Pages: 272Published: 3rd May 2018Genre: Young Adult Thriller Teenage trio Leah, Ivy and Jacob are best of friends; the Three Amigos. Every winter, they celebrate the New Year by staying at an old house with their families. This year, they are joined by an older girl called Tatum, and they discover that the house has been guarding … Continue reading Book Review – Your Turn To Die by Sue Wallman
Hello everyone, What do we look for from an epilogue? We like to find out how any remaining loose ends are resolved, and we like to find out how characters we have grown to care about (or not) end up. But above everything else, we just want a satisfying and fulfilling conclusion to the story. … Continue reading A Very Happy Epilogue
Pages: 422Published: 12th August 2014Genre: General Fiction Meet the Bird family. They live in a honey-colored house in a picture-perfect Cotswolds village, with rambling, unkempt gardens stretching beyond. Pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and tow-headed twins Rory and Rhys all attend the village school and eat home-cooked meals together every night. Their father is a sweet gangly man … Continue reading Book Review – The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell
Hello everyone, My TBR list has grown a bit more over the last few weeks, so I thought I would share some of the books which I hope to start reading quite soon. By that I mean any time in the next 6-12 months ;) :) . Click on the links below to view these … Continue reading Five Books On My TBR – June 2018
Pages: 288Published: 11th January 2018Genre: Historical Fiction This book is based on a deeply moving and often heartbreaking true story. I have taken the synopsis from Amazon, as the one on Goodreads gives too much away for those not familiar with the story of Lale and Gita. I tattooed a number on her arm. She tattooed her … Continue reading Book Review – The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
How many drops of water are there in the ocean?How many stars are there in the sky?How many seconds of time are there in eternity? These are the questions asked by an Emperor to a shepherd boy in a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. In the story, the boy answers each of the three … Continue reading How Many Seconds In Eternity?
Pages: 356Published: 19 October 2017Genre: Domestic Thriller Orla Breslin watches on in horror through her computer screen as her best friend Lillian, who she is talking to on Skype, disappears after hearing a knock on the door. Her house is then destroyed by fire, killing an innocent man in the process. This leads to a police … Continue reading Book Review – Without a Word by Kate McQuaile
Hello everyone, I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend, and that the weather where you are is just as perfect for outdoor reading and relaxing as it is here. Today I wanted to talk about how we as readers and book fanatics interact with authors. Twitter has made a massive difference in enabling … Continue reading Engaging with Authors
Hello everyone, We are in June already and it feels like no time at all since the year began, but at the same time a lot seems to have happened in the last five months! For example, I have read 26 books! I cannot believe it either - whereas before this year I was a … Continue reading Monthly Wrap-Up – May 2018
This is a book I simply had to get reading as soon as I could. Having read Sanjida Kay's previous two thrillers earlier this year, the fact that this book was to be released at the beginning of May made for wonderful timing! It is a book that really cements Kay's growing status as a … Continue reading Book Review – My Mother’s Secret by Sanjida Kay
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