Tag: Book Review

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. …

I really enjoy writing these reviews. They are quick, strictly to the point, and they challenge me to sum up my thoughts on each of the books. If you haven’t seen the first post I did, you should definitely read that, but basically, this idea came from the necessity of reviewing books that I don’t have much to talk about. This doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the book, most of them (if not all) I did enjoy quite a lot, but I don’t have enough things to point out about them that justifies a dedicated review. So today is time for another five books. The Saturday Night Supper Club by Carla Laureano Food, romance, and house goals. I had so much fun reading it. It really gave me wishes to have my own kitchen to make dinner parties for my friends and cooking while mingling or to show my knife …

There are books that blow me away, others that upset me in some way that I can’t avoid talking about them. Although there are others that I could resume all my thoughts to a single paragraph. For those books, I usually just mention them on a monthly wrap-up and leave it there, but that doesn’t felt enough. So I thought – correction, I got the idea from a tweet – to do one post with small reviews. Instead of reviewing only one book, I’ll review five, and to make it more interesting, I have to resume my thoughts to 5 words. But since I can’t limit myself that much – I actually just don’t want to – I’ll add a small paragraph explaining why. The Murder List by Julie Garwood Gets better after 100 pages. The first time I tried to read this book I completely lost my interest in …

My relationship with The 100 started off in 2014 shortly after the conclusion of the first season. I was series-less, and a friend recommended me to watch it, and I binged the all thing in two days (just because I had to sleep). Although, I can’t remember when did I become aware the show was based on a book by Kass Morgan. Since then, all I ever wanted to do was to pick up the book. However, you don’t need to do much research to discover that both stories mostly have the name in common and nothing else. And this was a risk for me. I was completely in love with the TV series, and I didn’t want to lose that love for finding the books better or the other way around. Bottom line, I didn’t want the story of one influenced my opinion on the other. So, even after …

Just to make sure, I advise you that this review is full of spoilers! I dedicated a special post to talk about in depth of my thoughts and feeling towards the book Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia as I have a lot to say about it, and not all are great things. For a spoiler-free review of this book, please read this post. I have to say that it’s quite a tricky review to do. I had a hard time to decide how many stars to give it on Goodreads because I either loved it and hated it. I went in this book expecting a 5-star read, loving it from cover to cover, and wouldn’t shut up about it, and came out slightly disappointed. I read this book in 4 days, and it wasn’t in less time because, after 300 pages, things started to annoy me a bit. …

 Author: Francesca Zappia Publisher: Greenwillow Books (HarperCollins Imprint) Year: 2017 Pages: 385 In the real-world, Eliza is shy, friendless, and considered for most people, weird. But online she has an alter persona with an established fanbase. She is LadyConstelation, the anonymous creator of the webcomic Monstrous Sea that took the internet by storm. There is fanfic made out of her work, forums where every fan of the webcomic goes to hang out, and plenty of friendly nametags that she can call friends. Eliza can’t imagine the real world will ever be as amazing has the one she created online, until the day she meets Wallace. Despite pleasant to the eye, he is also a major fan of Monstrous Sea, but he doesn’t know that she is actually the creator. This book… where should I start with this book… I think, first of all, I have to explain my expectations going …

It took me almost two months to read it, but I finally finished The Nightmare by Lars Kepler. The power couple known to be the best writers of the hour of nordic crime stories have managed to create a very successful series following the detective Joona Lina while he unravels the most twisted crimes Sweden has ever seen. The Nightmare is the second book after The Hypnotist, and already with 5 more books ahead of it. From the look of it, the series seems pretty good, and I’m not going to say otherwise. Original Title: Paganinikontraktet Author: Lars Kepler Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Year: 2012 Pages: 528 A drowned young woman is discovered on an abandoned pleasure boat drifting by the Stockholm archipelago. Strangely, her clothes are dry, but the autopsy report shows her lungs are filled with water. The next day, a man turns up dead, hanging from a lamp hook …

Author: Ruth Hogan   Publisher: Two Roads   Year: 2017   Pages: 336 Since Spring has officially started, there isn’t better book to celebrate this season as The Keeper of Lost Things. You might think “what do the lost objects have to do with Spring?” Well, everything and starting with the cover! This book is like a flower, it starts off as a little bud and slowly grows day by day. And since is Spring some days are beautiful and sunny, and others are rainy and gloomy. Although, that doesn’t stop it from blooming into a beautiful flower.

Author: Joanna Bolouri Publisher: Quercus Publishing Year: 2018 Pages: 336 Sometimes you read a book that gets you more and more excited by each sentence as the end approaches, and then you turn the page and find a blank one. You keep going back and forward with that single sheet of paper until your brain realises the book is over. Then you get up, slowly stepping away from the book and you start shouting

* This post might contain affiliated links. To know more visit my Disclaimer page.   Author: Joanna Bolouri  Publisher: Quercus Publishing  Year: 2014  Pages: 400 Today, I’m doing a very special review. I read this book last month, and it won my heart. From a moment to another, it became my all-time favourite book. You know a book is good when even before you finish it you already and to reread it. And since we are starting a new year, there isn’t a more appropriate time to read this gem than now – at least I know I will. Grab a copy, a bucket of popcorn and sit comfortably, while you laugh out loud at all Phoebe’s adventures. Phoebe has been single for over a year since she found her ex-boyfriend in bed with another woman. After a multiple glasses of wine and long talks with her best friend Lucy, …

* This post might contain affiliated links. To know more visit my Disclaimer page.   Author: David Levithan and Rachel Cohn Publisher: Mira Ink Year: 2014 Pages: 309 I feel the time between Christmas and New Year’s to be the weirdest. You are just hungover from all the food you eat on the past two days and when you finally think you already took everything out of your system is New Year’s Eve. Although I found Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares to be the perfect book for this time.