Genre: Contemporary

Review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Posted April 3, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Published by Orion on March 19, 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 330 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.. Having read Queenie a little […]

Blog Tour / Review: Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams

Posted July 2, 2019 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams

Our Stop by Laura Jane Williams Published by Avon on June 13, 2019 Genres: Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance Pages: 368 Format: Arc, E-Arc Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Laura Jane Williams combines sharp, relatable wit and bold, joyful sincerity’ Dolly Alderton ‘The love story you need in your suitcase this summer!’ Red ‘LJ’s honesty and voice are unique’ Stylist What if you almost missed the love of your life? Nadia gets the 7.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma’s after too much wine. Daniel really does get the 7.30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn’t been able to sleep properly since his dad died. One morning, Nadia’s eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper: To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I’m the guy who’s always standing near the doors… Drink sometime? So begins a not-quite-romance of near-misses, true love, and the power of the written word. A wonderfully funny will-they-won’t-they romance told with real emotional honesty, […]

Review: Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

Posted April 23, 2019 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford Published by HarperTeen on April 9, 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult Pages: 352 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations—if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies. Sam doesn’t plan to fall for anyone in the nine weeks before his birthday. He’ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club. But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that. As Sam’s birthday approaches and he still hasn’t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets. A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he’s only seen in […]

Review: 25 Days ’til Christmas by Poppy Alexander

Posted December 11, 2018 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: 25 Days ’til Christmas by Poppy Alexander

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.25 Days ’til Christmas by Poppy Alexander Published by Orion Books on November 1, 2018 Genres: Christmas, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance Pages: 352 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads ‘a fabulous uplifting, festive, feel-good, joyous read that will leave you smiling from ear to ear.’ Netgalley reviewer Christmas is a time to get together… Kate Thompson used to love Christmas. But that was before her husband went away with the army and didn’t come home. Now she can hardly stand the festive season. But Kate knows there is more to life than this, and her son Jack needs a Christmas to remember. What she needs is a Christmas miracle, and if there isn’t one on its way, she’ll just have to make her own. So begins Kate’s advent countdown to the best Christmas ever. She has it all planned out, but you can’t plan for the unexpected, and when her life […]

Review: A Winter Beneath the Stars by Jo Thomas

Posted December 6, 2018 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: A Winter Beneath the Stars by Jo Thomas

A Winter Beneath the Stars by Jo Thomas Published by Headline Review on 29 November 2018 Genres: Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance Pages: 368 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads scape to snowy Sweden in the gorgeous new novel from the author of Late Summer in the Vineyard and Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard. Fans of Jill Mansell and Milly Johnson will love this unforgettable winter story from Jo Thomas. Halley has been running from her problems for years. On a courier trip to Tallfors, deep in Swedish Lapland, everything is going to plan. Halley has her bag, with two precious wedding rings inside for delivery… until she doesn’t. The only way to save the wedding is to team up with mysterious reindeer herder Bjorn, the one person who can lead her across the snowy tundra to be reunited with her bag. On a journey of a lifetime beneath the stars, with only the reindeer and a bad-tempered stranger for company beside the fire, Halley realises that she will need to confront her past heartaches in order to let […]