Genre: Contemporary

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: 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 […]

Review: Precious Thing by Colette McBeth

Posted November 25, 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.Precious Thing by Colette McBeth Published by Headline Review on April 10, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 384 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Remember the person you sat next to on your first day at school? Still your best friend? Or disappeared from your life for good? Some friendships fizzle out. Rachel and Clara promised theirs would last for ever. They met when Rachel was the new girl in class and Clara was the friend everyone wanted. Now in their late twenties Rachel has everything while Clara’s life is spiralling further out of control. Then Clara vanishes. Imagine discovering something about your oldest friend that forces you to question everything you’ve shared together. The truth is always there. But only if you choose to see it. Precious Thing is told from the point of view of Rachel. With the story changing between the adult Clara and Rachel […]

Review: Waiting for Doggo by Mark B. Mills

Posted November 21, 2014 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

I received this book for free from Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Waiting for Doggo by Mark Mills Published by Headline Review on November 20, 2014 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 224 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads No-one ever called Dan a pushover. But then no-one ever called him fast-track either. He likes driving slowly, playing Sudoku on his iPhone, swapping one scruffy jumper for another. He’s been with Clara for four years and he’s been perfectly happy; but now she’s left him, leaving nothing but a long letter filled with incriminations and a small, white, almost hairless dog, named Doggo. So now Dan is single, a man without any kind of partner whether working or in love. He’s just one reluctant dog owner. Find a new home for him, that’s the plan. Come on…everyone knows the old adage about the best laid plans and besides, Doggo is one special kind of a four legged friend…and an inspiration. I […]

Review: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Posted November 20, 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 Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith Published by Headline on May 24, 2012 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 215 Format: E-Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Imagine if she hadn’t forgotten the book. Or if there hadn’t been traffic on the expressway. Or if she hadn’t fumbled the coins for the toll. What if she’d run just that little bit faster and caught the flight she was supposed to be on. Would it have been something else – the weather over the Atlantic or a fault with the plane? Hadley isn’t sure if she believes in destiny or fate but, on what is potentially the worst day of each of their lives, it’s the quirks of timing and chance events that mean Hadley meets Oliver… Set over a 24-hour-period, Hadley and Oliver’s story […]

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