Richelle Mead remains to this day one of my favourite authors. Her series The Vampire Academy, despite the horrendous name, is my ultimate favourite series. A series that I will most likely be doing a more detailed post on soon. So when a new stand alone novel by Mead comes out… Count me in. Soundless […]
This is a poetic prose about the authors journey through love. Elizabeth Smart fell in love with George Barker’s writing and when they met for the first time (with his wife alongside them) she pretty much jumped off the cliff to complete devotion. We follow her from this first meeting through their relationship and to […]
This is a novel that was recommended to me by a friend and came with a warning… “This is addictive. Seriously, it really is.” She was most definitely not wrong. First of all, it begins with a map. And I have to say that I do love a good map at the beginning of a […]
This is a charming and engaging novel by Frederik Backman. It follows an extremely special and clever eight-year old who follows a treasure hunt left to her by her grandmother who has just passed away. It takes her on an adventure of animals, stories and fairy tales. All the while, uncovering her grandmothers past. I […]
Synopsis A story about four different people who live and have grown up in North West London. It is a tale about their lives, how they interweave and about the realities of their life. Review I had been expecting a lot of this book. Never a good way to begin a read but nonetheless I […]
Synopsis We join a young woman with bright blue hair living a double life. One side is her university life, having tea on a coffin table with her puppet-maker best friend. The other is collecting and dealing in teeth with her adopted family of monsters in another world. Review First off, the titles and covers […]
Short synopsis and snappy review… The story of friends who travel America in a time of jazz and drugs. It is accredited with being of big significance for the Beat Movement. Two friends, Sal and Moriarty. Very different. Very human. Very complicated. Very enlightening. The Rest (if you want it)… Now… I have heard such mixed […]
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