tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2986853240265643982024-03-13T13:40:28.742+00:00Afternoon BookeryEmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.comBlogger525125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-90996250117476373722024-03-07T20:06:00.002+00:002024-03-07T20:06:25.637+00:00Julie Caplin - A Villa With A View || Blog Tour<p> </p><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><b>
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Lia Bathurst had always dreamed of escaping to the white sandy beaches and turquoise blue seas of the Amalfi coast – but that dream hadn’t included meeting her real father. A father she had never even known about until a few weeks ago! Yet here she was, standing outside the gates of a gorgeous pink villa being refused entry by the insufferable – and insufferably handsome – Raphael Knight, her father’s business manager. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">When an old black and white photo proves Lia’s claim to be true, Raph is determined to make sure this stranger, with her long caramel waves and infectious smile, doesn’t have an ulterior motive. Even if that means not letting her out of his sight. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">As temperatures rise, and not just from the heat of the Mediterranean sun, could Lia and Raph’s forced proximity lead to something more like… amore?
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Link - </b></span><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://bit.ly/47kOw0a" target="_top"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>https://bit.ly/47kOw0a</b></span></a></u></span></p><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyBmUvFvJN5k00WhT6ExW-lNajRNNA7G5krJvtvHE9YX_tL8qQARAxqaHbZ4q8Dw_2XK9eCUwY-0PEAzn10h_c2uDW3OaJh9XaoUsNu4RtujQGR9gV7haHgd92Ncmalr2FKF1fG79i29ukqujLHIR_6A1bYtjy1v-Pe-Xt7JtBXezSFhtZ6cKF-j9WhA/s320/auth%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXyBmUvFvJN5k00WhT6ExW-lNajRNNA7G5krJvtvHE9YX_tL8qQARAxqaHbZ4q8Dw_2XK9eCUwY-0PEAzn10h_c2uDW3OaJh9XaoUsNu4RtujQGR9gV7haHgd92Ncmalr2FKF1fG79i29ukqujLHIR_6A1bYtjy1v-Pe-Xt7JtBXezSFhtZ6cKF-j9WhA/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Julie
caplin, formerly a PR director, swanned around Europe for many years
taking top food and drink writers on press trips (junkets) sampling
the gastronomic delights of various cities in Italy, France, Belgium,
Spain, Copenhagen and Switzerland. It was a tough job but someone had
to do it. </span></span><span><br /><br /></span><span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These
trips have provided the inspiration and settings for the highly
successful Romantic Escapes series which have hit the best seller
charts in Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic and have sold over
two million copies worldwide.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The
first book in the nine strong series,The Little Café in Copenhagen,
was shortlisted for a Romantic Novel of the Year Award.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><b>Social
Media Links – @JulieCaplin Twitter </b></span>
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<div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Scrabble fan Jo always seems to pick the wrong guys. Now she’s moved to the Yorkshire village of Hebbleswick, and decided to give dating one last chance. This time, there’s a catch: she will only date men whose names would score highly in her beloved word game.</div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> After Tarquin (16 points) proves just as disappointing as the rest, she meets low-scoring local doctor Ras (3 points). Her rules mean she can’t date him – but when he asks her to organise a Scrabble festival with him, she can’t say no. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">As the event draws nearer and Jo and Ras grow closer, will Jo ignore her rule and let true love blossom over the triple letter scores?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGq_-Wk0kiCxuJPj-p0vxjzFsV5JIe4-5LdERZcFQpxUwF6PHnJctLQNZWwUJwTtGQihYXWvEuJChTWL7mkP0Gx5aNogyfTB60AMNhNdhEMYTbli5TOjFHliVIFxzAyjozgfE2ilYJ-Utqh5qTpaGBKtWIAr20TvrVlSKiPYQZnpNkpS7zKZ1QNtsX4Eg/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGq_-Wk0kiCxuJPj-p0vxjzFsV5JIe4-5LdERZcFQpxUwF6PHnJctLQNZWwUJwTtGQihYXWvEuJChTWL7mkP0Gx5aNogyfTB60AMNhNdhEMYTbli5TOjFHliVIFxzAyjozgfE2ilYJ-Utqh5qTpaGBKtWIAr20TvrVlSKiPYQZnpNkpS7zKZ1QNtsX4Eg/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was gifted my copy for the blog tour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I am a huge fan of Jennifer Page, her writing just warms my soul, theres something about that is really feel good and comforting. It ticks all the boxes for me so to be able to read this was a delight and it was just another hit. <div><br /></div><div>So we meet Scrabble fan Jo who has not long moved to Hebbleswick after a disastrous marriage, and is now ready to set out in the world of dating once again. Seen as the typical ways were not working for her she decides to only date those whos names would score high in Scrabble. So when she meets a man who pushes her out of her comfort zone but his name is low scoring, its not really a problem when she doesnt hear from him anymore.</div><div><br /></div><div>So when the very same man a doctor called Ras asks for her help in organizing a Scrabble festival, there is no reason to say no. There friends and nothing more after all. Yet the pair seem to have something simmering underneath.</div><div><br /></div><div>I honestly loved this like i stated in the intro of the review, Jennifer creates characters that have such personality that you feel like you know them, settings that you can picture. With gentle nods to her previous book as well - you are left with a real sense of community. I cant wait for more from Jennifer.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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first novel – a book about ponies – when she was eight. These
days she prefers to write romance. When she isn't writing, Jennifer
can usually be found playing board games which are the inspiration
for her first novel. She has worked as a television producer, a music
teacher and has even run a children's opera company. She now lives
near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire with her husband and his large
collection of games.</p>
<p lang="it-IT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Social Media Links – </b>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://jenniferpage.co.uk/" target="_top"><span lang="it-IT"><b>https://jenniferpage.co.uk/</b></span></a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://twitter.com/jenpagewrites" target="_top"><span lang="it-IT"><b>https://twitter.com/jenpagewrites</b></span></a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JenniferPagewrites/" target="_top"><span lang="it-IT">https://www.facebook.com/JenniferPagewrites/</span></a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jenniferpagewrites/" target="_top"><span lang="it-IT"><b>https://www.instagram.com/jenniferpagewrites/</b></span></a></u></span></p>
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<div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW5dgUi3I1MvYh83lfob0yVf3_6KykfD18Y4AWzbQ6MaPE9K9goLR_xDVLspwOyt4nKfsZAVitwq_LmZXCpoAyFPV0qsHHrLSGaAP0shEoUtGWnSQ88kaJ1RTYZd7No9sNwR6_pFnzPegTvwxLDr7WKnVltn4esQqtdL-YUlNmcQraqriyh3RMYzTTxjc/s2327/ChristmasLoveLetters_COVER.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2327" data-original-width="1526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW5dgUi3I1MvYh83lfob0yVf3_6KykfD18Y4AWzbQ6MaPE9K9goLR_xDVLspwOyt4nKfsZAVitwq_LmZXCpoAyFPV0qsHHrLSGaAP0shEoUtGWnSQ88kaJ1RTYZd7No9sNwR6_pFnzPegTvwxLDr7WKnVltn4esQqtdL-YUlNmcQraqriyh3RMYzTTxjc/s320/ChristmasLoveLetters_COVER.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><br />A secret romance was just the start of the story…<br /><br />
Tucked into a crook of the Norfolk coast lies Nelson’s Bar – an idyllic village where time seems to stand still. Maddy Cracey has called this beautiful spot home all her life, as had her husband Adey – until an epic row sent him storming out into a blizzard, with no sign of him since that fateful night.<br /><br />
Six years on, and Maddy’s life in the village has settled into a gentle pattern with her young daughter and Great Aunt Ruthie. However, when handsome stranger Raff turns up with a handful of long-forgotten love letters, their quiet life is upended as family secrets from the past are unearthed.<br /><br />
As Raff and Maddy get to know each other, they grow closer and a love story of their own seems inevitable. But when Maddy receives a mysterious message, she can’t help but wonder whether her own past is as distant as she'd thought it was…<br /><br />
The festive new novel about love, family and the power of words from Sunday Times bestseller Sue Moorcroft, perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan and Phillipa Ashley.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUP6NZr89xDmP-xpzy5jcF-pmQIRePzx-nxKi8OgA8Fr_8goWuJOWgkmsCyKEaSsltomHaYJkw7Yt4pMvOgPIsBV4HuakxY1K2kaiIh9D5LTmrH9CqfeiwwtK753x5spfpP0SgNCsTwocS65NAgyv6WinijI3M6UFAqfC4Ll3S_UmZjQB0EVipS5ASdHs/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUP6NZr89xDmP-xpzy5jcF-pmQIRePzx-nxKi8OgA8Fr_8goWuJOWgkmsCyKEaSsltomHaYJkw7Yt4pMvOgPIsBV4HuakxY1K2kaiIh9D5LTmrH9CqfeiwwtK753x5spfpP0SgNCsTwocS65NAgyv6WinijI3M6UFAqfC4Ll3S_UmZjQB0EVipS5ASdHs/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">**My copy was gifted for the blog tour.**#</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ever pick up a book and feel like your home? This is how Sue Moorcrofts writing makes me feel, like a warm cup of tea on a cold day. The Christmas Love Letters was no exception and was another beautifully crafted narrative packed with emotion, heart warming characters and a cozy small-town feel.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We meet Maddy, who has battled alot to make sure she is able to stay in Nelsons Bar the place she has always called home after her husband vanished nearly 7 years ago after a blazing argument. However, shes pulled through - got herself out of debt, is looking after her family and plodding quite happily through life now. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When one day a stranger turns up at theirs with love letters spanning decades and a hidden family secret. This is about to turn the world as Maddy knows it upside down. As the past comes to light, relationships change and the future starts to look very different. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was a wonderful read, packed with festive feels, heart warming moments and delightful characters. Written in true Sue Moorcroft style, everytime you picked this up you felt content, at ease and invested in everyone involved. Sue Moorcroft writes characters with real emotions, complex feelings and real depth to them. I think i find thats what i enjoy the most, the feel like real people you could know.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Love-Letters-gorgeous-heartwarming-ebook/dp/B0C7GDGBFX/" target="_top"><b>https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Love-Letters-gorgeous-heartwarming-ebook/dp/B0C7GDGBFX/</b></a></u></span></p>
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a <i>Sunday Times</i> bestselling author, and her books have been #1
on Kindle UK and Top 100 on Kindle US, Canada and Italy. She writes
two books a year for publishing giant HarperCollins and has won the
Goldsboro Books Contemporary Novel of the Year, Readers’ Best
Romantic Novel award, a HOLT Medallion and the Katie Fforde Bursary.
<span style="background: #ffff00;">She’s president of the Romantic
Novelists’ Association</span> and past vice-chair.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Her novels, short stories, serials,
columns, writing ‘how to’ and courses have appeared around the
world.</p>
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<p lang="it-IT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Social Media Links – </b>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="it-IT">Amazon page: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sue-Moorcroft/e/B0034Q9O4U/" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="it-IT"><u>Sue
Moorcroft</u></span></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Audible page: <span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://www.audible.co.uk/author/Sue-Moorcroft/B0034Q9O4U" target="_top">Sue
Moorcroft</a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Website: <span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="http://www.suemoorcroft.com/" target="_top">www.suemoorcroft.com</a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Facebook author
page </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SueMoorcroftAuthor" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;"><u>SueMoorcroftAuthor</u></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/SueMoorcroft" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;"><u>@SueMoorcroft</u></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/suemoorcroftauthor/" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;"><u>@SueMoorcroftAuthor</u></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Linked in: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/suemoorcroft/" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;"><u>Sue
Moorcroft</u></span></a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Link Tree: <a href="https://linktr.ee/SueMoorcroft" target="_top"><span style="color: blue;"><u>linktr.ee/SueMoorcroft</u></span></a></p><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGKNGO-eFLPpq1adOviLhjvTy8_G7yoxuGNRe2GJsSa1ZIgcutbFVa52Sl_qkFbYeT4usuQNDZ1ny0cEjyrcqI-k7xmYQ65bCrANb8CdfZv94KuxeYG76WOid8FLOjfiUD9bDFnUP-fo3WMKlZlWr20Ltu31wI19uM6wizcyIedXKVG46Kw7cFyzdlwI/s2563/The%20Christmas%20Love%20Letters%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="2563" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGKNGO-eFLPpq1adOviLhjvTy8_G7yoxuGNRe2GJsSa1ZIgcutbFVa52Sl_qkFbYeT4usuQNDZ1ny0cEjyrcqI-k7xmYQ65bCrANb8CdfZv94KuxeYG76WOid8FLOjfiUD9bDFnUP-fo3WMKlZlWr20Ltu31wI19uM6wizcyIedXKVG46Kw7cFyzdlwI/w640-h310/The%20Christmas%20Love%20Letters%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-33776613332079458312023-10-30T13:52:00.003+00:002023-10-30T13:52:56.604+00:00The Stepmother - Sally Rigby & Amanda Ashby || Blog Tour<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWjBM-7Qv6sSgmcHiE7vk8noAQy_gWq4T93H5ec37Eo8FxZY8aN0i4bcVkrncgZLPsXNHnnNPVSEwBNDc_6XVf73XxbOl1rgue240UBA6GuDIr0-Q-2sYcS6_E-553vImzGvlw3iehEgTs-PUVmEpRiylnx1QH9wT-Bt9U5x1aEJNZoY3uDByPOiXRnKw/s2339/The%20Stepmother.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWjBM-7Qv6sSgmcHiE7vk8noAQy_gWq4T93H5ec37Eo8FxZY8aN0i4bcVkrncgZLPsXNHnnNPVSEwBNDc_6XVf73XxbOl1rgue240UBA6GuDIr0-Q-2sYcS6_E-553vImzGvlw3iehEgTs-PUVmEpRiylnx1QH9wT-Bt9U5x1aEJNZoY3uDByPOiXRnKw/s320/The%20Stepmother.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">She’ll do anything to protect her family… </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Libby Curtis never wanted children, until she met Nathan, a gorgeous widower with two young children. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Now ten years later she can’t imagine her life without Sam and Sienna – she’d do anything for her precious kids. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Anything….
So when a missing teenager is found lying on the side of the road, Libby’s first thoughts are for her own kids. Are they safe? Are they home?
What Libby doesn’t expect is for her children to be involved in the girl’s disappearance. But when she discovers an item in her stepson's car linked to the victim Libby’s fears increase.
