Title: Pieces of Her Author: Karin Slaughter Genre: Thriller/Crime/Suspense Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers Cover: Summary: from Amazon You’ve known her your whole life… Andrea Oliver knows everything about her mother Laura. She knows she's always lived in the small town of Belle Isle; she knows she’s a pillar of the community; she knows she's never … Continue reading Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter – ARC Review
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All Of This Is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor – Review
Title: All Of This Is True Author: Lygia Day Peñaflor Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury UK Summary: from Amazon MIRI loves the novel Undertow like it's a living being. So when she and her friends get the chance to meet the author, Fatima Ro, they plot a way to get closer to her. As for … Continue reading All Of This Is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor – Review
Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton – Review
Title: Social Creature Author: Tara Isabella Burton Genre: Fiction, Psychological Thriller Publisher: Doubleday Summary : from Amazon Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being cat-called by her creepy neighbour, she dreams of being a writer. And then one day she meets Lavinia. … Continue reading Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton – Review
The Tall Man by Phoebe Locke – Review
Title: The Tall Man Author: Phoebe Locke Genre: Thriller Publisher: Wildfire, Headline Publishing. Summary: from Goodreads A SENSELESS MURDER. A TERRIFYING LEGEND. A FAMILY HAUNTED. 1990: In the darkest woods, three girls devote themselves to a sinister figure. 2000: A young mother disappears, leaving behind her husband and baby daughter. 2018: A teenage girl is … Continue reading The Tall Man by Phoebe Locke – Review
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman – ARC Review
Title: Us Against You Author: Fredrik Backman Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin UK - out June 14th 2018 Summary: from Goodreads After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local hockey team will soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the … Continue reading Us Against You by Fredrik Backman – ARC Review
Tradition by Brendan Kiely – Review
Title: Tradition Author: Brendan Kiely Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Penguin Random House UK Summary: from Goodreads Prestigious. Powerful. Privileged. This is Fullbrook Academy, an elite prep school where history looms in the leafy branches over its brick walkways. But some traditions upheld in its hallowed halls are profoundly dangerous. Jules Devereux just wants to keep … Continue reading Tradition by Brendan Kiely – Review
Should You Ask Me by Marianne Kavanagh – Blog Tour Review
Title: Should You Ask Me Author: Marianne Kavanagh Genre: Mystery, Drama, Historical Summary: from publisher 'I've come about the bodies. I know who they are.' Just before D-Day in 1944, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, an elderly woman walks into a police station. She has information, she says, about human remains recently discovered … Continue reading Should You Ask Me by Marianne Kavanagh – Blog Tour Review
The Hunters by Kat Gordon – ARC Review
Title: The Hunters Author: Kat Gordon Genre: Historical fiction Publisher: Borough Press, out May 31st Summary: Sweeping, evocative and sumptuously told, The Hunters is a dramatic coming-of-age story, a complex portrayal of first love and family loyalty and a passionate reimagining of the Happy Valley set in all their glory and notoriety. Theo Miller is … Continue reading The Hunters by Kat Gordon – ARC Review
The Cows by Dawn O’Porter – Review
Title: The Cows Author: Dawn O'Porter Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins UK - out now Summary: from publisher A piece of meat; born to breed; past its sell-by-date; one of the herd. Women don’t have to fall into a stereotype. Tara, Cam and Stella are strangers living their own lives as best they can though … Continue reading The Cows by Dawn O’Porter – Review
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Disliked/Hated But Am Really Glad I Read
Top Ten Tuesday was create The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This was a pretty tricky one for me, if … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Disliked/Hated But Am Really Glad I Read
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