Monthly Round-up! June 2014

Posted June 30, 2014 by Charlotte in Monthly Round-up! / 0 Comments
Monthly Round-up! June 2014

Monthly Round-up, linking everything that has happened in the last month, posted on the last day of said month. This Round-up June 2014. I finished my exams (and my degree!) at the beginning of the month and could out some time to relax and catch up on my reading! But now that the end of the month has rolled round it’s back to reality. Also the end of the month signals the anxiety of waiting for my results – which I need to have passed so that I do the next part of the law to qualify the LPC. I’m not really sure what to expect in the following months but hopefully I will know where I will be in September. I also managed to get 15 books ahead of myself on my Goodreads challenge and it looks like I will have to up the target soon as I only have to read eleven more books! I came to this month with no posts prepared and no books that I had read to review. In fact I had not read […]

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Pastime Pleasures #10 – Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy

Posted June 27, 2014 by Charlotte in Pastime Pleasures / 0 Comments
Pastime Pleasures #10 – Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy

Welcome to my  feature, Pastime Pleasures, posted every other Friday. Today is the turn of Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy. 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 is a heartbreaking and incredibly sensitive story. Looking for JJ will make you reconsider your immediate reaction to condemn the antagonist. Through the eyes of Alice, you can see the reasons for the murder, what happened on that fatal day, and the build-up that lead to that event. Looking for JJ will pull you quickly along, as the story weaves between the past and the present. Compelling the reader to read on, to find out  what happened and why. To find out what happened to create a child who would kill her friend. This is about second chances and the fact that who were as a child is different to how you how are as an adult. But […]

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Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Posted June 25, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 5 Comments
Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

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 Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Series: All Souls Trilogy #1 Published by Headline on September 29, 2011 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Pages: 688 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew – the forbidden love at the heart of it. When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it’s an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she’s […]

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Review: Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig

Posted June 20, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig

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.Coin Heist by Elisa Ludwig Published by Adaptive Books on June 6, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 296 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The last place you’d expect to find a team of criminals is at a prestigious Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to the U.S. Mint – which prints a million new coins every 30 minutes – an overlooked security flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students to ignore. United by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies – the nerd, the slacker, the athlete, and the perfect student – band together to attempt the impossible: rob the U.S. Mint. This diverse crew is forced to confront their true beliefs about each other and themselves as they do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Elisa Ludwig’s COIN HEIST is a fun, suspenseful and compelling thriller, told from the revolving perspectives […]

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Review: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

Posted June 18, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

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 Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith Published by Headline on April 15, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 337 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads For fans of John Green, Stephanie Perkins and Sarah Ockler, THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME is a story for anyone who’s ever longed to meet someone special, for anyone who’s searched for home and found it where they least expected it. Owen lives in the basement. Lucy lives on the 24th floor. But when the power goes out in the midst of a New York heatwave, they find themselves together for the first time: stuck in a lift between the 10th and 11th floors. As they await help, they start talking… The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland they can’t […]

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