Publisher: Self Published
Publish Date: Out Now
How I got this book: From the Author

Claire Shannon is a Kinsman, a woman gifted with enhanced mental capabilities. Her skills and her life were taken over by the military to fight in war that has raged on her home planet for decades. But as the war ends, she is forced to hide her abilities in order to make a new life for herself as a civilian. It’s a new persona, a new planet and new job that has her crossing paths with the powerful and alluring Venturo Escana. Is she strong enough to hide her true nature from her perceptive new boss? And as they grow closer, will she even still want to try?

This blurb is from the authors’ website here.

Many a romance reader got their start from Harlequin or Mills and Boon categories. Some readers stick with those, some venture off to other romance subgenres and leave categories behind, while yet others continue to keep the categories as faithful auto-buys while they enjoy other subgenres as well. Ilona Andrews has taken some of the common category tropes and used them in the Kinsmen universe. It is a universe with a select percentage of inhabitants who have genetic mutations providing different mental and physical skills or powers. These mutations initially started with purposeful genetic modifications that were later outlawed as the enhanced discovered that these enhancements would have more value and thus power if they were limited in number. As a result further modifications were outlawed and those with enhancements formed family groups almost like the mafia where loyalty was paramount.

In SILVER SHARK which is the second of the Kinsmen series following 2009’s SILENT BLADE we travel to Rada in the company of a refuge and explore the wealthy multi-millionaire and his secretary (administrative assistant) trope. Here the Kinsmen families follow very strict rules governing their interaction with other families as well as with those who do not have any enhancements. The reasoning behind those rules was an attempt to minimize the collateral damage as a result of the constant maneuverings for more power that sometimes flared into violence between the families.

Unlike traditional categories, with an extreme power imbalance between the multi-millionaire and his (always his) secretary/administrative assistant, in this one the heroine possesses a significant amount of power herself but exposing that power could very well mean her quick and rather unpleasant death. The hero is also powerful and has sacrificed much for his family yet he doesn’t consider the unenhanced beneath his notice.

I enjoyed learning about Rada thru Claire’s mind as she struggled to transition from a regimented, colorless, flavorless life to that of a civilian on a world with freedom, choices and color. Her interactions with the Escana family and Venturo in specific were very entertaining as was her decision to explore and experience what we would consider normal life. Claire also had to deal with some fellow refugees and the fact that they knew who she was and what she could really do as she attempted to “blend.” The situations caused by those encounters really served to flesh Claire out as a character.

I really enjoyed reading SILVER SHARK and thought it ended way too soon. The story was complete, I just wanted more *grin*. I really appreciate the way Ilona Andrews sprinkles in information about the world instead of doing info-dumps. That technique always leads me deeper and deeper into the story as I watch the entire picture unfold in my mind’s eye. I hope that more Kinsmen stories are published and I am curious to see which trope(s) will be targeted next.

I give SILVER SHARK an A

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Devon Crawford is an officer; Air Force Pararescueman Cam Munro is enlisted. Dev flies medical evacuations; Cam jumps into danger zones to save lives. Dev wants to return home from Afghanistan with her heart untouched; Cam will do anything to win the woman he loves.

Reaching for happiness in a war zone is the last thing Captain Devon Crawford plans, but she can’t ignore the feelings she’s hidden for so long. Cam’s sexy charm and wicked kisses weaken her resistance, but she’s too afraid of losing him to give in.

When Dev’s helicopter and crew are shot down and set up as bait by a notorious warlord, Cam risks all to save the team. What he doesn’t know is that the trap is set for him
*Blurb from Goodreads*

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Here’s the blurb:

To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle’s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare…

Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona’s cop fiancé and his K-9 partner.

On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He’s the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon’s house, and he’s at his wit’s end.

To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can’t handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he’s a rugged and intensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture he creates from wood. Simon never wanted a puppy-and he most definitely doesn’t want a woman. Besides, the lanky redhead is not his type. But tell that to his hormones.

