Tag: Mystery

Review: The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones

Posted October 15, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review: The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones

The Disciple by Stephen Lloyd Jones Published by Headline on October 6, 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 544 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads On a storm-battered road at the edge of the Devil’s Kitchen, a woman survives a fatal accident and gives birth to a girl who should never have lived. The child’s protection lies in the hands of Edward Schwinn – a loner who must draw himself out of darkness to keep her safe – and her arrival will trigger a chain of terrifying events that no one can explain. She is a child like no other, being hunted by an evil beyond measure. For if the potential within her is realised, nothing will be the same. Not for Edward. Not for any who live to see it. I was excited to get my hands on The Disciple ever since I saw that Stephen Lloyd Jones had written a new novel. This is completely different from The String Diaries that in some ways it is hard to see that each book is from the same […]

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Blog Tour / Review: The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan

Posted September 15, 2016 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan

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.The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan on March 3, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Pages: 448 Format: E-Arc, Paperback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding that Zoe do the same. Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be the performance of Zoe’s life. But instead, by the end of the evening, Maria is dead. In the aftermath, everyone—police, family, Zoe’s former solicitor, and Zoe herself—tries to piece together what happened. But as Zoe knows all too well, the truth is rarely […]

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Review: The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans

Posted August 23, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans

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 Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans Published by Headline Review on May 19, 2016 Genres: Fiction, Historical, Romance Pages: 448 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads What magic is this? You follow the hidden creek towards a long-forgotten house. They call it Keepsake, a place full of wonder … and danger. Locked inside the crumbling elegance of its walls lies the story of the Butterfly Summer, a story you’ve been waiting all your life to hear. This house is Nina Parr’s birthright. It holds the truth about her family – and a chance to put everything right at last. Harriet Evans. She brings you home. Two things happen when you are a Parr girl: when you are ten, you are told about your future role. The second thing that a Parr girl at some point must learn is harder to tell of. It is a dark work indeed, the business […]

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Review: The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

Posted August 4, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

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 Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp Published by Orbit on March 3, 2016 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, Thriller Pages: 336 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Jack Sparks died while writing this book. It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he’d already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed. Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account. Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed – until now. The Last Days of Jack Sparks is a dangerously addictive book, where the supernatural will scare you to death and Jack’s humour give you some light relief. This was an fun book for me but I couldn’t […]

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Review: Unrivalled by Alyson Noel

Posted May 11, 2016 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Unrivalled by Alyson Noel

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.Unrivalled by Alyson Noel Series: Beautiful Idols #1 Published by Katherine Tegen Books on May 10, 2016 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Young Adult Pages: 432 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Everyone wants to be someone. Layla Harrison wants to leave her beach-bum days for digs behind a reporter’s desk. Aster Amirpour wants to scream at the next casting director who tells her “we need ethnic but not your kind of ethnic.” Tommy Phillips dreams of buying a twelve-string guitar and using it to shred his way back into his famous absentee dad’s life. But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her bitch a long time ago. She’s Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her Louboutin heel. That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP […]

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