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The Trophy ChildPaula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, The Trophy Child, Daly digs beneath the serene surface of the idyllic suburban Lake District community where families strive for perfection, delivering a suspenseful, surprising story of motherhood and fallibility. Karen
Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, The Trophy Child, Daly digs beneath the serene surface of the idyllic suburban Lake District community where families strive for perfection, delivering a suspenseful, surprising story of motherhood and fallibility. Karen Bloom is not the coddling mother type. She believes in raising her children for success. Some in the neighborhood call her assertive, others say she's driven, but in gossiping circles she's known as: the tiger mother. Karen believes that tough discipline is the true art of parenting and that achievement leads to ultimate happiness. She expects her husband and her children to perform at 200 percent--no matter the cost. But in an unending quest for excellence, her seemingly flawless family start to rebel against her. Her husband Noel is a handsome doctor with a proclivity for alcohol and women. Their prodigy daughter, Bronte, is excelling at school, music lessons, dance classes, and yet she longs to run away. Verity, Noel's teenage daughter from his first marriage, is starting to display aggressive behavior. And Karen's son from a previous relationship falls deeper into drug use. When tragedy strikes the Blooms, Karen's carefully constructed facade begins to fall apart--and once the deadly cracks appear, they are impossible to stop. A thrilling tale of ambition and murder, Daly's richly imagined world of suburban striving and motherly love is an absorbing page-turner about the illusions of perfection and the power games between husband and wife, parent and child.Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 03/07/2017
ISBN: 9780802125941
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.40d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/2016 pg. 59
Booklist 12/15/2016 pg. 27
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 86
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2017
Library Journal 10/15/2016
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★★★★★ 5
Great Book for Project-Based Learning
Format: Paperback
As a Unity Instructor I can say the book is really amazing I was expecting that I'd face a basic book, but instead, the book is very complete, even having AR and VR chapters totally adapted to the new version of Unity, which makes it one of the best books to master Unity (if not the best).
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Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2022
★★★★★ 5
Thorough and approachable
Format: Paperback
Mastering Game Design with Unity is a must-have for any developer looking to use Unity as their platform for developing a video game for today's audience.
What makes this book particularly compelling is that it goes through the entire game design and development process. From UI design to audio to graphics, this is a book that provides a one-stop shop of knowledge for developers.
If you're already a developer or just looking for a book at act as the heart of your Unity development, this is the book to get.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2023
★★★★★ 2
Content seems good, but support files/code are insufficient, and the code seems illogical in places
Format: Paperback
This books starts out great and the content/approach seems solid. But I ran into several issues when the coding portions were introduced, notably when it came to collisions and destroying enemy game objects. There's scripting to set up a bullet behavior, but from the outset the behavior is buggy, and when the "explosion" behavior is introduced, there's no coding to actually destroy the object you're introducing the explosion behavior to. On top of that, the explosion behavior is tied to the playerObj's "onDeath" function, so ... I'm not sure how any of that ties into destroying an enemy game object. This is about 150 pages in.
The go-to method in these cases is, of course, to reference the support files, but these files only include the code and the book images. What's really needed is the Unity project files to ensure the code is being implemented in the components of the game objects and seeing the core structure there. With only the scripts, you can only check your scripts against those, but you can't be sure you're utilizing them correctly and tying it all together in Unity.
Granted, I'm still learning the platform, but things like where you're expected to fire a bullet that has no "destroy gameObject" function into an enemy gameObject that also has no such behavior ... and the behavior is tied to the player? There's definitely something amiss. All the while you're dealing with "soft locks" in the test gameplay that could have been immediately addressed, but aren't. And you can't really move forward with such core inconsistencies in place because you fear the problems would just compound from there.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023
★★★★★ 5
Very helpful
Format: Paperback
Given as a gift. They wanted to learn about coding and how it works. They found it very helpful and was able to understand it
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Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Lots of uses in Roblox
Format: Paperback
Son loves getting these for birthdays and holidays.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2025