Funnily enough the last two books I’ve read have had memory loss as a central feature to the plot. In this story Jenny Kramer, a young high school student, is at a party with some friends. When the guy she is enamoured with hooks up with another student she is […]
I had a quick look at Lisa’s profile on Goodreads before I started to write this review and was amazed to see that I had read all but one of her books. Although thinking about it I don’t know why I was amazed. You know what you are getting when […]
It always makes me think twice about a book when I see that the title on Amazon feels like it has to try to convince you to read the book. In this case it is: The Sister: A psychological thriller with a brilliant twist you won’t see coming Cast aside […]
Weighing in at a hefty 560 pages The Kept Woman is the eighth book in Slaughter’s Will Trent series. If you haven’t read any of these I wholeheartedly recommend going back to the very beginning and reading Blindsighted. This is the first of the Grant County series and where we […]
Little Boy Blue is the fifth book in the DI Helen Grace series by M J Arlidge. This can be read as a standalone story but you will get much more out of it if you have read the earlier novels. It will come as no surprise to fans of […]
In 2013, Laurelin Paige self‐published her first novel. Her husband was just laid off, she had three kids, one with special needs, and they had just filed for bankruptcy so she needed this novel to work. Less than 1 year later, her debut novel, Fixed on You, was at the […]
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 […]
Written by Noah Hawley – he of “Fargo” fame – “After the Fall” is set in the immediate aftermath of a plane crash. A small private passenger plane flying from Martha’s Vineyard to New York with eleven people on board crashes into the sea just sixteen minutes after take-off. There […]
One of the books that I was most excited by earlier this year was “The Girl in the Ice” which was the debut detective novel from Robert Bryndza and the first book in the Detective Erika Foster series. While you can read The Night Stalker as a stand-alone story I […]
Honestly I chose this book because I loved the cover and I’ve always been a bit of a True Crime buff. It turns out to be a pretty amazing coming of age book and a fantastic debut novel by author Alison Umminger. It would be quite easy to dismiss it […]
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 Publication Date: 14 Jun 2016. 365 pages. If you are reading this review and you haven’t already read the first book in this series then it’s time to back up. Stop reading this and go get a copy of First Touch right now. You need to catch up fast! […]
UK Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016. 416 pages. Different Class is a follow up story to Gentlemen and Players. Set in a private boys grammar school in Yorkshire called St Oswald’s this is a complex tale of tradition and conflict, of bullying and the struggle to fit in. Unlike Chocolat […]
UK Publication Date: 5 May 2016. 400 pages. If you are looking for a gripping suspenseful read that is perfect for the side of the pool this summer then look no further than The Swimming Pool. As the school holidays are about to begin teacher Natalie notices that the local […]
UK Publication Date: 2 June 2016. 384 pages. Having just finished this book I can feel a buzzing in my veins. It feels vital and it is a release. I’ve been reading it over a couple of days but haven’t been able to stop thinking about Maria even while I […]
UK Publication Date: 10 May 2016. 368 pages. Unrivalled is the latest book from Alyson Noel aimed at a Young Adult audience. Set in the glitzy club world of Hollywood it has a feel of Pretty Little Liars meets Mean Girls. The story centres on three main characters, all wannabees […]
UK Publication Date: 24 Mar 2016. 400 pages. Considering that I read quite a lot of crime fiction I’ve never actually read a Harlan Coben novel before. I always felt like I should but never actually got round to it. Saying that I started this novel three times before I […]
UK Publication Date: 21 Apr 2016. 320 pages. It is an interesting angle for a story. Two twelve year old girls are abducted from their respective homes in small-town America. Carly May is a junior beauty queen attending pageants and winning titles. Lois is a Spelling Bee Champion and a […]
UK Publishing Date: 1 Apr 2016. 330 pages. This is a tale of two extraordinary women separated by eighty years but both bound together by the Royal Sussex Hospital in Brighton. In 1938 Grace Kemp starts at the hospital as a trainee nurse. Abused by her father’s friend she found […]
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 […]
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