She can't believe that the sweet boy she's raised could do something like that. But if not Sam….who? </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Libby must discover the truth before her family is ripped apart. But someone is determined to make sure their secrets stay hidden - even if the consequences are deadly...</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a><br /></span><div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Gj9v3smapAqTAjVXRcAqclKPjK95ZycXvI0xb4nqYVxLxbhOi3Xi8L_q2A7ZqYZjNxV9SNnYEgsv1iSETDtNWwX6UOl1gWD9Xf03iukPsl9xbtHw_789xNAI3kXKIDhbySE8aD4UahxwTY3LcP4ebjvPXfvzsBHuWPHO26Mq6l_PFWOZQteMb6HwBY8/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Gj9v3smapAqTAjVXRcAqclKPjK95ZycXvI0xb4nqYVxLxbhOi3Xi8L_q2A7ZqYZjNxV9SNnYEgsv1iSETDtNWwX6UOl1gWD9Xf03iukPsl9xbtHw_789xNAI3kXKIDhbySE8aD4UahxwTY3LcP4ebjvPXfvzsBHuWPHO26Mq6l_PFWOZQteMb6HwBY8/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><div style="text-align: center;">My copy of this was gifted for the blogtour. </div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>I was so excited to be offered a place on this blog tour as The Stepmother was right up my street in terms of thrillers. I have been in a bit of a reading rut this last month so this was a surefire way for me to pick back up with my reading.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>Libby never wanted children, then she met Nathan - a widower but he had two young children. That was the package, and now ten years later she couldn't imagine her life without them. They were her family and she would do anything to protect them. So when she is called to a job at work and a missing teenager is found, her thoughts turn to her own children - but when it becomes apparent that her children might be involved in this. Her mothering instinct takes over. She must protect them, but in the meantime someone wants to expose old secrets with the family.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>This was a brilliant read, it was full of twists, turns and truths to be discovered. I really enjoyed the flow of the writing and getting to discover the characters. Libby just wanted to protect her family and at the cost it takes - she will. It went darker than i expected but also absolutely hooked me in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span>A fantastic thriller that has so many narratives threaded through that you really need to loose yourself in. Not all is as it seems - even to that very last page.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3xynp-2nr16VHxM8TEtLSLk8c2ZaC_TtwTUIqy0PUCOSzIBy_CpxnFj2yKDT9dIrH2Yq-xbS-U7cHmZJMat0T3r-a5W-X0GARmVLQI-jdiUtwOWerdonkXknX9AkM9WgVlZyshBSP5MozBJ6ssIHQlO2ajFD6_BqVC84Fg2bruArRuYM6N0fCtdEdB8/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC3xynp-2nr16VHxM8TEtLSLk8c2ZaC_TtwTUIqy0PUCOSzIBy_CpxnFj2yKDT9dIrH2Yq-xbS-U7cHmZJMat0T3r-a5W-X0GARmVLQI-jdiUtwOWerdonkXknX9AkM9WgVlZyshBSP5MozBJ6ssIHQlO2ajFD6_BqVC84Fg2bruArRuYM6N0fCtdEdB8/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="background: #ffffff;">Amanda
Ashby and Sally Rigby</span></b></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> are
a crime writing partnership. Both authors live in New Zealand, have
been friends for eighteen years and agree about everything (except
musicals). They decided to collaborate on a psychological thriller
which they then entered into a competition, run by Boldwood, and
which they won!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Social Media
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Facebook:
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<p style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Bookbub profile:
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And not only your husband but your home too and all the trappings of your old existence?</div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Gennie moves back to Cornwall in search of a fresh start. Working for Marion’s children’s charity seems perfect. Tucked away in the countryside, close to an artists’ community, it’s a place for Gennie and her daughter, Alice, to rebuild their lives in peace and quiet – until ex-soldier Jack comes along with the same idea in mind, a face from the past, forcing Gennie to confront things she would rather forget and igniting fears of another turbulent relationship.</div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Involving herself with Jack and his problems is the last thing she needs, not now she’s made new friends and opportunities are opening up again, but can either find happiness and a new direction without the other?</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJEbklJiT1o-FcZyKUlQVcM0P-r12M2nGqbPyF-GSkWX4f9Tz3xtypglX8FI0bjv8kqB0nQ5TaC0uKEs8xFow-yhQYQZ4AaWIG2BtWihiNlnQIonWHq4T18UNcf6qbXiW3hZ_hSMGF47WHik_n7edMyWU69zO8WdzrUlfU6EWRAKg3DYA1iO9FQ6xu4U/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJEbklJiT1o-FcZyKUlQVcM0P-r12M2nGqbPyF-GSkWX4f9Tz3xtypglX8FI0bjv8kqB0nQ5TaC0uKEs8xFow-yhQYQZ4AaWIG2BtWihiNlnQIonWHq4T18UNcf6qbXiW3hZ_hSMGF47WHik_n7edMyWU69zO8WdzrUlfU6EWRAKg3DYA1iO9FQ6xu4U/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*I was gifted my copy for review on my stop of the blog tour - views all my own*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ever read a book and think this is what i would want to write? Well this was me within pages of starting Finding Jack, Its about life, literally following Gennie in her life and let me tell you - it draws you in and i just felt like i was observing her as she went about her day to day challenges. Having lost her husband and her previous life. Gennie is working hard to rebuild it for her and her daughter. So when she meets Jack it throws what she is working towards up in the air and makes herself ask lots of questions and some she would rather forget.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like i said i was drawn in, it was written in a way that you are living it along with Gennie, i was a big fan of her - she stood her ground, her morals and her beliefs but shes also passionate, funny and caring. As a reader she was just such a great character to discover. I really loved getting lost in these pages and its one to sit down with and enjoy a cup of tea like a catch up with an old friend. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipuoWuM2ZuyQTol6WUqioSizmGZWyg4cEW7MlKfswIvLEl_ilYv-JPo82UoXb026VAv0DB-YIktL1Dgz__MXJpLNg5tk2XPQkOLzQ6akSmEmdHEis7yeOm6Xqcdqr997eUvvfnO1yXORPumz6sp8vEoBOEt89ryNzDuOvukxzzEQgTYMuX8PHf_N1I58/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiipuoWuM2ZuyQTol6WUqioSizmGZWyg4cEW7MlKfswIvLEl_ilYv-JPo82UoXb026VAv0DB-YIktL1Dgz__MXJpLNg5tk2XPQkOLzQ6akSmEmdHEis7yeOm6Xqcdqr997eUvvfnO1yXORPumz6sp8vEoBOEt89ryNzDuOvukxzzEQgTYMuX8PHf_N1I58/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b><b><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Sofia
Due</span></span></b><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> lives
and works in London but spends much of her time in North Cornwall,
which inspired the setting for this book. She works as a lawyer,
specialising in asylum and human rights claims and often acts for
victims of modern slavery. Her debut novel, </span></span><em><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Ed
& Lily</span></span></em><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">,
was published in 2021. </span></span><em><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background: #ffffff;">Finding
Jack</span></span></em><span style="color: #212529;"><span style="background: #ffffff;"> is
her second novel.</span></span></p>
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</p><div></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-57661445277124339162023-09-24T20:11:00.000+01:002023-09-24T20:11:47.375+01:00The Start Of Something - Miranda Dickinson || Netgalley Review<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1620737961i/57957026.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="255" height="391" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1620737961i/57957026.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Two lonely people.<br />
One note in the window.<br />
And what happens when they reach out…<br /><br />
Lachlan Wallace is stuck at home after a car accident stalled his army career. With months of physiotherapy still to endure and only his rescue dog and cat for company, he’s taken to gazing out of the window, watching the world spin on without him. And then he notices a vase of flowers on the windowsill of the apartment opposite his. Drawn to their hope and colour, he decides to reach out and sticks a message in his window…<br /><br />
Bethan Gwynne is a stranger in a new town. Bringing up her son Noah by herself, she is slowly rebuilding her life, but loneliness is one obstacle she has yet to overcome. She’s intrigued by a glimpse of her neighbour in the apartment across from hers – and then, one evening, she sees a message in his window just for her:<br /><br /><b>
WHAT ARE THOSE FLOWERS CALLED?</b><br /><br /></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">
And so begins a love story of two people reaching out, daring to trust a stranger…</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3qUehm2fHXAuzXq8nXsOVfnMmu5jHLnRAKbzyF1nMMj0vNUKSFpHYYR40tP7fMydf1X9HFeVK3wItTGytBTcHzduuEQoPgHpwKMFph9qjHMIZ-NuRCSPylw_9MnGkntNzo1sLybPmuSt5UTHCRMswNU3B1jOb66UGhZ_-EyV2-5bZt0cghpG_DGGM1MU/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3qUehm2fHXAuzXq8nXsOVfnMmu5jHLnRAKbzyF1nMMj0vNUKSFpHYYR40tP7fMydf1X9HFeVK3wItTGytBTcHzduuEQoPgHpwKMFph9qjHMIZ-NuRCSPylw_9MnGkntNzo1sLybPmuSt5UTHCRMswNU3B1jOb66UGhZ_-EyV2-5bZt0cghpG_DGGM1MU/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have always been a fan of Miranda's writing but more so since lockdown & her chatty things on Facebook, in those lonely dark days she was a comfort to many and I think its given me an incredible soft spot for anything she writes. I was approved for this on Netgalley sometime back but life got busy and reviews died off (as you can see) but I knew this was one i desperately needed to delve into.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Within pages, i knew this is the sort of book I needed. We meet Bethan who is just settling into her new life, She is aiming for better for herself and her little boy Noah as from what it seems they had it pretty tough and all she wants is happiness for him and a safe place to call home. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lachlan is stuck at home recovering from an accident which could have a life-changing impact. He's lonely and almost seems to be wallowing when he glances out the window and sees some flowers that bring a little brightness into his day he posts a simple message asking what they are. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What follows is a lovely story of hope and brightness in those dark days as the pair exchange messages through the windows but what happens when they deicde to take the next step. A story of hope and light but also of those dark and desperate times. Beautifully written even down to the making of a cup of tea and eating toast. Every word bought the page to life for me and i was watching it all play out in my head. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The characters were flawed, strong willed and protective of their emotions so watching the pair discover a new side to themselves and discover each other was lovely. A lovely 5* read that brightened up my week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygixe1oF2jUb9QojUmkZzRnTUdDLlu35_Ak5Lfoc6xHHXK0emZhwQwMHWG2te6cwY2YFI5ICKldhzez5RbRvqv6O1nKQ_r24H6jRfjxk1TQ1ePoFiKx7e_d0p7a141Lk97GrovqmqTacAKa7uF0gQn9fQxfPoP6UbY-GRN48MXbZCVqUWKCrz7KZloh4/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgygixe1oF2jUb9QojUmkZzRnTUdDLlu35_Ak5Lfoc6xHHXK0emZhwQwMHWG2te6cwY2YFI5ICKldhzez5RbRvqv6O1nKQ_r24H6jRfjxk1TQ1ePoFiKx7e_d0p7a141Lk97GrovqmqTacAKa7uF0gQn9fQxfPoP6UbY-GRN48MXbZCVqUWKCrz7KZloh4/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373e3e; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Miranda Dickinson has always had a head full of stories. Born in Wolverhampton, in The Black Country, West Midlands, she grew up in Kingswinford and dreamed of one day writing a book that would reach the heady heights of Kingswinford Library... Her first novel, Fairytale of New York (2009) was discovered on Authonomy.com - HarperCollins' site for unpublished authors. Within three weeks of its release, Fairytale of New York had entered the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestsellers List, where it remained for five weeks - making it the world's first crowd-sourced bestseller. The novel was also shortlisted for the RNA's Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2010 at the Pure Passion Awards. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373e3e; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Miranda is a six-times Sunday Times Bestseller, with Fairytale of New York, Welcome to My World, It Started With a Kiss, When I Fall in Love, Take a Look at Me Now, I'll Take New York, A Parcel for Anna Browne and Searching for a Silver Lining, a Christmas novella, Christmas in St Ives, is a festive treat and prequel to her ninth novel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. The Day We Meet Again has won critical acclaim and is much loved by readers, most recently publishing in the US and Canada, taking her words Stateside for the first time. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373e3e; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Miranda is an international bestseller in four countries and her books have been translated into sixteen languages. To date, she has sold one million books worldwide. Her latest book is Our Story, out now.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Miranda is the founder of WriteFoxy - resources, vlogs and inspiration writing days for writers of all ages and abilities. Her popular vlogs feature her own publishing journey for each new novel, together with advice for authors and lots and lots of hats!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373e3e; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Miranda lives in Dudley with her husband, Bob and daughter, Flo. She is also a singer-songwriter and recently released her first solo album, About Time.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373e3e; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Follow Miranda's vlog at www.youtube.com/mirandawurdy and visit her website: miranda-dickinson.com <br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can also follow Miranda on Twitter @wurdsmyth, on Instagram @wurdsmyth and on Facebook: MirandaDickinsonAuthor</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-14663545095979697682023-09-11T13:42:00.001+01:002023-09-11T13:42:02.158+01:00Lessons In Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus || Review<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1691150274i/58556596.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="522" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1691150274i/58556596.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><i>'Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here' ELIZABETH ZOTT </i></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><b>Set in 1960s California; Lessons In Chemistry is the brilliant, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home - something she most definitely does not believe - only to find herself the star of America's best-loved TV cooking show</b></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> But it's the 1960s, and despite the fact that she is a scientist, her male peers are very unscientific when it comes to equality. The only good thing to happen on her road to professional fulfilment is a run-in with famous colleague Calvin Evans, legend and Nobel nominee. He's also awkward, kind and tenacious. Theirs is true chemistry. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> But life is never predictable and three years later Elizabeth Zott is an unwed, single mother and star of America's best loved cooking show Supper at Six. Her singular approach to cooking - 'take one pint of H2O and add a pinch of sodium chloride' - and empowering message prove revolutionary. Because Elizabeth isn't just teaching housewives how to cook, but how to change their lives. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Meet the unconventional, uncompromising Elizabeth Zott</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIh5JE85y2qrjxBgnm1-BMlWyiUIXD83hvV1qjuz8llb3lbyvzxvJyDqu4Q-0EjLdcsw_aORqD0c597vyUSA9zZjJEvm1RZGwAeyr4P97Zql2oki0TnOjDgKVdAdBgKreRlvUfkoP4b-zo37fNZAmBUU3cqV0MxQ6KAJdOwd5zyry_qLR9PPg51nnwALg/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIh5JE85y2qrjxBgnm1-BMlWyiUIXD83hvV1qjuz8llb3lbyvzxvJyDqu4Q-0EjLdcsw_aORqD0c597vyUSA9zZjJEvm1RZGwAeyr4P97Zql2oki0TnOjDgKVdAdBgKreRlvUfkoP4b-zo37fNZAmBUU3cqV0MxQ6KAJdOwd5zyry_qLR9PPg51nnwALg/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I think i purchased this at Christmas as a spur-of-the-moment purchase because everyone was talking about this and then put it on my shelves and that was until i saw a friend of mine recommended it on Instagram and after a quick exchange i decided this would be my next read. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I freaking loved this! I felt reading the synopsis it could go one of two ways for me but my gosh it was brilliant. I adored Elizabeth Zott and getting to discover her thoughts/feelings and attitude to life in the 1960s was wonderful. Elizabeth Zott is not like anyone you have ever met. So when she has a run in with her famous colleague Calvin Evans - shes not bothered he is famous what she really wants is the beakers out of his lab. What she discovers his personality to hers is pure chemistry and there is nothing else that can explain it. So when life throws the biggest curveball and a mere three years later she finds herself a single mother, no real job and unwed she really does have to find and fight her way. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Suddenly she is hosting a cooking show, teaching chemistry to all those women stuck at home who dare not dream. I thought this was a brilliant read, it was passionate, it was strong and hooked the reader in in mere pages. Bonnie has created the most unlikely lead in Elizabeth and she is someone you just root for. I loved the writing style and even the chemisty parts were written that everyone would be able to understand the refrences and it made it accessible to all. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of my top books for the year so far.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOj7Ypp521Fxy7xf_xPzx3vvpP0T_DzHajF_WnTZqB2TBZqkgJeJs2UsRwzEziNCYJRjoyaeJtalbiGIOTDykSI5wMmt5fTGBXDZLK9FKZMFsrOp6kcgKvbea0Is_AhXenmOXr3xh26z4taGIwAXiODImKI_OE9XS49qiPJV-F3t7evh9lgWzKCmjLXk/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOj7Ypp521Fxy7xf_xPzx3vvpP0T_DzHajF_WnTZqB2TBZqkgJeJs2UsRwzEziNCYJRjoyaeJtalbiGIOTDykSI5wMmt5fTGBXDZLK9FKZMFsrOp6kcgKvbea0Is_AhXenmOXr3xh26z4taGIwAXiODImKI_OE9XS49qiPJV-F3t7evh9lgWzKCmjLXk/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bonnie Garmus is a copywriter and creative director who’s worked widely in the fields of technology, medicine, and education. She’s an open-water swimmer, a rower, and mother to two pretty amazing daughters. Born in California and most recently from Seattle, she currently lives in London with her husband and her dog, 99.</span></span></div><br />Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-18604072726566511582023-09-03T16:13:00.000+01:002023-09-03T16:13:24.152+01:00August Book Haul<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9fKA0kM-zWT_3S7-0G8xrGsLEFfS5NBnJh42SXVWtEPZqfVYeU_I6WQK7B7KfPE0DZqnxNDjeAYYc7xty5l1zpy9pS_Yhd4AAoFHKaBZ469mhx-WwREENx0RRcvuCSWP-53U1Y1uAV4SqkOgTJC138q_FT0bFNUFQbqliemCmPd22KVDLME1g0B899E/s1920/Nude%20Aesthetic%20Minimalist%20Inspiration%20Grid%20Collage%20Your%20Story%20(1).png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9fKA0kM-zWT_3S7-0G8xrGsLEFfS5NBnJh42SXVWtEPZqfVYeU_I6WQK7B7KfPE0DZqnxNDjeAYYc7xty5l1zpy9pS_Yhd4AAoFHKaBZ469mhx-WwREENx0RRcvuCSWP-53U1Y1uAV4SqkOgTJC138q_FT0bFNUFQbqliemCmPd22KVDLME1g0B899E/w225-h400/Nude%20Aesthetic%20Minimalist%20Inspiration%20Grid%20Collage%20Your%20Story%20(1).png" width="225" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Well, this last month or so has really seen me getting back into my books & blogging and that is absolutely in part due to having a brand new blogging set up complete with desk & fake plant. Its like books are constantly on my radar. So here is the ones i managed to pick up this month.</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><b><u><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div>Murder In The Family - 99p Kindle Store</u></b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1682532165i/142089209.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="521" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1682532165i/142089209.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><br />I must admit this one has been all over TikTok and when i saw it on daily deal (i think) i had to jump at the chance because it was too good a deal to not go ahead. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-weight: 600;">IT WAS A CASE THAT GRIPPED THE NATION<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />LUKE RYDER’S MURDER HAS NEVER BEEN SOLVED</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">In December 2003, Luke Ryder was found dead in the garden of the family home in London, leaving behind a wealthy older widow and three stepchildren. Nobody saw anything.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-weight: 600;">Now, secrets will be revealed – live on camera.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Years later a group of experts re-examine the evidence on Infamous, a true-crime show – with shocking results. Does the team know more than they’ve been letting on?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Or does the truth lie closer to home?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-weight: 600;">Can you solve the case before they do?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />The truth will blow your mind.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />
