Tag: Blog Tour

The book to read this summer is here! The Truants by Kate Weinberg is the mystery book to take to the beach and get lost while laying on the sand. My many thanks to Anne Cater, the publisher, and Kate Weinberg for allowing me to be part of this tour. Author: Kate Weinberg Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 352 Genre: Mistery, Contemporary Publication: 1st June 2020 Synopsis: Jess Walker, the middle child of a middle-class family, has perfected the art of vanishing in plain sight. But when she arrives at a concrete university campus under flat, grey, East Anglian skies, her world flares with colour. Drawn into a tightly-knit group of rule-breakers – led by their maverick teacher, Lorna Clay – Jess begins to experiment with a new version of herself. But the dynamic between the friends begins to darken as they share secrets, lovers and finally a tragedy. Soon Jess …

Happy book birthday to Goldilocks! A space adventure to find a new planet grand theft spaceship style. In this near-future tale of women taking control over their destiny and the whole world’s fate, many challenges explore how far they are willing to go for the greater good. My many thanks to Anne Cater, the publisher, and Laura Lam for allowing me to be part of this tour. Author: Laura Lam Publisher: Headline Publishing Group, Wildfire Pages: 352 Genre: Sci-fi, Dystopian Publication: 30th April 2020 Synopsis: Ravaged by environmental disaster, greed and oppression, our planet is in crisis. The future of humanity hangs in the balance – and one woman can tip it over. Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, Cavendish, where conditions are just right for human habitation. It’s humanity’s last …

There is nothing like escaping Earth, and a sci-fi book is perfect for that. Vulcan’s Forge by Robert Mitchell Evans takes the reader to Nocturnia, a newly populated world with the last colony after Earth’s destruction. My many thanks to Anne Cater and the author for allowing me to be part of this tour. Author: Robert Mitchell Evans Publisher: Flame Tree Press Pages: 288 Genre: Sci-fi, Romance, Crime Publication: 26th March 2020 Synopsis: Jason Kessler doesn’t fit in the society of Nocturnia, the sole colony that survived the Earth’s destruction. Between the colony’s dedication to a distorted vision of mid-twentieth-century Americana, its sexually repressive culture, and the expectation that his most important duty is marriage and children Jason rebels, throwing himself into an illicit and dangerous affair with Pamela Guest, but Pamela harbours a secret. Soon the lovers are engaged in a lethal game of cat and mouse with the …

Games and books are two of my favourite hobbies. Whenever a book is about a game, I don’t miss a chance to read it. Happy Family by James Ellis wasn’t an exception. My many thanks to Anne Cater, the author, and the publisher for allowing me to be part of this tour. Author: James Ellis Publisher: Unbound Digital Pages: 304 Genre: Fiction, Humour, LGBT Publication: 6th February 2020 Synopsis: Germaine Kiecke was a foundling, an orphan, brought up by the infamous ‘Motherhood’ in a Belgian orphanage. Now she is a successful art academic who defines herself by her profession and prefers to experience the world through art and an augmented reality game called Happy Family. But when the artist Tom Hannah, the creative force behind Happy Family, moves to Spain, surrounds himself with high walls, three large guard dogs called Harpo, Chico and Groucho, and a runaway who teaches him …

Once again is time to explore the universe of lost ships in the second book of the Lost Solace series, Chasing Solace by Karl Drinkwater. My many thanks to Anne Cater and the author for allowing me to be part of this tour. Author: Karl Drinkwater Pages: 314 Genre: Sci-Fi Publication: 15th April 2019 Synopsis: The legendary Lost Ships exist, and they harbour nightmarish horrors. Opal knows. She barely survived her first encounter with one. Despite escaping, she failed to find what she was looking for: her lost sister. Now Opal must board a second derelict Lost Ship to seek answers, and it’s even more monstrous, a sickening place of death and decay. To make things worse, the military government wants her, dead or alive. Considering their reputation, dead may be better. To find her sister, Opal will risk everything: her life, her blood, her sanity. There’s always a price …

