It has been a strange time in the UK. A week of new prime ministers, a farewell to our long serving queen and the proclamation of the first king for most people alive here today. So its no wonder that I am a bit behind on my book reviews! The […]
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In typical Angelnet Reviews fashion I signed up for the blog tour for The Shimmer on the Water after skimming through the synopsis of the book and assuming that it was going to be a detective story about the disappearance of a small child on a crowded beach. I’m very […]
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After Paris begins like an episode of Gossip Girl. Teenage sons and daughters of the great and good have descended upon Paris for the grandest Debutante event in Europe. And this is how Alice, Nina and Jules met. The start of an unlikely friendship that has lasted for 20 years. […]
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I was really pleased to be invited to join the blog tour around the paperback release of Bella Osbourneโs new book. The Library is such an interesting book in that it presents two very different central characters who are both experiencing a similar sadness and isolation in their lives. Tom […]
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Shadow Sands is the second book in his new series featuring university lecturer Kate Marshall. If you haven’t read it yet please go back and find Nine Elms. You can read this as a standalone but why would you? Nine Elms is a deliciously creepy serial killer story that feeds […]
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In these dark days of 2020 where many of us sit confined to our homes watching the Covid 19 news on our TV screens every night you need something in your life to help counter the fear, the depression, the isolation. Meet Dawn Elizabeth Brightside. She has been running from […]
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Iโve reviewed Adele Parks a few times on here before and unlike other writers she always seems to go for something a bit different. A bit quirky and unexpected. This is a story of a family, a life lived with secrets. Daisy is married to Simon. He is an unacknowledged […]
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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 […]
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I love a good book cover and shamelessly I will admit that it is often the difference between picking up a book in the store or not. This latest book from Isabelle Broom has the most gorgeous cover art and it captured me right from the start. Alice lives with […]
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There is something about the Irish that lends itself to storytelling. โHoldingโ is the debut novel from Graham Norton and hopefully the first of many. For someone writing their first work of fiction this is a really accomplished book. Pacy and character driven but the story tells itself in a […]
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Many UK readers will know Shappi from her appearances on the comedy circuit and on prime time television shows like Mock the Week. She has already published her autobiography detailing her early years as an Iranian immigrant in London (A Beginner’s Guide To Acting English) and this is her first […]
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