My Review for A New Home at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas

Times are changing, as Manchester's ladies try to survive during WWII.I love an educational WWII novel, and I've read many over the years. The ones where you learn more about the atrocities of the prison camps and the tenacity of the people who were held there. But I equally love a more lighthearted story, which is exactly what A New Home at the Wartime Hotel by Maisie Thomas is. It's the first in a new series, and although there is one heartbreaking...

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My Review for The Astrology House by Carinn Jade, read by Amanda Dolan, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Gilli Messer, Soneela Nankani, Allyson Ryan, Sura Siu and Carinn Jade

Let's dive into the mystery of Astrology.It's been a long while since I listened to this, so I did have to delve into a few reviews to remind myself, but then it all came flooding back. There are a lot of characters, and each one was narrated by someone different, so this helped massively. It didn't take me long to work out who was who, how people were linked, and their purpose to the story. As expected from the title, there is a huge focus...

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My Review for The Little Girl I Always Wanted by Anya Mora, read by Abigail Reno, Tara Novie, Kacy Combest and Christopher Craven

Missing girls but no bodies....This was an audiobook listen for me and made all the more enjoyable because of the four narrators, who really made the story their own. It became quite apparent from the beginning that the majority of this small community has had a strict religious upbringing and continues to follow their faith. The wife's role was to bring up the kids and look after the house, and absolutely everything has to be run past their husbands...

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My Review for The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva

Told through the words of someone with severe OCD, anxiety and depression. This is an eye-opener.First, my sincere apologies to the author who kindly gifted me a copy of her book back in 2023, and I'm ashamed to say it's taken me two years to read it. Over commitment is my only excuse, but I am trying to do better this year!A short read, I found The Existence of Amy to be so informative, yet entertaining. None of us are fully aware of how another...

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My Review for The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

'In love, we find out who we want to be. In war, we find out who we are'.Historical fiction, particularly that set during World War II and inspired by true events, is my first love as a genre. The Nightingale is incredible. I cannot even begin to explain how this book made me feel. I was in awe of the two female protagonists, who both became a part of the Resistance in order to help others. Isabelle - the Nightingale - took many treacherous journeys...

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My Review for The House on Cold Creek Lane by Liz Alterman, read by Emily Ellet and Gail Shalan

Well, that was a dark ending!I'm flying through my audiobooks this year, and The House on Cold Creek Lane was another good one. I seem to be picking up the thriller audiobooks rather than the physical or digital copies, and I'm loving the immersiveness of them. A good narrator makes for an even better story, and Emily Ellet and Gail Shalan did a fantastic job of picking me up and depositing me into the lives of those who live or have lived on Cold...

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My Review for I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay, read by George Newbern and Johnathan McClain

So many plot twists that I didn't see coming!I'm pretty sure this was my first venture into Linwood Barclay's world, and I was hooked from the time I pressed play that first time, until I removed my AirPods after the final chapter and wondered to myself what I had just listened to!Tense and frantic, I was pulled this way and that as chapter after chapter brought more surprises and WTF moments. I felt for Richard, our protagonist, as he has to spend...

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