Book Reviews

I am a dreamer. I’ve always been a dreamer. That’s not to say that I don’t go for what I want when I want it, and sometimes I am successful. Sometimes I’m not. Sometimes I’m successful for a while, and then I slip. The tagline […]

2018 is getting closer and closer. Time for another round of failed resolutions, right? Not according to Shelley Wilson. Shelley Wilson embarked on a year long mission: To set 12 goals for the New Year and, by the following year, completely change her life. Shelley […]

“What begins as a game of hide-and-seek quickly turns into a huge adventure when Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy walk through the wardrobe and into Narnia. There they find a world frozen into eternal winter by the evil White Witch. Narnia, once filled with all […]

“I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. Molly Pekin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her […]

“‘Death has to happen. That’s what being’ alive is all about. You’re alive, and then you’re dead. It can’t stop happening.’ But it can. And it has. Death is missing – presumed … er … gone (and on a little farm far, far away, a […]

So I’ve decided to do this very last minute. I mean, is it really me if it isn’t last minute? Yesterday I posted my December TBR and said that I have to reach 10 books in order to complete my GoodReads challenge. I was hesitant […]

Bookish Rethinks is a discussion that I should probably upload to my BookTube channel. I may upload it at some point because I’m curious about other peoples thoughts on the subject. I’ve been thinking about the books I’ve read over the past year and my opinions […]

“HERE’S A SMALL FACT YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration […]

“‘Are you happy in your life?’ Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before the man he’s never met smirks down […]

“In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist live in a ‘secret annexe’, fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. An intimate […]

“It’s that quick, that strong, that beautiful. And it’s also totally impossible” Disclaimer!: The item below contains an affiliate link, this means that if you choose to purchase an item using one of these links I’d receive a small percentage from the sellers website. A friend […]

“Love Hurts. Makani Young thought she’d left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in withe her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska. She’s found new friends, and has even started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larson. But her past isn’t far behind. Then, one […]

“Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.  Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy […]

“1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk – as long as it’s vinyl he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need.  Then into his life walks […]

“Feyre’s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it […]

Originally posted 24th May 2017 “What would you do if you spotted a man following a young woman, but no-one else could see him? Like most sane people, student Alex Webber thought he was hallucinating – perhaps he’d consumed something bad at the party he’d […]

Originally posted 17th May 2017 “Days before his release from prison, Shadow’s wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant […]

Originally posted 18th November 2016 “The Mogadorian invasion has come to Earth, and they have all but won the battle for our planet. Their warships loom over our most populous cities – like New York City, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, and New Delhi – and no […]

Originally posted 16th November 2016 Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.  Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.  After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate […]

Originally posted 1st April 2016 “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela Nearly three years ago I read a book called ‘It’s Your Time You’re Wasting’ and it seems I wrote down my thoughts. With […]