Review: The Museum of Broken Promises

The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What would you leave behind in The Museum of Broken Promises?

It's quite a question to think about when you have lived many years, or even less. Being twenty five myself, it does make me look back on promises both I have made and broken and promises that has been made to me and broken too. It is quite a thought provoking question.

The Museum of Broken Promises by Elizabeth Buchan is a book that is filled with heartache and power, it weaves a web of suspense, terror and that of a love story when it comes to Laure and Tomas relationship and her moving story. Told between the present day and the past, we come to learn of Laure's own history and of her own token which has been placed within the Museum.

Moving between the present and the past, we learn of hard truths and hardships of living in a country where everything you do is watched and everything you say is listened too. In a place where trying to fight back against the regime could end you in prison, to become one of the vanished from the 80's.

Written beautifully, the author has managed to create such an atmosphere, that you can't help but be drawn in to the story line deeply, to feel the way each character feels and their emotions. The story told is powerful and makes you push the boundaries of your own thoughts.

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Review: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns

Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Different Seasons by Stephen King
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Review: The Man Who Didn't Call

The Man Who Didn't Call by Rosie Walsh
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received this book through Readers First in exchange for an honest review.

From the moment I started reading The Man Who Didn't call, I fell in love with it. Hell, even before I read it, even before I got it in the mail. From the first moment I read the first glimpse on Readers First's website, I fell in love with the whole novel.

After all, I bet a lot of people out there has been that person, the person who has waited by our phones, just waiting for that phone call or text that was promised to us, only to never get it. We worry at first, think through all the excuses that we can come up with before it starts to turn to real worry, over something happening to that person before time goes on and it turns to anger over the person not calling or texting. We've all been there, whether we'll admit it or not...or maybe, just maybe you are that person who has said you would call, but never did...shame on you. :P

But in the novel, Rosie Walsh paints us a true romance. Something that most girls and guys could only dream about happening, meeting that one person and then spending a wonderful seven whole days with them. We follow Sarah's journey through her emotions and worry and even through the turmoil that turns out to be her life when it comes to Eddie.
WE follow with Eddie's own turmoil when he figures out the truth, as he deals with his ill mother and through a mired of other emotions. We read and watch as they fight and love and worry and even follow each other across the pond, just to know what the truth is and was.

It's a book that has been written extremely well, a book that leaves you hanging on to the edge of your seat, of not wanting to put it down because you don't want to miss a thing. It makes you feel the emotions that each character goes through, not only Sarah's and Eddies, but all the others too.
I know that I laughed and nearly cried in certain points, that my heart raced and I just begged the pages in my hands that what I thought was going to happen wouldn't happen. It had me gripped from the get go and I certainly would recommend it to anyone who wanted to be given a book.

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