<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><b><u>Love Me Do -99p Kindle Store</u></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1684791990i/63313140.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="262" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1684791990i/63313140.jpg" width="131" /></a></div>Its been the longest time since i read any Lindsey Kelk but i remember when i got my first ever kindle i read her whole backlist at the time and i just couldnt resist this one with a cover like this.</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">She may have given up on love – but she can still play Cupid for somebody else . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Lovelorn Brit Phoebe Chapman has barely set foot in her sister’s house in the Hollywood Hills when she’s swept up by lovable Bel, her sister’s personal trainer, and handsome Ren, the sweet and sensitive carpenter next door.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Bel has a head-over-heels crush on Ren but Ren has no idea Bel even exists. Certain that the two of them are meant to be together, Phoebe offers to play matchmaker.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Caught up with writing love letters and an unexpected friendship with a reclusive 82-year-old film star, Phoebe finds herself falling for the real Los Angeles – but is that all she’s falling for?</span><br /></span><u style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></u></div><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />
<br /><b><u>Good Girl Complex - 99p Kindle Store</u></b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1635841180i/57693481.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="261" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1635841180i/57693481.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br />I am pretty certain at some point i have read a series of Elle Kennedy books and loved them but this is another TikTok hit so i baged it at the 99p bargain price.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div><b><u><br /></u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-weight: 600;">She does everything right. So what could go wrong?</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Mackenzie "Mac" Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents' insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Mac's had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Despite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn't just another rich clone and falls for her. Hard. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the secret he's been keeping from her threatens the only place she's ever felt at home.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />
<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"><b><u><br /></u></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1664729357i/62848145.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="521" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1664729357i/62848145.jpg" width="130" /></a></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"><b><u> The Housemaids Secret - Kindle Store</u></b></div><div style="text-align: right;">I read The Housemaid recently and it was absoulty one of the best books i have read this year by far it was brillaint so when i spied this for a good price i was so excited because i cannot wait to see how this story carries on.</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse with views across the city and preparing fancy meals in their shiny kitchen. I can work here for a while, stay quiet until I get what I want.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">It's almost perfect. But I still haven't met Mrs Garrick, or seen inside the guest bedroom. I'm sure I hear her crying. I notice spots of blood around the neck of her white nightgowns when I'm doing laundry. And one day I can't help but knock on the door. When it gently swings open, what I see inside changes everything....</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">That's when I make a promise. After all, I've done this before. I can protect Mrs. Garrick while keeping my own secrets locked up safe.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Douglas Garrick has done wrong. He is going to pay. It's simply a question of how far I'm willing to go....</span></span><div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></b></div></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br /><div><b><u>Bad Fruit - 99p Kindle Store</u></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1690156865i/123271221.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="524" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1690156865i/123271221.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br />This one just peaked my interest, i have not heard of it nor have i seen reviews but i decided it could be something i loved.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">LILY IS A GOOD DAUGHTER</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Every evening she pours Mama a glass of perfectly spoilt orange juice. She arranges the teddy bears on Mama’s quilt, she puts on her matching pink clothes. Anything to help put out the fire of Mama’s rage.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">MAMA IS A GOOD LIAR</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">But Mama is becoming unpredictable, dangerous. And as she starts to unravel, so do the memories that Lily has kept locked away for so long.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">She only wanted to be good, to help piece Mama back together. But as home truths creep out of the shadows, Lily must recast what if her house isn’t a home – but a prison? What if Mama isn’t a protector – but a monster . . .</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-family: "Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;" /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />
<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><b><u>Good News Gazette - Kindle Store</u></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1664695680i/62844861.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="255" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1664695680i/62844861.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;">I got an email telling me the sequel was now out or on offer and i read the synopsis and thought that it sounded great so i needed to obviously read this first</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Because we all need something to smile about!</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">She may be down but don’t count this determined single mum out just yet…</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Nine years ago, Zoe Taylor returned from London to the quiet hamlet of Westholme with her tail between her legs and a bun in the oven. Where once her job as a journalist saw her tearing off to Paris at a moment’s notice after a lead, now the single mum covers the local news desk. At least, she did…until she’s unceremoniously let go.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">When Zoe invites her friends over to commiserate, wine and whining soon turns into something more… and before the night is out she’s plotted her next step: The Good News Gazette.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Now, as a developer threatens to force Westholme into the twenty-first century, Zoe’s good news movement finds her leading a covert campaign as a community crusader. She may have started The Good News Gazette as a way to save herself, but she might just be able to save Westholme in the process…</span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />
<br /><b><u>Chain Gang All Stars - Kindle Store</u></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1674746613i/67995347.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1674746613i/67995347.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><br />I saw this on twitter on offer and i was like nope not for me then i saw some reviews on youtube and i was like okay maybe it really is. </div><div><br /></div><div><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Perfect for fans of </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">The Handmaid's Tale, Squid Game</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">Watchmen</i><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars, the popular and highly controversial programme inside America's prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Fan favourites Loretta Thurwar and Hamara 'Hurricane Staxxx' Stacker are teammates and lovers. Thurwar is nearing the end of her time on the circuit, free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares for her final encounters, as protestors gather at the gates, and as the programme's corporate owners stack the odds against her - will the price be simply too high?</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><u><b>Delicate Condition - Netgalley</b></u></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1679335644i/62976325.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="530" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1679335644i/62976325.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />Its been a while since ive made a random netgalley request, if i do it tends to be for a blog tour as im really trying to bring my percentage up but i couldnt resist this one and luckily i was approved.</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-weight: 600; text-align: start;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Push</i> meets <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Silent Patient</i> in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens—while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Anna Alcott is desperate to be pregnant. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. And even when she finally manages to get pregnant, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone's playing a twisted game with her.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">When the increasingly cryptic threats drive her out of her Brooklyn brownstone and into hiding in the cold, gray ghost town that is the Hamptons in the depths of winter, Anna is almost at the end of her rope.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; text-align: start;">Then her doctor tells her she's had a miscarriage—except Anna's convinced she's still pregnant, despite everything the grave-faced men around her claim. Could it be that her mind is playing tricks on her? Or is something more sinister at play? As her symptoms become ever more horrifying and the sense of danger ever more present, Anna can't help but wonder what exactly she's carrying inside of her...and why no one will listen when she says something is horribly, painfully wrong.</span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><b><u>Not My Baby - Kindle Store<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1692904197i/195641259.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="499" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1692904197i/195641259.jpg" width="125" /></a></div><br /></u></b><div>I saw this on facebook and saw it was on offer so obviously picked this up.</div><div><b><u>Synopsis</u></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Never question a mother’s intuition.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">My water isn’t supposed to break while there’s a storm raging, when my husband isn’t on the island, and as the power flickers out. Darkness covers the cabin as I cling to my belly. I never imagined it happening like this.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Trained as a midwife, I know I can deliver my daughter.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">* * *</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">I look at her, and I see her — I’ve always known her.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">She’s perfect. Sweat and tears streak down my face as I kiss her over and over again. Reaching for my bag of midwifery supplies, I wipe her nose and press her tiny body to my chest.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">I fall asleep with her in my arms.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">* * *</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">When I wake, my husband is home, the lights are back on — but the baby he’s holding — it’s not mine.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">I’m not crazy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">I gave birth to a girl, and that baby in his arms is a boy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">He’s not my baby.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><div style="text-align: center;">So that's it. Clearly i am a sucker for 99p daily deals and if i actually add up how i constantly spend on them it soon racks up but at the time 99p is cheaper than a bag of chocolate buttons (although i often buy these to accompany the books) Well, which of these shall i start with?</div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-18775054765104845432023-08-28T11:28:00.003+01:002023-08-28T11:28:23.996+01:00The Doctor - Annie Payne || Review <p> </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1669932789i/63904493.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1669932789i/63904493.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><b>Care giver, life saver… or cold-blooded killer?</b></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Running away from a past she’d rather forget, Doctor Alison Wilson has moved to a new town to take up the role of Medical Officer at failing hospital Saint Margaret’s. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><br /></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Tasked with shaking things up, she quickly learns that things are worse than they initially seem: patient records are in disarray, staff morale is low, and there’s something afoot that she can’t quite put her finger on… </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><br /></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> As Alison starts to dig into the hospital’s past, she gradually discovers a trail of lies that runs deeper and darker than she could have ever imagined. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><b> There’s a cold-blooded killer in the hospital. And they’re hiding in plain sight…</b></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYu4_Xkk2mZS-h7o3KEWdcN6CttzbUJYTEkwXah5ZHzfGCU_oLNBPVIkV8wRjP4TkULJfRh3srii9DnS18d7nDx2cIb_zasoRjxGTcAP32qk6CfuuzvTaFkgW-OH8s6wlGmipHxiekrTYpVFpSA5CxbPWjGV8lWNbfvvFjuw4ntf42GxTL9s5RnE-rNH8/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYu4_Xkk2mZS-h7o3KEWdcN6CttzbUJYTEkwXah5ZHzfGCU_oLNBPVIkV8wRjP4TkULJfRh3srii9DnS18d7nDx2cIb_zasoRjxGTcAP32qk6CfuuzvTaFkgW-OH8s6wlGmipHxiekrTYpVFpSA5CxbPWjGV8lWNbfvvFjuw4ntf42GxTL9s5RnE-rNH8/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I pre-ordered this book forever ago, it's very rare i pre-order one but it was 99p and sounded like the sort of thriller that I love. This was brilliant. We meet Doctor Alison Wilson who has left her old life behind and is starting fresh as medical director at St Margarets which is currently failing. Her job simply is to fix this, we meet her as she starts this task. Taken under the wing by the lead nurse, who is helping her get to grips with the dynamic of the hospital and who really isn't interested in change. What she starts to discover though is something more sinister going on and really doesn't know how to go about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I really enjoyed this, it was complex but not complex i couldn't understand it. I found it gripping and really twisty. I really couldn't figure out the who what why of the narrative which made it a real page-turner for me. I found i wasn't sure who was trustworthy and what was actually happening. Written in a way that is in-depth it really allows the reader to focus on the world around them. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was a disturbing topic to read about but done in a way that gripped the reader right up till the very end . You can tell Annie has spent her life in the NHS and it is reflected in the writing, its all believable and gives a much bigger context. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHsY9Hw1HV3Ls7BeStDcG3Ib5nqkg8_w7YpcSOIafFB20rgn05po83nwvL3mDmJw7-GRQWb8ilZgWY0TOtGvKV1bWkWGJHVpustDLQlM6N_zvN6B9DvZy5gC8O46IWTEmpFd0H-wcTe_aXTD4pkq5iGsROZsPbdXPYR3KyWXlzQwx8bjSEgfwuqRCDEw/s320/auth%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHsY9Hw1HV3Ls7BeStDcG3Ib5nqkg8_w7YpcSOIafFB20rgn05po83nwvL3mDmJw7-GRQWb8ilZgWY0TOtGvKV1bWkWGJHVpustDLQlM6N_zvN6B9DvZy5gC8O46IWTEmpFd0H-wcTe_aXTD4pkq5iGsROZsPbdXPYR3KyWXlzQwx8bjSEgfwuqRCDEw/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Annie Payne spent most of her life as an NHS nurse, midwife and clinical network manager but now concentrates on writing full time. She has written extensively for television programmes such as </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">The Bill</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Doctors</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and </span><span class="a-text-italic" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Heartbeat</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> under the name Candy Denman and has published a medical mystery series and novella under that name too.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now she happily writes novels in a posh shed in the garden in between playing with her six grandchildren and walking her dog, Dennis the Cockapoo.</span></span></p></div><br />Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-12444563084496374342023-08-22T20:04:00.003+01:002023-08-22T20:04:43.727+01:00Only Love Can Hurt Like This || Paige Toon || Review <div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1669083055i/62296521.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="258" height="400" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1669083055i/62296521.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><i>An earth-shattering secret. A life-changing love story. </i><br /><br /></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">When Wren realizes her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover.<br /><br />
On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on.<br /><br />
But Wren doesn't know that Anders is harboring a secret, and if he acts on any feelings he has for Wren it will have serious fall-out for everyone. Walking away would hurt Wren more than she can imagine. But, knowing the truth, how can she possibly stay?</div><br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFFFcavVobTxB_khpMWh4LCw9l-O4zkv08ntaQbMtNV7y3q0HU4NBy-mOOQm4-BBD_31WEvz_j2by3p6-KALFkHziKDHxE5Jgqq2qnFAuDrNU5rFQ_XrY3vM_WgeN8PZWVqJIlfuoKWj_sGAvCit4tPh5lBK3uXs1On8Lug6UYysUxtrO19gW4h6NE88/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNFFFcavVobTxB_khpMWh4LCw9l-O4zkv08ntaQbMtNV7y3q0HU4NBy-mOOQm4-BBD_31WEvz_j2by3p6-KALFkHziKDHxE5Jgqq2qnFAuDrNU5rFQ_XrY3vM_WgeN8PZWVqJIlfuoKWj_sGAvCit4tPh5lBK3uXs1On8Lug6UYysUxtrO19gW4h6NE88/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I haven't read much by Paige Toon but I know so many people who swear by her books, I think I've read one at some point but I knew I was in the mood for weepy, heartbreaking love so i decided to give this a go and boy oh boy. This was exactly that. We meet Wren at the exact moment she realizes her fiance is in love with someone else. It's not dramatic caught him a cheating moment, instead, it's so much deeper. This beginning alone was enough to set the scene for me in terms of Paige's writing. Full of feels.</div><div><br /></div><div>So she takes a break from her life as she knows it and goes to stay with her Dad and his family in America. Whilst Wren starts to enjoy her holiday we start to discover more about a man called Anders. Who is battling his own turmoil. Wren realizes she wants to stay a while, get to know her family for more than just a holiday and as she can work remotley it seems a good chance as any to spend a summer away. As the pair grow closer (throw in her half sister & anders brother) the relationship shows each of them what they are seeking however life isnt that simple and Anders is stuck and his secret could impact so many. So when Paige discovers the truth, it leaves her once more in turmoil.</div><div><br /></div><div>This was a beautifully written read that is full of deep emotions, complex relationships and wonderfully written characters and settings. I found myself dreaming of the summer on the farm, the sights the smells and even the friday nights drinking rum and coke. I felt happy, weepy but mostly this is the book you really curl up and loose yourself and your heart in. I can totally see why people have such attachement to Paige Toons writing. </div><div><br /></div><div>Absolutely one to be adding to your TBR</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60bOfySCJFPFf9wmrmv_VQdbE2sWu0HBxdja7nGHh8ApUD1A2ZXVYChQcKQ_1JvAS4QW-aQffEE4tcyo6FOzzaqBuIAFTcDCfTSkcm5erQN0YbxFfo6cMenGqJAVoaIXU3XzqfcU_X7eELz0tuKeFgLyCFFsDqUr37vmU0gv16ePP7hsrB51WKryFY74/s320/auth%20(2).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj60bOfySCJFPFf9wmrmv_VQdbE2sWu0HBxdja7nGHh8ApUD1A2ZXVYChQcKQ_1JvAS4QW-aQffEE4tcyo6FOzzaqBuIAFTcDCfTSkcm5erQN0YbxFfo6cMenGqJAVoaIXU3XzqfcU_X7eELz0tuKeFgLyCFFsDqUr37vmU0gv16ePP7hsrB51WKryFY74/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Paige Toon grew up between England, Australia and America and has been writing books set in sun-drenched locations around the world since 2007. She has written fifteen novels, a three-part spin-off for young adults and a collection of short stories. Her books have sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. She loves hearing from her readers so get in touch via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @PaigeToonAuthor or visit her website and sign up to her free newsletter The Hidden Paige.</span></span>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-90017850378337345782023-08-17T21:14:00.000+01:002023-08-17T21:14:40.513+01:00The Push - Ashley Audrain Review <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1609854219i/52476830.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="530" height="400" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1609854219i/52476830.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><b>
A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.</b><br /><br />
Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.<br />
But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do.<br />
Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.<br /><br />
Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.<br /><br />
The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.
