Category: Fiction
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Mechthild Gläser – The Book Jumper
I ‘rediscovered’ our local library a few weeks ago when I was trying to find some ways for my dad to get ebooks of the latest books without having to pay for them, and discovered that with a library membership, you can loan ebooks in the same way as normal books using an app called
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Brandon Sanderson – Shadows of Self
Ahhhh Brandon Sanderson. Your books fill me with joy. I am constantly amazed by Sanderson and how he can write so many books but have them all be so flawlessly perfect. I’d love to know what goes on in his brain to be able to imagine the worlds that he does with all their infinite
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Deirdre Riordan Hall – Sugar
I don’t really know what drew me to choose this book from Amazon – I know that it was free to read, but I think as usual it was probably the cover. ‘Don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ sounds like an admirable thing to say, but when there’s hundreds of thousands of books to
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J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
I know, I know. I’ve read this book so many times. And with the amount of books on my to-be-read pile, I should probably make a dent in that rather than re-reading my favourites again – but it’s HARRY POTTER. And when I saw that it was free on Amazon Prime reading, I just couldn’t
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Emily R. King – The Hundredth Queen
I’ve been really slack at this whole book review thing recently. I finished this book over a month ago, but I just haven’t been able to get the motivation to log on and write up my review. That’s no reflection on this book, which was absolutely great. As it’s been over a month since I
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Jay Asher – 13 Reasons Why
Urgh. Can I start a book review with ‘urgh’? I guess I just did. I’ve been waiting to read this book ever since I saw the Netflix show announced, and I am utterly disappointed. But also a little relieved that I won’t be wasting my time watching 13 hours of TV. I don’t really know
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Nicola Yoon – Everything Everything
This book was SUPERB! I sat down to read this book yesterday afternoon and didn’t get back up again until I’d finished it. It was that good. I just couldn’t stop turning the pages even for a second. At the start of the book, we meet Madeleine. She hasn’t left her house for as long as
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Kate Eberlen – Miss You
If you love romantic books with a bit of a twist, this book is definitely for you. At times, it felt a bit familiar to other books in the same vein, for example One Day by David Nichols, but the author did a great job of making it unique enough to keep it interesting. It says
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Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford – The Phoenix Project
So I hadn’t really thought about adding ‘tech-books’ on Goodreads or on here, but I realised that I’m letting myself miss out on books towards my reading target of 52 books this year, so why not! I actually read this one in July after being lent it by my colleagues in the London office when
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Bella Forrest – The Gender Secret
I was in two minds about the first book in this series, it had good moments and bad moments, but the shock ending left me wanting to read more. Unfortunately, I’m a bit disappointed that I did. As expected Viggo and Violet are reunited again, but then we spend the whole book going back and
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Kathy Cooperman – Crimes Against a Book Club
So apparently as an Amazon Prime member, you get a chance once a month to get a newly released book for free, and this was my choice for this month. I don’t read many crime books, but I was drawn in by the ‘book club’ in the title. As it turns out, the book club
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Bella Forrest – The Gender Game
I thought the concept of this book was a very intriguing one. Two societies separated by a river: one ruled by women, one ruled by men. To be a man in Matrus is to have no rights or responsibilities, and to be a woman in Patrus is possibly worse. You are the property of your
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 1: Cosmic Avengers
I wasn’t sure if I could include this on my 2017 reading challenge, but it appears on Goodreads, so I’m going to say yes. It was my first ever comic book (at the grand old age of 27), and I had a lot of fun reading it. I just saw it on my kindle available
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Milly Johnson – The Queen of Wishful Thinking
Oh Milly Johnson, how I love you. I went to get this book signed at Waterstones in Leeds, and Milly was as lovely as always, a proper Yorkshire lass! The young ladies in front of me were very clear that they were getting the book for their mums, I was like ‘Nope, this is all
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Giovanna Fletcher – You’re the One That I Want
I’m in two minds about how to review this book. On the plus side, I thought the writing was great and I was hooked by the style. I especially loved the chapters switching between characters and telling you the ages instead of the years (less thinking on my part)! And to start with, I loved
Louise Douglas 