Tag: Mystery

Review: The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Posted July 24, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 4 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 Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle on August 18, 2015 Genres: Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 282 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads A bewitching, dark and beautiful debut novel about a girl living in the shadow of a mysterious curse. It’s the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom. The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara’s life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara’s family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items – but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear. But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free? The Accident Season is a strange compelling read as for me […]

Review: Redemption Road by Lisa Ballantyne

Posted July 21, 2015 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.Redemption Road by Lisa Ballantyne Published by Piatkus on July 16, 2015 Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller Pages: 437 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The crash is the unravelling of Margaret Holloway. Trapped inside a car about to explode, she is rescued by a scarred stranger who then disappears. Margaret remembers little, but she’s spent her life remembering little – her childhood is full of holes and forgotten memories. And now she has a burning desire to discover who she is, why her life has been shrouded in secrets, and if it has anything to do with the mysterious man who saved her life. In a thriller that flits effortlessly between past and present, this is a harsh, gritty yet ultimately uplifting journey of an estranged father and daughter, exploring the strength of family ties and our huge capacity for forgiveness. Published in the US as: Everything She Forgot […]

Review: The Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton

Posted July 12, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

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 Quality of Silence by Rosamund Lupton on July 2, 2015 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Mystery, Thriller Pages: 340 Format: E-Arc, Hardback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads On 24 November Yasmin and her ten-year-old daughter Ruby set off on a journey across Northern Alaska. They’re searching for Ruby’s father, missing in the arctic wilderness. More isolated with each frozen mile they cover, they travel deeper into an endless night. And Ruby, deaf since birth, must brave the darkness where sight cannot guide her. She won’t abandon her father. But winter has tightened its grip, and there is somebody out there who wants to stop them. Somebody tracking them through the dark. I’m glad that I got to finish this in the end. There was a couple of points in the first 100 pages of The Quality of Silence where I was ready to give in and just DNF, and perhaps if […]

Review: The Last Honeytrap by Louise Lee

Posted June 22, 2015 by Charlotte in 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 Last Honeytrap by Louise Lee Series: Florence Love #1 Published by Headline on June 4, 2015 Genres: Fiction, Mystery Pages: 368 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Scot ‘Scat’ Delaney is a world famous jazz singer. He has ample opportunity to stray and his girlfriend, Alice, needs to know she can trust him. Introducing Florence Love, private investigator. Florence has just ten days to entrap an A-lister. Whilst sticking to her cardinal rule: ONE KISS, WITH TONGUES, FIVE SECONDS – CASE CLOSED. A master of body language, evolutionary science and nifty disguises, her approach is unconventional, her success rate excellent. But targets are rarely as beautiful as Scat. Never fall for the target. THAT IS VERY BAD FORM INDEED. So The Last Honeytrap started off like a James Bond movie, a little dalliance, some entrapment before the main event and it sure left me craving more. I loved that it […]

Review: Day Shift by Charlaine Harris

Posted May 11, 2015 by Charlotte in Reviews / 2 Comments

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.Day Shift by Charlaine Harris Series: Midnight Texas #2 Published by Gollancz on May 7, 2015 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 320 Format: E-Arc, Hardback Source: Netgalley, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads In Midnight Crossroad, Charlaine Harris “capture[d] the same magic as the world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, and [took] it to another level” (Houston Press). Now the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels returns to the one-traffic-light town you see only when you’re on the way to someplace else… There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know that she’s beautiful and dangerous. Psychic Manfred Bernardo finds out just how dangerous when he goes […]

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