There is nothing better than starting the new year reading a good book. And today is time for me to share my thoughts on that book, You Beneath Your Skin by Damyanti Biswas. My many thanks to Anne Cater and to the author for allowing me to take part in this tour. Author: Damyanti Biswas Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 320 Genre: Mystery, Crime Thriller Publication: 17th September 2019 Synopsis: LIES. AMBITION. FAMILY. It’s a dark, smog-choked new Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner Jatin Bhatt – an irresistible attraction that could destroy both their lives. Jatin’s home life is falling apart: his handsome and charming son is not all he appears to be, and his wife has too much on her plate to pay …

Today is my stop on the Don’t Get Involved blog tour. Thank you so much to F. J. Curlew for inviting me to take part on this tour and providing me with a copy of the book to review. Author: F. J. Curlew Pages: 341 Genre: Suspense, Crime Thriller, Magical Realism Publication: 7th October 2019 Synopsis: A missing shipment of cocaine.Three street-kids fighting for their lives.A Mafia hitman intent on killing them.A naïve expat who gets in their way.Who would you bet on? Ukraine, 2001. A time of lawlessness and corruption. Three street-kids stumble upon a holdall full of cocaine, belonging to the Mafia. Mafia hitman, Leonid, is given the job of retrieving the cocaine and disposing of the street-kids. To do so he is forced to step back into his old life and he doesn’t like it. The children run on their wits. Leonid hunts them down. Nadia, a …

Time for another tour here on the blog and The End of the World Survivors Club by Adrian J. Walker is the next on the list. My many thanks to Anne Cater and Chloe at Ebury Press for allowing me to be a part on this tour. Author: Adrian J. Walker Publisher: Ebury Press Pages: 464 Genre: Post Apocalyptic, Thriller Publication: 5th September 2019 Synopsis: In The End of the World Running Club, Edgar Hill ran 550 miles after an apocalypse to try and find his family. He had it easy. This is his wife’s story. Beth Hill has survived the apocalypse with a baby and toddler in tow. And what’s more, she’s done it alone – without her husband’s help. He’s never been any help. But when disaster strikes and someone steals her kids, she knows what she has to do. The new world might be very different: no …

Today, I bring you another blog tour set many light-years away, perfect to escape from our solar system. I’m talking about Lost Solace by Karl Drinkwater. My many thanks to Anne Cater and the author for allowing me to be a part of this tour. Author: Karl Drinkwater Pages: 273 Genre: Sci-Fi Publication: 15th October 2017 Synopsis: Sometimes spaceships disappear with everyone on board – the Lost Ships. But sometimes they come back, strangely altered, derelict, and rumoured to be full of horrors. Opal is on a mission. She’s been seeking something her whole life. Something she is willing to die for. And she thinks it might be on a Lost Ship. Opal has stolen Clarissa, an experimental AI-controlled spaceship, from the military. Together they have tracked down a Lost Ship, in a lonely nebula far from colonised space. The Lost Ship is falling into the gravity well of a …

Today is the final day on the Blog Tour for The Sunday Girl by Pip Drysdale. My many thanks to Anne Cater and to Simon & Schuster UK for allowing me to be a part on this tour. Author: Jonathan Janz Publisher: Flame Tree Press Pages: 352 Genre: Contemporary Horror Publication: 11th April 2019 Synopsis: “Some love affairs change you forever. Someone comes into your orbit and swivels you on your axis, like the wind working on a rooftop weather vane. And when they leave, as the wind always does, you are different; you have a new direction. And it’s not always north.” Any woman who’s ever been involved with a bad, bad man and been dumped will understand what it feels like to be broken, broken-hearted and bent on revenge. Taylor Bishop is hurt, angry and wants to destroy Angus Hollingsworth in the way he destroyed her: ‘Insidiously. Irreparably. …

Today is my turn and the final stop on the Blog Tour for The Dark Game by Jonathan Janz. My many thanks to Anne Cater and Flame Tree Press for allowing me to be a part on this tour. Author: Jonathan Janz Publisher: Flame Tree Press Pages: 352 Genre: Contemporary Horror Publication: 11th April 2019 Synopsis: Ten writers are selected for a writing retreat with the most celebrated author in the world, the legendary Roderick Wells. They think they are signing up for a chance at literary prestige, but they are really entering The Dark Game – a lethal contest pitting them against one another in a struggle for their sanity and their lives. Review: I’ve never read a book by Jonathan Janz before, but I’m always ready to discover new authors. Although I really had no idea the ride that was in store for me. The author grabbed me …