Category: Book Reviews
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Review – Mrs Sinclairs Suitcase by Louise Walters
Format: Paperback, 320 pages Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks Publication date: 14 August 2014 ISBN: 9781444777451 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble First line: “My Dear Dorothea” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you. What you do, to this child, to this child’s mother, it is wrong… Roberta likes to collect…
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Review – Blood Red by Jason Bovberg
Format: Kindle, 276 pages Publisher: Permuted Press Publication date: 07 April 2014 ASIN: B00JK1UW4E Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Rachel!” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Rachel is 19. She doesn’t know how to handle her new stepmother, let alone the end of the world. But after finding her stepmother dead, Rachel is suddenly racing against time—and…
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Review – Meant to Be by Terri Osburn
Format: Hardback, 308 pages Publisher: Montlake Romance Publication date: 21 May 2013 ISBN: 9781612183084 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Why did this Godforsaken Island have to be in the middle of the damned water?” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Lifelong people-pleaser Beth Chandler will do anything to make a good impression on her future in-laws, including…
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Review & GIVEAWAY – The Moon Sisters by Therese Walsh
Format: Hardback, 336 pages Publisher: Crown Publication date: 17 March 2014 ISBN: 9780307461605 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US | Barnes & Noble First line: “The night before the worst day of my life, I dreamed the sun went dark and ice cracked every mirror in the house, but I didn’t take it for a warning..”…
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Review – The Orpheus Descent by Tom Harper
Format: Paperback, 496 pages Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN: 9781444731354 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the…
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Review – Earthfall by Mark Walden
Format: Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Publication date: 07 July 2012 ISBN: 9781408815663 Links: Goodreads | Amazon UK | Amazon US First line: “The boy ran down the rain-soaked street, weaving between abandoned cars.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Sam wakes to see strange vessels gathered in the skies around London. As he stares up, people stream…
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Review – Midnight in Havana by Peggy Blair
Format: Paperback, 352 pages Publisher: Polygon Publication date: 01 July 2013 ISBN: 9781846972348 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Ricky Ramirez’s parents stood on the other side of the door, speaking in hushed tones with the doctors.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ “In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will…
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Review – Flu by Wayne Simmons
Format: eBook, 320 pages Publisher: Snowbooks Ltd Publication date: 30 April 2010 ISBN-13: 9781906727192 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “There was a woman screaming in his face.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ “There’s a nasty flu going round. An epidemic, they call it. The posters say to cover your mouth when you sneeze, and throw away…
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Review – Great Bitten – Outbreak by Warren Fielding
Format: eBook, 222 pages Publisher: Iceni Publishing Publication date: 31 Oct 2013 ASIN: B00GBLBCE0 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “I’m not sure how much you really know about British culture and attitudes.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ “The UK is infected and Warren is going to be a hero, whether he likes it or not. Life…
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Review – Take Me Home by Nancy Herkness
Format: Paperback, 331 pages Publisher: Montlake Romance Publication date: 06 Nov 2013 ISBN-13: 9781612186030 Links: Goodreads | Amazon US First line: “Breathing in the scent of fresh hay and saddle soap, Claire felt the knots of tension loosen their grip on her shoulders.” Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ “When Claire Parker left Sanctuary, West Virginia, she thought it…