Pages: 363Published: 30th August 2022Genre: General FictionContent warnings: Misogyny Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, … Continue reading Book Review – Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 433Published: 19th May 2017Genre: MysteryContent warnings: Child death, missing person storyline Seven years ago, two boys went missing at sea – and only one was brought to shore. The Sandbank, a remote stretch of coast dotted with beach huts, was scarred forever. Sarah’s son survived, but on the anniversary of the accident, he disappears without trace. As new … Continue reading Book Review – Last Seen by Lucy Clarke
Pages: 315Published: 10th January 2023Genre: Fantasy Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk … Continue reading Book Review – Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia Of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Hello everyone, It is time for another Write Reads blog tour, and today it is my turn to showcase Feast Of Ashes by Victoria Williamson, an atmospheric young adult dystopian novel with a concept that immediately grabbed my attention. This was also one of those blog tours where I was able to claim a free physical … Continue reading Blog Tour Review – Feast Of Ashes by Victoria Williamson
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
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