Category: Books
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Liz Rosenberg – The Laws of Gravity
How far would you go to protect your family? And if, in the act of protecting your family, you ended up losing them anyway, would it all be worth it? That’s the dilemma Ari faces when he finds out his cousin Nicole is dying of cancer, and her only hope of survival is a cord-blood
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Karen Miller – The Innocent Mage
This was a wonderful birthday present from my friend Abi. She’s the one that got me into reading fantasy, and I don’t think she’s ever suggested a book I haven’t loved. I found that this book started off a little slow, there was a lot of time spent building up the back-story and getting slowly
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Gaston Leroux – Phantom of the Opera
I’ve been meaning to get round to reading this for absolutely ages, I think I downloaded it when I first got the Kindle app for my phone, but it has just never jumped to the top of the list. But I figured it was about time, especially with it coming with a free audio version
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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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Caitlin Moran – How To Build a Girl
Lessons I’ve learned from reading this book: Always listen to your best friend when she tells you a book isn’t that good. I’d heard really good things about this book, it won reviews and people on Twitter were raving about it. But then my best friend Abi read it and didn’t particularly enjoy it, so
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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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Chris Hadfield – An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
I’ve been very intrigued by this book since I first saw it in hardback on one of my many trips to Waterstones, but with my ever-growing pile of books to read, I’ve never got around to buying it. But I figured it was about time to learn a little more about space and what it’s
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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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Leanne Shirtliffe – Don’t Lick The Minivan
Well I picked this book because I thought it sounded quite funny and I was in need of a bit of a change in my audiobooks from the more serious books I’ve been reading. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite what I imagined it to be, and I didn’t get quite as many laugh out loud moments
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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
Louise Douglas 