Tag: Fiction

Review: Unbreak Your Heart by Katie Marsh

Posted May 27, 2021 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.Unbreak Your Heart by Katie Marsh Published by Hodder on May 27, 2021 Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Romance Pages: 432 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads ONE BOY’S WISH. ONE EXTRAORDINARY LOVE STORY ‘Gorgeously written, devastatingly affecting and utterly life-affirming’ Miranda Dickinson Seven-year-old Jake’s heart is failing and he doesn’t want to leave his dad, Simon, alone. So he makes a decision: to find Simon someone to love before he goes. Beth is determined to forget the past. But even when she leaves New York to start afresh in a Lake District village, she can’t shake the secrets that haunt her. Single dad Simon still holds a candle for the woman who left him years ago. Every day is a struggle to earn a living while caring for his beloved son. He has no time for finding someone new. But Jake is determined his plan will succeed – and what unfolds […]

Review: Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore

Posted April 22, 2021 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.Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore Series: Graceling Realm #4 Published by Orion on January 21, 2021 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 528 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Something is rotten in the heart of Winterkeep… Four years after Bitterblue left off, a new land has been discovered to the east: Torla; and the closest nation to Monsea is Winterkeep. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons. But when Bitterblue’s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth–putting both Bitterblue’s life and Giddon’s heart to the test when Bitterbue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of […]

Blog Tour / Review: The Kindness Project by Sam Binnie

Posted April 16, 2021 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, 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.The Kindness Project by Sam Binnie Published by Headline on July 8, 2021 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 336 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Help the baker’s ex-wife widowFind the true calling for the village shop owner Call a truce on a decades-old feudForgive me…? The locals of the Cornish village of Polperran are grieving the sudden loss of Bea Kimbrel, a cornerstone of their small community. Now her reclusive, estranged daughter Alice has turned up, keen to tie up Bea’s affairs and move on. But Alice receives a strange bequest from Bea – a collection of unfinished tasks to help out those in Polperran most in need. As each little act brings her closer to understanding her mother, it also begins to offer Alice the courage to open her clamped-shut heart. Perhaps Bea’s project will finally unlock the powerful secrets both women have been keeping… THE KINDNESS PROJECT will […]

Blog Tour / Review: Ice Cream at Emerald Bay by Holly Martin

Posted March 15, 2021 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, 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.Ice Creams at Emerald Cove by Holly Martin Series: Jewel Island #3 Published by Sunshine, Seaside & Sparkles on March 12, 2021 Genres: Chick-lit, Fiction, Romance Pages: 318 Format: E-Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Escape to the Cornish coast this spring with a trip to the beautiful Emerald Cove, where the sea sparkles in the sunshine, the sand glitters like gold, and true love is in the air. From the bestselling author of Sunrise over Sapphire Bay comes this gorgeously romantic and uplifting tale. Skye Philips and Jesse Hamilton have a complicated relationship. They’ve been neighbours, best friends and even briefly married. But ever since Skye returned to the beautiful shores of Jewel Island to help her sisters Aria and Clover run their family hotel, she doesn’t know where she stands with Jesse. When they’re together the chemistry between them sizzles, but with Jesse living in Canada and Skye on […]

Blog Tour / Review: The Island by C. L. Taylor

Posted January 23, 2021 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 1 Comment

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.The Island by C.L. Taylor Published by HQ Young Adult on January 21, 2021 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Young Adult Pages: 384 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Lost meets The Hunger Games in the thrilling new young adult novel from C.L. Taylor, the Sunday Times and million-copy bestselling author. Welcome to The Island.Where your worst fears are about to come true… It was supposed to be the perfect holiday: a week-long trip for six teenage friends on a remote tropical island. But when their guide dies of a stroke leaving them stranded, the trip of a lifetime quickly turns into a nightmare. Because someone on the island knows each of the group’s worst fears. And one by one, they’re coming true. Seven days in paradise. A deadly secret. Who will make it off the island alive? The Island was a book that I could not stop reading it. […]

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