Review: Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season

Murder on Christmas Eve: Classic Mysteries for the Festive Season by Cecily Gayford
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: The Juniper Gin Joint

The Juniper Gin Joint by Lizzie Lovell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Left alone by both choices and the right time, Jen is finally living alone in her Devon home, the kids has grown up and left the nest, her husband leaving her for another woman. It might seem like the end of the world for poor Jen, but she soon getting everything in her life sorted out again, giving her the moments she needs and the adventure she’s probably left behind in exchange for looking after a husband and kids.
But things change once again when her job is threatened and it brings back her first love again, but not in the good way, he plans on selling the local museum to a chain of pubs. After all, who would want that?
What would you do if something you loved was on the line to being shut down and thrown away to a chain of pubs which would take a beautiful building, filled with local history and other things and change it all. Well, that’s what Jen thinks, her and her friends soon come up with a plan on keeping the museum and putting their little town back on the tourist map again, and maybe just maybe they can add a little extra in to it all which would help save everyone’s jobs and their happiness.


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Review: Dracula’s Brood: Neglected Vampire Classics by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood and Others

Dracula’s Brood: Neglected Vampire Classics by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood and Others by Arthur Conan Doyle
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



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Review: T Is for Tree

T Is for Tree by Greg Fowler
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Truly and absolutely beautiful. Near damn broke my heart at the end.
A wonderful master piece which I couldn't put down at all.

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Review: Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart by Holly Seddon
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Teenage pacts and marriage vows. Two things which doesn't always go hand in hand when you are young and foolish. But for two people, a pact could be something which goes a long way and makes life that much more bearable to cope with.
After all, who doesn't like the sound of knowing that you have someone to marry and fall in love with if nothing else works out for you in life? But just sometimes...how will you know if it will work out, how do you know if the person you made a pact with when you were teenagers is still the same person? And what about you too...are you still the same person or are there things that you're hiding from you partner, things that you want to keep hidden.

That's how Kate feels when it comes to the 10th anniversary of her and Paul's marriage. With two children under their belt and a lifetime of friendship and knowledge, life should seem simple for the two, but they aren't. There's tension between both of them and with their eldest son Harry, getting to an age where he is able to pick up on it and to understand what's going on, it's harder to deal with the things, the things which are needed to be said.

Told in alternative chapters of their lives, We go from present day to back to Kate and Paul's childhood, we learn about them growing up while at the same time we learn of their early twenties and then through the present day, we get get to see the struggles that they both went through together as well as on their own. The ups and downs of life within a public company and the secrets which should've been kept hidden but weren't.
We learn of Paul's background and family, the family which comes to become more of a family to Kate growing up than her own family did. We see the struggle she has when it comes to the relationship with her father who, despite being home sometimes, was more away than not and even when he was home, he was always shut up in his office, while her mother was swanning off to London and back to Somerset again constantly before her early death.

Love Will Tear Us Apart isn't just a book about a marriage which is rocky, it's a novel about growing up in the eighties, of growing up with a best friend who went to public school while you went to a private one. It's a story of learning to over come struggles and experiences, of highs and lows.

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Review: Meet Me at the Museum

Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Review: The Raven's Head

The Raven's Head by Karen Maitland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Review: Bookshop Girl

Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles
My 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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Review: Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer

Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Elusive Serial Killer: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Bizarre Mass Murderer by Robert Graysmith
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars



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Review: The Bone Season

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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