If there’s one thing I would put on a par with reading, it’s talking about what I’m reading. The desire to share my thoughts on what I’m reading, and to keep track of my own personal reading, is what has prompted me to start this blog. I hope that through this blog I will get the opportunity to share my interest with others.
20 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
Bad Girls Never Say Die is a book being touted as a feminist reworking of The Outsiders. While it focuses on a group of female characters, the book remains set in the 1960s and – for me – this led to the whole thing having a rather dated premise. If...
13 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
I received a digital copy of this from Netgalley, and I am so pleased that I did. Sam is 16, a fantastic swimmer and part of a popular group of girls. It might sound like a perfect life, but she also has a secret. Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD, and...
10 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
Margot has been in love with Harry ever since his family moved to their village. As a vicar’s daughter Margot knows certain expectations are held for her, so it is something of a shock to learn that nineteen year old Margot is actually the mother of...
9 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
I received a free digital copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Let me start by saying that this is not the kind of book I would normally go for, but I am so pleased I gave it a try. A marriage in decline is not a pleasant thi...
8 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
I had been introduced to this author by a colleague in work. ‘Faithful Place’ intrigued me and was certainly an enjoyable foray into crime writing. The blurb for this gave little away, but I was hooked by the idea that someone who was murdered would...
7 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
Aniyah and her brother, Noah, have gone to live with Mrs I and the children she fosters. We know very little about their circumstances but can glean something major has happened. Both are traumatised by their experiences and talk of their mum becomin...
6 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
As a fan of this series, I knew I wasn’t going to be disappointed by the concluding book. Zero Hour has passed, Dracula is at full strength and the inevitable fight draws closer. The operatives within Department 19 are all facing their own battles, b...
5 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
Thanks to NetGalley for granting me access to this before its publication in January 2021. Unsettling but riveting, and while elements of this were tough to read the overall impact is powerful. The story focuses on single mother Jack Brooks, a vicar,...
4 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
This is, definitely, a book that you want to know nothing else about – other than what is given in the blurb – before you read it. The opening description of the accident that changes Jenna Gray’s life is heart-wrenching. I was so immersed in the boo...
3 Jan 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Book-worm
Game Changer will, I think, be one of those books that will polarise opinion. I’m grateful to NetGalley for granting me access to it prior to its scheduled February 2021 publication, and I think I would recommend it to people, but there are issues th...
