The Raven's Head by Karen MaitlandMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Thursday, 31 May 2018
Saturday, 26 May 2018
Review: Bookshop Girl
Bookshop Girl by Chloe ColesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Paige Turner is sixteen and works beside her best friend Holly in a small town bookshop. Things couldn't be any better right? Wrong. They get the news that they little shop is going to be closed down and the building demolished for new buildings and new ideas.
So what would you do to save the thing you loved the most?
A short and quirky read, Bookshop girl follows Paige as she campaigns and fights for her job and her favorite place in the town, we follow her through the rough moments of her friendship with Holly, through the heart racing moments of a possible new love with the mysterious Blaine. Through the laughter of quiet remarks and life drawing classes and through to the final moments, where the bookshops fate hang in the hands of the higher ups.
Has Paige and Holly done enough to save their jobs and the jobs of their coworkers, or are they going have to try and find a new job once the doors to the shop closes forever?
Chloe Coles brings outs the fun and all the little things that a sixteen year old girl goes through in her life, from the moment of choosing her future to the little moments where their hearts race at the thought of kissing a gorgeous boy.
I received Bookshop girl through Readers first in exchange for an honest review and I can honestly say that I didn't want to put this book down, no matter how small it was, I was hooked from the get go, and only had to put it down when it was clear that I needed to actually sleep to be a functional human being.
Quirky and fun, Bookshop girl seems more for the younger side of the YA genre, but even at 24, I enjoyed the lightheartedness of the book. The pace is easy to get along with and even with the odd language here and there which would probably make more sense to the younger generation, I can't wait until the second installment is released and I can read it to carry on with Paige and Holly's adventure with the bookstore and their future.
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Tuesday, 22 May 2018
Review: Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer
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Tuesday, 24 April 2018
Review: The Pharmacist's Wife
The Pharmacist's Wife by Vanessa TaitMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I won this book through Readers first for an honest review.
I had very high hopes for this book when I came across my first impression of it. It called out a good read and interesting plot. While others might find the story line rather interesting, I'm afraid that I struggled through nearly the whole book until I reached the last few chapters when things got more interesting for myself.
Some of the subjects which was brought up within the book was subjects that I felt uneasy with which might have the same affect with other people, so be careful with that when it comes to reading it.
Since the book is set in the 1800's, you have the typical the husband rules over the house and wife and controls most aspects within the home and the wife's social life. Alexander is Rachel's husband, he owns a pharmacy, and with a good friend starts to experiment on a new drug which they hope to present before the society.
To try the new wonder drug on people, Alexander decides to use his own wife as a test subject. Giving her doses of salts which she soon becomes dependent on and often begs her husband to 'have her medicine.'
But it isn't long before Rachel and her friend Eva soon find out what her husband is really up too, in turn, Rachel turns around and started to fight back against the man who had taken her in and married her after her father's death. Hoping for a happy life, Rachel is blind to her husbands actions until she finds out and starts to unravel his plans for the future.
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Thursday, 12 April 2018
Friday, 6 April 2018
Review: The Fire Child
The Fire Child by S.K. TremayneMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I absolutely loved this book! From the very first moment I was hooked and I couldn't put this book down. Having my own family ancestors traced back to Cornwall made me feel right at home with this novel, the mines and cliff faces are something I know a lot about.
The Fire Child by S.K. Tremayne is filled with nothing but edge of the seat suspense, a ghost story wrapped up inside a thriller, wrapped up in a mystery. We follow along with Rachel, learning about her backstory slowly as we move through the book. We start of with Rachel and David in his ancestral home, a beautiful old home in Cornwall.
Based over a few months, we have a count down to Christmas where David's son has made a startling prediction, a prediction which puts fear and worry in to Rachel's own mind. Not only that, the more she learns about David's first wife, Nina's death, the more she starts to wonder, what really had happened the Christmas she had died.
Struggling to come to terms which start to happen, as well as the danger she starts to feel both, within the house and her own mind. With a step son who says things which scare her and who seems to be close at times and then scarily distant at others, Rachel starts to question everything she knows.
And then the worst thing which could happen happens. David changes from the perfect husband to someone she doesn't really know any more. With him being banished from the house, Rachel has to defend herself and her mental status while trying to look after a young boy who refused to leave the house, but doesn't talk to her.
Everything starts to come to the boiling point as Christmas day starts getting closer and closer. Will Jamie's predictions come true for Rachel or will everything work out for the good and better?
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Thursday, 5 April 2018
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