Belle (Belle, 1)

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On London's Hampstead Heath, two girls meet by chance: well-mannered and smartly dressed Verity and dishevelled and grubby Ruby. I have not read many books that delve into the sordid and frankly, very disturbing world of human trafficking. In fact her first thought at being a prostitute was that if she was going to do it, she would be the best. Esta curiosidade acaba por ser revelada da pior maneira, como diz bem na sinopse, Belle testemunha um assassinato.

Muitos de vocês provavelmente já leram os três livros, mas admito que um pouco por causa do tamanho dos livros, nunca tive coragem de os começar a ler. Desde o assassino que a raptou e vendeu a um bordel em França onde foi violada várias vezes, passando pelo homem que a levou a um bordel à América, mas que conseguimos ver que por trás da sua “profissão” tem bom coração, às pessoas que a rodeavam antes de ter sido raptada e que nunca perderam a esperança de a voltar a ver nem desistiram de a procurar durante esses longos dois anos e ao jornalista que fez um excelente trabalho de investigação qual Sherlock Holmes e que também nunca desistiu de a procurar, são personagens tão intensas que nos fazem querer voltar uma página a seguir à outra sem parar! I've read stories before of women going into prostitution and books like Memoirs of a Geisha and Tears of Tess have captured it so much better.Com o lançamento de mais um livrinho, não resisti a ler a mais recente obra da autora, publicada neste mês pelo grupo Leya.

Our Adult Fiction Books, Range includes Classics Novels, Comic Books, Crime, Thriller, Mystery Novels, General Fiction, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction and War.Whether crime as in 'Till We Meet Again', historical adventure like 'Never Look Back', or the passionately emotive 'Trust Me', based on the true-life scandal of British child migrants sent to Australia in the post war period, she engages the reader completely. Mog is relentless though, and manages to convince Noah, a budding journalist who was enamoured with the dead girl to help investigate into the incident.

Pior não lhe poderia acontecer, pensa o leitor, mas a verdade é que Belle acaba por viajar até à América, cidade de Nova Orleães onde irá trabalhar como prostituta de luxo no Martha’s, outro bordel. I didn't continue with the series the first time I read this book but I will now be excitedly picking up The Promise to see what comes next in Belle's story.Adorei a tenacidade da heroína, a sua audácia, inconformismo e força de vontade; roguei por justiça, por uma única oportunidade de fuga, por alguém que a ajudasse realmente; revoltei-me contra a crueldade e falta de valores morais. Our Non-Fiction Range includes: Academic, Photography, Audio books, Business, Cook Books, Craft Books, Health and Fitness Books, Mind, Body, Spirit (Tarot). While we have all heard of topics like human trafficking or prostitution, it is daunting to read such an in-depth depiction into the sordid mess that it is. I think this is largely due to the benefits of seeing the story through more mature, informed and experienced eyes. Pearse fell flat by not leveraging the colorful era/ locales instead you really couldn't tell when or where it was until a character told you.

With her father in the Royal Marines, Lesley and her older brother spent three years in grim orphanages before her father remarried - a veritable dragon of an ex army nurse - and Lesley and her older brother were brought home again, to be joined by two other children who were later adopted by her father and stepmother, and a continuing stream of foster children. Belle has no concept of what happens upstairs until one day she see something that changes her life for ever. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Apesar da sua personalidade forte e corajosa, o tema central revolta e repugna qualquer leitor, mas é um alerta para uma das muitas crueldades que existem no mundo: o tráfico de crianças. This carefully crafted false facade crumbles when Belle witnesses the murder of Millie, one of the girls from upstairs.Não é uma leitura fácil mas que recomendo sem dúvida tanto pela pesquisa da autora como pela própria personagem, um exemplo coragem. It didn't make sense reading about her supposed uber naivity, then her being super introspective (as though she'd been through years of counseling), then her claims of being able to figure people because how observant she was, and then continually dumbly trusting people who most of the time turned out to be awful. Assim, Pearse leva-nos a visitar lugares sujos, com pessoas mais sujas ainda, a testemunhar a perversidade humana, sentido a constante ameaça que paira sobre Belle, o que confere à leitura uma premência enervante. Along the way she meets many people, some good, some very surprising and some so nasty that you never see it coming.