There's No Place Like Here 9780786891313

from picklechic

This book was not at all what I expected it to be. I wasn't expecting the fantasy element added in and was a little weary because I don't usually read books that are not realistic. But I was pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed the book and I felt the characters were well thought out and well w...

from solanum

There's No Place Like Here was really entertaining. I thought it was a novel idea (pardon the pun) that was well developed, but got a little stale and hackneyed towards the end as it became too self-referential. I mean, we get that it's a take-off on the whole Alice in Wonderland/Wizard of Oz alt...

from pippasmart

this was a really intriguing story - but why did the publisher package it like chicklit? it really isnt a chicklit story - more like a (very) lightweight Margaret Atwood - but I agree with the reviewer below that the conversations were very clunky and spoiled the storyline somewhat

from bigdee

This is a story about a woman who is obsessed with finding missing things - she runs a missing-persons agency, for one thing. Sandy Shortt labels everything she owns in case she something goes missing. She's so afraid of losing the people that are important to her, that she distances herself emot...

from thesmellofbooks

This book belongs to what I am beginning to think of as a genre of modern novels that intends to move us and instruct us about life and healing but which remains somewhat remote from its characters and somewhat unreal and flat. The writing is competent and the subject matter is important but it j...