The Midnight Guardians

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Thirdly, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you’d still enjoy this book still because Christmas is not the main focus. It’s rather a setting for time and more of like a culture rather than a religious matter. The foundation of the idea is the many worlds theory, in which a new universe blossoms from every choice and decision. It’s a beautiful concept, but Matt Haig doesn’t explain it in any depth; his concern is the psychological effect that seeing all these versions has on Nora – and on her willingness, or unwillingness, to live. In this fourth installment in the series, Keira and her friends race against time to rescue her charge before The Harvest. They must hurry. Their enemies are bringing forth a new force to sway the balance toward evil. The shadows are rising. The Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy, published by the European Commission in December 2020, calls for a major shift in passengers to rail, including night trains.

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Three years ago, Europe’s night trains were being consigned to the economic sidings, driven out of business by low-cost flights and long-distance buses. Since then, however, public concerns over the climate emergency have led to a surge of interest in reviving night routes across the continent. I noted that people around me don’t want to get on a plane because of concerns about carbon emissions" Adrien Aumont If you peer down the hill from Matt Haig’s immaculate townhouse in Brighton, you can see the sea, which today is shimmeringly blue under a hot sun. “We bought the house for that view,” he says as he answers the door, which is painted turquoise. Bright, alive, vibrant. Haig – novelist, self-help guru, periodic endurer of depression and anxiety – needs these colours, that view, this sun, even the statement-making front door. But could it be that all liaisons such as theirs are coloured by the thought that romantic love will always be conditional and compromised, compared with the feeling for those children that it brings into being? For me, the most quietly moving scene was the first: Jesse saying goodbye to Hank at the airport, returning to Chicago after a brief vacation with them all in Greece. No emotional demonstrations, just some hearty-grumpy advice about keeping up with music and team sports. Poignantly, Jesse asks Hank: "What's the first thing you're gonna do, when you get home?" Hank gives the question a baffled shrug. It made my eyes fill with tears, and I didn't realise why until hours after the movie: when I used to phone home during my first term away at university, my dad wistfully asked me the same sort of thing: what are you going to do, once you've hung up the phone?This book touch my deep emotion. I laugh, I cried, I smile with it. It brings me warmth and gosh! The guardians made me so emotional. I love them SO SO MUCH! I inhaled this wonderful book in one sitting ... humour, beautiful writing, heartbreak, hope, and a fat badger in a waistcoat. I'll be recommending it to everyone ." Katya Balen Another thing I really did enjoy reading about, however, was the humour between each of the characters. The jokes were neverending and quite often had me laughing out loud - but again, I feel that the humour was perhaps too sophisticated for some younger readers and may just have confused them.

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Beautifully drawn fantasy characters ... a story of hope and love underpinned by witty humour.” Daily MailSpoilers preclude discussion of exactly which horror tropes are eventually used to bring those anxieties to life, but Flanagan is once again concerned with death – and how to defeat it. He wants to explore ancient, heavy questions about religion – whether there is an afterlife or a God; why any such deity would allow suffering; which belief system captures the story’s essence; why humans crave these answers. Too often, though, he does this by sitting two characters down on chairs and having them conduct a long, long debate about it. Even when the townsfolk’s hysteria spills over and the gore starts flowing, the talky interludes persist. Honestly, the character development was by far the best part of this book and probably was the only bit that kept me going. The rest... I could take it or leave it, really. And I think a lot of this book was too gruesome and scary for the age group of it's intended audience. In the spotlight … Igby Rigney and Iman Benson in The Midnight Club. Photograph: Eike Schroter/Netflix The book is beautiful and whimsical, and sometimes terrifying, it made me laugh and it made me cry. It truly has everything that I love in a book, and I cannot recommend it enough. I can't wait to get my hands on a finished copy, and it will definitely sit amongst the more special books on my shelves. For hundreds of years, these dark woods have held a secret. Every living part of it knows, from the top-most leaf on the tallest oak to the tiniest earthworm needling through the earth below. They see them. They hear them. They feel them. They fear them. They are forced to watch with no way to scream out. No way to stop the shadows.