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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 […]

Guest Post: Q&A with Mark B. Mills, author of Waiting for Doggo

Posted December 5, 2014 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Guest Post / 0 Comments

Today I am delighted to be part of the Blog Tour for Waiting for Doggo by Mark B. Mills. And today I have a Q&A with Mark B Mills. I loved Doggo! This was a brilliant, funny and extremely entertaining read. I will at some point attempt to get my dog onto the bus, maybe into Uni, as a ‘mental health companion’ (thanks so much Mark for this idea!) If you’re still not sure about this book then see my review. If waiting for Doggo was turned into a movie, who would be you dream team to produce it? And who would you cast as your characters and why? That certainly would be amazing. In an ideal world I’d want Working Title Films to be involved. I came close to working with them on a few occasions when I was a screenwriter, but the projects never quite came off. Since ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ they’ve cemented their reputation for making great comedy films, everything from rom coms (‘Notting Hill’, ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’) through to farce (‘Johnny English’, ‘Hot Fuzz’). Dreaming on…. […]

Review: A Place for Us Part Four by Harriet Evans

Posted December 4, 2014 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.A Place for Us Part 4 by Harriet Evans Published by Headline on October 23, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance Pages: 116 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads A new direction for this Sunday Times bestselling author: here is an emotionally charged novel that will wrap you up in a warm embrace as it nods to the golden age of epic women’s fiction but with a vibrancy of its own. Don’t miss the concluding part of the Winter family story… So I finally got to read the final part of A Place for Us Part Four! And yay, it was so good. Part four ties up all the loose ends, tidies the story up. But it does it so well that we don’t seem to lose momentum. It is more gentle than the other parts as it solves the issues and sorts everything out so that there is a happily […]

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