</div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81MrlhzVEycjIg10Cr4AtJffFAM2YJaAPIQRy1JTF-BYDzdwTvtfQqlgrly5FEWoCSvk4GCkH25hSPkwD5x6E9Zzi3F8VWjizVXIUAxIU7eIMQLK3Ek0FNxJb5duPDITQ5VocOx_DofZ_T-c0onla8Z6V5TmS5MNsR7nUoyOu7KEDOcbbj04nf3r5npk/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81MrlhzVEycjIg10Cr4AtJffFAM2YJaAPIQRy1JTF-BYDzdwTvtfQqlgrly5FEWoCSvk4GCkH25hSPkwD5x6E9Zzi3F8VWjizVXIUAxIU7eIMQLK3Ek0FNxJb5duPDITQ5VocOx_DofZ_T-c0onla8Z6V5TmS5MNsR7nUoyOu7KEDOcbbj04nf3r5npk/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I picked this book up on Kindle for 99p at some point after hearing a lot of hype about it. I can totally see why now. This was thrilling not in the way that it felt action-packed and fast-paced but steady, creepy, and left the reader absolutely full of doubts. It was fantastic.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blythe is determined to break the family tradition of awful mothers and be exactly what her daughter needs. However, in those early foggy days of motherhood, she becomes convinced her daughter is not like others nor does she like her. They say mother knows best but when no one else can see what she sees and she is dismissed by her own husband she tries to push it all out of her head.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So when she has her son and the connection is instant and the relationship is the one she dreamt of with her own daughter she just thinks maybe this time round it's right and even Violet loves Sam. The family is complete. So when everything is thrown up into the air and Blythe is forced to question herself once again - has she known the truth all along?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was a slow burner, but in the best kind of way, it built - Blythe was totally unreliable and it was really hard to decide whether to believe her or not. This book had me hooked, I felt so uneasy reading it. It's the sort of book that gets under your skin and leaves you questioning everything right up until the very very end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y06ljLZh4PAuRmStH9XepoF5Qjnc6-BxChuEKXUFmQrb5yDhe9jTmFrvlBuIFy33GEr55I8Ncb-tyjOEwuRW-kWS3U9gwX67_a8sGY5hNiQVrcUdZu82R6StNH065tIhFzBMIyNJalwblQreVaL7L5P5e0ACw2SHcDGZF1xGFRFa2tb-fhfaMU3knns/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6y06ljLZh4PAuRmStH9XepoF5Qjnc6-BxChuEKXUFmQrb5yDhe9jTmFrvlBuIFy33GEr55I8Ncb-tyjOEwuRW-kWS3U9gwX67_a8sGY5hNiQVrcUdZu82R6StNH065tIhFzBMIyNJalwblQreVaL7L5P5e0ACw2SHcDGZF1xGFRFa2tb-fhfaMU3knns/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">Ashley Audrain previously worked as the publicity director of Penguin Books Canada. Prior to Penguin, she worked in public relations. She lives in Toronto, where she and her partner are raising their two young children. The Push is her debut novel.</span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-78079061448188899862023-08-08T21:18:00.004+01:002023-08-08T21:18:41.474+01:00The Players - Darren O'Sullivan || Netgalley Review<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1598285574i/55102766.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="255" height="392" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1598285574i/55102766.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">In this game it’s kill or be killed<br /><br />
A stranger has you cornered.<br />
They call themselves The Host.<br />
You are forced to play their game.<br />
In it one person can live and the other must die.<br /><br />
You are the next player<br />
You have a choice to make.<br /><br />
This is a game where nobody wins<br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2Bodfjb0MzRsvOBEEKSTA-afxQYzp0mrA7HfSh81GqQfQQbch34df6_TE5veESDc5HdvLU8TKlJMAL5txoF9e8Do_e66L6IeZMLzu0nhwuDBAbpX1SIjWWEeHqME0sjmgifrGfBnN5GM_1L7F4Odrxu25qf0Vq-3G97YEpnVsOlHdU9qsFwEQ7gAf7o/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2Bodfjb0MzRsvOBEEKSTA-afxQYzp0mrA7HfSh81GqQfQQbch34df6_TE5veESDc5HdvLU8TKlJMAL5txoF9e8Do_e66L6IeZMLzu0nhwuDBAbpX1SIjWWEeHqME0sjmgifrGfBnN5GM_1L7F4Odrxu25qf0Vq-3G97YEpnVsOlHdU9qsFwEQ7gAf7o/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div></div><br /><div>I was given my copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.</div><div>I was after something gripping, thrilling, and majorly page-turning and I found absolutely that in this book. What a horrific concept but it makes the reader want to delve in. The host has been planning, but now it is planned, we follow the events as he broadcasts them to the public, asking the ultimate question - will you kill or be killed?</div><div><br /></div><div>Di Karen Holt has been suspended from work but when she notices something going on, she can't help but want to be involved so when she receives a call from her partner Howard Carlson, she is going to find some way to help under the radar because it soon seems like the host is terrorizing the city and it's getting worse.</div><div><br /></div><div>So when The Host discovers that she is possibly starting to piece things together, things start to get personal. I was hooked on this book from the get-go. As i mentioned the concept was horrific in a way that you cant begin to imagine but at the same time can totally see it happening in the modern world because you know..the world can be a crazy place sometimes. The characters were passionate about their beliefs so The Host in his cause, but Holt and Carlson in the belief they will put an end to this.</div><div><br /></div><div>We follow along as more events take place unfolding in front of the reader's eyes gradually building to something worse each time. We are left trying to work out what will happen, will this ever end? ITs fast, dark and brilliant. I really enjoyed this and it certainly filled that thriller hole in my life. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1XI0rXUfIwIRUHhURbAxB2vPTDjQOliJ9Y1F8-N-poBj-lW3IH47QT4FzXgVgcaTYuldnDwVSZOc0q3m9EbcEnU_Dqzdul5ODS_sU_Hg_pGBOpWWvUSpyyvryLn3GVWbffy90AYRl3Q8c9UZNFcEZnMEpw4J8I2fF5UKa8ZbqzRRwvawWpmVsHDwblL8/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1XI0rXUfIwIRUHhURbAxB2vPTDjQOliJ9Y1F8-N-poBj-lW3IH47QT4FzXgVgcaTYuldnDwVSZOc0q3m9EbcEnU_Dqzdul5ODS_sU_Hg_pGBOpWWvUSpyyvryLn3GVWbffy90AYRl3Q8c9UZNFcEZnMEpw4J8I2fF5UKa8ZbqzRRwvawWpmVsHDwblL8/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Darren O’Sullivan is a bestselling author, screen writer and award nominated theatre director.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">His books have sold over 150,000 copies and been translated into German and Polish and sold into America, Canada and Australia. Two of his novels were selected for the prestigious Karin Slaughter Bookclub.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can follow Darren on:</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter @Darrensully,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Instagram @darrensully,</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Facebook @darrenosullivanauthor</span></span></p></div><br /><div><br /></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-61407569766389267792023-08-02T21:24:00.003+01:002023-08-02T21:24:37.731+01:005* So Far 2023 - Top Picks <p> </p><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qFf-KRhg7C1WjgTYsBFog7MK5L-Hqi7K68W6TCEvd5XBwjfPyytVl88bU734ipj-fMcsd8BsvzZOG6df3GXdYfKjSLgWFHAqH7jhIANSl3jcwsXSZaEmSRVjw98nOOJr6DsYlNKEgSyaKFD56x9wqCGKXqbKPZaLIzfwsA5MAFwrOLfwDjtbYa6LbQI/s1080/Coffe%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4qFf-KRhg7C1WjgTYsBFog7MK5L-Hqi7K68W6TCEvd5XBwjfPyytVl88bU734ipj-fMcsd8BsvzZOG6df3GXdYfKjSLgWFHAqH7jhIANSl3jcwsXSZaEmSRVjw98nOOJr6DsYlNKEgSyaKFD56x9wqCGKXqbKPZaLIzfwsA5MAFwrOLfwDjtbYa6LbQI/s320/Coffe%20(1).png" width="320" /></a></div><br />So seen as we are entering the second half of the year, I thought it was about time I shared my top books of the months so far. I've tried to keep on track with my reading for my Goodreads goal which is 60, so more than 1 book a week. So click below the jump to see what each month's picks where.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><u>January</u><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1642639637i/60164670.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="316" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1642639637i/60164670.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><u><br /></u><div><u>Hostage by Clare Mackintosh.</u></div><div><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="color: #1e1915;">A claustrophobic thriller set over twenty hours on one airplane flight, with the heart-stopping tension of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">The Last Flight</i><span style="color: #1e1915;"> and the wrenching emotional intensity of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">Room</i><span style="color: #1e1915;">, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">Hostage</i><span style="color: #1e1915;"> takes us on board the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="color: #1e1915;">Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="color: #1e1915;">It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.</span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><br />
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<br />This was an absolutely phenomenal read and really is a stand-out book, I read some good books in January but this was topped the list by far. Mina just wants to focus on her job and not everything going around her, not her marriage or her daughter. So when she is given a chilling note, on a flight she shouldn't even be on. She is thrown into turmoil, what does she do. This was just so compelling. So in-depth and I loved the layers that just kept appearing. Nothing was it seems and someone knew alot more about the family than we first thought. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><u>February </u></div><div style="text-align: right;"><u>The Shape of your heart - Debbie Howells</u></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670762500i/63069749.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="522" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670762500i/63069749.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br /><div><div style="text-align: right;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">When the world says “give up”, hope whispers, “try it one more time”.’</span></b></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Callie’s always been the least ambitious of her sisters but also the happiest, until fate snaps her fiance before they can say I do.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">One year later, she is still putting her life back together, but she might be ready for more. With so much life left to live, she has to find a way to be happy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Nathan knows not everyone gets a second chance at life and he’s not going to waste his. He’s left the city behind, moved to Cornwall and is starting over. When he meets a beautiful woman at the beach it feels like fate, but her heart belongs to someone else.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: right;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Could Callie and Nathan be just what the other needs?</span></b></div></b></div><br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />
<br />This was a lovely weepy read about love, second chance and so much more. At face value, it seems like a second-chance romance but what I didn't expect was the depth of emotion thrown into this book. It was just wonderful, it ticked all the boxes for me and I really enjoyed it.<br /><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><u><br /></u><div style="text-align: right;"><u>March</u></div><div style="text-align: right;"><u>The Doctors Wife - Daniel Hurst</u></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670966781i/66546661.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="226" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670966781i/66546661.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">He thinks his secret is safe. But she knows the truth…</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">My husband is a doctor. He’s smart and charming and everybody trusts him. Except me.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">On the surface, it looks like I have it all – the perfect marriage, the perfect husband, the perfect life. But it’s far from the truth.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Doctor Drew Devlin is not the respectable figure he makes out to be. The reason we moved to this beautiful, old property with a gorgeous view of the sea was because we needed to put our past behind us. It should’ve been a fresh start for us both.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Except I’ve discovered my husband has been lying to me again. He’s using the power he has in his job to mess with people’s lives, and to get exactly what he wants – no matter who it hurts.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">But he’s underestimated me. I’ve had plenty of time, in this big, isolated house, to think about all of his mistakes.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">And my husband has no idea what’s about to happen next…</span></b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #1e1915;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><div><br /></div></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br />This one was recommended to me by my mum and I had already picked it up on Netgalley so great minds think alike and I was not disappointed. This was short but most certainly packed a punch. I flew through this read so quick and i spent every spare minute I had sneaking in a few pages here and there. If your in your thriller era or just starting, this is certainly one to pick up.<div><br /></div><div> </div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br /><u>April</u><div><u>The Little Board Game Cafe - Jennifer Page</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670684857i/65094001.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="226" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670684857i/65094001.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">An irresistible story of love, friendship and the power of Games Night, perfect for fans of Holly Martin and Christie Barlow.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">When Emily loses her job, house and boyfriend all within a matter of days, she's determined to turn a negative into a positive and follow her dream of running a small cafe in the gorgeous Yorkshire village of Rosegarth.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">But she quickly finds she's bitten off more than she can chew when the 'popular' cafe she takes over turns out to secretly be a failing business. Emily desperately needs a way to turn things around, and help comes from the unlikeliest of places when she meets local board game-obsessed GP Ludek. But when a major chain coffee shop opens on the high street, Emily is forced to question if she'll ever be able to compete.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Has she risked everything on something destined to fail? Or can a playful twist, a homely welcome, and a sprinkle of love make Emily's cafe the destination she's always dreamed of?</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />This ticked a lot of boxes for me to stand out for a favorite read we all know I love a cozy coffee shop or cafe read and this soon hit that for me but it was so much more with a unique take on the genre it offered the reader all those things they love but a litttle more too.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><div style="text-align: right;"><u>May</u></div><div style="text-align: right;"><u>Keep it in the family - John Marrs</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1645979128i/60109530.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1645979128i/60109530.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Mia and Finn are busy turning a derelict house into their dream home when Mia unexpectedly falls pregnant. But just when they think the house is ready, Mia discovers a chilling message scored into a skirting board: I WILL SAVE THEM FROM THE ATTIC. Following the clue up into the eaves, the couple make a gruesome discovery: their dream home was once a house of horrors.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">In the wake of their traumatic discovery, the baby arrives and Mia can’t shake her fixation with the monstrous crimes that happened right above them. Haunted by the terrible things she saw and desperate to find answers, her obsession pulls her ever further from her husband.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Secrecy shrouds the mystery of the attic, but when shards of a dark truth start to emerge, Mia realises the danger is terrifyingly present. She is prepared to do anything to protect her family—but is it already too late?</span></b></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br />Oh my freaking goodness this book was something else, i had seen the hype on TikTok and it did not disappoint. It was thrilling, creepy, and horrific but also so brilliantly written I was thinking about it for days after. I have since picked up several more by John Marrs to get stuck into. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" /><br /><u>June</u><div><u>The Housemaid - Freida Mcfadden</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1646534743i/60556912.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="521" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1646534743i/60556912.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">They don’t know what I’m capable of…</span></b></span></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />Off the back of Tiktok came this one as it's on kindle unlimited (which I do not have) but I ended up purchasing it when I had some money left on an Amazon gift card and it was so worth it. So gripping, I literally couldn't put it down and well i did not see any of it coming. Bloody brilliant, I've just picked up the second and i can't wait to delve back in.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><hr align="center" color="#efe5fa" size="5" width="60%" />So, that's my top picks of the first 6 months and it strongly looks like I'm sticking in my thriller girl era and I am here for it. Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-566608644481469892023-04-20T20:14:00.000+01:002023-04-20T20:14:37.912+01:00The Cruise - Caroline James || Blog Tour<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl1dMgu0mILLcMQRRstAqvpDAxyetIJ9Z6KWqsTokyiK2ieG9awITlaMgBRE5g6_272KLvdSQZjXqR-dp2NMYOt_6Rhv8w2duS7aZeXxaU5fD6aUzLWtQCEIqhXXmChkm-v_-_uMdTjJ15xPUSoDMKPvkW4ZGuqU6perUANLGgFad7eVModimTUsr/s2290/The%20Cruise%20Cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQl1dMgu0mILLcMQRRstAqvpDAxyetIJ9Z6KWqsTokyiK2ieG9awITlaMgBRE5g6_272KLvdSQZjXqR-dp2NMYOt_6Rhv8w2duS7aZeXxaU5fD6aUzLWtQCEIqhXXmChkm-v_-_uMdTjJ15xPUSoDMKPvkW4ZGuqU6perUANLGgFad7eVModimTUsr/s320/The%20Cruise%20Cover.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Three friends set sail on a luxury cruise… will they be able to catch a husband on the open seas?<br /><br />
