I have an announcement, readers! Here is my first 5 star review of the year! Finally! 🙌 I have been waiting for a book to absolutely knock my socks off and here it is - a Christmas gift my oh-so-wonderful boy chose for me himself (and yes, plenty of comments have been made about why … Continue reading ‘Final Girls’ by Riley Sager →

Hello my beautiful readers, Today I have a ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 review to share with you. Now, I don’t usually do half stars, but here is why I was a bit torn with this one... The novel centres around Lottie, a newly-married archivist who’s just moved to Rome to live with her husband, and Nina, the murdered … Continue reading ‘Two Women in Rome’ by Elizabeth Buchan →

Well, well, well readers, what have I just read? I have one question having finished this book: what on earth just happened?! The story starts off with such promise! Noemi is sent to visit her newly-married cousin, who lives in an isolated manor with her new husband’s British family and is claiming the house is … Continue reading ‘Mexican Gothic’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia →

Good evening, splendid readers! Today’s review is the YA time travelling journey from Lauren James: ‘The Next Together’. I chose to surround it, hopefully fittingly, with my Grandad’s beloved Readers’ Digest history books. Think ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ combined with ‘One Day’ - a love story with elements of comedy and tragedy told across multiple … Continue reading ‘The Next Together’ by Lauren James →

Good evening and happy four day weekend, my lovely readers! Many moons ago, I wrote my dissertation on powerful children presented as monsters in Stephen King’s “Carrie”, “The Shining” and “Firestarter” - I now want to redraft it with “The Institute” as an added factor! In fact, I might! Not much else to do in … Continue reading ‘The Institute’ by Stephen King →

Hello readers! Would you look at this glorious weather we’re having? I thought there was no better time to pen my most recent book review than sat out in the sun with a gin. So here goes... I was gifted this book by Tandem Collective and Borough Press and, whilst I’m very grateful for all … Continue reading ‘Adults’ by Emma Jane Unsworth →

Hello readers, I have a lovely treat for you! It’s publication week for this beaut and I am so grateful to Readers First for this advance readers copy! Vaughan tells the intriguing and somewhat infuriating story of Ada, who, after losing her father and stately home at a young age, spends her life desperately trying … Continue reading ‘The Favour’ by Laura Vaughan →

Happy month of love, dear readers, What would you do for love? 💙💛💚 In ‘Delirium’ by Lauren Oliver, love is considered a disease that everyone must be vaccinated against at the age of 16. Lena, our protagonist can’t wait for hers, until she meets Alex, a rebel from outside her community, who has never been … Continue reading ‘Delirium’ by Lauren Oliver →

Happy Sunday evening, readers, Oh the hype surrounding this book! I had absolutely everyone recommending it to me, then when I started it at the beginning of this month, I just could not get into it. I realised I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for this: it was too depressing… I took some … Continue reading ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ by Delia Owens →