I was intrigued the moment I read the synopsis for this one:
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In the late seventeenth century, famed teenage pirate Emer Morrisey was on the cusp of escaping the pirate life with her one true love and unfathomable riches when she was slain and cursed with 'the dust of one hundred dogs', dooming her to one hundred lives as a dog before returning to a human body - with her memories intact. Now she's a contemporary American teenager and all she needs is a shovel and a ride to Jamaica.
Sadly, the actual book didn’t really live up to its promise. I thought it could and should have been much sharper and wittier, with a lot more swashbuckling derring-do, drama, excitement, pirate adventure and romance than we actually got. I realise that this was a young adult book and so I’m not really the target audience, but, still, I expected more. An interesting idea not realised all that well, unfortunately.
Timeriders 2: Day of the Predator – Alex Scarrow
Now, this was more like it. Another YA book, but full of adventure and characters you were really rooting for. I’d like to read the rest of this series.
A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov
Aleksandr Orlov is the star of a series of UK ads , in which he bemoans the idiot humans who keep mixing up his website CompareTheMeerkat.com with a car insurance site, CompareTheMarket.com. He and his catchphrase, “Simples!” have become something of a cultural icon and following on from this runaway TV success, he’s decided to give us his autobiography. A tale of meerkat courageousness and derring-do stretching through the ages. As a huge fan of Aleksandr, I giggled quite a bit through this.
LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