Leaving behind the heartache, guilt and disappointment of their real lives, three friends decide that now they’re in their sixties, it’s time they finally did something for themselves!<br />
Swapping Christmas turkeys and BBC reruns for crystal waters, white sandy beaches and smooth golden rum, Anne, Jane and Kath throw caution (and tradition) to the wind as they set sail on a luxury two-week Christmas cruise around the Caribbean.<br /><br />
Will the three friends find the comfort and joy they seek aboard the Diamond Star?</div><span><a name='more'></a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81U_CCS2OMWwXTdBS4rnD4INRXn6vPkbot04nXRAFBQtooGXCbIUM8njpavYgqCvCWmd1waOXzQGpj9xLQdbTHrwx7m3mXNiXh0B00BaM3eenRKVlZO5m2S8eekcXck1lG91Jb-Q1gy4ucSwq8_DOQnk5a_7RTIWYHZN5gaObSNVTUCSwf42_4uKg/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81U_CCS2OMWwXTdBS4rnD4INRXn6vPkbot04nXRAFBQtooGXCbIUM8njpavYgqCvCWmd1waOXzQGpj9xLQdbTHrwx7m3mXNiXh0B00BaM3eenRKVlZO5m2S8eekcXck1lG91Jb-Q1gy4ucSwq8_DOQnk5a_7RTIWYHZN5gaObSNVTUCSwf42_4uKg/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*Gifted my copy for blog tour review*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was a wonderful funny & heartfelt read. It was light in parts, it packed a punch with emotion when needed but also had me laughing out loud. Anne, Jane & Kath decide to throw caution to the wind, leaving their current lives behind and decide to spend the festive season onboard The Diamond Star experiencing all it has to offer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The three friends, all very different all seek something different too and what follows is a great reading experience. I loved spending time with each of the three as they rediscovered themselves and what life still has to offer even in their sixties.Their are all written so well, each is flawed and has had their challenges but their friendship is what i enjoyed the most. The laughter, the support and honesty. They rooted for each other, but warned each other too and if i get to sixty with a group of friends like these three i would be happy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The settings are wonderfully well written and i could imagine every island stop off along the way, the scents sounds and tastes which is something i love about a book. If i can imagine im there then the author has done a fantastic job. I really needed a read like this.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Purchase Link</b> -
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fiction, Caroline James, has owned and run businesses encompassing
all aspects of the hospitality industry, a subject that often
features in her novels. She is based in the UK but escapes whenever
lockdown allows. A public speaker, which has included talks and
lectures on cruise ships worldwide, Caroline is also a consultant and
food writer. Caroline writes articles and runs writing workshops, is
a member of the Romantic Novelist’s Association, the Society of
Women’s Writer & Journalists and the Society of Authors. In her
spare time, Caroline can be found walking with Fred, her Westie and
in summer, wild water swimming. In winter, when not working, she
relaxes with her head in a book and hand in a box of chocolates.</p>
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When Emily loses her job, house and boyfriend all within a matter of days, she's determined to turn a negative into a positive and follow her dream of running a small cafe in the gorgeous Yorkshire village of Essendale.<br /><br />
But she quickly finds she's bitten off more than she can chew when the 'popular' cafe she takes over turns out to secretly be a failing business. Emily desperately needs a way to turn things around, and help comes from the unlikeliest of places when she meets local board game-obsessed GP Ludek. But when a major chain coffee shop opens on the high street, Emily is forced to question if she'll ever be able to compete.<br /><br />
Has she risked everything on something destined to fail? Or can a playful twist, a homely welcome, and a sprinkle of love make Emily's cafe the destination she's always dreamed of?<br /><br />
'A heart-warming romance perfect for curling up with. I absolutely loved it' - Kitty Wilson</div><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><span><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZ6UWm9BsFyuKeVoruzA-wPFaUHbJQlLGvjBHdi29sS6eak1-KI_jDo30MmiG90tq_Gtqj3UhIJD_sFFr_CVy3_p_tnqz2FBKRu1vyh30mrVCUwiB2tklH-xlNCNnIYGAHoJ-d8VO6oJGJr_71jtoEtWCYqogVOVeIvAn-xPqRh9mf72Ifqet_fej/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZ6UWm9BsFyuKeVoruzA-wPFaUHbJQlLGvjBHdi29sS6eak1-KI_jDo30MmiG90tq_Gtqj3UhIJD_sFFr_CVy3_p_tnqz2FBKRu1vyh30mrVCUwiB2tklH-xlNCNnIYGAHoJ-d8VO6oJGJr_71jtoEtWCYqogVOVeIvAn-xPqRh9mf72Ifqet_fej/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*My copy was gifted for the blog tour*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Do you ever read a book that is the sort of book you want to write and the sort of world you want to live in? The Little Board Game Cafe was exactly that. This was a 100% a me sort of book, it had delicious food descriptions, wonderfully written characters and cozy vibes. Ticked every single box for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Emily had it all or so it seems but she loses her job house and boyfriend in one fell swoop but instead of dwelling too much she uses this chance to fulfil a lifelong dream she had with her mother and open a cafe. However, the cafe she has purchased may not have been all it seemed and she quickly needs to turn it around struggling for ideas inspiration does come in the form of an unlikely place. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Agreeing to attend a running club with her best friend sets wheels in motion for meeting the local Gp turned board game fan and ideas start to flow but just when things seem to brightening up, a major coffee chain arrives and once more she is questioning her dream.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I honestly loved this, i loved Emily - she was logical, flawed but also sweet and i was just rooting for her. The cast of characters were all well rounded and had a depth to them that even the fleeting cafe guests left a mark. An all round wonderful 5* read that is perfect for those cozy evenings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Purchase Links</b></p>
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her first novel - a book about ponies - when she was eight. These
days she prefers to write romance. When she isn't writing, Jennifer
can usually be found playing board games which are the inspiration
for her first novel. She has worked as a television producer, a music
teacher and has even run a children's opera company. She now lives
near Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire with her husband and his large
collection of games.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://jenniferpage.co.uk/" target="_top"><span lang="it-IT"><b>https://jenniferpage.co.uk/</b></span></a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://twitter.com/jenpagewrites" target="_top"><span lang="it-IT"><b>https://twitter.com/jenpagewrites</b></span></a></u></span></p>
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With her ex and her kids away, a woman takes up running and meets a new man - but can they make it to the finish line<br /></b><br />
Ten years after their divorce, this is the first time Hannah's ex-husband has had the kids for more than a weekend. Her calendar is gloriously blank, ready to be filled with some self-care time.
That is, until Hannah's BFFs push her to join a charity race for which she'll need to start training - after all, she's not doing anything else.
And her mum nags her to have Aunt Dorothy over for a visit.<br /><br />
So much for me-time...<br /><br />
However, Hannah's not in tip-top shape, and running is a challenge to say the least. Maybe Gabe, the nice-looking personal trainer, can help with that? The more Hannah struggles, the more determined she becomes. But then Hannah is tripped up when she finds out Gabe has ashocking secret. Does this mean he'll be out of the running for a place in her heart?
</div><span><a name='more'></a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSWRNP5H9Zb0eHMPcP9k4irAI1bP8xsHC9vQuO3MhLBuwWZYlDW26eQmXOR6dmaqy2upwLtRqb787DBEdOOg9q3kzPZxr174Lpjx3LoQuFYMgYTNd69qiPTTM3QBRFVlZT4rIw33CFKyBdMT2_WpbN4uIUiV8fjmigzKmGoNZAEFhNQ1OwtukmJZf/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSWRNP5H9Zb0eHMPcP9k4irAI1bP8xsHC9vQuO3MhLBuwWZYlDW26eQmXOR6dmaqy2upwLtRqb787DBEdOOg9q3kzPZxr174Lpjx3LoQuFYMgYTNd69qiPTTM3QBRFVlZT4rIw33CFKyBdMT2_WpbN4uIUiV8fjmigzKmGoNZAEFhNQ1OwtukmJZf/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*Gifted for the blog tour*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Love on the run is a fantastic glimpse into second chances at life, when Hannahs ex husband finally takes the children on holiday for more than a weekend, Hannah can't wait for some me time, to binge netflix to bask in the peace of the house but apparently life has other plans. Her friends end up getting her to sign up to a charity race, her mum lands her Auntie Dorothy on her to stay for a while oh and seen as she is actually doing the race, she also needs to train.<div></div><div><br /></div><div>Life has a funny way of throwing things at us, in the process of all this happening. Hannah keeps bumping - some cases literally - into Gabe who also happens to be a personal trainer so is recruited into helping the team prepare. However, as their connection grows there is some hidden secrets and can Hannah tackle those in her life?</div><div><br /></div><div>I really enjoyed this read, it was fun, and lovely. Packed with characters that you want to sit around the table with eating good food and sharing a glass of wine. Hannahs support network are wonderful and getting to discover Gabe was great. He was charming but layered there was depth to him - not in the brooding discover nothing kind of way but in the take time to know him kind of way.</div><div><br /></div><div>I would really reccomend this read for one to pick up to distract you from life for a while and as an (currently ex) runner i am always a fan of books involving running.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjxXG-KoDc94JjHJLhh2nboZryG38IrYXIySavVBUhaJcp-Z1w_N-gCx9qaNEXfJDQMaqZmva-fbbbbymB9-7MYH5Nwm70VR26Y7dJ5Bs7oNkCFIw39cxDXr6EhqtfYYm9a0PqFP4zoUuUSs4AavYnFgYVSogU5wpn9PJnTBQiNo-PC1Jn_KE-UJ_r/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjxXG-KoDc94JjHJLhh2nboZryG38IrYXIySavVBUhaJcp-Z1w_N-gCx9qaNEXfJDQMaqZmva-fbbbbymB9-7MYH5Nwm70VR26Y7dJ5Bs7oNkCFIw39cxDXr6EhqtfYYm9a0PqFP4zoUuUSs4AavYnFgYVSogU5wpn9PJnTBQiNo-PC1Jn_KE-UJ_r/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background: #ffffff; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"> Suzie Tullett is an author of contemporary humorous fiction and
romantic comedy. She has a Masters Degree in Television & Radio
Scriptwriting and worked as a scriptwriter before becoming a
full-time novelist. When she's not busy creating her own literary
masterpieces, she usually has her head in someone else's.</p>
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Suzie lives in a little Irish cottage by the sea, along with her
husband and two Greek rescue dogs.</p>
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Tullett (Author) | Facebook</a></u></span></p>
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</p></div><br />Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-73982722105904036662023-03-03T11:00:00.001+00:002023-03-03T11:00:00.198+00:00Paris Requiem - Chris Lloyd|| Blog Tour <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8heU8qG3Ps95WyZYUYB6ountGNyES8ku3bAsljWL62Hytl3go9t2pTX28Zm6fWtEOGdoSv3q6Ld7M8L7CJ5kxW9vzgoIq34GVpdR0W79Fd7wTIa0nJbc9H-Ht_L8OO212RhUJwgXullMrUHKzSC32JjOhyEnKOyjlJh_WqcyR3PL7z4P1vNXx4U55/s2835/Paris%20Requiem.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2835" data-original-width="1842" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8heU8qG3Ps95WyZYUYB6ountGNyES8ku3bAsljWL62Hytl3go9t2pTX28Zm6fWtEOGdoSv3q6Ld7M8L7CJ5kxW9vzgoIq34GVpdR0W79Fd7wTIa0nJbc9H-Ht_L8OO212RhUJwgXullMrUHKzSC32JjOhyEnKOyjlJh_WqcyR3PL7z4P1vNXx4U55/s320/Paris%20Requiem.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">A gripping World War II murder mystery—and a beautifully drawn portrait of Paris under Nazi occupation—with compelling and conflicted hero Detective Eddie Giral at its heart. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Paris, 1940. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in, but must work under. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend—and an old flame—reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves.</div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> The notion of justice itself quickly becomes as dangerous, blurred, and confused as the war itself. And Eddie’s morale compass, ever on unreliable foundations, will be questioned again and again as the ravages of the German occupation steadily attempt to grind him—and the city he loves—into submission. </div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"> Negotiating a path between resistance and collaboration, he can remain a good man and do nothing—or risk everything he has achieved in a desperate act of resistance.</div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCT5Nm5iw2G4wL8njtjtw0KiJnzO0OC_1i1QmYO526tEhcURMmf2Q8fx3JKrpONXCR97SFxYSWaTrX0afGKpzbxK_wqVr7H29yoCcDLKGS4ZGcYlsM5HpthwG_PneVqzG6g84_GXuVICKv8Js3pPdV1iG2YUBF8VJCSm0_dLHQ0lO0DsNS25PduJV/s1080/Paris%20Requiem%20Blog%20Tour.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTCT5Nm5iw2G4wL8njtjtw0KiJnzO0OC_1i1QmYO526tEhcURMmf2Q8fx3JKrpONXCR97SFxYSWaTrX0afGKpzbxK_wqVr7H29yoCcDLKGS4ZGcYlsM5HpthwG_PneVqzG6g84_GXuVICKv8Js3pPdV1iG2YUBF8VJCSm0_dLHQ0lO0DsNS25PduJV/s320/Paris%20Requiem%20Blog%20Tour.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div>I won my copy on twitter and i am so glad i did. We all know i love a murder mystery but this one had the added impact of been set in world war two. Told in first person made the reading experience absolutely gripping.</div><div><br /></div><div> Not only do we have the investigation taking place after a body is found, a body of someone who should actually be in prison (yet no record of him is found!) but we also see Paris in a new light, the light of the occupation taking place. We see the day to day impact its having.</div><div><br /></div><div>I hadnt read the first one but there was enough of a back story present that you had enough knowledge surrounding Eddie and the sort of person he is. How his morale compass works, his beliefs and so much more.</div><div><br /></div><div>Really recommend delving into this if you like your murder mystery with a bit more. A bit of history thrown in and i can see this ticking alot of boxes for alot of people. Really gripping and intriguing read.</div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-23897318579144674502023-02-19T20:14:00.003+00:002023-02-19T20:14:11.096+00:00January Book Haul<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGIG0qp-BIddQCKg1SfLw11eM_S9QFf0Dx2w_4o8j34MZCAt0KyZXYA_YIALan4Cl0nSfpOPEuf0G8WVK3c1mTE8tV1niZWFT8ZKMXlP_agr8YxQHdcWsNeMEe6E_ILlfswocLg2RWacsUFCKnhpQjM7b_8CI-1i5QImf2Rr2DPaqUM_bwXvYknLj/s1080/Coffe.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFGIG0qp-BIddQCKg1SfLw11eM_S9QFf0Dx2w_4o8j34MZCAt0KyZXYA_YIALan4Cl0nSfpOPEuf0G8WVK3c1mTE8tV1niZWFT8ZKMXlP_agr8YxQHdcWsNeMEe6E_ILlfswocLg2RWacsUFCKnhpQjM7b_8CI-1i5QImf2Rr2DPaqUM_bwXvYknLj/s320/Coffe.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, This January i committed to returning to book blogging so what better way to kick that off than picking up a few books. A few where review books, a few 99p bargains and a few physical books so ill share what i picked up, where and what they are about below. </span></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name='more'></a></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">First up is some netgalley delights and i was lucky enough to get books i am so excited about. The Mother by T M Logan - i saw him do a talk at a local library last year and i was so excited for this and it was already on my radar so when i luckily got approved i could not wait.