Category: Book Reviews
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Little Black Dress Books (Informal) Challenge
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…
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DNF at 27% – The Martian by Andy Weir
I just don’t get the Hype. Format: Audible, Running Time: 10hrs 59min Publisher: Audible Studios Publication date: 01 Jan 2020 ASIN: B082BGX3CG Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now,…
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Review – The Queen’s Promise by Lyn Andrews
Format: Kindle, 496 pages Publisher: Headline Publication date: 28 Feb 2013 ASIN: 075538671X Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Waterstones | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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.…
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Review – Unbelievable by Jennifer Pickup
Format: Kindle, 320 pages Publisher: Unbound Publication date: 05 April 2012 ASIN: B00WDP9IP8 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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…
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Review – The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson
Format: Paperback, 496 pages Publisher: Penguin Publication date: 12 April 2012 ISBN-13: 978-0241952986 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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…
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DNF – The Outside by Laura Bickle
Format: Hardcover, 325 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: 03 September 2013 ISBN-13: 9780544000131 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ One girl. One road. One chance to save what remains… After a plague of vampires is unleashed in the world, Katie is kicked out of her…
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Review – Dead Road Vol. 1 by Robert Paine
Format: Paperback, 51 pages Publisher: Smashwords Publication date: 07 July 2013 ASIN: B00DTXDRAA Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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…
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Review – The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle
Format: Paperback, 384 pages Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication date: 25 September 2012 ISBN-13: 9780547859262 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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…
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Review – Red winter by Drew Montgomery
Format: Paperback, 291 pages Publisher: 3.5 Miles Behind Stage Publishing Publication date: 13 Apr 2013 ASIN: B007U92R4Q Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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…
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Review – Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer
Format: Paperback, 384 pages Publisher: William Morrow Publication date: 02 Apr 2013 ISBN-13: 9780062007476 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ 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.…