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Runningdawg

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4. The Rook - The Chequy Files, Book 1 by Daniel O'Malley
Sun Mar 15, 2020, 01:30 PM
Mar 2020

I am less than 100 pages in, but I'm hooked. I will include the blurb from the jacket, but my take on it so far - It's the Jason Bourne plot with a female in the lead and a supernatural twist.

"The body you are wearing used to be mine." So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Chequy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare, potentially deadly supernatural ability of her own. In her quest to uncover which member of the Chequy betrayed her and why, Myfanwy encounters a person with four bodies, an aristocratic woman who can enter her dreams, a secret training facility where children are transformed into deadly fighters, and a conspiracy more vast than she ever could have imagined.Filled with characters both fascinating and fantastical, THE ROOK is a richly inventive, suspenseful, and often wry thriller that marks an ambitious debut from a promising young writer.

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"Speaker for the Dead" by Orson Scott Card. Jeebo Mar 2020 #1
Ooh, that's a good one! Runningdawg Mar 2020 #3
Here goes matt819 Mar 2020 #2
The Rook - The Chequy Files, Book 1 by Daniel O'Malley Runningdawg Mar 2020 #4
Reading the grandkids gift, "Wizard's First Rule" by Terry Goodkind. TexasProgresive Mar 2020 #5
well it seems like fiction.... dhill926 Mar 2020 #6
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey The King of Prussia Mar 2020 #7
Interesting hermetic Mar 2020 #8
Although I live in a rural area The King of Prussia Mar 2020 #9
Just finished The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #10
Ooh, good one hermetic Mar 2020 #11
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