Month: June 2017

Blog Tour / Review: All the Good Things by Clare Fisher

Posted June 3, 2017 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: All the Good Things by Clare Fisher

All the Good Things by Clare Fisher Published by Viking, Penguin UK on June 1st 2017 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 280 Format: Arc, E-Arc Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Twenty-one year old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn’t deserve to ever feel good again. But her counsellor, Erika, won’t give up on her. She asks Beth to make a list of all the good things in her life. So Beth starts to write down her story, from sharing silences with Foster Dad No. 1, to flirting in the Odeon on Orange Wednesdays, to the very first time she sniffed her baby’s head. But at the end of her story, Beth must confront the bad thing. What is the truth hiding behind her crime? And does anyone-even a 100% bad person-deserve a chance to be good? Sometimes we can’t help but think of the bad. The overwhelming sense of what has gone wrong and what we could have done better. It overtakes our life. Sometimes we cannot see right for doing wrong. […]

Review: Show Stopper by Hayley Barker

Posted June 1, 2017 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: Show Stopper by Hayley Barker

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.Show Stopper by Hayley Barker Series: Show Stopper #1 Published by Scholastic on June 1st 2017 Genres: Dystopia, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 400 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Set in a near-future England where the poorest people in the land are forced to sell their children to a travelling circus – to perform at the mercy of hungry lions, sabotaged high wires and a demonic ringmaster. The ruling class visit the circus as an escape from their structured, high-achieving lives – pure entertainment with a bloodthirsty edge. Ben, the teenage son of a draconian government minister, visits the circus for the first time and falls instantly in love with Hoshiko, a young performer. They come from harshly different worlds – but must join together to escape the circus and put an end to its brutal sport. If you are after something a bit like Caravel (if you want […]