Hello everyone, I have been quiet on here for the past few weeks, which is mostly due to life getting in the way of writing blog posts. Anyway, I am here now with a fun list of some of the most hyped books I have read. While there are some books on this list that … Continue reading The Most Hyped Books I Have Read
Pages: 431Published: 26th July 2022Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Suicide, strong sexual references, rape, injury detail London. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, … Continue reading Book Review – The Family Remains by Lisa Jewell
Pages: 343Published: 16th February 2020Genre: Paranormal MysteryContent warnings: Descriptions of suicide, misogyny The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years. But who will be brave enough to take on the role … Continue reading Book Review – I Am Dust by Louise Beech
Pages: 389Published: 29th November 2022Genre: Young Adult ThrillerContent warnings: Injury detail, coercive control Eight hours.Six friends.One sniper . . . Eighteen year old Red and her friends are on a road trip in an RV, heading to the beach for Spring Break. It’s a long drive but spirits are high. Until the RV breaks down in the middle of … Continue reading Book Review – Five Survive by Holly Jackson
Pages: 320Published: 9th May 2023Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Grief/themes of death From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit , Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover … Continue reading Book Review – The Collected Regrets Of Clover by Mikki Brammer
Pages: 511Published: 29th January 2019Genre: Young Adult FantasyContent warnings: Injury detail, misogyny The boy king. The war hero. The prince with a demon curled inside his heart. Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. The people of Ravka don't know what he endured in their bloody civil war and he intends to keep it that way. … Continue reading Book Review – King Of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
Pages: 276Published: 20th November 2021Genre: CrimeContent warnings: Child murder, animal death/cruelty, injury detail, suicide Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series. In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite … Continue reading Book Review – Demon by Matt Wesolowski
Pages: 349Published: 18th March 2019Genre: Mystery/ThrillerContent warnings: PTSD, domestic abuse All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty… To escape her past, Anna takes a job at a hotel on the remote Scottish island of … Continue reading Book Review – Sleep by C.L. Taylor
Pages: 353Published: 26th January 2021Genre: Young Adult ThrillerContent Warnings: Domestic/Psychological abuse, sexual assault, injury detail Nora O’Malley’s been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother’s protégé. But when mother fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape. For five years … Continue reading Book Review – The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe
Pages: 398Published: 21st January 2021Genre: Historical Fiction/Gothic HorrorContent warnings: Injury detail, child death As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then … Continue reading Book Review – The Shape Of Darkness by Laura Purcell
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