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Thud! from Terry Pratchett
KoomValley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago.

But if he doesn’t solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.
With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution.And darkness is following him....

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Title: The Sleeper
Author: Gill White
ISBN: 055215038X
EAN: 9780552150385
New Ed. Edition
384 Pages
Publisher: Corgi Books
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 2002-08-07

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2005-01-07 A good read, but not a brilliant one

I didn't enjoy this as much as other Gillian White books. It seemed a slow and meandering read that didn't really pull together some of the charachters and storylines.

For example Jasmine the nurse / schoolteacher was one of the main characters in the book with some quite strange characteristics. But there seemed no real explanation at the end for her behaviour that was plausible and realistic - certainly not one that intelligent young people like Daisy, Jessie and William would believe.

William and Sheila Gordon end up with two of the main characters in the book. I won't spoil this by identifying who but nowhere in the storyline does it really make you believe that the clues were there that this might happen.

It really seems that in the last few chapters of the book, the author has got a bit bored and just come up with an ending that is definitely not brilliant and for me, not even satsifactory.

Come on Miss White, after some of your previous books, I would have expected more......