Month: March 2015

Review: Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc

Posted March 16, 2015 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.Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc Published by Trapdoor on April 1, 2014 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 444 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Winter is savage and cold in Lapland. When a priceless local relic is stolen from Kautokeino, a village in the middle of the isolated snowy tundra, detectives Klemet Nango – a familiar face in the rural community – and Nina Nansen, fresh out of the local police academy, are called to investigate. There are just a few days until the locals will host a UN World Heritage conference, and Klemet and Nina are under pressure to retrieve the artefact, due to be presented to a world-renowned French scientist as part of the celebrations. When a local reindeer herder is found brutally murdered, Klemet and Nina immediately suspect that the two events are linked. But the villagers don’t take too kindly to having their secret […]

Review: The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski

Posted March 13, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 4 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski Series: The Winner’s Trilogy #2 Published by Bloomsbury Children’s on March 12, 2015 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 406 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Lady Kestrel’s engagement to Valoria’s crown prince calls for great celebration: balls and performances, fireworks and revelry. But to Kestrel it means a cage of her own making. Embedded in the imperial court as a spy, she lives and breathes deceit and cannot confide in the one person she really longs to trust … While Arin fights to keep his country’s freedom from the hands of his enemy, he suspects that Kestrel knows more than she shows. As Kestrel comes closer to uncovering a shocking secret, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. Lies will come undone, and Kestrel and Arin learn just how […]

Review: The Three by Sarah Lotz

Posted March 11, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 3 Comments

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Three by Sarah Lotz Series: The Three #1 Published by Hodder and Stoughton on May 22, 2014 Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller Pages: 492 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Black Thursday. The day that will never be forgotten. The day that four passenger planes crash, at almost exactly the same moment, at four different points around the globe. There are only four survivors. Three are children, who emerge from the wreckage seemingly unhurt. But they are not unchanged. And the fourth is Pamela May Donald, who lives just long enough to record a voice message on her phone. A message that will change the world. The message is a warning. ‘Really wonderful’ Stephen King ‘You’ll come up gasping’ Lauren Beukes ‘The finest thriller I’ve read in years’ Sarah Pinborough The Three is a book where I struggled to engage with the characters, to feel […]

Random Thoughts: How do you Rate a Book?

Posted March 9, 2015 by Charlotte in Random Thoughts / 4 Comments

At the moment I feel like I have no idea how to rate a book. Should it be 4* or 3*? What happens when it is that in-between book, when it fits perfectly in the middle? Should I round up or round down? I hate using half stars, it feels in a way indecisive (to me!), like I can’t make a decision. I have the facts in front of me yet somehow the answer is not completely clear, there is a large amount of grey. Perhaps I’m being silly… My usual response to this issue is to bite the bullet and go for the highest one (should I really be admitting this?!). To give the book the benefit of the doubt, perhaps. After all a book is somebody’s baby and they worked hard on it. It’s only fair to give them some reward, isn’t it? But then I also have the issue of when I feel that I’ve given the book the wrong rating. At the time it felt correct but now something has changed. This normally happens when reading a series. […]

Pastime Pleasures #28- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Posted March 6, 2015 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 0 Comments

Welcome to my feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today is the turn of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. 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 one of the first classics I read when I was younger when I went through a faze of trying to read the classics. After attempting and failing at Dickens this was a welcome relief. Jane Eyre is beautiful. I love how there are different sections of the book. It is one of the few where I could pretty read from any page and instantaneously know where I am in the story and be fully emerged. I do not have to read the whole book, I can read sections, I can drop in when I feel like it. And this is what makes it so good. Jane may be plain, but it is her qualities and her personality, her honesty […]

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