I finished Beautiful Bad a couple of weeks ago but it has taken me until now to decide what I really thought about it. That is often an admirable quality in a book but in this case I have been fighting too very diverse opinions. In many ways that is […]
Blacklist is the second book in the Beautiful Idols YA series about shallow fame seekers fighting to win a coveted job in Los Angeles. See my review of Unrivalled if you want to catch up quickly. Starting exactly where the first book left off Madison Brooks is still missing and […]
Once I’d finished this book I made a point of looking up the author. I’d never read anything else by her but the writing style felt a bit familiar. Discovering that she is the younger sister of Liane Moriarty made an awful lot of sense. The writing style isn’t that […]
I picked this up as the blurb sounded quite interesting. Hammond is a music industry professional in the US working for Sony and it promised some interesting anecdotes about his life and work. Sadly it has a very different feel to it and is more in the style of Augusten […]
On paper this sounds like something that I would really love. Ian Sharpe is an ex FBI Behavioural Analysis Agent and now a full time writer concentrating on True Crime investigation books. One of his books has just been turned into a big Hollywood blockbuster starring the beautiful and elusive […]
The blurb for this book sounded like just the kind of book that I enjoy reading. “Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all kinds of letters – but none like the one she’s just received: Dear Amy, I don’t know […]
UK Publication Date: 3 Mar 2016. 640 pages. I really should stop choosing books that I think that I SHOULD read. It rarely turns out well! Six Four is a monster of a book at 640 pages and is a translation from the original Japanese. The premise of the story […]
UK Publishing Date: 5 Apr 2016. 368 pages. Over the last couple of years there has been a resurgence of classic books being rewritten in a modern or futuristic setting. Tell the Wind and Fire doesn’t hide where it gets its inspiration from as it opens with: “It was the […]
UK Publishing Date: 25 Feb 2016. 528 pages. Did I love this or hate it? I’m still not entirely sure. In Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl the main character is a girl called Cath who writes fan fiction. Specifically Harry Potter fan fiction featuring an orphan wizard called Simon and a vampire […]
UK Publishing Date: 25 Feb 2016. 416 pages. I had to keep coming back to this book (read over the course of a month with other books in between) and for me it was just a difficult and frustrating read. Jules Bright gets a knock on the door and it […]
UK Publishing Date: 31 Oct 2015. 328 pages. Five Steps is quite a difficult book for me to review. I found it quite cumbersome and slow at times and if felt like a book that didn’t really know what genre it was aspiring to be. Part crime thriller and part […]
UK Publishing Date: 29 Oct 2015. 320 pages. “The Little Red Chairs” is the new book by Irish author Edna O’Brien and her first for about ten years. She specializes in crafting superb characters in sleepy communities that are completely believable and I’ve enjoyed quite a few of her novels. […]
UK Publishing Date: 17th Sept 2015. 400 pages. When I finished reading this book I jotted down a few thoughts on a page and realised that they were almost exclusively negative. So I had a quite scan over some other reviews and I was quite surprised that so many people […]
UK Publishing Date: 22 Oct 2015. 736 pages. I can honestly say that it took me the best part of a month to get through this book. “A Little Life” is a deceptive title for a tome that weighs in at over 730 pages and is one of the most […]
UK Publishing Date: 22 Oct 2015. 944 pages. It has taken me quite a while to get through this book and at 944 pages it does require quite an investment of your time. It is New Years Eve 1976. As midnight approaches a blizzard sets in and two gunshots ring […]
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