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Books : The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart)
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The Ruby in the Smoke (Sally Lockhart) by: Philip Pullman List Price: £6.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.49 You Save: £2.50 (36%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780439943666 ISBN: 0439943663 Label: Scholastic Manufacturer: Scholastic Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: November 06, 2006 Publisher: Scholastic Studio: Scholastic Sales Rank: 2602 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a manIn The Ruby in the Smoke, Phillip Pullman combines three of my favorite things: young adult fiction, a good mystery and a Victorian era setting. Sixteen-year-old Sally Lockhart has recently lost her father in a shipwreck. After receiving a mysterious note warning her to "beware of the Seven Blessings", she visits her late father's shipping firm in the hope that someone there can make sense of the note. When she asks one of her father's employees about the Seven Blessings, the man is so terrified that he dies of a heart attack right in front of Sally. And so begins a chain of events that will have Sally questioning the circumstances of her father's death as well as her connection to a priceless Indian ruby. All the while Sally is ... Read More: Rating:  - The first book i ever fell in love withI am not a big book reader, far from it actually, but Ruby in the Smoke just had me cooped up indoors. This was actually the first real book i sat down and read in my own time, a good 5 years ago. I was on holiday, bored stiff because i was too young to go clubbing with my brothers and i was stuck in with mum and dad. So, mum suggested i read a book and handed my Ruby in the Smoke, she hadn't read it but bought it out of her love for the 'His Dark Materials' series. So i thought, what the hell, i'll give it a try. Sally Lockhart is a sixteen year old orphan living in Victorian London, living with an education, which extends to - straight shooting and military tactics, business is her only educational strong point. When Sally's father ... Read More: Rating: - Very good !The Ruby and the smoke was a very exciting story there was lots of different things going on . When you start to read the story it was hard to stop reading it . The character Sally Lockhart was a very polite and kind person but shes also a firey person which made the story even better . In my opinion this was the best book ive ever read.I enjoyed the story a lot it was quite interesting and some parts was quite confusing but towards the end the story became clear. The character Mrs Holland was quite scary and sneaky and it was very exciting that they included her in this story it made the story better and better as it went alone .In my opinion this story was brilliant and i enjoyed it very much . ... Read More: Rating:  - A flat story which left me feeling flatI don't mind PP's books, and fall on them when there's nothing else that catches my eye. This started off intriguing, but chapter after chapter never quite took off. It's not the longest book ever, the print is quite large as if it's aimed at a younger audience despite all the opium dens and drug wrecks, and there's wasted space with pointless prints from bygone times which serve no purpose, and the back end is also used for promotion. So although it's quoted as being however many pages, there's considerably less used for the story. As for the tale itself, the characters remain flat on the pages for me. I've mentioned in other reviews how I like to feel like I'm part of the world I'm reading and imagining, and I like to feel involved with the ... Read More: Rating: - One of the best books I ever readThis book is an interesting mystery, which for some people is hard to get their head round. It is very interesting with many twists and turns and I would definatly recomend to everyone the whole series of the Sally Lockheart Quartet. |
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