Category Archives: Female Fiction
One Moment by Kristina McBride
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Review e-book from Netgalley Genre: Young adult, chick-lit, mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie’s life. Now it’s the one she’d do anything to forget. Maggie Reynolds remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a blowout [...]
Share on FacebookCurrently Reading 26th April 2012
Katie’s Reading: Currently Reading I am still reading: The Cookbook For A New Europe by Richard Segal To serve society or humanity? It’s been fourteen years since the basketball-mad detective Fran Obrien captured the urban bomber Lavi, who has since moved to Spain and rehabilitated himself beyond recognition. Fran is fresh off a two-year sabbatical, [...]
Share on FacebookCurrently Reading: 16th April 2012
Currently Reading As usual, I am reading 6 books! The “main” book I am reading is: The Cookbook For A New Europe by Richard Segal To serve society or humanity? It’s been fourteen years since the basketball-mad detective Fran Obrien captured the urban bomber Lavi, who has since moved to Spain and rehabilitated himself beyond [...]
Share on FacebookTake One by Karen Kingsbury
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Paperback, borrowed from a friend Genre: Christian fiction, chick-lit Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: In the high-powered world of filmmaking, two unknown producers struggle to make a name for themselves. With millions of investors’ dollars on the line, they wonder if it’s possible to beat the odds and make [...]
Share on FacebookAn Offer You Can’t Refuse by Jill Mansell
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback Genre: Chick-Lit Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Nothing could tear Lola and Dougie apart, except his mother Seventeen-year-old Lola has no intention of accepting when her boyfriend’s snobbish mother offers her a huge bribe to break up with him. Then Lola discovers a secret that makes her think [...]
Share on FacebookA Perfect Proposal by Katie Fforde
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Kindle e-book Genre: Chick-lit Rating: 4 out 5 Synopsis: Sophie Apperly’s family has never taken her seriously. Fiercely academic, they see her more practical skills as frivolous whilst constantly taking advantage of her. So when her best friend Milly invites her over to New York, she jumps at the chance. [...]
Share on FacebookLook Back at 2011
I haven’t blogged or read as much this year because in September 2010 I started a full time job so I haven’t had as much time to read and spend on the blog. In 2010 I read 126 books and in 2009 I read 145. A list of my past reading can be found here. [...]
Share on FacebookA Gathering Storm by Rachel Hore
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback from the library Genre: Historal Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: Photographer Lucy Cardwell has recently lost her troubled father, Tom. While sifting through his papers, she finds he’d been researching an uncle she never knew he’d had. Intrigued, she visits her father’s childhood home, the once beautiful [...]
Share on FacebookTurn in the Road by Debbie Macomber
Addition: E-book, review copy from NetGalley Genre: Chick-lit Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: In the middle of the year, in the middle of her life, Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They’re driving to Florida for Ruth’s 50th high-school reunion. A longtime widow, Ruth would [...]
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