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
Hello everyone, It is my stop on the blog tour for Scareground by Angela Kecojevic, a new middle grade that just from looking at the premise, sounds both haunting and enchanting. The title immediately creates intrigue, as you know the story is going to turn out mysterious and spooky, with a cool setting. There are so many … Continue reading Blog Tour Spotlight – Scareground by Angela Kecojevic
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
Hello everyone, It is time to return to the not insubstantial task of looking back through all my previous reads of the past five years and creating an alphabetical list of the notable characters, authors, titles and settings. Today the letter is 'H'. A lot of the characters I have read beginning with H are … Continue reading My A-Z Of Books – H
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
Hello everyone, It is only Wednesday morning and it has already been a crazy busy week! Thankfully, I had time to write a blog post and it is quite a fun one, about seven books which I have recommended more than any others. Some of these I find myself recommending frequently, while others on this … Continue reading Books I Am Always Recommending
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
Image credit: Amazon Prime Video Hello everyone, Of the three books I have read by Taylor Jenkins Reid to date, Daisy Jones And The Six is easily my favourite, so it was both exciting and intriguing when it was announced that it would be adapted for television. Containing 10 episodes, it premiered on Amazon Prime in early … Continue reading TV Adaptation Review – Daisy Jones And The Six
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
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