Category: Fiction
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Kate Maruyama – Harrowgate
I’m still undecided what my feelings are towards this book, I can’t really say I loved it, but I didn’t hate it either. I mainly listened to this book as an audio book rather than reading it, which I think added to the experience, it definitely felt like it had more tension. The main character,
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Charlie N. Holmberg – The Master Magician
When I found out this book had been released, I had to stop what I was reading and get this right away! Thank goodness for Kindle Unlimited, which meant I could read this without worrying about the state of my bank balance! I fell in love with Ceony and Emery at the end of last
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Andy Jones – The Two of Us
After slogging through the last book over a painful two weeks of forcing myself to pick up the book and continue, it was nice to read something so compulsive that I just couldn’t put it down. I initially dismissed the book as the usual chick-lit style book, but I was wrong to judge the book
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Milly Johnson – Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Cafe
First up, I need to say that Milly Johnson is my favourite Chick-Lit author. And I don’t mean Chick-Lit in a disparaging way as it is sometimes used, there’s nothing wrong with getting lost in a fantasy for an afternoon, and you’re not exactly going to get that with a thriller. This book was originally
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Alastair Reynolds – Slow Bullets
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a review. Wow, I’ve never been as impressed with a sci-fi book as I was with this one. I blasted through it in one night because I just couldn’t bear to put it down! My only complaint with the book was that
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Thomas Hardy – Far From The Madding Crowd
I decided to read this book mainly because I saw that the film was starting to be advertised in the cinema and I wanted to try and read it before I saw it. The book had been on my Kindle for probably about 2 years and I’d just never got around to it before. And
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Rachael Chadwick – 60 Postcards
This was a beautifully written book about a young woman’s struggle with the grief of losing her mother after a very short battle with cancer. The book was so well written that at times I became lost in the story and it was easy to forget that the book was non-fiction, that this was about real heartache
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C.S. Lewis – The Horse and His Boy
It’s been about a week since I finished reading this book, and I just haven’t got around to reviewing it, probably because of the same reason it took me over a month on and off to actually read it; I just didn’t find it exciting. The start of the book seemed very slow, and the
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Jane Austen – Persuasion
I’ve read this book once before a fair few years ago, but since my re-read of Pride and Prejudice, I couldnt resist moving straight on to this. I loved it the first time round (how can you not like Austen?), but since the audio version was free on Kindle, I thought it would make a
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Nancy Naigle – Sweet Tea and Secrets
Well this book was most definitely not what I expected, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. When I downloaded it, I was thinking it would be something like Charlaine Harris’ Lily Bard series, a southern murder mystery kind of novel. I guess I didn’t really read the description too well, as there were no murders of
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Hans Christian Andersen – The Tinder Box
When I saw that for Penguin’s 80th birthday they were releasing 80 books for 80p each, it was all I could do to restrain myself and not immediately buy all of them! I chose this one as I remembered reading Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales when I was younger and I thought it would be
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C.S. Lewis – The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Well after reading this book, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can never have read it before (even though I thought I had), because it was just not familiar to me at all! I would imagine that most people have read the book, so there’s no need for a full in depth review of
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Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
I think it’s no secret that I love love love this book, and as I’ve read it many times before, I won’t be reviewing the actual book. It’s a work of genius and we all know it, I’ve read it so many times that I find myself anticipating the words that are coming. Rather than
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C.S. Lewis – The Magician’s Nephew
I’m almost ashamed to admit that I’ve never read the Chronicles of Narnia. I’ve had the entire set of books on my shelf for as long as I can remember, and just checking the front of the book now, I can see that this edition was purchased for me more than 20 years ago, definitely
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Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
I’ve been meaning to read this book ever since I found out the film was being released, but other books kept leap-frogging it on my to-read pile, to the point where the film has been and gone and everyone has stopped talking about it and I’ve only just got around to reading it. And now,
Louise Douglas 