Little Black Dress was an imprint of Headline Publishing and specialized in chick lit(ish) books. Little, cute one’s. Some years ago I challenged myself to read all of their back catalog. Problem was, they released new books in the series faster than I could read them so I got sidetracked. I recently came across another…
DNF at 27% – The Martian by Andy Weir
I just don’t get the Hype. Audible: Running Time: 10hrs 59min Publisher: Audible Studios Publication date: 01 Jan 2020B082BGX3CG 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 forces his crew to evacuate…
Review – The Queen’s Promise by Lyn Andrews
Kindle: 496 pagesPublisher: HeadlinePublication date: 28 Feb 2013 ASIN : 075538671X Alluring Anne Boleyn knows she is required to use her charm to her advantage – and secure the status of her family at the Tudor court. She easily captivates the noblemen, most notably Henry Percy, future Earl of Northumberland and, hopeful of her father’s approval,…
Review – Unbelievable by Jennifer Pickup
Kindle: 320 pagesPublisher: UnboundPublication date: 05 April 2012ASIN: B00WDP9IP8 Neona White is rather extraordinary. The thing is, while she knows that she’s very different from other teenagers, she doesn’t know quite how different…yet. A traumatic incident leaves Neona without the desire to keep living and a fear that she’s not entirely human, and her mother…
Review – The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson
Paperback: 496 pagesPublisher: Penguin Publication date: 12 April 2012 ISBN-13 : 978-0241952986 It’s Fran’s thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She’s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his…
DNF – The Outside by Laura Bickle
Wow. I just… What the hell just happened? I rarely pass comment on the books I DNF, but I can’t get my head round this one. W.T.F? Were they even written by the same person? I can’t even. I barely know where to begin. Disappointed!!
Review – Dead Road Vol. 1 by Robert Paine
Paperback: 51 pagesPublisher: Smashwords Publication date: 07 July 2013 ASIN: B00DTXDRAA It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation. It turned out to be the complete opposite… A camping trip in the mountains of Vermont is interrupted when a group of friends discover there has been a zombie outbreak. Having been disconnected from the world for the…
Review – The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: 25 September 2012ISBN13: 9780547859262 Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale with a philosophical bent. Rumors of massive unrest on…
Review – Red winter by Drew Montgomery
Paperback: 291 pages Publisher: 3.5 Miles Behind Stage Publishing Publication date: 13 Apr 2013 ASIN: B007U92R4Q Accounts of the plague are few and far between. No one knows how it started or how it spread so quickly, and even in the era of social media, little was recorded. There were, however, a few who struggled…
Review – Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer
Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow Publication date: 02 Apr 2013ISBN13: 9780062007476 Queenie Wake, a country girl from North Star, Texas, has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup. Again. Now the only place she has to go is home to North Star. She can hope,…