Disclaimer: featured image only contains 2 of the books on my list because I’m lazy and took a screenshot from my Goodreads 2018 overview. 2018 was a bit of a banner year for reading for me with a total of 63 books read. Of course there are people who read hundreds of books a year,…
Category: Books I’ve read
Book review: The Chocolate Lovers’ Christmas by Carole Matthews
3/5 stars Audible version, narrated by Lucy Price-Lewis I jumped into book 3 of this series without reading any of the previous books, frankly because it was Christmas themed and I thought it would be nice to read (listen to) something seasonal and festive. And it was, to a certain extent. You do get allusions…
Book review: The Paris Effect by K.S.R. Burns
3/5 stars So, this was an interesting one and honestly a little tricky to review in terms of star rating, as it definitely had me hooked but overall it left me kind of unsatisfied and therefore I landed on a 3. This story is about a woman (Amy) who is in mourning the death of…
Book review: The Dead Won’t Sleep by Anna Smith
4/5 stars Audible version, narrated by Sarah Barron. Trigger warning: paedophilia. This was a very strong 4 for me. Sometimes I cannot stomach books that deal with paedophilia/child abuse, but although it was tough I could handle it here. Maybe because it felt factual and not exploitative. I think it definitely helps that the author…
Book review: The Moon Sister by Lucinda Riley
4/5 stars. I’ve been eagerly anticipating this one after finishing CeCe’s story about a year ago. I kept it on my Kindle as a reward for finishing NaNoWriMo (which also explains why my blog has been even deader than usual) so only got around to reading it in December. If you do not know the…
Book review: Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
4/5 stars. Lydia is dead. This is how the book starts. Lydia is a teenage girl and the middle child in an American Chinese household in the 1970s. Her father, James Lee, was born and raised in the US by Chinese immigrant parents. He has always been an outsider, and what he wants more than…
Book review: When you disappeared
3/5 stars Audible version, narrated by Simon Mattacks and Elizabeth Knowelden. This book was very different from my other read by John Marrs, and I found it kind of disappointing. Firstly I will say that this is IMO not a thriller. There are mysteries, sure, and I do want to get to the bottom of…
Book review: The Girls at 17 Swann Street
5/5 stars. Trigger warning: I do not recommend this for people who are currently suffering from an eating disorder or are just starting recovery simply because it feels so realistic and relapsing is a thing. Wow. I’m not sure where to start with this book. It hit me really hard. As the trigger warning indicates,…
Book review: I, Witness by Niki Mackay
4/5 stars Audible version, narrated by.. a whole bunch of people. This is the story of a young woman – Kate – just released from prison, where she served time for killing her best friend Naomi at a party 6 years earlier. However, Kate is not convinced she actually committed the crime (she doesn’t really…
Book review: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers
4/5 stars Just because this is a book about high school girl cliques and one of the girls is called Regina, don’t make the mistake of thinking this is Mean Girls. Actually, scratch that, this is exactly Mean Girls. Down to the colour coordinated clothing. Except it’s not funny, and nobody is hit by a…
Too much time, and too little. 