Category Archives: 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 FacebookNew Blogger: Kirsten Nott!
I have exciting news: my good friend Kirsten is going to start blogging with me I met Kirsten in Brighton, at CCK, our church. Kirsten is a Christian, loves Brighton, reading – she owns several hundred books, God and studied English and Philosophy. She also, like me, loves baking and knitting! She is awesome, a [...]
Share on FacebookWar Horse by Michael Morpurgo
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Paperback, borrowed Genre: Young adult, history Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: Joey is a warhorse, but he wasn’t always. Once, he was a farm horse and a gentle boy named Albert was his master. Then World War I came storming through and everything changed. Albert’s father sells Joey to [...]
Share on FacebookSilas Marner by George Eliot
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Addition: Illustrated e-book Genre: Classics Rating: 3 out of 5 Synopsis: Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned [...]
Share on FacebookSwitched by Amanda Hocking
THIS REVIEW CONTAINTS SPOILERS! Addition: Review paperback Genre: Young adult, fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: When Wendy Everly was six-years-old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. It isn’t until eleven years later that Wendy finds out her mother might’ve been telling the truth. With the help [...]
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 FacebookThe Secret History by Donna Tartt
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Paperback, borrowed from friend Genre: Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: A misfit at an exclusive New England college, Richard finds kindred spirits in the five eccentric students of his ancient Greek class. But his new friends have a horrific secret. When blackmail and violence threaten to blow their [...]
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 FacebookRoom by Emma Donoghue
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Addition: Hardback library book Genre: Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 Synopsis: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he [...]
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