Category: Book Reviews

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay

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Pages: 287Published: 16th November 2018 At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up … Continue reading Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay

Book Review – After The End by Clare Mackintosh

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Pages: 384Published: 25th June 2019Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Cancer storyline, child death, sexual references Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. They're best friends, lovers—unshakable. But then their son gets sick and the doctors put the question of his survival into their hands. For the first time, Max and Pip can't agree. They each want a … Continue reading Book Review – After The End by Clare Mackintosh

Book Review – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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Pages: 447Published: 28th February 2017Genre: Young Adult ContemporaryContent warnings: Drug use, racism, sexual references Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands … Continue reading Book Review – The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Book Review – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

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Pages: 252Published: 29th April 2009Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Sexual content, racism Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, … Continue reading Book Review – Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Book Review – The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister

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Pages: 422Published: 18th April 2019Genre: Legal ThrillerContent warnings: Drug references It's the day her father will be released from jail. Izzy English has every reason to feel conflicted - he's the man who gave her a childhood filled with happy memories. But he has also just served seventeen years for the murder of her mother. Now, Izzy's … Continue reading Book Review – The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister

Book Review – The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

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Pages: 312Published: 2nd May 2019Genre: Historical FictionContent warnings: Animal cruelty, sexual content London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment – forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange … Continue reading Book Review – The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Book Review – No Way Out by Cara Hunter

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Pages: 360Published: 18th April 2019Genre: Crime ThrillerContent warnings: Child death, animal death It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why … Continue reading Book Review – No Way Out by Cara Hunter

Book Review – The Mountain In My Shoe by Louise Beech

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Pages: 287Published: 23rd July 2016Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Domestic abuse This was a buddy read with my friend Gem, our second buddy read of 2019 and our fifth overall. I would like to say thank you for Gem for her wonderful insight and for helping to make our discussions so enjoyable. On the night Bernadette finally has the … Continue reading Book Review – The Mountain In My Shoe by Louise Beech

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them – The Original Screenplay

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Pages: 293Published: 18th November 2016 When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone… Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, … Continue reading Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them – The Original Screenplay

Book Review – Changeling by Matt Wesolowski

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Pages: 194Published: 15th November 2018Genre: CrimeTrigger warnings: Domestic abuse, alcoholism On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his … Continue reading Book Review – Changeling by Matt Wesolowski