As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona’s life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands…

When I decided to read this book for a review early on this week, I thought to myself that it’s going to be an easy review. I’ve read many of her books and her series under JD Robb is one of my favourite series. I’ve got to say that I prefer her JD Robb books over her NR books because I have found some of the NR trilogies to be formulaic. This book had all of the elements going for it. I liked the heroine, Fiona “Fee” and the hero Simon. I also loved the dogs, and Jaws, the puppy. So why did I find myself bored reading this book? Why am I marking it as 2 stars? This is a NR book! Surely a veteran author in her calibre can deliver better?

After much contemplation, I’ve narrowed it down to 3 reasons:

1) I found it to be formulaic and predictable. I could see who was going to be the last victim as soon as that person has been introduced in the scene. It’s a clear set up. I didn’t need to read the whole book (but I had to, so that I could write this review) and I could predict the whole story, and I promise you, I am no writer. My imagination is very limited. The friendship between Fee, Mai and Syl feels staged. Nothing exciting or out of ordinary made me feel “wow! I didn’t see that coming”.

2) I felt the book was dumbed-down. Okay, you don’t need to be a brain surgeon to read a summer romance but really, do I need every single reaction from the hero/heroine explained to me? Dumbed-down -> reader = grumpy, disappointed and bored reader. The setting is like a Stepford town, almost everyone has (and loves) dogs. Also, Simon’s character is a little confused, swinging heavily between “bloke-ish” and heavily metrosexual (stretching passed artistic insight). It wasn’t a murder mystery either, since you’re told outright who the baddies are.

Her bedroom, he thought, showed a strong, imaginative use of color. The walls glowed a coppery hue in the sunlight and formed a good backdrop for some decent local art-probably picked up at Syl’s. She’d indulged herself with a big iron bed with hints of dark bronze along with that copper, and high, knobbed posts.

No fuss, he thought. Even the obligatory female bottles and bowls on the dresser had a sense of organization, while the trio of dog beds across the room spoke of her passion and profession.
Attractive lamps, simple in style, and oversized chair draped with a beautifully made throw-likely Syl’s again.

A low cabinet holding books-and he’d bet they were shelved alphabetically-photos, trinkets.

This goes on and on and on…but I’m getting tired of typing and I might get told off if my review goes on forever too.

3) There are so many self-analyses and psychoanalyses which are over explained in the book. I know that this might be overlapping with point 2, but this book is so full of them that it deserves its own point. This is what I believe killed the romance. I wish it could be as hot as Eve and Roarke, but it’s sadly not. Oh well, at least the people in the book thought it was hot, even if this reader disagrees.

See, you give the impression you don’t pay all that much attention, just aren’t interested enough. But you do pay attention. Not big on the interacting, but you take the in the details. It’s kind of sneaky, really. I like you. Or at least I think I do. I don’t know much about you because you don’t talk about yourself. I know you have a dog because your mother gave him to you, which tells me you love your mother or fear her wrath. It’s probably a combination of both.

There are 2 stars left because the book is not all bad. It is well written and Nora has done her homework with canine search and rescue training. There were some amusing moments involving the dogs, and I especially enjoyed the scene where Fee was conducting a behavioural correction class with the spoiled Pom, Chloe, and her owner, Lissy. So, I give it 2 stars for a vanilla novel from an experienced author. It will be a while before I pick up a NR book again.

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Blurb taken from author’s official website:

Has: I really liked the idea of a fairytale/bewitched premise of the book. It was a welcome change from the usual paranormal fare of vampires and werewolves. However, I do think the execution of this wasn’t that great. I know Kristin was a newbie and as a reader we were learning the world from her eyes, but I hated that it was mostly telling and not showing this new world. And I felt that the worldbuilding was weak due to this.

