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Review: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan

Posted August 11, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 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 Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan Published by Hodder & Stoughton on June 30, 2016 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Historical Pages: 321 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads 1939, and Will and Alice are evacuated to a granite farm in north Cornwall, perched on a windswept cliff. There they meet the farmer’s daughter, Maggie, and against fields of shimmering barley and a sky that stretches forever, enjoy a childhood largely protected from the ravages of war. But in the sweltering summer of 1943 something happens that will have tragic consequences. A small lie escalates. Over 70 years on Alice is determined to atone for her behaviour – but has she left it too late? 2014, and Maggie’s granddaughter Lucy flees to the childhood home she couldn’t wait to leave thirteen years earlier, marriage over; career apparently ended thanks to one terrible mistake. Can she rebuild herself […]

Review: Long Dark Dusk by JP Symthe

Posted May 2, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment

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.Long Dark Dusk by J.P. Smythe Series: The Australia Trilogy #2 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 7, 2016 Pages: 400 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The moment she learned the horrible truth about her life on Australia, the derelict ship overrun with violent gangs, Chan Aitch made it her mission to save everyone she could from their fate worse than death. But her efforts were in vain. Now, everyone she cares about is dead or in prison, and Chan is more alone than ever before. As the only person to have escaped Australia’s terrible crash-landing back to Earth, Chan is now living in poverty on the fringes of a huge city. She believes Mae, the little girl she once rescued on the Australia, is still alive – but she has no idea where Mae is, or how to find her. Everything on Earth is strange and new, […]

Review: HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Posted April 29, 2016 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.Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt Published by Hodder & Stoughton on April 28, 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Thriller Pages: 384 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The incredible, horrifying thriller from Thomas Olde Heuvelt, the Hugo award-winning author of ‘The Day The World Turned Upside Down’, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Adam Nevill and Stephen King. Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay until death. Whoever comes to stay, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Blind and silenced, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children’s beds for nights on end. So accustomed to her have the townsfolk become that they often forget she’s there. Or what a threat she poses. Because if the stitches are ever cut open, […]

Review: Way Down Dark by JP Symthe

Posted April 23, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 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.Way Down Dark by J.P. Smythe, James Smythe Series: The Australia Trilogy #1 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on July 2, 2015 Genres: Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 288 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The first in an extraordinary new YA trilogy by James Smythe, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent. There’s one truth on Australia: You fight or you die. Usually both. Seventeen-year-old Chan’s ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one. The only life that Chan’s ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive. But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness – a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead. Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, […]

Review: Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Posted February 15, 2016 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.Morning Star by Pierce Brown Series: Red Rising #3 Published by Hodder & Stoughton on February 9, 2016 Pages: 524 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Red Rising thrilled readers and announced the presence of a talented new author. Golden Son changed the game and took the story of Darrow to the next level. Now comes the exhilarating conclusion to the Red Rising Trilogy: Morning Star. Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come. But […]

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