Category: Fiction
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Graeme Simsion – The Rosie Effect
I first read The Rosie Project about 2 years ago, as an advance reading copy won through the Goodreads First Reads program. And immediately I fell in love with Don Tillman. At the end of my review of The Rosie Project, I expressed my wish for more Don, and I was delighted when I heard
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Iain Banks – The Wasp Factory
If I could have one word to describe this book, it would be weird. Two words? Seriously weird. I was recommended this book by someone I used to work with a few years ago, and I just have never got around to reading it, but I’m now seriously questioning the mental health of that colleague,
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Jo Baker – Longbourn
After my last disastrous foray into alternative Pride and Prejudice interpretations, I swore I wouldn’t try another one for a long while! However, when I was trying to decide what to read, I saw this one sitting on my shelf since I bought it probably over a year ago, and the cover just drew me
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Nick Spalding – Fat Chance
This book looked like a light hearted bit of fun, following a couple through a biggest loser style contest to lose as much weight as possible. As I’ve just started back at the gym again in a bid to get healthier, I thought it might be a bit of motivation, but I don’t think the
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Frank Nappi – Sophomore Campaign
Another great book from Frank Nappi, alleviating my baseball withdrawal symptoms in the long wait until spring training. In this book, we meet back up with Mickey and Murph, struggling to come to terms with what happened to Mickey at the end of the last book and get back to playing ball. Mickey has decided
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Anna McPartlin – The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
I don’t think a book has ever left me crying at my desk within the first 20 pages, but this one did. And it didn’t stop after that. I probably should have guessed that a book about a woman dying with cancer was going to be emotional, but I didn’t expect it to be quite
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Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist
It took me a little while to get into this book, but once I did, it was magical. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, I pretty much only bought it because it was the Waterstones book of the year last year, and so I assumed it must be good. It also helped that it
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Regina Jeffers – Darcy’s Temptation
Okay, so I’m not really sure where to start with this book. I absolutely *love* Pride and Prejudice, it’s probably one of my favourite books, I could re-read it until the cows come home. But no-one can write Darcy like Austen, and it seems like anyone who tries just ends up falling about a mile
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Frank Nappi – The Legend of Mickey Tussler
It’s been so long since I read any baseball fiction, but when I realised that there were many many many baseball books available on Kindle Unlimited, I was overjoyed! Especially since it seems to have been forever since the end of the baseball season, and spring training seems like so far away! Since baseball isn’t
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Cassandra Clare – City of Heavenly Fire (Mortal Instruments #6)
You know you’re not really enthralled in a series when you get to the last book and your main thought is ‘thank goodness this is nearly over’. Granted, the last book in the series did come action packed with drama and suspense, with unexpected twists and turns along the way, but it just wasn’t enough
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Claire Kendal – The Book of You
Thrilling, shocking, intense and unrelenting. Once I picked up this book, I couldn’t put it down for fear of not knowing how it would end. Clarissa is a normal 38 year old woman living in Bath. Rafe is not a normal man, he’s got an obsession with Clarissa and he won’t leave her alone. The back-story is
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Nataša Dragnić – Every Day, Every Hour
Before I start, a little book-related rant, which will probably make you all think I’m slightly crazy! I’m never a fan of books that remove the blurb from the back and fill it with reviews instead, relegating the blurb to the inside cover. If I wanted to read praise for your book, I’d go online
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Zoe Sugg – Girl Online
This book was hyped so much that when we were out shopping, I asked Cameron to buy me it for Christmas. And then two days later, it came out that maybe Zoella didn’t write the book herself and had help from a ghostwriter. I personally don’t really care about that, many people use ghostwriters to
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Marni Bates – Decked with Holly
This book was one of the top Christmas themed books within Kindle Unlimited, so although it seemed to be a book aimed at teenagers, I thought I might as well give it a try. But it was most definitely aimed for teenagers, and I found the main character quite immature and annoying. The fact that
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Chrissie Manby – The Christmas List
To get myself in the festive spirit, I decided to download a few Christmas themed books with my Kindle Unlimited membership. To me, fantasy and crime books aren’t really the kind of books that evoke festive feelings, so I downloaded a few ‘Chick-Lit’ books to satisfy my Christmas cravings. This was only a very short
Louise Douglas 