Blog Tour + Review – If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come by Jen St. Jude

Hello everyone, At long last, this is my first blog tour of the year. A lot of the time when I receive news of an upcoming tour I choose to prioritise my existing TBR unless the book can seriously catch my attention straight away and make me fully commit to reading it - and that …

Book Review – The One Hundred Years Of Lenni And Margot by Marianne Cronin

Pages: 372 Published: 1st June 2021 Genre: General Fiction Trigger warnings: Terminal illness storyline, child death Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen year old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. Dodging doctor's orders, …

Book Review – Man Down by James Goodhand

Pages: 381 Published: 3rd March 2022 Genre: Contemporary Fiction I recently took part in the blog tour for this book. Without that, this would probably not been the kind of thing I might have picked up otherwise, so it was an interesting proposition when I received my free copy. A man stands. A man fights. A man bleeds. …

Five Books On My TBR – April 2022

Hello everyone, I am trying to avoid buying many books at the moment as I prioritise the ones currently sitting on my unread pile, or loan them from the library. However, that still does not stop me from adding books to my Goodreads TBR, as more tantalising titles continue to be released. To reflect that, …

Book Review – My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Pages: 223 Published: 27th July 2018 Genre: General Fiction/Contemporary Trigger warnings: Domestic violence, injury details Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions …

Book Review – The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Pages: 282 Published: 11th May 2021 Genre: Contemporary Thriller Trigger warnings: Child death, drug references I read this book with my friend Gem - our ninth buddy read in total! We were both looking forward to this one, but sadly it did not deliver in the way we hoped, as you will find out in my review. Jacob Finch …

Top Five Powerful Books I Read In 2021

Hello everyone, It is less than two weeks to go until Christmas and so that is the prompt for me to start creating fun lists based on my reading over the past year. I love creating these posts every year and have lots to come over the next few days! I am going to start …

Book Review – The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner

Pages: 257 Published: 2nd March 2021 Genre: General Fiction (Historical/Contemporary) Trigger warnings: Drugs, suicide, sexual references A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman. Rule #2: The names …

Book Review – Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Pages: 354 Published: 5th May 2020 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Trigger warnings: Transphobia, drugs, sexual references Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he …

Book Review – Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts by Kate Racculia

Pages: 374 Published: 8th October 2019 Genre: Contemporary Trigger warnings: Alcoholism, sexual references, drugs Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socialises, and spends much of her time watching old Twin Peaks and X-Files DVDs. But when Vincent Pryce, Boston’s most eccentric billionaire, dies - leaving behind an epic treasure hunt through the city, with clues inspired by …