Book Review – The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Pages: 368 Published: 30th August 2022 Genre: Young Adult Mystery Trigger warnings: Suicide references To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it …

Book Review And Discussion – The Cloisters by Katy Hays

Pages: 297 Published: 1st November 2022 Genre: General/Literary Fiction Trigger warnings: Grief, sexual references, drugs This was a buddy read with my friend Kriti @ Armed With A Book, and we both enjoyed this book and discussed it at length. Spoiler-free extracts of our discussion can be found after my review. Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping …

Book Review – Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong

Pages: 507 Published: 27th September 2022 Genre: Historical Fiction/Fantasy Trigger warnings: Injury detail It’s 1931 in Shanghai, and the stage is set for a new decade of intrigue. Four years ago, Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the strange experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging—and allows her to heal …

My A-Z Of Books – B

Hello everyone, To mark my first five years of book blogging, I have decided to do an A-Z series of posts based on all the books I have read in that time, and about blogging in general. It felt like a fun idea! These posts will include all of the most significant things for each …

Book Review – Wild And Wicked Things by Francesca May

Pages: 417 Published: 29th March 2022 Genre: Historical Fantasy Trigger warnings: Domestic abuse, injury detail On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface. Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent …

Top Five – Annoying Characters Who Appeared In Books I Enjoyed

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good week. Today I have another new list post, and it is all about characters who I found annoying in books that I liked, or even loved. Some of these characters are just plain annoying, while others are just a bit pesky in the way they get …

Book Review – These Deadly Games by Diana Urban

Pages: 397 Published: 1st February 2022 Genre: Young Adult Thriller Trigger warnings: Child abduction, child death When Crystal Donovan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a …

Book Review – The Silence Of The Girls by Pat Barker

Pages: 323 Published: 30th August 2018 Genre: Mythological Fiction Trigger warnings: Misogyny, sexual content, injury detail, animal sacrifice Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined …

Book Review – The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

Pages: 369 Published: 22nd January 2019 Genre: Young Adult Mystery Trigger warnings: Child death All Stevie Bell wanted was to find the key to the Ellingham mystery, but instead she found her classmate dead. And while she solved that murder, the crimes of the past are still waiting in the dark. Just as Stevie feels she’s on the cusp …

Book Review – They Lie Here by NS Ford

Pages: 271 Published: 4th November 2022 Genre: Domestic/Paranormal Thriller This is the second book self-published by my book blogging friend NS Ford. As well as being a creative blogger, she is a very talented author! Kat Green has made a career out of tracking down reclusive former celebrities. When she moves to the quaint English city of Waelminster, …