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"The Monster's Daughter" is a challenging work of fiction that provides a taste of what it might have been like to live in South Africa during the appalling years of Apartheid.

This provocative and, at times, powerful and atmospheric novel is kept from being an unqualified success by its excessive length and unwieldy structure/5(9). A young police officer in modern South Africa investigates a murder with deep roots in the past in Pretorius' debut daughter of a prominent policeman, Alet Berg finds her promising career in the Special Task Force cut short when she gets involved with another officer; humiliated, she's sent to Unie, a quiet rural town, to serve as a traffic : Michelle Pretorius.

With an explosive conclusion, The Monster’s Daughter marks the emergence of a thrilling new writer. The monsters daughter book An Indies Introduce Debut Voices pick. MICHELLE PRETORIUSwas born in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

She has written for Bookslut, Word Riot, and Author: Michelle Pretorius. The Monster's Daughter is a brilliantly evocative novel that mashes up historical, crime and speculative fiction into a gloriously addictive and epic read, set in South Africa and with some dark themes right at the heart /5.

The Monster's Daughter - Kindle edition by Bryan, Deborah. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Monster's Daughter/5(28). Memo: For Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things Operatives Only Re: The Monster's Daughter by Paul Gamble There is more trouble in Belfast: odd things are happening at the aquarium, giant crabs are staging jail breaks, and formerly harmless bath 4/5.

A young police officer in modern South Africa investigates a murder with deep roots in the past in Pretorius’ debut mystery.

The daughter of a prominent policeman, Alet Berg finds her promising career in the Special Task Force cut short when she gets involved with another officer; humiliated, she's sent to Unie, a quiet rural town, to serve as a traffic : Michelle Pretorius.

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The reason you can be sure that there are monsters hiding under your bed is that there is almost no proof of them whatsoever 4/5(32). Monster hunter's daughter and assistant search for him in Europe and Romania when he goes missing.

Set in late s/early s. By Annika 5 posts 17 views. Buy other books like The Monster's Daughter Praise “An impressive and well-executed debut novel, toeing the line between mystery, suspense, and sf. The monsters daughter book who enjoy Stieg Larsson or Louise Penny will find this title a chilling read.”.

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The Monster’s Daughter is well plotted and researched, and it does an excellent job of taking us back to parts of South Africa’s darkest history, as well as delivering an exciting modern story of police corruption and one woman’s fight to bring it to light. However, it may be trying to do too much.

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His work ends in chaos, but two children survive: a boy named Benjamin. “The Monster’s Daughter” is the sixth installment in Goldeen Ogawa’s science fiction novella series Professor Odd, and serves as the finale for Season 1.

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This week, as we frogs notice the bathwater of spring growing increasingly warm, we’re taking a look at some of the books we have forthcoming in the next few months. The Monster's Daughter (Book): Gamble, Paul, Twelve-year-old Jack Pease and his partner, Trudy, operatives of the Ministry of Strange, Unusual, and Impossible Things, investigate odd things happening at Belfast's aquarium.

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As he phrased it in the forward of his book, I wondered what it must be like to be the son or daughter of Hoxha/5(65). Her first book, Sleeping With Monsters, a collection of reviews and criticism, was published in by Aqueduct Press.

It was a finalist for the Locus Awards and was nominated for a. The Monster’s Daughter. Michelle Pretorius is the author of The Monster's Daughter, an ABA Indies Introduce Debut Voices pic See More.

Community See All. A list of books suggested by WLT editors for those wishing to read more Speculative Fiction from all over the world. Book Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [5 stars] This is honestly one of the most beautifully written books I’ve ever read.

The plot and characters were incredibly well thought out and complex, without being overly confusing for the reader, and despite covering a range of time periods and point of views the story flowed easily from.

McDonnell's monsters are comic and endearing, and the book's colors gently shift from dark and gloomy to warm as the story progresses. The message is well executed, and the little beasts' exuberance at their badness keeps the tale from devolving into platitudes.

What’s it like to be the son or daughter of a dictator? A monster on the Stalin level? What’s it like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil? Jay Nordlinger set out to answer that question, and does so in this book.

He surveys 20 dictators in all.My Top 12 Books of So these are the top 12 books or series that I read in This year I finally got round to a lot of popular books which had been on my radar for a while, and if you haven’t read these books already I would definitely recommend them!

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