Month: April 2016

Monthly Round-up! April 2016

Posted April 30, 2016 by Charlotte in Monthly Round-up! / 0 Comments

Monthly Round-up, linking everything that has happened in the last month, posted on the last day of said month. This Round-up April 2016. Currently reading: Reviews: Blog Tours: I wasn’t on the blog tour but feel that it is appropriate to put here, I hosted a giveaway for a copy of the brilliant The Second Love of My Life by Victoria Walters and let me tell you this book should be on your summer reading list. Book vs. Film: Challenges: As per usual I’m participating in the Goodreads Challenge. I’ve pledged to read 100 books! And so far have managed to read 36 books. So I’m an incredible four books ahead of schedule! This year I am participating in the movie musical challenge hosted by Bookish Whimsy. I only to watched one musical this month – the brilliant The Gay Divorcee with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, love this dance partnership, and the songs and this is a gorgeous gorgeous film so if you haven’t already, go watch. I participated in Dewy’s 24 Hour Readathon which I was really unprepared for and ended up only reading two books and having a […]

Review: HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Posted April 29, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 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.Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 28, 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Thriller Pages: 384 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The incredible, horrifying thriller from Thomas Olde Heuvelt, the Hugo award-winning author of ‘The Day The World Turned Upside Down’, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Adam Nevill and Stephen King. Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Blind and silenced, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children’s beds for nights on end. So accustomed to her have the townsfolk become that they often forget she’s there. Or what a threat she poses. Because if the stitches are ever cut open, […]

Review: Life Swap by Carol Wyer

Posted April 27, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

Life Swap by Carol Wyer Published by Bookouture on April 22, 2016 Genres: Chick-lit, Fiction Pages: 328 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Take a chance on a new life and maybe you’ll find your happy ever after. Because true love is always worth the risk… Handsome prince, beautiful house, fabulous job? Polly has none of these. All she has to her name is a string of failed relationships and she’s up to her ears in debt. She sees herself as a hopeless case and would do anything to change her luck. Simon is approaching the big 50. He’s off his game at work, his kids don’t seem to notice he exists and his wife seems to think he’s made of money. As for sex …what’s that? So when the opportunity comes for both of them to swap their lives for a life of luxury, they jump at the chance. For Simon a life of helicopters, fast cars and hot babes beckons. For Polly, it’s all diamonds, spa days and celebrity parties. What more could they want? Trouble […]

Book vs. Film: How I Live Now

Posted April 26, 2016 by Charlotte in Book vs. Film / 0 Comments

Today’s post for Book vs Film focuses on How I Live Now. On this occasion I will briefly review both film and book before giving my opinion on which is better. Read and let me know if I am correct in my assessment. Be warned! Spoilers may occur! The Book: I adore this book. When I first read it in 2004 I wasn’t exactly enamored with the book. But over the years this book has grown on me to become a firm classic of my childhood reading. The major theme of the book is survival-ship and how love can conquer all, war, separation and expectations. And I thought it showed the confusion of war really well. It’s not clear who the enemy is or what their motive is. I liked that the book is told from Daisy’s perspective, what she knows we know everything else is lost to us. So we do only get half the picture but that is the only picture that matters here. The writing is puzzling and limited, but this is necessary due to what is going on. Despite […]

Guest Post: ‘From fashion to crime: writing both ends of the spectrum’ by Corrie Jackson, author of Breaking Dead

Posted April 25, 2016 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for Breaking Dead by Corrie Jackson with guest post From fashion to crime: writing both ends of the spectrum. I loved this book (check out my review), it was so much better to what I was expecting and I was hooked. And I cannot wait to see what happens next. Below Corrie talks about how she moved from fashion to crime and its a fascinating piece. And don’t forget to check out other blog stops for more exclusive gossip 🙂 From fashion to crime: writing both ends of the spectrum: Over a decade on women’s magazines has given me a front-row view of the fashion industry in all its Technicolor glory. I’ve interviewed Kate Moss while Alexander McQueen pinned clothes onto her post-baby body. I’ve watched seamstresses craft couture dresses that cost more than my car. I’ve spent 24 hours in Milan with an Italian style icon who owns two apartments: one for her…and one for her wardrobe. Fashion really is the stuff of dreams. But, like any billion-dollar industry, skeletons lurk […]

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