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://netgalley-covers.s3.amazonaws.com/cover274371-medium.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="255" height="200" src="https://netgalley-covers.s3.amazonaws.com/cover274371-medium.png" width="131" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Framed for murder. Now she's free . . .</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">A woman attends a funeral, standing in the shadows and watching in agony as her sons grieve. But she is unable to comfort them - or reveal her secret.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">A decade earlier, Heather gets her children ready for bed and awaits the return of her husband Liam, little realising that this is the last night they will spend together as a family. Because tomorrow she will be accused of Liam's murder.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Ten years ago Heather lost everything. Now she will stop at nothing to clear her name - and to get her children back . . .</span></b></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">Next up is The Shape of Your Heart - i was on the blog tour for this and have already reviewed it but it was wonderful, lovely and packed full of emotion and i really think everyone should pick this up.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670762500i/63069749.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="522" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1670762500i/63069749.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">'When the world says “give up”, hope whispers, “try it one more time”.’</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Callie’s always been the least ambitious of her sisters but also the happiest, until fate snaps her fiance before they can say I do.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">One year later, she is still putting her life back together, but she might be ready for more. With so much life left to live, she has to find a way to be happy.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Nathan knows not everyone gets a second chance at life and he’s not going to waste his. He’s left the city behind, moved to Cornwall and is starting over. When he meets a beautiful woman at the beach it feels like fate, but her heart belongs to someone else.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Could Callie and Nathan be just what the other needs?</span></b></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;">Now for some of my 99p kindle bargains - i just cant help picking them up, it soon adds up but you know, a whole book for 99p!</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630091113i/58107908.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="325" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1630091113i/58107908.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">The Woman in the Middle is another one im excited about - i actually have a signed physical copy after meeting Milly Johnson at another local author talk last year but i have leant it to my mum who hasnt got round to reading it yet so i thought for 99p i could get a head start and not have to pester her for it back.</span></span></div><div><span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Shay Bastable is the woman in the middle. She is part of the sandwich generation – caring for her parents and her children, supporting her husband Bruce, holding them all together and caring for them as best she can.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Then the arrival of a large orange skip on her mother’s estate sets in motion a cataclysmic series of events which leads to the collapse of Shay’s world. She is forced to put herself first for a change.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">But in order to move forward with her present, Shay needs to make sense of her past. And so she returns to the little village she grew up in, to uncover the truth about what happened to her when she was younger. And in doing so, she discovers that sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to find the only way is up.</span></b></span></div><div><span><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow has been on my radar for a while and i was unsure wether it was for me or not, ive seen rave reviews but for 99p i thought there is no harm in giving it a go. Ill read most things to be fair.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1e1915;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1636978687i/58784475.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="263" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1636978687i/58784475.jpg" width="132" /></a></div></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">Ichigo</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915;">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"> is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before</span></b></span><span face=""Proxima Nova", Montserrat, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">.</span><span style="color: #1e1915;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Lastly the phyiscal reads i got after a cheeky payday trip to the works. You know the drill - bargains and offers and your leaving with a stack of books.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #1e1915;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Black Summer was one i picked up on a whim after realising i was as well as getting 3 books in a deal. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1601750601i/45207583.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="316" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1601750601i/45207583.jpg" width="126" /></a></div><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Jared Keaton, chef to the stars. Charming. Charismatic. Psychopath . . . He's currently serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of his daughter, Elizabeth. Her body was never found and Keaton was convicted largely on the testimony of Detective Sergeant Washington Poe.</b></span></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>So when a young woman staggers into a remote police station with irrefutable evidence that she is Elizabeth Keaton, Poe finds himself on the wrong end of an investigation, one that could cost him much more than his career.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Helped by the only person he trusts, the brilliant but socially awkward Tilly Bradshaw, Poe races to answer the only question that matters: how can someone be both dead and alive at the same time?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>And then Elizabeth goes missing again - and all paths of investigation lead back to Poe.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cynical and ruthless, he has always teetered on the edge. Has Poe finally crossed that line and embraced his darkness?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Perfect Lie intrigued me completly and even my auntie who only reads non fiction (she is now reading it because lets be honest, i have alot of books so i wasnt going to miss out chance to let someone else enjoy them!)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1590617603i/53517005.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="519" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1590617603i/53517005.jpg" width="130" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>He jumped to his death in front of witnesses. Now his wife is charged with murder.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><span>Five years ago, Erin Kennedy moved to New York following a family tragedy. She now lives happily with her detective husband in the scenic seaside town of Newport, Long Island. When Erin answers the door to Danny's police colleagues one morning, it's the start of an ordinary day. But behind her, Danny walks to the window of their fourth-floor apartment and jumps to his death.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><span>Eighteen months later, Erin is in court, charged with her husband's murder. Over that year and a half, Erin has learned things about Danny she could never have imagined. She thought he was perfect. She thought their life was perfect.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But it was all built on the perfect lie.</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;">The Maidens is one ive never been sure on, i loved The Silent Patient but ive always sat on the fence about this one but with it been cheap enough i thought it would def be worth giving it a go.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1651354859i/60510152.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="326" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1651354859i/60510152.jpg" width="130" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="BookPageMetadataSection__genres" data-testid="genresList" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.8rem 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><p></p><div class="BookPageMetadataSection__description" data-testid="description" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.37; margin: 0.8rem 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="TruncatedContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded" data-testid="contentContainer" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow: hidden visible; word-break: break-word;" tabindex="-1"><div class="DetailsLayoutRightParagraph" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: grid; gap: 2.4rem; grid-template-columns: repeat(var(--num-right-col), minmax(0, 1fr)); margin-left: calc(-1 * var(--right-col-left-offset)); padding-left: var(--right-col-left-offset);"><div class="DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column: span 7 / auto;"><span class="Formatted" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span><b>Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek Tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike—particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana’s niece Zoe, is found murdered in Cambridge.<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />Mariana, who was once herself a student at the university, quickly suspects that behind the idyllic beauty of the spires and turrets, and beneath the ancient traditions, lies something sinister. And she becomes convinced that, despite his alibi, Edward Fosca is guilty of the murder. But why would the professor target one of his students? And why does he keep returning to the rites of Persephone, the maiden, and her journey to the underworld?<br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;" />When another body is found, Mariana’s obsession with proving Fosca’s guilt spirals out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her closest relationships. But Mariana is determined to stop t</b></span><span><b>his killer, even if it costs her everything—including her own life<br /><br /></b></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of course i had to jump on the Co Ho trend, having only ever read Ugly Love i finally picked up It Ends With Us to give it a chance. I Loved Ugly Love but thats my only experience so we will see where i sit with this.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1470427482i/27362503.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="322" height="200" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1470427482i/27362503.jpg" width="129" /></span></a></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up — she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1915; margin: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1e1915;">As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.</span><br /></span></b><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">So thats my January in new books. Ill be back with another Feb haul next month. Are any of these any good?</span></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-89684200530482230812023-02-14T09:00:00.001+00:002023-02-14T09:00:00.191+00:00The Shape Of Your Heart - Debbie Howells || Blog Tour<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwK5a54nzZTty7IBFUoQtjdEYOR4ZSOkAF48hbm-_LzDwwF8yTFdyE2_RWq1f0CdfOZdm_0wV21kfzUSHglA-ziLOI6MdrIj0nz_pUvi--U04iZUmmq1TbgGyBHsHtAW0yeIgJOJa8c91I_Jj7cZ3NBZB6VSB4Cbfdlo2fgJ8MmkFCjMkkWypIUoTS/s2728/SHAPE%20OF%20YOUR%20HEART_front.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2728" data-original-width="1778" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwK5a54nzZTty7IBFUoQtjdEYOR4ZSOkAF48hbm-_LzDwwF8yTFdyE2_RWq1f0CdfOZdm_0wV21kfzUSHglA-ziLOI6MdrIj0nz_pUvi--U04iZUmmq1TbgGyBHsHtAW0yeIgJOJa8c91I_Jj7cZ3NBZB6VSB4Cbfdlo2fgJ8MmkFCjMkkWypIUoTS/s320/SHAPE%20OF%20YOUR%20HEART_front.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><b>'When the world says “give up”, hope whispers, “try it one more time”.’</b><br /><br />
Callie’s always been the least ambitious of her sisters but also the happiest, until fate snaps her fiance before they can say I do.<br /><br />
One year later, she is still putting her life back together, but she might be ready for more. With so much life left to live, she has to find a way to be happy.<br /><br />
Nathan knows not everyone gets a second chance at life and he’s not going to waste his. He’s left the city behind, moved to Cornwall and is starting over. When he meets a beautiful woman at the beach it feels like fate, but her heart belongs to someone else.
<br /><br /><i>Could Callie and Nathan be just what the each other needs?</i></div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEM0ydmm8uoZ2454cqP4UWUdrc7fvrlbpm3jpWXDuKyrW47BgrJ6ZPr3MObp0LnQGzhTVtXJ1LKh9UscFdKEm8fsKsOfEIw6W9cHXkDdoH7i1Wv9jr1Gj1bFtZjUnX_MyHsjLdH4_VpdmNWAHjENHTh7x-R_pQR3ws7AL2AdOBWwIul590NgGQ5DMe/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEM0ydmm8uoZ2454cqP4UWUdrc7fvrlbpm3jpWXDuKyrW47BgrJ6ZPr3MObp0LnQGzhTVtXJ1LKh9UscFdKEm8fsKsOfEIw6W9cHXkDdoH7i1Wv9jr1Gj1bFtZjUnX_MyHsjLdH4_VpdmNWAHjENHTh7x-R_pQR3ws7AL2AdOBWwIul590NgGQ5DMe/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This copy was gifted to me in exchange for a review as part of the blog tour.<div><br /></div><div>The Shape of Your Heart is a sweet, romantic, beautiful read that is so much more than the inital meet cute i thought it would be. The Shape of Your Heart has such depth of emotion and wonderfully flawed characters that you feel like they are your friends. We meet Callie who is all settled in life, ready to begin the next chapter with her Fiance when fate has other plans, and suddenly Callies world comes crashing down around her. We meet her a year down the line slowly starting to emerge the fog that she has spent the last year wrapped in. Shes slowly starting to see just maybe she can be happy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nathan has slowed down his pace of life after he needed to make some changes for the better, when he meets the woman on the beach and he feels immediately drawn to her, just like he was to his new home. As they start to discover each other, he learns her heart is still torn and with another but can they help each other navigate the changes they both need to make?</div><div><br /></div><div>I honestly loved this, it was so much deeper than alot of books, the way it was written you felt every emotion along with Callie. I dont know if it was the way Callie was written or the way the whole narrative was wrriten but my feels were all over the place. It was complex and dealt with grief in a beuatifully written way. This was one of those books i was excited to curl up under my blanket with to read more.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjarqtIQgtFKlPlAzbpgXb6DKUWut7V7jS2LcXu06GauUUuO547vgzMM8c4aAOWyY5gPnrDVZOpDMTunnsFljJNe4jEEoou9SiuB-BSQT5jCHXp_K7Sady3J0Cfe5epXA_QI0D-48e5Qn0SVT9hO--x8jZOObpMG6_44J_2HKLTbzrHFJKvkh36lIPJ/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjarqtIQgtFKlPlAzbpgXb6DKUWut7V7jS2LcXu06GauUUuO547vgzMM8c4aAOWyY5gPnrDVZOpDMTunnsFljJNe4jEEoou9SiuB-BSQT5jCHXp_K7Sady3J0Cfe5epXA_QI0D-48e5Qn0SVT9hO--x8jZOObpMG6_44J_2HKLTbzrHFJKvkh36lIPJ/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Purchase Link -
</b><span style="color: #0563c1;"><u><a href="https://amzn.to/3tUhmTp" target="_top"><span style="font-size: small;">https://amzn.to/3tUhmTp<br /></span></a></u></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Author
Bio –<br /> </b></span><span style="color: #0f1111;"><span><span style="background: #ffffff;">Debbie
Howells’s first novel, a psychological thriller, The Bones of You
was a Sunday Times bestseller for Macmillan. Four more bestsellers
followed, including most recently The Vow , published by Avon.
Fulfilling her dream of writing women’s fiction, she has found a
home with Boldwood and her first title with them, The Life You Left
Behind, will be published in February 2022<br /></span></span></span><b>Social Media
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Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult-like group who were convinced one of their member's babies was the anti-Christ, and they had a divine mission to kill it - until the baby's mother, Holly, came to her senses and called the police. The Angels committed suicide rather than go to prison, and Holly - and the baby - disappeared into the care system.
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Nearly two decades later, true-crime author Amanda Bailey is writing a book on the Angels. The Alperton baby has turned eighteen and can finally be interviewed - if Amanda can find them, it will be the true-crime scoop of the year, and will save her flagging career. But rival author Oliver Menzies is just as smart, better connected, and is also on the baby's trail.
