Month: December 2014

Review: Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Posted December 16, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Red Rising by Pierce Brown Series: Red Rising #1 Published by Hodder Paperbacks on September 25, 2014 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 382 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity’s last hope. Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it’s all a lie. That Mars has been habitable – and inhabited – for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. Until the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of […]

Pastime Pleasures #22 – The Ex-Boyfriend’s Handbook by Matt Dunn

Posted December 12, 2014 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 0 Comments

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today is the turn of The Ex-Boyfriend’s Handbook by Matt Dunn. Here I will look at books that have given me great pleasure in the past. These are books I can read over and over again. The only rule is that the book must have been published five or more years ago. This was the first chick-lit book I ever read that was from a guy’s perspective. Normally you have the girl doing whatever it takes to get the guy back but here the roles are reversed. Jane has left Edward. She has gone off to Tibet leaving him with an empty flat and three months to improve himself. So Edward embarks on a journey to improve himself, to see if he has any aspirations or goals and, perhaps most importantly, to lose weight. It is a lot to ask for in such a short space of time. But with his personal trainer cheering him on, Edward has even more reason to succeed. Can he do all this in three months? Will […]

Review: The Snow Globe by Shelia Roberts

Posted December 11, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Snow Globe by Sheila Roberts Published by Piatkus on December 2, 2014 Genres: Chick-lit, Christmas, Fiction, Romance Pages: 166 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads When Kiley Gray discovers an enchanting snow globe in an antique shop, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. For years, the snow globe has passed from generation to generation, somehow always landing in the hands of a person in special need of a Christmas miracle. Kiley could use a miracle herself. This year, all she wants for Christmas is someone to love. A hopeful shake leads her on an adventure that makes a believer out of her. When Kiley shares the story of the snow globe with her best friends-two women with problems of their own-they don’t believe it. But they’re about to discover that at Christmastime, sometimes the impossible becomes possible and miracles really do come true. […]

Review: A Sixpenny Song by Jennifer Johnston

Posted December 10, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.A Sixpenny Song by Jennifer Johnston Published by Tinder on October 31, 2013 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 210 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Not every death is a tragedy. Not every silver lining is intact. Annie’s father is dead. She isn’t sorry. A rich and domineering man, he was always more passionate about money than the happiness of his wife and child. And when his lovely, fragile wife Jude died in mysterious circumstances when Annie was still very young, her father sent her to school in England, and tried to ensure that Jude was never mentioned again. Now, at last, his days of tyranny are over. And so Annie leaves London and goes back to Dublin, to the house in which he lived and her mother died, where she makes the first of several startling discoveries: he has left her the house she hated. Now, just when she thought […]

Review: Conquest by John Connolly and Jennifer Ridyard

Posted December 9, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Conquest by John Connolly, Jennifer Ridyard Series: The Chronicles of the Invaders #1 Published by Headline on August 28, 2014 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 496 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads She is the first of her kind to be born on Earth. He is one of the Resistance, fighting to rid the world of an alien invasion. They were never meant to meet. And when they do, it will change everything . . . Conquest is a highly enjoyable adventure story. It soon becomes apparent that there is so much more going on than the Illyri conquest and the clashes with the Human resistance. Something sinister is lurking in the background, something that needs to be stopped. There are so many secrets hinting in this book, so much promise that there is more to be revealed. Who are the Sisterhood and why have […]

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