Lou: The thought of a modern day and young fairy godmother definitely makes for a change, but I also have to agree with you on the execution. I really, really struggled with this book. I found that we didn’t really see Kristin’s journey of becoming a fairy godmother. And I struggled also with Kristin’s character. I didn’t feel that there was any personality to her, or any emotional development as a character. As you said, there was a lot of telling, but never showing. I didn’t get the sense of what made Kristin tick, what she loved, what she liked. Her personality seemed to be missing, except when she got angry with Tennyson, the hero of the book.

Has: I think the time when she was thrown into the mix with the older forgetful fairy Godmothers, and them not supporting her was also a cliché too. I was pretty frustrated with this because it would have been more interesting with them guiding her instead of showing up much, much later in the book. I found that Tennyson becoming her guide didn’t add any tension to their romance and it felt forced. And his character wasn’t as developed too, there was nothing that stood out for me either.

Lou: Again, this is what I struggled with in the book. There didn’t seem to be a lot of character development for most of the characters. Tennyson was grumpy, he was a scholar, and he was attracted to Kristin. Again, I feel there was no emotional depth. And then when Lucas enters the fray, as a triangle of sorts, that was so predictable, that I knew straight off the bat what his character was going to be.

Has: Oh I agree! This also didn’t endear me to Kristin’s character. For such a sensible person she made mistakes in trusting the wrong people, and although she figured things out later in the book, it was pretty obvious from the beginning who the bad guy was.

Lou: That really bugged me about Kristin. Why was she telling – basically a stranger – about what she was, and what was happening to her, and telling that person what Tennyson was explaining to her. And while we get the backstory of the Arcani world, and the baddie, and how they came to be, I felt the worldbuilding and the actual paranormal aspect was weak. It was simply, wave your wand, and things are magically done instantly.

Has: Exactly and there were no real repercussions and when there was, it was don’t use magic when you’re angry or being weak. I felt that Kristin’s ‘I hate you, but I really like you’ reaction towards Tennyson was also tedious. When she slept with him for the first time and then she was like oh my god what did I do? And then it was back and forth constantly with each other. I felt it didn’t add to the romantic tension – what little there was of it. It was annoying and frankly I didn’t like both characters that much. Zack and Callie, the side characters, had more development and personality.

Lou: See, I didn’t even feel that Callie, Kristin’s fairy friend, and Zack, Tennyson’s human friend, brought anything to the story. I didn’t see the point of their romance as the romance wasn’t shown at all. Everything – in the whole book – happened in such a short space of time, and it all felt rushed – with Kristin learning about being a fairy godmother, from her learning shortly about the world, her learning and using her powers super fast, and the rocky but fast relationship with Tennyson. Add I knew who the baddie was when he was first introduced, and he’s not what I would call a real baddie.

Has: Yup I agree about that speed of her learning her powers. Also, her being a Rare one. It was never really fully explained or shown what that entailed. I found the baddie to be a cardboard baddie – and again clichéd. And why did the bad guy want her so badly? Especially when it was shown that he didn’t have to use her really, when his main objective was the Godmothers themselves.

Lou: I think it was a means for dangerous things to happen to Kristin, that enabled Tennyson to be with her all the time guarding her, which means their romance could develop. While the love scenes were done well, and there were hints of emotion as the story went on, overall, everything just fell flat for me.

Has: I agree with you about the love scenes, but there was no real build-up of tension between Kristin and Tennyson and I found both of their characters almost like caricatures and clichéd and so was the bad guy for that matter. The idea of a light hearted tone and magical world just didn’t fulfil its promise, and I really wanted to like it because the premise sounded fun. But I really struggled to finish this book and it was almost a DNF for me. But I rate this 2.0 stars as I felt the book picked up pace towards the latter end.

Lou: It was nearly a DNF for me also, and I really wanted to like this book as it looked to be a fun read. I think the worldbuilding of the Arcani has great potential to be expanded upon, and the role of the Godmother which was to grant wishes, but there was no real emotion from the characters IMO, and everything felt really rushed. I would give The Wish List 2.0 out of 5 stars also.

