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Top positive review
Another awesome book from Heide & Ian
September 9, 2018
I have to admit that for the first few chapters I was bored & almost put the book aside. Knowing Heide & Ian's books I trudged on & wow am I glad I did!! At times the adventures of Lori reminded me a Lucy (without Ethel) skit. Her parents disappearance seemed harsh but she needed a good kick in the posterior. Boy did she get it! The surprises just kept coming & the book wrapped up perfectly. Read this book if you like to laugh & root for a character to find her place in the world...finally! Thanks Heide & Ian (getting ready to read Hooflandia next).
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Top critical review
Insipid main character
December 21, 2018
Main character mooches off her parents and doesn't understand why they don't appreciate that.
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September 9, 2018
I have to admit that for the first few chapters I was bored & almost put the book aside. Knowing Heide & Ian's books I trudged on & wow am I glad I did!! At times the adventures of Lori reminded me a Lucy (without Ethel) skit. Her parents disappearance seemed harsh but she needed a good kick in the posterior. Boy did she get it! The surprises just kept coming & the book wrapped up perfectly. Read this book if you like to laugh & root for a character to find her place in the world...finally! Thanks Heide & Ian (getting ready to read Hooflandia next).
March 14, 2019
"Snowflake" by Heide Goody and Iain Grant is hilarious and biting at the same time. It is so good, one is driven to suspect the authors may be describing their own children. The principal character of the story is utterly repugnant in her stunning idiocy and destruction she brings to everything and everybody around her. There is a slight suggestion that it's not her fault really, that Pandora's box is somehow implicated, that the girl herself is good-natured. Do not be fooled though! She is the very personification of evil, for the worst evil in the world is always the one rooted in idiocy and ignorance, and she is surely both. The only disappointment for me is that the story concludes with a happy ending, happy for HER! I'd much rather see HER mutilated, or burned at the stake, or otherwise dispatched to kingdom come, which would be a happy ending for the rest of us!
December 16, 2018
It is rare when you read a book blurb that says the book inside is laugh out loud funny. Even rarer is a book that is beyond that.
This is such a book. Snowflake is laughing out loud until you're snorting funny. It is magical. It's romantic. It is even more, it is a cautionary tale of what happens when parents actually listen to their children.
This is my favorite book of all of 2018 that I have read this year. I can't wait to read more by these very gifted authors.
Now that I have buttered them up, where can I get one of those pendants?
This is such a book. Snowflake is laughing out loud until you're snorting funny. It is magical. It's romantic. It is even more, it is a cautionary tale of what happens when parents actually listen to their children.
This is my favorite book of all of 2018 that I have read this year. I can't wait to read more by these very gifted authors.
Now that I have buttered them up, where can I get one of those pendants?
October 24, 2018
For anyone that likes Douglas Adams or Piers Anthony... extremely silly with absolute mayhem as a norm! Recommended by me to anyone with a sense of humor!
December 21, 2018
Main character mooches off her parents and doesn't understand why they don't appreciate that.
July 20, 2018
What would you do if you came back off holiday, to find that your parents have sold their house and moved away without telling you. This such predicament happened to Lori Belkin. Still living at home at the age of 25, she had a degree, no job and spent all her time making cartoon strips for her blog. Moving into her brother’s she has to learn to survive, get a job and all she has is a strange pendant.
I loved Lori from the moment I started this book, she was like a breath of fresh air, so different from the majority of characters I read about. She had a heart of gold but everything she turned her hand to she messed up. She lived her life and was not ashamed of what she was. Having a friend like Cookie didn’t help either.
The relaxed style of the authors makes this story easy to get into. There is always something going on when Lori is around which in turn makes it a quick read. If normal life had not got in the way I would have finished it a lot quicker as I did not want to put it down. At lot of Lori’s actions had a domino effect and one small action turned into major events.
The magical theme runs through the book, but whilst it plays a big part in the story, it is downplayed as the story is about Lori and the changes she has and will make in her life. There are quite a lot of laugh out loud moments and one of my favourite scenes was when Lori booked a driving lesson just to take a ruined rug down the tip.
Set in Birmingham, I enjoyed reading about places I was familiar with and on Lori’s travels I could picture exactly where she was travelling.
I rarely mentioned covers when I write reviews, however when I saw this cover, I was wondering what the cover had to the story, but as you read it, it does become clearer and I had to giggle when these creatures were revealed. Although I would like to know what happened to them at the end.
This book should have at least two warnings whilst reading it. 1. Do not read in public as you will get strange looks when you are trying not to laugh. 2. Do not read whilst drinking a coffee as your kindle is likely to get wet. Overall this book is a brilliant example of a comedy book. Having read other books by these authors, I know that they can write a story, however this book is one of the best I have read. I for one would love to read more of Lori’s adventures and maybe other strange artefacts can find their way to her.
I loved Lori from the moment I started this book, she was like a breath of fresh air, so different from the majority of characters I read about. She had a heart of gold but everything she turned her hand to she messed up. She lived her life and was not ashamed of what she was. Having a friend like Cookie didn’t help either.
