Book Review – The End Of Her by Shari Lapena

Pages: 338 Published: 23rd July 2020 Genre: Domestic Thriller Trigger warnings: Drug references, strong sexual references, gaslighting It starts with a shocking accusation... Stephanie and Patrick are recently married, with new-born twins. While Stephanie struggles with the disorienting effects of sleep deprivation, there’s one thing she knows for certain – she has everything she ever wanted. Then a woman …

Book Review – Two Can Keep A Secret by Karen M. McManus

Pages: 323 Published: 8th January 2019 Genre: Young Adult Mystery Trigger warnings: Drug references, sexual exploitation, sexual references This was my fourth book by Karen M. McManus in the space of just a little over two months, and once again my reading companion was Ellie. We were not kept guessing quite as much as the other ones, but it …

Blog Tour Spotlight – Specter by Katie Jane Gallagher

Hello everyone, It is my turn on the blog tour for Specter by Katie Jane Gallagher, a paranormal mystery read that finished a wonderful eighth place in the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award (BBNYA) 2020. Many congratulations! BBYNA is an annual competition which celebrates the work of indie authors, with books read and scored …

Book Review – The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

Pages: 403 Published: 1st November 2018 Genre: Mystery/Crime Trigger warnings: Animal harm, sexual references This was a buddy read with my friend Gem. It was seventh one and while not our best, we still had some very fun discussions! Death lies between the lines. A dark story has been brought to terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten in …

Book Review – One Of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

Pages: 372 Published: 7th January 2020 Genre: Young Adult Thriller Trigger warnings: Child death, strong sexual references, cancer sub-plot This was a buddy read with my friend Ellie. We have now read both books in this series together and are about to start Karen M. McManus' standalone novel Two Can Keep A Secret. As always, the buddy read was a lot …

Book Review – All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban

Pages: 390 Published: 17th March 2020 Genre: Young Adult Thriller Trigger warnings: Bullying including cyber-bullying, sexual references, suicide This was my second buddy read with Noly, and we had a wonderful time trying to make sense of the high stakes plot and guessing what was going to happen. Our reaction at the end was one of mutual shock and …

Blog Tour + Review – The Dark Room by Sam Blake

Hello everyone, It is the first day of the blog tour for The Dark Room by Sam Blake, which is out today! I had fun reading this and trying to deduce its mystery, so thank you very much to Anne Cater for my place on the tour and to Corvus Books for sending me a lovely physical …

Top Five Most Dramatic Twists I Read In 2020

Hello everyone, It is the start of another week, just four days until Christmas, and time for yet another look back at my 2020 reading highlights! This is one of my favourites. I love discussing all the best twists I have come across, and some of the ones I have read this year are among …

Five Books On My TBR – December 2020

Hello everyone, Nearly three months on from the last time I did one of these posts, and the number of books on my Goodreads TBR has only increased. Lately I have just received too many great recommendations and seen some receive such a huge amount of glowing praise that it has been hard to resist! …

Book Review – One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

This book has been on my TBR for such a long time, and when Ellie and I agreed to do a buddy read together it felt like the perfect opportunity to pick it up at last. Thank you so much to Ellie, she made reading this a really fun experience and it was great to …