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David Hughes

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Joined 1 year, 10 months ago

Grumpy Scottish late career librarian living in Dublin and working in Further Education. Open scholarship enthusiast. Shill for Big Library. Power-hungry gatekeeper. King of infinite space. He/him/his. I read a lot. I "like" (some) sport, politics, walking and my family. Happy to be here and eager to see what happens next ...with everything.

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David Hughes's books

Paul Hoffman: The left hand of God (2010, Michael Joseph) 3 stars

The Sanctuary of the Redeemers: vast, desolate, hopeless. Where children endure brutal cruelty and violence …

All over the place

2 stars

Starts off well but declines precipitously once our merry band leave the Sanctuary. The world-building is inconsistent as is the narrative voice as is the writing, the pacing... Here's a question: you have your wunderkind draw up a battle plan for defeating an enemy city. Before you can execute the plan, the wonder child runs off to the enemy city: do you proceed with your battle plan or draw up a new one? I mean, come on! Perhaps I'll read the next one; purely to see if the author reveals what Cale found in Lena's stomach.