If you are hunting for that last minute addition to your holiday suitcase then surely you have found it. One Last Greek Summer is that feel good holiday romance that oozes sunshine, cocktails and fun and just makes you smile while you are reading along. Beth Martin is 31 and newly divorced. Best friend Heidi…
Category: 4 Stars
Book Review: The Wives – Lauren Weisberger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
You may remember Lauren Weisberger for her hit novel The Devil Wears Prada. Her iconic anti-heroine Miranda Priestly became world famous after it was turned into a movie in 2006. This is the third book in the series but can be read as a standalone novel. I do recommend seeking out the other books though…
Book Review: The Silver Mark – Sarah Painter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book two in Painter’s Crow Investigations series sees Lydia Crow picking up where we left off at the end of The Night Raven. Living above her uncle’s cafe in London, Lydia is desperately trying to forge her own path with her fledgling private investigations firm. Largely spying on cheating spouses it isn’t exactly the kind…
Book Review: You, Me and the Movies – Fiona Collins ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I’ve always been a bit sniffy about picking up a Fiona Collins book. The covers all look so twee and pink and girly – the worst kind of chick lit! – that I’ve never actually read one until now. When I read the synopsis of this book the cover hadn’t been finalised and I was…
Book Review: The Last Widow – Karin Slaughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
After a few standalone stories from Slaughter it is great to get back to the world of the GBI and the ninth Will Trent book. It many ways this feels much more like early Will as he is left foundering without a safety net and suddenly finds himself without Sara. The book begins with the…
Book Review: The Family – P R Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
When I was invited to close out the Blog tour for The Family I had to admit that it had been so long since I had read the synopsis for the book that I had forgotten what had attracted me to it in the first place! As I delved into its pages I was half…
Book Review: The Reckoning – Yrsa Sigurdardottir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book two in the Children’s House series sees Icelandic author Yrsa Sigurardottir at her chilling best. Not for the faint hearted, this is Scandi Noir at its finest. When a time capsule is dug up at a local school after ten years it contains a very creepy note written by a 13 year old predicting…
Book Review: I Know Who You Are – Alice Feeney ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alice Feeney is on a bit of a roll. Her first book Sometimes I Lie was a huge hit worldwide and is being made into a Warner Bros TV Series starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. It must have made it quite the challenge to come up with a story that could compete on that level but…
Book Review: Have You Seen Her – Lisa Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It is early November. A school Bonfire Night fireworks display in an affluent Surrey town. Anna watched Laurel run after her mother Fran across the school grounds, distracted momentarily by the fireworks she looks away. That was all it took, a split second. Laurel was gone and no-one can find her. As the days and…
Book Review: Darker – E L James ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Given the connections between E L James and the Twilight Saga (The Fifty Shades series was originally published as Twilight fan fiction online featuring Edward and Bella) it was probably inevitable that the books would be republished from Christian Grey’s point of view. Unlike Stephenie Meyer’s abandoned Midnight Sun project this is the second of…
Book Review: The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury – Marc Levy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Marc Levy is the most read French author alive today with nineteen novels to his name so it is a little surprising that this is the first time his books have crossed my path. On paper it really isn’t my kind of book. A winding story set in the years immediately following the second world…
Book Review: Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow – Lucy Worsley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you’ve been watching – and enjoying – the recent dramatisation of Queen Victoria’s life starring Jenna Coleman this might well be the book for you. Worsley has brought a fresh and engaging aspect to both her television documentaries and her publications. Previous biographies of the monarch have tended to be a bit dry and…