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As Amanda and Oliver are forced to collaborate, they realise that what everyone thinks they know about the Angels is wrong, and the truth is something much darker and stranger than they'd ever imagined.
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This story is far from over - and it won't have a happy ending.<br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYd3VFyzAD_emTR3gM0p2lEw-K1VUe1MQuylxWm8aK8q5xgsUrsrpGBd0MqUxJ6Tvc1lGVvUDiWi3U9PyUYi2fOuMpPE-yX7TPCSynblKiPt8VdYoirRAjToH-nDo8dVgAIvuJQh8bIA2RPE0nXbKdV7ONZYXIQpnYVStk3YXEOvkkdSPMXMOpt90a/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYd3VFyzAD_emTR3gM0p2lEw-K1VUe1MQuylxWm8aK8q5xgsUrsrpGBd0MqUxJ6Tvc1lGVvUDiWi3U9PyUYi2fOuMpPE-yX7TPCSynblKiPt8VdYoirRAjToH-nDo8dVgAIvuJQh8bIA2RPE0nXbKdV7ONZYXIQpnYVStk3YXEOvkkdSPMXMOpt90a/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">*Gifted a copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was another absolutely brilliant read from Janice Hallett (to be fair it's not like I expected any less) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Told in the brilliant way Janice does, it kept me hooked as I tried to unravel all the clues and find the answers before the last page, and fail once again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Everyone has heard of the Alperton Angels, a cult that planned on killing a baby to save the earth from it. Luckily this never happened and the mother vanished into the care system along with the baby. The baby is due to turn 18 so true crime author Amanda Bailey wants to track the baby down and finally solve this mystery. Alongside her is fellow author Oliver who also wants to be the one to interview the baby. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was just incredible, it was gripping. I was sold on the cult-like aspect of this but this runs so much deeper. The plot is thick heavy and intertwined in ways you would never expect. Amanda and Oliver have a history of working together so you would expect the relationship of the pair to develop and boy does it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved the way this was told through all the research that was discovered in the process of trying to track down the baby. This obviously allows the reader to try and discover what actually happened on that night and in the immediate aftermath. I find that Janice writes these books that are unlike any others I have ever experienced. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I think you have to really lose yourself in this book because you really need to concentrate on what is happening if you want to stand a vague chance of figuring it out but realistically - that isn't going to happen and it's just going to hook you in. This was 100% a 5* read for me. I found i trusted no one and i wasnt warming to the characters this became very apparent towards the end as i started to question everything i had read so far and well it just is a kicker. Fantastic book.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYmqvlXEHgOLsXu2Ww2fV_LQp0NCX1T916sOzRjuudr4FJJa3kNsZH5aXLQFSIwlfsHNQDPBJAiWV9xwptwdzFn6G31o7B3KTD2J229PVEjFzZwyMeqOnozBD1_-QasYmP5ceTQ4-JgtJggxk7AJiBFG8eQcHXJXwC4VSP-sJX5WHQtdtxefHJIPl/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyYmqvlXEHgOLsXu2Ww2fV_LQp0NCX1T916sOzRjuudr4FJJa3kNsZH5aXLQFSIwlfsHNQDPBJAiWV9xwptwdzFn6G31o7B3KTD2J229PVEjFzZwyMeqOnozBD1_-QasYmP5ceTQ4-JgtJggxk7AJiBFG8eQcHXJXwC4VSP-sJX5WHQtdtxefHJIPl/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; text-align: start;">Janice Hallett is a former magazine editor, award-winning journalist, and government communications writer. She wrote articles and speeches for, among others, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, and Department for International Development. Her enthusiasm for travel has taken her around the world several times, from Madagascar to the Galapagos, Guatemala to Zimbabwe, Japan, Russia, and South Korea. A playwright and screenwriter, she penned the feminist Shakespearean stage comedy </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; text-align: start;">NetherBard</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0a0a0a; text-align: start;"> and cowrote the feature film </span><i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0a0a0a; text-align: start;">Retreat. </i></span></div><br /><div><br /></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-64037809669053454722023-01-11T20:12:00.001+00:002023-01-11T20:12:11.926+00:00Let It Snow - Beth Moran || Review<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1658177742l/61087087.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="125" height="400" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1658177742l/61087087.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Curl up with the perfect cosy read and the latest novel by the bestselling author of Just the Way You Are.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">
After the end of a long-term relationship, local weather girl Bea Armstrong has been avoiding her family, and their inevitable ‘I-told-you-sos.’ But with Christmas fast approaching, she is finally on her way home to Charis House, the school in Sherwood Forest that her mum and dad run in their old family home. And to top it all off, the insufferable Henry Fairfax – who her parents have always wanted her to marry – has also been invited.
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Relief comes in the shape of a last-minute interview for her dream job. There are just a few minor problems… The interview is in Scotland, Bea has no car, and the snow is falling already. The only solution is for Henry to drive her – could this Christmas get any worse…
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But during an unforgettable two-day interview, a stay in a log cabin and a nightmare journey through the snow, Henry turns out to be nothing like she thought. And when Bea’s first love and recent ex shows up, Bea has a difficult choice to make…</span></span></div><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><span><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYN24zom7MskFEvGLbTBe90dRIva1olRzZrONbsOHjxlyIYwBENIwXmqypMpT7UaFTQ6aNiLQ0hmmV4nYTVfL7TMMOhb_W6-P8Nh9U1xdomZeI-n9v9c5M2jsiOAR_8LxpwV8zX1QkMKex09DRkZQlawwQAm54dv23uLLgTmuul5fGyCdhEp0dPjK/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikYN24zom7MskFEvGLbTBe90dRIva1olRzZrONbsOHjxlyIYwBENIwXmqypMpT7UaFTQ6aNiLQ0hmmV4nYTVfL7TMMOhb_W6-P8Nh9U1xdomZeI-n9v9c5M2jsiOAR_8LxpwV8zX1QkMKex09DRkZQlawwQAm54dv23uLLgTmuul5fGyCdhEp0dPjK/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div>Rounding off my festive reads was Beth Moran and I couldn't have picked a better author to be fair. Let It Snow follows local weather girl Bea who is heading home for the first family Christmas in a while after splitting for the final time from her long-term boyfriend she has been avoiding them, but it's time to face the music so she heads home.<div><br /></div><div>Returning to the family home she finds it already chaotic and planned down to the minute and to make matters worse, Henry Fairfax has been invited, her family and his always believed they would marry, and forcing a relationship upon them has made matters worse. However, when a job interview arises it seems like the perfect escape for Bea - until Henry ends up driving her. </div><div><br /></div><div>Honestly, this book was just lovely, delightful in parts slightly bonkers but it just overall warmed my heart. I loved Bea - she was just lovely, she stood up for her beliefs when it came to it, she supported her community, and showed even in chaos family is really what matters. I loved getting to know Henry - Henry who was geeky and almost like an automated robot at school to Bea. Seeing their relationship change as they were adults was fantastic to read.</div><div><br /></div><div>Throw in a big festive family gathering and you just know some sort of drama is going to occur, and it did - more than once but everything felt like a natural occurrence, not something just thrown in for effect. That's why I enjoyed this so much. It was relatable, it was real and the characters were flawed. We certainly saw Beas flaws and she had her moments and faults but that's what makes great characters.</div><div><br /></div><div>The descriptive nature of the book along with the writing style made this such an easy book to dip into and loose yourself in for a good whilst. A great first read to the year and i awarded it 4*</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bn2knCCOxf1h3yUjLzNXV1c-fG9nr4FduUs3ew4UDh0iqOGywnMWnENcCHU-LvBZ-6Ozu4g9gK513Q7ZRs_Kis_FJSeMMI810LgYJCjh2uOARQBXgJsyxgOvnvNGqUAggq9NiUQJ0iU6iMKFnwCJnT4h0Nc0luw954-r2tnNyEiWr6W1BvWZ75ig/s320/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="320" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bn2knCCOxf1h3yUjLzNXV1c-fG9nr4FduUs3ew4UDh0iqOGywnMWnENcCHU-LvBZ-6Ozu4g9gK513Q7ZRs_Kis_FJSeMMI810LgYJCjh2uOARQBXgJsyxgOvnvNGqUAggq9NiUQJ0iU6iMKFnwCJnT4h0Nc0luw954-r2tnNyEiWr6W1BvWZ75ig/s1600/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="freeTextauthor8531940" style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">Beth Moran initially worked as a biochemist and then taught antenatal classes before becoming an author. She loves to write contemporary women`s fiction set in and around Sherwood Forest, where she lives with her family</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"> </span><br /></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-90103252303082077612023-01-01T20:25:00.001+00:002023-01-01T20:30:02.616+00:002022 5* Reads<div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzbWrg3Ad4FQqo_lOT3tBDmuczG0zOEw1WnnBplnuyH-CbrT6ywZgA4oB8Q7GEmPjisWDtaPQucuI3Q9QDTiW_mLtjNf1xv1emV966OTROalSMfUdWD4lnw_I-P5KBb1jfnTO23ysM9q5OcPft9FCdh6k-sriP43-wU_L46qPfAVVn6fxMvGoIUXv/s2000/Untitled%20design.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYzbWrg3Ad4FQqo_lOT3tBDmuczG0zOEw1WnnBplnuyH-CbrT6ywZgA4oB8Q7GEmPjisWDtaPQucuI3Q9QDTiW_mLtjNf1xv1emV966OTROalSMfUdWD4lnw_I-P5KBb1jfnTO23ysM9q5OcPft9FCdh6k-sriP43-wU_L46qPfAVVn6fxMvGoIUXv/s320/Untitled%20design.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I may have only read 31 books last year and officially took a break from blogging around April time when it all got a little too much, reading got pushed aside and i literally had no spare moments and when i did - i was sleeping, not reaching for books. These last month or so i have been itching to return to blogging, reading and talking all things book. Like the passion is back. So i thought i would start the new year with my 5* reads from 2022.</div><br /><br /><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfk4Wj53wzFml97t45OBIJT5DOBMTBfuLuBtIh8GI-e7jJPcJOoFEPQn1WfF8WIL8AW15vP0_RnHXlYoCzaYnUEhKf60JCfo6EX8-Lgf2tOt9KpPps2hXliiIyIfMCGqwKWTMdFOHvh7lbkpyOh9wr2YP78tEKZI8elmZOKrda3Uu1OKn40DOYX0tN/s475/56870623._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="311" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfk4Wj53wzFml97t45OBIJT5DOBMTBfuLuBtIh8GI-e7jJPcJOoFEPQn1WfF8WIL8AW15vP0_RnHXlYoCzaYnUEhKf60JCfo6EX8-Lgf2tOt9KpPps2hXliiIyIfMCGqwKWTMdFOHvh7lbkpyOh9wr2YP78tEKZI8elmZOKrda3Uu1OKn40DOYX0tN/w131-h200/56870623._SY475_.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br /><p><u style="font-weight: bold;">Rock Paper Scissors - Alice Feeney</u> </p><p>If you even so much as glance at Booktok for thrillers this is often ranked up there and i can totally see why, it was just fantastic. It was dark, deceptive & gripping. It kept me hooked until that very last page and let me tell you, it was worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHhOzhQRgqQv9EqaHWugQGpU3ZzksD1gMKwdaOo6AloP2FQPdlepk60lpZSQsk-5lJUWC8Dkti7UappwTT1JG2yPmdgjY4F-hlhYSqn3SbZqe_BwMerMMyW6pGdObVuj3C_b-kAH0pB2SO3kmhU5QqdKQxfgnYcTEWrkDtl1WEf2j6N_IQQ0xf4vD/s475/60395211._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXHhOzhQRgqQv9EqaHWugQGpU3ZzksD1gMKwdaOo6AloP2FQPdlepk60lpZSQsk-5lJUWC8Dkti7UappwTT1JG2yPmdgjY4F-hlhYSqn3SbZqe_BwMerMMyW6pGdObVuj3C_b-kAH0pB2SO3kmhU5QqdKQxfgnYcTEWrkDtl1WEf2j6N_IQQ0xf4vD/w130-h200/60395211._SY475_.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><b><u>The Secret Voices & The Silent Child - M J White</u></b><div><br /></div><div>I was waiting for The Secret Voices for the longest time and it did not dissapoint, it was just so good. With something just a bit different to other thrilling reads this is one that you really should give a go. I loved discovering Cora and i was eagerly anticipating the second installment and again this made it into 5* reads. If you are looking for that something different with a strong lead be sure to check these out.<br /><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrTEG4P-LcnrLp8NTpIrsSByVY3pJON3VUJHw6swd3DIzXJrgzqucTooM4VUhqcZtayd4AL4chkpG-qVq6K1utFVYweeGK7EPaTp6QrVSAUKRtAHfCNQz7K20IhwkXwnijahuLeJW1HIWbX3Hub9txedFns_NEKOskaR-PedCAy_PHxcz33CKK25G/s475/60904592._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxrTEG4P-LcnrLp8NTpIrsSByVY3pJON3VUJHw6swd3DIzXJrgzqucTooM4VUhqcZtayd4AL4chkpG-qVq6K1utFVYweeGK7EPaTp6QrVSAUKRtAHfCNQz7K20IhwkXwnijahuLeJW1HIWbX3Hub9txedFns_NEKOskaR-PedCAy_PHxcz33CKK25G/w134-h200/60904592._SY475_.jpg" width="134" /></a></div><b><u>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Im sure this probably made alot of peoples top reads of the year and i can understand why. Having previously read Daisy Jones and The Six i was looking forward to more from the author. This was fantastic. I loved the way the narrative unfolded as we discovered everything and it just kept me fascinated. <br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPmMXyxtR1XlnDD3uqr7ScKRqkXU_XKD0vArS4vRDp1JLYmadD4S0yFsmFmPN5s4d1squpsvabx_xJ0RLtzAzA28y1gMJ3ANfYKKXAx482Uar4j5VD5cxkTC2DU5uw9ZvZms6szgWEsH1lpk2KSC5LmZz7F3w5NPH1734lAlxuYCG4j7E3ePMNxAS/s475/59766488._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="310" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcPmMXyxtR1XlnDD3uqr7ScKRqkXU_XKD0vArS4vRDp1JLYmadD4S0yFsmFmPN5s4d1squpsvabx_xJ0RLtzAzA28y1gMJ3ANfYKKXAx482Uar4j5VD5cxkTC2DU5uw9ZvZms6szgWEsH1lpk2KSC5LmZz7F3w5NPH1734lAlxuYCG4j7E3ePMNxAS/w131-h200/59766488._SY475_.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><b><u>Beach House Summer - Sarah Morgan</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Ive said it before and ill say it again. Sarah Morgan is most certainly one of my all time favourite authors. This did not disappoint, with her beautiful description for scenery, food and characters you really do get lost in the book. I will continue to read everything she writes. <br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioH0dtGlw0nrqXhKPn2YlyYv34Hcv1gAeK4mMroqHW4-qesD44ppzhfD6DNyZ8WCd-czwPOYzAuu3IBfyDHOtj9tXH2znnN7JI_c3Y36kxv48tjEmii90Ndq8NZTmJyRaROXCVdYfS8aDw60Cs89SdNrd2n33YLf38DRtLTVX4t8kzL0Ysg42lnrLS/s475/60121499._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="310" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioH0dtGlw0nrqXhKPn2YlyYv34Hcv1gAeK4mMroqHW4-qesD44ppzhfD6DNyZ8WCd-czwPOYzAuu3IBfyDHOtj9tXH2znnN7JI_c3Y36kxv48tjEmii90Ndq8NZTmJyRaROXCVdYfS8aDw60Cs89SdNrd2n33YLf38DRtLTVX4t8kzL0Ysg42lnrLS/w131-h200/60121499._SY475_.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><b><u>The Little Library on Cherry Lane - Katie Ginger</u></b></div><div><br /></div><div>This was a sweet bookish delight and was really what i needed when i read it. It stands out as one of those warm cozy reads that really made me smile. I loved discovering the whole village and their characteristics. Such a warm hug in a book.<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFRr_VU_4Efd6F6msjJCPdPcODsdewtfZ-u7fZnCPWmz1vNkdwDyHi7LgScV5-uMiwt-NApYIG6kkH0FMINBHmV1IxqJZ0gzyDWMo5bt-yCVRwx8iD-WNKIpn_kT73bDlhMj_OadZhVngNbU51I89kvMay4Ci6abWm3tLwT0tBNL6koEMgqBOGXj8/s475/58514421._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFRr_VU_4Efd6F6msjJCPdPcODsdewtfZ-u7fZnCPWmz1vNkdwDyHi7LgScV5-uMiwt-NApYIG6kkH0FMINBHmV1IxqJZ0gzyDWMo5bt-yCVRwx8iD-WNKIpn_kT73bDlhMj_OadZhVngNbU51I89kvMay4Ci6abWm3tLwT0tBNL6koEMgqBOGXj8/w130-h200/58514421._SY475_.jpg" width="130" /></a></div><p><b><u>The Wish - Nicholas Sparks</u></b></p><p>For years before i started book blogging Nicholas Sparks was my favorite author, i had read every single book of his in my college library on lunch breaks listening to Radio one. I decided to pick this one up for 99p and it literally reminded me why i love his books, i mean i did end up snot crying but you know...standard.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">What were your top reads of 2022?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-45862646326517154582022-04-26T19:24:00.003+01:002022-04-26T19:24:45.342+01:00The Flat Share - Beth O'Leary || Review<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600492178l/50212494._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="312" height="475" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600492178l/50212494._SY475_.jpg" width="312" /></a></div><br /><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;">Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast.<br />
Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash.
