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The Rook
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March 1, 2015
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March 31, 2015
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Maggie
Jul 29, 2016 rated it it was amazing
This book starts out with an I-can’t-catch-my-breath downhill rollercoaster feeling and keeps twisting and turning until I had to put the book down, utterly worn out from Myfawny Thomas’s adventures. I was drawn in hook, line, and sinker into this paranormal storyline. It’s like London’s version of Men in Black. Myfawny (pronounced to rhyme with Tiffany) wakes up with her mind wiped, but her former self leaving her clues all over creation and back as to who she is/was and what she’s about. As wi ...more
Laura
I thought this book was AMAZING! In fact, I found myself reading only a few chapters at a time so I could make it last longer. It was a cross between the MI-5 TV show on BBC and the X-Men.

The plot is a little hard to explain -- and I'm not going to try. That's why Daniel O'Malley wrote the book and I did not. But basically, Myfanwy Thomas (weird name but it grows on you) is a leader in a supernatural CIA-type organization in England. She awakens in a park with dead bodies all around her and no r
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Jocelyn
Jul 18, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Devon
Dec 29, 2017 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Lynn
Feb 04, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Mar 12, 2018 rated it really liked it
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Amanda R
Mar 23, 2019 rated it it was ok
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