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Blurb is from The Book Depository:

“Lara has always had an over – active imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don’t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara’s great aunt Sadie – in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl – has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can’t rest without. Lara’s got enough problems of her own. Her startup company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she’s just been dumped by the love of her life. But as Lara spends time with Sadie , life becomes more glamorous, she dresses in beautiful vintage frocks and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie’s ghost be the answer to Lara’s problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other?”

I’m a fan of Kinsella’s Shopaholic series and her stand alone, Can You Keep A Secret. Her other stand alone novels I have been very disappointed with. Sad to say, I felt the same about Twenties Girl.

My main problem: I had no liking for the main characters, Lara, and the ghost of her Great Aunt, Sadie. I thought Lara was extremely weak and had no backbone to speak of. To be blunt, she was a complete ninny!

Lara leaves her job and takes all of her bank savings, and enters into a new Head Hunting firm with her best friend Natalie, who is a ‘headhunter’, without doing thorough research or background checks on Natalie. I admit, you instinctively believe what your BF tells you, but you don’t just enter blindly into a new business venture without checking the details for yourself. Especially after putting all of your live savings into it. That stuck me as extremely stupid.

So, Natalie ups and leaves to go abroad, leaving Lara who is inexperienced to run the firm. The firm is floundering and Lara doesn’t try and go after Natalie, she just bumbles along with no experience with disastrous results.

The other main character is Sadie, who is a ghost. Sadie appears at her own funeral, where only Lara can see her which is never explained. Yup, this is a story that is sort of paranormal, but is very much chick lit. IMO, a recipe for disaster as there are no explanations regarding how Sadie came to be. In a way, I wish Sadie never came to be. She was ‘unbelievably’ annoying in this book.

Between her and Lara, I had to put the book down numerous times in sheer exasperation. Sadie acted like a petulant child where she mostly screamed in Lara’s face, ordering Lara to do her actions for her. I felt as if I were reading about two children in this book.

Lara was very child-like regarding her ex-boyfriend. He clearly didn’t want her, yet Lara spied on him, stalked him and blindly swore that he still loved her. I felt embarrassed just reading about her feelings and reactions towards him. Where was her self respect? It gets worse though. Lara conspires to get back with Josh, her ex-boyfriend, by telling Sadie to use her powers on Josh. Oh yes, Sadie has special powers where she is able to command people to do exactly what she says by shouting and screaming in their ears. Sadie does what Lara wishes, and they get back together. Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!

While we have Lara finding the necklace, acting bat shit crazy over her ex boyfriend and trying to keep the business afloat, we have another sub-plot regarding the actual hero of the story, Ed, who I thought was kinda boring but nice. And even that avenue was annoying. Lara is only dating him because Sadie wants to. Yup, that’s right. Lara is dating Ed, so Sadie can pretend that she’s dating him. And Lara must say and do exactly what Sadie does as it’s Sadie’s man. *rolls eyes* And the only reason that Ed starts to date Lara in the first place is because Sadie makes him.

All of these sub-plots come head to head towards the end, but I was just glad the book was finishing. I may sound harsh, but I’m just disappointed with the whole slew of characters and their personalities.

In the end, we do find out the reason why the necklace was so important to Sadie and I admit, I did find it very sad and heart warming. This is the only time that Lara really starts to shine. I just wished she was like this from the beginning.

If you want a strong heroine, don’t read this book. If you want to read about a heroine who only gets a backbone in the last four chapters of the book, then read this book. If you want to read about a ghost who is extremely annoying, then read this book.

I give Twenties Girl 2.0 out of 5.

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Sorry it’s a day late, things were very busy last night.

Carrying on with the Strange Brew anthology reviews, this week it will be P.N. Elrod, and Charlaine Harris.

Helcate’s Golden Eye by P.N. Elrod.

Set in Chicago, June 1937, P.I Investigators Jack Fleming and Charles Escott are hired to find and retrieve the Helcate’s Jewel, a beautiful pendent which is rumoured to kill any man that touches it. Luckily for Jack Fleming, being a vampire already makes him the undead.

