dark Places is a mystery/thriller set in a variety of different locations. The beginning is set on the Annapurna Trail, where the backpacker Paul Wood finds the body of another backpacker in a deserted ruin. The strange thing about the body though is that the corpse has two swiss army-knives stuck through his eyes, just like Paul's girfriend Laura had when he found her murdered two years earlier. Paul begins a hunt to find the murderer of the backpacker and find out if the two murders are connected. Telling any more of the plot of this novel would be a definite spoiler, there are so many well-paced events crammed into this book that practically saying what happened on the next page would be a spoiler.

The characters are very beleivable as real people, and react in beleivable ways to the situations that arise. The plot is well thought out and the pacing is brilliant! There's never a dull moment in the novel, some.moments leave you hyperventilating, it's that intense and well thought out.

One of the things I found most amazing about Dark Places was the amount of detail Jon has put in to describing the different cultures and locations Paul comes across in his travels. It's very educational in that respect

I enjoyed Dark Places a lot, and I reccomend others read it as well


Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
By J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was quite a good book, I certainly enjoyed it a lot more than I did its predecessor, due to the fact that Harry seemed to be acting a lot more responsible and less moody than he was in book five. I enjoyed the story, although the focus was a little less on school life than it normally was, I can't really discuss the book without giving major spoilers. I was not surprised to disover who it was that died though, but I thought the fact revealed about Snape was a bad decision to make on J.K. Rowling's part. I enjoyed the excitement and usual wizardly stuff during the book and will definitely buy the last book in the series when it comes out.

The Color of Distance
By Amy Thompson

The Color of Distance is an amazing novel. It is about a woman being stranded on an alien world, where she is allergic to the enviroment. The sentient aliens on the planet use a biological talent they have to engineer her so that she can live on the planet and breathe in its atmosphere. The aliens are biological geniuses that way but live in a pre medeival society in a rainforest, but they seem so alien that a pre-medeival society is something they need never advance from. The aliens are the best aliens I have ever read a novel about, they are so different from humans in every respect, which most Science Fiction authors cannot do all that well. The story is good, and the level of detail the author uses keeps you immersed in the book is incredible. I reccomend that everyone who likes aliens should read it