Title: Heaven Author: Mieko Kawakami Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Picador Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: In Heaven, a fourteen-year old boy is tormented for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, he chooses to suffer in silence. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate, … Continue reading Heaven by Mieko Kawakami – Book Review
Tag: 2021 Reading
The Cursed Girls by Caro Ramsay – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Cursed Girls Author: Caro Ramsay Genre: Psychological Thriller Publisher: Black Thorn Publication Date: 3rd June 2021 Rating: 4/5 Cover: Summary: Megan Melvick has spent years avoiding her inheritance, the dark and disquieting family estate Benbrae, now home only to her distant, aristocratic father, and her sister Melissa, dying quietly in an upstairs bedroom. … Continue reading The Cursed Girls by Caro Ramsay – Blog Tour Review
The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam – Book Review
Title: The Startup Wife Author: Tahmima Anam Genre: Fiction Publisher: Canongate Publication Date: 3rd June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes … Continue reading The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam – Book Review
The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan – Social Tour
Title: The Good Neighbours Author: Nina Allan Genre: Fiction Publisher: Riverrun Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and eking out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography is detective work, drawing attention … Continue reading The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan – Social Tour
Falling by T. J. Newman – Blog Tour Review
Title: Falling Author: T. J. Newman Genre: Thriller Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For … Continue reading Falling by T. J. Newman – Blog Tour Review
The Murder of Graham Catton by Katie Lowe – Blog Tour Review
Title: The Murder of Graham Catton Author: Katie Lowe Genre: Thriller Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: It’s time to hear the truth… Ten years ago, Hannah Catton’s husband was brutally murdered in their home.The murderer was convicted. The case was closed. But now a podcast called Conviction is … Continue reading The Murder of Graham Catton by Katie Lowe – Blog Tour Review
Bad Choices by Lucy Vine – Blog Tour Review
Title: Bad Choices Author: Lucy Vine Genre: Fiction Publisher: Orion Books Publication Date: 10th June 2021 Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: Two friends. Two decades. One big mistake... Nat and Zoe have always shared everything. Hopeless crushes, emergency tampons, messy sex stories, work triumphs, those days where you can't stop crying in the loos, those days … Continue reading Bad Choices by Lucy Vine – Blog Tour Review
Snowflake by Louise Nealon – Book Review
Title: Snowflake Author: Louise Nealon Genre: Fiction Publisher: Manilla Press Publication Date: 10th May 2021 Rating: 5/5 Cover: Summary: Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. … Continue reading Snowflake by Louise Nealon – Book Review
May Reading Wrap-Up
Hello! I've actually had a really good reading month, I read 10 books which is a little more than usual for me and I've enjoyed all of them and absolutely loved a few! I had a really busy April on my university course so it was nice to have a bit more reading time in … Continue reading May Reading Wrap-Up
Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth – Blog Tour Review
Title: Heatstroke Author: Hazel Barkworth Genre: Fiction Publisher: Headline Review Publication Date: 27th May 2021 (paperback) Rating: 4.5/5 Cover: Summary: This summer burns with secrets... It is too hot to sleep. To work. To be questioned time and again by the police. At the beginning of a stifling, sultry summer, everything shifts irrevocably when Lily … Continue reading Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth – Blog Tour Review