This is a pure mystery story and to be honest, I found it somewhat boring. I derived no personality from the characters and the story itself was quite mild in nature. I wasn’t sure at first if the characters were newly created, but looking the author up (google), Jack Fleming is the main character of the Vampire Files. I admit, I’m not knowledgeable in vampire mysteries, so forgive me. I did like the background setting of Chicago in the late 1930′s, but for me there was just no oomph in this story.

The jewel itself I’m guessing had magic, but we saw none of that. Just sly winks from the jewel itself. The people who stole the jewel were not very villainous, and I found Jack to be pleasant for a vampire. He didn’t have the ruthless quality that I thought a vampire should have. Over all, it was just a very nice, albeit boring, read.

I give Hecate’s Golden Eye 3 out of 5.

Bacon by Charlaine Harris

Dahlia Chivers is out for revenge. Her werewolf husband was killed by another member of a werewolf pack, and she’s determined to find out what happened that fateful night, and what-else or who-else contributed to his murder.

So far, this is the only story that I have disliked in this anthology. The heroine was completely unlikeable, and I didn’t feel any sympathy for her. I felt no pain or emotion from Dahlia regarding the death of her husband. She was ice-cold and I think she was the same when he was alive. Dahlia admitted she wasn’t very popular with her husband’s pack.

This story was just full of hateful revenge, which is understandable when your husband was murdered, but perhaps I could have enjoyed the story if there was any heartfelt emotion shown by the heroine.

The secondary characters weren’t particularly interesting and I found myself reading this story very fast so it would finish. There was nothing wrong with the writing itself, but Dahlia was simply a horrible character. The title of the story is very apt for the ending, which I found to be very icky.

I give Bacon 2 out of 5.

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There are some spoilers in this review.

Stephanie Plum is back, but this time instead of someone trying to kill her, the effervescent, crazy Lula is in the forefront. Lula witnesses a grisly murder: a celebrity television chef ends up getting chopped. Literally. Stephanie ends up having Lula as a housemate while the murderers try to kill Lula in a spectacular fashion. To catch these people, Lula and Grandma Mazur enter a tv food competition with disastrous consequences.

Stephanie, though, is working a job for the sexy, mysterious Ranger. Rangeman’s accounts are being burgled and Ranger thinks it’s an inside job. He employs Steph to snoop around undercover as he can’t trust any of his men. Unfortunately, not everyone is happy with this arrangement. Steph’s on and off boyfriend (currently off) Joe, is not happy with Steph working with Ranger. While helping Lula, trying to catch her skips, and food testing bbq ribs, can Stephanie figure out who is behind the burglaries and be able to resist the temptation of Ranger, and the irresistibility of Joe?

First things first, this was an improvement on the last book (only slightly though). Finger Lickin’ Fifteen is not a great book. Far from it. While I understand this series is very light and full of fluff, and cartoon type characters, I still expect a plot to carry the book through. The plot was just a mess. We have killers going after Lula, but instead of putting her in witness protection or having a policeman guard her, they can’t do that because apparently the police department can’t afford it. So Lula stays with Steph. I have no knowledge of police procedures, but even I went WTF at that. There are two maniacs trying to kill a woman, but the police don’t protect her because their budget wouldn’t cover it. I’m in disbelief over that. If that does happen, then some please correct me. But, I think it was a simple and poor way of letting Lula bulldoze her way through the book in typical fashion.

So we have one plot with Lula, and we have the other plot involving Ranger and Stephanie. This is where I got confused. How can Stephanie be so competent at working with Ranger on that job, but be so utterly useless at capturing her own skips at the bonds office? It was the same old, recycled plot running through this book.

Stephanie goes to bring in her FTA’s in. They don’t want to. They say, I’ll be right back, I just need to do something and then they are escaping out of the window. This happened numerous of times in previous books, and twice in this book. Huh??? Why hasn’t Stephanie improved. Surely she’s not that stupid and naive to believe what they say. In this book, she is. Bigtime!

