Category: Reviews

Review: Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen

Posted February 26, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen

Girl Missing by Tess Gerritsen Published by Ballantine Books on February 25th 2014 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller Pages: 352 Format: E-Book Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. She’s young. She’s beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets – except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are sceptical. The mayor won’t listen. And Kat’s chief suspect is one of the town’s most prominent citizens. THE FINAL BODY . . . MIGHT BE HERS. With the death toll rising, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is closer than she ever dreamt. And every move she makes could be her very last. In the abridge the author explains that this is a transitional book from the romance genre to the criminal one. Published originally in 1994, Girl Missing has been updated […]

Review: Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman

Posted February 23, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman

Noble Conflict by Malorie Blackman Published by Doubleday Childrens on June 6th 2013 Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 357 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band of rebels are plotting to tear this peace apart. It is up to the Guardians – an elite peacekeeping force – to protect the city, without ever resorting to the brutal methods of their enemy. When Kaspar joins the Guardians, he has a chance encounter with a rebel – a beautiful girl named Rhea. Haunted from that moment on by strange visions and memories – memories that could only belong to Rhea – he realises he hasn’t been told the truth about what the rebels really want, and what he’s really fighting for. Noble Conflict is set in a dystopia world. To learn about the origin of the Alliance through history extracts at the beginning of certain chapters. These extracts add touching […]

Review: The Unpredictable Consequences of Love by Jill Mansell

Posted February 19, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Unpredictable Consequences of Love by Jill Mansell

The Unpredictable Consequences of Love by Jill Mansell Published by Headline Review on January 30th 2014 Genres: Chick-lit, Fiction, Romance Pages: 352 Format: E-Book Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads When Josh Strachan, newly returned to his home in north Cornwall from sunny California, first meets Sophie Wells, he’s immediately smitten. Sophie’s pretty, she’s funny, she has lots of friends and she clearly loves her job as a photographer, despite the sometimes tricky clients. There’s just one problem: Sophie has very firmly turned her back on love. It’s nothing personal, she tells Josh, but she just doesn’t do dates. And no one – even Sophie’s scatty best friend Tula – will tell him why. Josh is sure Sophie likes him, though, and he’s just got to find out what’s put her off romance. And then put things right… There are a large cast of characters in The Unpredictable Consequences of Love. Yet Mansell does an amazing job of writing each character clearly, each with a flaw/problem they must overcome. The multiple plot-lines are weaved together throughout the book. No characters story […]

Review: Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Posted February 16, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey

Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey Published by Harper Voyager on September 2nd 2014 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction Pages: 416 Format: E-Book Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads “An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece.”—William Gibson “A sharp-edged urban fantasy, drenched in blood and cynicism, tipping its hat to Sam Peckinpah, Raymond Chandler, and the anti-heroes of Hong Kong cinema….A bravura performance.”—San Francisco Chronicle “I couldn’t put it down.”—Charlaine Harris Sandman Slim has arrived—a wild and weird, edge-of-your-seat supernatural roller-coaster rider that propels author Richard Kadrey to the forefront of the fantasy, thriller, and a host of other literary genres. This spellbinding, utterly remarkable tale of a vengeful magician/hitman’s return from hell is part H.P. Lovecraft, part Christopher Moore, part Jim Butcher, and totally, unabashedly dark, twisted, and hilarious. The opening chapter of Sandman Slim throws you straight into the story, with the reader having no time to grasp what is occurring. Stark is throw into the cosmic battleground, where there appears to be no good guys (the Angels do not come across as particularly angelic). The book is written in […]

Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Posted February 13, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup on January 1st 1970 Genres: Biography, Historical, Non-Fiction Format: E-Book Source: Own Copy Buy on Amazon Goodreads A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starring Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. I decided to read 12 Years a Slave before I saw the film, and I managed to read the whole book in one sitting on a train ride home. How can a book like this have disappeared from bookshelves? I am thankful to the film for bringing this story back from obscurity. Twelve Years a Slave conveys […]