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Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time.
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But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly-imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet, they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window...</div><span><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcn_jFaYr4NtFI0Siq9eYDPWeyNjSViGjm03yjHlMkR_auig4G6ktGmqpbxo_7mLN2L7GaeYUfTzdn0aKetgNiPAeCv11mqFM8Q3ZnKePSTCUFsFN2VguvybZuMUhS-Y2rZMZV9yF43Dkkl95SMcwOc9eKDYifBG3fDpcPxXJgZTG7FFwavjWyEITi/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcn_jFaYr4NtFI0Siq9eYDPWeyNjSViGjm03yjHlMkR_auig4G6ktGmqpbxo_7mLN2L7GaeYUfTzdn0aKetgNiPAeCv11mqFM8Q3ZnKePSTCUFsFN2VguvybZuMUhS-Y2rZMZV9yF43Dkkl95SMcwOc9eKDYifBG3fDpcPxXJgZTG7FFwavjWyEITi/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have read other works by Beth and i swear i picked this up on a kindle deal. I was feeling under the weather with the dreaded c-cold and i needed something light and lovely to read to distract me so this seemed the perfect option. Let me tell you, it was!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tiffany needs a flat, cheap & fast and Leon needs money so the perfect solution is created. Leon works nights, Tiffany needs a bed so why not share a bed, the pair never have to meet. Leons girlfriend makes sure of that. She writes it in the contract. It suits Tiffany as shes out of a relationship and needs to recover. </div>Tiffany starts leaving Leon little notes about what shes left over for him, little questions about the flat. Over time though, these notes lead to a sort of friendship and Tiffany finds herself really wanting to meet Leon.<div><br /></div><div>When the pair finally meet, everything changes. Honestly this was fantastic, it was exactly what i needed at the time and it was just a book to loose yourself in. Tiffany was a great main character because she was just lovely, she was unsure of herself at times, but confident in other aspects. I just wanted the best for her, and just felt she was unlucky with her chances in life.</div><div><br /></div><div>Leon was equally as great, invested in his work, wanting to help his family - you could really see where his priorities did lie and my heart ached for him as he really was just always trying his best. I felt the narrative flowed naturally and it all felt well constructed, that these scenarios occurred of their own doing rather than the author just planting them in situations to get outcomes.</div><div><br /></div><div>If you want to loose yourself in the pages of a book for a while then this could be the one for you.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij72FOK4kIfxyrWF45swLgrzXROByeY57wYizmAXipbo7TesbRZWa7mtgeLbBs-JG46UssgTWcQmuFdQa041lMrB-VuTESCaZnrJyXjl8wPDUw_VgmWfdzNhOnrQytAKqc8LlBz70zdWZz5ssqnvoOut_hn01jkEg2vT-myGe0W0N6FNCJF-sezaY3/s413/auth%20(2).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="95" data-original-width="413" height="74" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij72FOK4kIfxyrWF45swLgrzXROByeY57wYizmAXipbo7TesbRZWa7mtgeLbBs-JG46UssgTWcQmuFdQa041lMrB-VuTESCaZnrJyXjl8wPDUw_VgmWfdzNhOnrQytAKqc8LlBz70zdWZz5ssqnvoOut_hn01jkEg2vT-myGe0W0N6FNCJF-sezaY3/s320/auth%20(2).png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Beth studied English at university before going into children’s publishing. She lives as close to the countryside as she can get while still being within reach of London, and wrote her first novel, The Flatshare, on her train journey to and from work.</span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">You’ll usually find her curled up with a book, a cup of tea, and several woolly jumpers (whatever the weather).</span></span></div><div></div></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-30813197378429762512022-03-28T12:43:00.003+01:002022-03-28T12:43:32.374+01:00Murder At The Summer Fete - Victoria Walters || Blog Tour<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivazvqeG8tETT8tv7N8x-J1yr6t48pNqgbYCHyQdSexaEcLpzo_tU9PigRFHJOMtE9Rw79_Uhd1586u54KmTuH_cC6creQVuMdNHAut8GNAxfOQnlCKQSEorQ_mo8js4-hH0Qyxh4c7wgqwSXrUCCmu-3_QHhewIGdTr0WhTpUctJOkbWZoPO2c3rn/s2339/Murder%20at%20the%20Summer%20Fete%20FINAL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="1524" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivazvqeG8tETT8tv7N8x-J1yr6t48pNqgbYCHyQdSexaEcLpzo_tU9PigRFHJOMtE9Rw79_Uhd1586u54KmTuH_cC6creQVuMdNHAut8GNAxfOQnlCKQSEorQ_mo8js4-hH0Qyxh4c7wgqwSXrUCCmu-3_QHhewIGdTr0WhTpUctJOkbWZoPO2c3rn/s320/Murder%20at%20the%20Summer%20Fete%20FINAL.jpg" width="208" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A fete worse than death…<br /><br />
After finding the killer of Lucy Roth six months ago, life has settled back to normal for bookshop owner, Nancy Hunter, and her grandmother, Jane. </span></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The annual Dedley End village fete is just around the corner, and Nancy is delighted when bestselling author, Thomas Green, agrees to launch his first new novel in ten years there.
But then a series of sinister events lead Nancy to realise someone is trying to sabotage their fete, so she, along with Jane and their journalist friend Jonathan, must turn detective to discover who isn’t at all thrilled about the return of Thomas Green. </span></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When a body is discovered at the summer fete, the death scene mirroring that in Thomas’ latest bestseller, they realise that there’s another killer in Dedley End, but can they outsmart someone who appears to have pulled off the perfect crime?
The clues are right under Nancy and Jane’s noses, if only they can find them. Because the answers to life’s questions can always be found in a book…! </span></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A twisty, unputdownable cozy mystery that fans of Richard Osman, S.J. Bennett and The Marlow Murder Club will love.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span><a name='more'></a><br /></span></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlE3m4TPO5cNPbVsWQQlJyM1Rzrk0XlUtik26UBzf40e-iW4ptuskQ2blTFjvKZ9_UxZGa-AxXKqwi-okuNJtfeBwrppDRH_I-yQaq1ElkOuNKVDBuna1lWDgxB-5HRUdGnqGtkTo8CQfQc9-Yne8s3ECihEpc2ZGCmwkAJ8SOzBfGa1SzBgRI88iC/s313/y..png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlE3m4TPO5cNPbVsWQQlJyM1Rzrk0XlUtik26UBzf40e-iW4ptuskQ2blTFjvKZ9_UxZGa-AxXKqwi-okuNJtfeBwrppDRH_I-yQaq1ElkOuNKVDBuna1lWDgxB-5HRUdGnqGtkTo8CQfQc9-Yne8s3ECihEpc2ZGCmwkAJ8SOzBfGa1SzBgRI88iC/s1600/y..png" width="313" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I loved the first book in this series, it was the perfect introduction to cozy mystery for me so i was super excited to be able to join in on the blog tour for this one! I know its been a while since i did a post but this book was just great! <br /><br /><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Life is just settling down Nancy Hunter and she is looking forward to the summer fete in the village with her first organised author talk. Thomas Green is promoting his final book after a ten year break and he is returning to his home to do so. Everyone is looking forward to it apart from one person, it appears someone is trying to sabtoage the fete. Destorying posters with Thomas' name on, leaving notes and all appearing to threaten Thomas Green. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nany and her grandmother along with their friend Jonathon set about letting Thomas Green know and trying everything they can to put safety measures in place although Thomas is not worried, Nancy certainly is. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, a body is discovered at the summer Fete and the scene seems to mirror Thomas Greens latest novel. Which is someone who commits the perfect crime - it all seems wrapped but Nancy isnt so sure - can she find answers? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I simply thought this was great! I did guess the main plot points early on but i loved reading it and seeing how everything unfolded. How Nancy once again could see what others couldnt. This is a great read, its intiruging enough that you want to keep reading. Its cozy enough that you feel content and comfy reading it and its lovely enough that you will finish the book with a smile on your face. The characters of Nancy, Jane and Jonathon you just root for, they are heartwarming with lovely core values and it makes you want to support them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Purchase Links </b>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #0f1111;">Victoria Walters writes up-lifting and
inspiring stories. She's the author of the bestselling GLENDALE HALL
series, which continues with its third book HOPEFUL HEARTS at
GLENDALE HALL in September, as well as two other standalone novels -
SUMMER at the KINDNESS CAFE, and THE SECOND LOVE of my LIFE. She has
been chosen for WHSmith Fresh Talent and shortlisted for two RNA
awards. Victoria was also picked as an Amazon Rising Star, and her
books have won wide reader acclaim.<br /><br />Victoria is a full-time
author. She lives in Surrey with her cat Harry, and loves books,
clothes, music, going out for tea and cake, and posting photos on
Instagram.<br /><br /></span>Find out more about Victoria by following on
Instagram at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/vickyjwalters/">@vickyjwalters</a>,
on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/Vicky_Walters">@Vicky_Walters </a>or
by visiting her blog at:<a href="https://victoria-writes.com/">https://victoria-writes.com/</a>.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBcj9PZMPAABsWYG6jTgpxzvakNFvD7-zENR3S0KkHLd6NF_LzfSbLwfVDQ-kZ5Bb20Ooo2zej3pcAJP1nk2vaF5Ig_0UKtnkwXSvMcp7pu3nwFPFvAqhXFeaas4I3rtJMFhrqpM35nnpT5SfKQo0_OLN7sbsoc6r56oy3dvAdcMtceaXQaN7vX6j/s2750/Murder%20At%20The%20Summer%20Fete%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2750" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzBcj9PZMPAABsWYG6jTgpxzvakNFvD7-zENR3S0KkHLd6NF_LzfSbLwfVDQ-kZ5Bb20Ooo2zej3pcAJP1nk2vaF5Ig_0UKtnkwXSvMcp7pu3nwFPFvAqhXFeaas4I3rtJMFhrqpM35nnpT5SfKQo0_OLN7sbsoc6r56oy3dvAdcMtceaXQaN7vX6j/w640-h290/Murder%20At%20The%20Summer%20Fete%20Full%20Tour%20Banner.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
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</span></p></div><br />Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298685324026564398.post-48734470882429196022022-02-28T09:58:00.000+00:002022-02-28T09:58:16.029+00:00Six Stories - Matt Wesolowski <p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481833776l/32188043._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="309" height="400" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481833776l/32188043._SY475_.jpg" width="260" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1997. Scarclaw Fell. The body of teenager Tom Jeffries is found at an Outward Bound center. Verdict? Misadventure. But not everyone is convinced. And the truth of what happened in the beautiful but eerie fell is locked in the memories of the tight-knit group of friends who embarked on that fateful trip, and the flimsy testimony of those living nearby.</span></div><div style="align: left; background-color: #efe5fa; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> 2017. Enter elusive investigative journalist Scott King, whose podcast examinations of complicated cases have rivaled the success of Serial, with his concealed identity making him a cult internet figure. In a series of six interviews, King attempts to work out how the dynamics of a group of idle teenagers conspired with the sinister legends surrounding the fell to result in Jeffries’ mysterious death. As every interview unveils a new revelation, you’ll be forced to work out for yourself how Tom Jeffries died, and who is telling the truth.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a name='more'></a></span></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TO-qz8uf8E4/YEOUInQlHgI/AAAAAAAATiY/TFhaSjck7FscWdFZiqrI3QFhrEziEOEtACLcBGAsYHQ/s313/y..png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="114" data-original-width="313" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TO-qz8uf8E4/YEOUInQlHgI/AAAAAAAATiY/TFhaSjck7FscWdFZiqrI3QFhrEziEOEtACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/y..png" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I read and loved a Six Stories book last year and then went on to purchase several of the books because i absolutely adored the concept and it just gripped me so much. I decided it was time to head back to the beginning and start with the original Six Stories. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">1997 and finally the body of missing teenager of Tom Jeffries has been found, the verdict though? Misadventure or accidental. However, not everyone is so sure of that but non the less the group of teenagers who were there that night have now moved on and are getting on with their lives. Fast forward to 2017 and journalist Scott King whos popular podcast explores complicated cases through six different stories leading the listener to make their own conclusion decides to tackle the case.</span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">As expected we follow the book told from six different points of view in an interview style where the chapters are like podcast episodes, interjected with another voice. What i loved about this is you can really imagine listening to this and it is certainly does hook you in. I loved the twists and turns in this one and i did not expect any of what happened. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">I loved how you learn from each voice what they perceived at the time and their perception of the missing teenager. It is such a unique and great concept in terms of told like a podcast and i loved the intertwining of folklore throughout as we try to discover what actually happened. I already have the next few books on my kindle ready to read and i cant wait to tune into the next episode to see what the case will be.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WvELR4yQWGA/YEOZQLmBepI/AAAAAAAATig/AI0WuZbazkI90qqd0YM29gEvOpOq-YJCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s413/auth.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="95" data-original-width="413" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WvELR4yQWGA/YEOZQLmBepI/AAAAAAAATig/AI0WuZbazkI90qqd0YM29gEvOpOq-YJCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/auth.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">'Six Stories' was published by Orenda Books in the spring of 2016 with follow-up ‘Hydra’ published in the winter of 2017, 'Changeling' in 2018, 'Beast' in 2019 and 'Deity in 2020</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">‘Six Stories’ has been optioned by a major Hollywood studio; ‘Changeling’ was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, 2019 Amazon Publishing Readers’ Award for Best Thriller and Best Independent Voice.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">'Beast' won the Amazon Publishing Readers' Award for Best Independent Voice in 2020</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Matt is represented by Sandra Sawicka at Marjacq</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Film/TV Rights - Luke Speed at Curtis Brown</span></span></div></div></div>Emhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06138434129575204840noreply@blogger.com0