We have blown up cars, lots of food being eaten, Lula farting numerous times (I think we are meant to find that funny) and Steph screwing up FTA’s over and over again until Ranger helps her. Even the ending was anti climatic. I was like, oh is that it? The plots regarding Lula and Ranger trickle off slowly until they come to a standing stop, and your left wondering what was the point of this?

There doesn’t seem to be any character development and the triangle with Ranger and Joe is not touched upon. Steph is currently off with Joe, so this gives her an opportunity to let Ranger flirt with her, but nothing happens. Why have Steph break up with Joe when nothing even remotely happens with Ranger? Even the break up with Joe was inconsequential. It’s getting to the point now where I couldn’t care less who ends up with who.

I’m sad in a way. When I got this book from the library, I was expecting a bad read. I don’t want to expect a book to be bad when I read it. Especially from a series that I used to love and was an auto buy.

The plot is stale, the characters are stale and readers are left hanging with no resolution in sight.

I give Finger Licking Fifteen 2.5 out of five. The .5 is because there are some humorous situations in the book. Not much, but it was there.

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This review contain spoilers.

Kate and Jared have been married for quite some time. They have a daughter who has just gone off to college and they both lead very busy lives. Kate runs a veterinary clinic and Jared is a lawyer who has just opened up a legal aid office. Jared and Kate haven’t had the smoothest of marriages: a mother-in-law who hates Kate, and accusations from the past which have never fully healed.

I have to admit, it’s been a while since I have read any Harlequin romances that are not from the Mira, HQN or Luna line. The last few category books I’ve read from Harlequin haven’t been good. I’m sorry to say that Save the Last Dance falls into that category. Bigtime.

The story is told from the past and present. The past tells us how Kate and Jared meet and the story of their courtship and the interference of the awful mother-in-law, Sylvia, who does everything in her power to split them up.

When Jared expresses his interest in Kate numerous times, she shuts him down because she thinks their backgrounds are too far apart. Jared doesn’t care about Kate’s background, but Sylvia does. Enter ze evil mother.

Sylvia was a soap opera character. A badly clichéd one at that. She’s snooty, she’s disdainful and the comments she comes out with would be perfect for a soap. In this book, it came off as silly and unbelievable. Kate and Sylvia finally meet, and what a showdown it is. Sylvia immediately lets Kate know she is not good enough, and Jared is to marry someone in his social station and not a poor upstart like Kate. She dramatically tells Kate she will ruin Jared’s life because of her ugly background and how she will be a stain on Jared’s reputation. So of course, Kate does what the obvious evil mother says, and breaks it off with him. On the rebound, Jared gets engaged to a socialite while Kate buries herself in her studies to become a vet.

Throughout the book, this carries on with the present and past intersecting where we see Kate and Jared finally wed. We see past heartbreaks and the present where Kate is sitting by Jared’s bed, hoping he will make it through.

The past where we meet Kate and Jared wasn’t enough to carry the book through  I though. The resolution at the end didn’t ring true for me.

Everything – including the random and bizarre threats that Kate and Jared had been receiving - was explained in the last 7 pages, which conveniently ties up with Jared’s accident. It was just a mishmash of different tropes rolled into one story. I’ll list them for you:

Poor girl and rich boy storyline
Evil Mother-in-law
Accusation of infidelity
Hero in car accident
Threats aimed at hero and heroine

All this in 147 pages.

I actually thought my Sony Reader was listing the incorrect page number. I was saying to myself, This can’t be right. I only have 7 pages to go. No way can this story finish yet. Heck, why am I still reading the story? The flaming hero isn’t even awake yet.

How are they able to make things right with each other after all these years of things which were left unsaid, all in the last 2-3 pages of the book? It didn’t seem possible for me and like I said above, it didn’t ring true.

I give Save the Last Dance 2 out of 5. I did think the start was ok, but as the story went on it lost its way, and I found myself not even caring what happened in the end.

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