Tag: Book Review

After the jaw-dropping that was We Were Liars I couldn’t shy away from Genuine Fraud. I read some reviews telling it wasn’t as good, but that didn’t push me away. It’s not just the fact that I was blown away by the ending of We Were Liars that made it one of my favourite books, in fact, E. Lockhart’s writing was another factor. So I was determined to read Genuine Fraud, but this time I knew nothing about it. Author: E. Lockhart Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 262 Genre: Mystery, Contemporary, Thriller Publication: 5th September 2017 Synopsis: Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. And Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. They share an intense relationship that hides lies, fears and secrets. Imogen and Jule. Jule and Imogen. Inseparable best friends. Two very different people and one of them is a genuine …

Once again, I gave in to the hype, and I bought a copy of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid for myself. I couldn’t avoid it. Not only was this book praised a lot when it came out, so was the author. And I had to see for myself if I agreed with everyone. Now, after two years of its publication, there are rumours about The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo becoming a TV series, and the internet has gone bananas!! About the adaptation, I still don’t have any thoughts, but about the book, I have a ton. Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Publisher: Washington Square Press Pages: 389 Genre: Historical Fiction, LGBT Publication: 13th June 2017 Synopsis: Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready, to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant to write her …

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 …

Author: Jason Segel / Kirsten Miller Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 355 Genre: YA Sci-fi Publication: 31st October 2017 If you already don’t know, I LOVE Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. That book was written for an American-80s-baby version of me, just because I didn’t know most of the pop culture references. Otherwise, I’m a sucker for it!! And being a gamer, a geek at heart, and a bookworm, I adore when all these things are combined. So I couldn’t pass on the opportunity to read Otherworld by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller since it’s advertised to be perfect for fans o Ready Player One. At first, I was eager to read a book similar to RPO without the 80s pop culture. Although, I was a bit scared that both books might be too similar, and Otherworld would end up as a cheap or failed attempt to be like RPO. …

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 …