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A Sign of the Times

By: Mary Jane Staples
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Corgi Books
ISBN: 0552154032
ISBN-13: 9780552154031
Released: 16 Jan 2006
RRP: £6.99
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Something was Missing - By: Athena Tooze, 11 Feb 2006
Mary Jane Staples' saga of the Adams Family has me addicted to wanting to read more & more. The Eastend Cockney humour is so uplifting. However, M. Staples' "Sign of the Times" left a gaping hole in my reading enjoyment. I reallly had to agree with the previous review that MJS copied the format from "The Last Summer" with so much dialogue between Gemma & "Charlie" (Perry). Perhaps some of the other characters such as 'Orris & his sister Effel & the old gang who shared adventures with Cassie & Freddie whom we met in "Pride of Walworth" could be resurrected into future plots. Please, of please let many, many more Adams Family books keep on coming. It will be so wonderful to read of the second & third generation of Adams & Browns carrying on the traditions of Chinese Lady.
STARTING TO GO DOWNHILL - By: Lorna Burgess, 29 Jan 2006
I COULDNT WAIT FOR THIS BOOK AS I THOUGHT THE LAST ONE SHE WROTE WAS STARTING TO GO BACK TO PROPER MARY JANE WRITING BUT THIS WAS SO BORING. THE REASON IT GOT 4 STARS WAS BECAUSE SHE MANAGED TO CRAM IN SO MUCH USELESS INFORMATION ABOUT CHARACTERS NOT RELEVANT TO THE STORY.ALSO I AM WONDERING JUST HOW MANY MORE TIMES SOME PSYCHO KILLERS PRE WAR AND BEYOND ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO THE ADAMS FAMILY AND THERE FRIENDS.
MAYBE SHE SHOULD KILL OFF GRANDMA FINCH IN THE NEXT ONE AND MAKE IT A GOOD THICK BOOK MAYBE EMILY LENGTH AS SHE IS GETTING SLIGHTY REPETATIVE.SMALL AMOUNTS OF THE OLD HUMOR RESURFACE FROM TIME TO TIME BUT MAINLY YOU KNOW THE STORY BEFORE ITS WRITTEN.THE GEMMA AND PERRY PART OF THE BOOK WAS JUST A REHASH OF THE JONATHAN HARDY AND EMMA STORY.FANS LIKE ME OF MJS WILL BUY THE BOOK AS WE ARE HOOKED ON THE STORY, BUT FOR A FIRST TIME READER HE/SHE WILL NOT BE IMPRESSED.
OVERALL A PRETTY AVERAGE BOOK DONT EXPECT TO PICK IT UP AND IT KEEPING YOU GRIPPED IT WONT..