The relaxed style of the authors makes this story easy to get into. There is always something going on when Lori is around which in turn makes it a quick read. If normal life had not got in the way I would have finished it a lot quicker as I did not want to put it down. At lot of Lori’s actions had a domino effect and one small action turned into major events.
The magical theme runs through the book, but whilst it plays a big part in the story, it is downplayed as the story is about Lori and the changes she has and will make in her life. There are quite a lot of laugh out loud moments and one of my favourite scenes was when Lori booked a driving lesson just to take a ruined rug down the tip.
Set in Birmingham, I enjoyed reading about places I was familiar with and on Lori’s travels I could picture exactly where she was travelling.
I rarely mentioned covers when I write reviews, however when I saw this cover, I was wondering what the cover had to the story, but as you read it, it does become clearer and I had to giggle when these creatures were revealed. Although I would like to know what happened to them at the end.
This book should have at least two warnings whilst reading it. 1. Do not read in public as you will get strange looks when you are trying not to laugh. 2. Do not read whilst drinking a coffee as your kindle is likely to get wet. Overall this book is a brilliant example of a comedy book. Having read other books by these authors, I know that they can write a story, however this book is one of the best I have read. I for one would love to read more of Lori’s adventures and maybe other strange artefacts can find their way to her.
September 9, 2018
Oh my goodness!!! How in the world do parents bring up children that does not have a clue about the world???? This book was brilliant, I loved every word. I think that Heide and Iain had a really fun time writing this and deciding on what would happen next to Lori. I loved the characters and Bernadette that kept popping up where Lori least expected her. This was the second book by these two authors that I have read and I want more. They make a great team. I would highly recommend this book to fantasy readers.
July 27, 2018
I read this book with a completely open mind, I wasn’t sure what to expected and I hadn’t got any expectations, other than hoping it lived up to that funky cover… and I can honesty say that I loved it!
Everything from the front cover to the ending works for this book! It was funny, had me giggling and laughing out loud – I adored the characters, the plot was great and the writing style was completely addictive – it is such a superb book and one of the best reads for me this year – absolutely brilliant!!
5 stars no hesitation and one I will be very highly recommending!!
Everything from the front cover to the ending works for this book! It was funny, had me giggling and laughing out loud – I adored the characters, the plot was great and the writing style was completely addictive – it is such a superb book and one of the best reads for me this year – absolutely brilliant!!
5 stars no hesitation and one I will be very highly recommending!!
September 28, 2018
Snowflake is one of those books which takes a sideways look at our world (or rather middle England) and highlights its inconsistencies and silliness. Heide Goody and Iain Grant have made quite a name as a writing team offering good characters, fresh dialogue, satire, potty humour and surreal juxtapositions, all spiced with threads of good sense and an eye for the underdog.
I loved Lori, a very special person who mixes aspects of being a dependent carefree child with the unrealistic good intentions and lack of forethought of, yes again, a child. So she certainly does need to grow into her chronological age of 25. Or as she puts it, learn some adulting. It seems her parents feel the same but haven't managed to push Lori out of the nest so they force the issue by running away!
You may try not to laugh but you will, guaranteed! Even as you try to look serious whilst reading Snowflake on the bus to work you will smile and chortle until some absurdity or witticism tips you over into a full unstoppable belly laugh. And if you try to explain what was funny you simply won't sound sane.
I thoroughly enjoyed the roller coaster ride though I admit I did rather lose track of those intriguing trilobites (on the book cover), a car and a lot of water in the excitement of the climactic ending. Snowflake could be the best novel from Pigeon Park Press yet. (Unless you keep an allotment.)
I loved Lori, a very special person who mixes aspects of being a dependent carefree child with the unrealistic good intentions and lack of forethought of, yes again, a child. So she certainly does need to grow into her chronological age of 25. Or as she puts it, learn some adulting. It seems her parents feel the same but haven't managed to push Lori out of the nest so they force the issue by running away!
You may try not to laugh but you will, guaranteed! Even as you try to look serious whilst reading Snowflake on the bus to work you will smile and chortle until some absurdity or witticism tips you over into a full unstoppable belly laugh. And if you try to explain what was funny you simply won't sound sane.
I thoroughly enjoyed the roller coaster ride though I admit I did rather lose track of those intriguing trilobites (on the book cover), a car and a lot of water in the excitement of the climactic ending. Snowflake could be the best novel from Pigeon Park Press yet. (Unless you keep an allotment.)
September 16, 2018
Prepare for Typhoon Lori! Lori is a millennial who doesn't have adulting quite figured out yet. And her parents just broke up with her. Reading Lori's adventures was laugh out loud and cringe worthy, in the best way. Although there's a dash of magic in the novel, I'm pretty sure Lori would have made just as big of a disaster of everything, without any magical shenanigans. The book was well paced and well written. The characters were believable and enjoyable. The dialogue was engaging. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
