My Review for False Witness by Karin Slaughter

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of False Witness by Karin Slaughter.I haven’t read many thrillers before now and this is the first Karin Slaughter novel I have read, however, it won’t be the last. I was hooked from beginning to end!Leigh Collier works as a defence attorney in Atlanta, Georgia and is called on by her boss to defend Andrew Tenant in court. Accused of violent rape,...

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My Review for The Guilty Wife by Alison James

⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of The Guilty Wife by Alison James.Pippa calls off her wedding to Alistair just hours before they were due at the Registry Office, and not wanting to face the music, she goes on their honeymoon to Mauritius, on her own, just to escape. She realises that there is another person on their own and she makes the acquaintance of Jim Cardle. Meanwhile, Tansy and Dan...

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My Review for The English Girl by Sarah Mitchell

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of The English Girl by Sarah Mitchell.The English Girl begins at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in 1989, as the wall is coming down.  Tiffany travels from West to East with a letter in her hand and only an address to begin her search for someone important.Most of the book takes place in 1946/47 in Norfolk, at the end of the Second World War.  German...

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My Review for The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐When the weather is sunny and I’m pottering around the garden, and if the story is addictive I can get through an 11-hour Audiobook in a couple of days and The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor (read by Imogen Church and Rosie Jones) was one of these.  Set in China during the Second World War,  just as the Japanese declared war on the Allies, The Bird in the Bamboo Cage is primarily told from the points of view of two characters,...

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My Review for Secrets of Magpie Cove by Kennedy Kerr

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of Secrets of Magpie Cove by Kennedy Kerr.Lila leaves London and her ex-boyfriend behind to begin a new life and a new career in Cornwall. Whilst undertaking a college course to become a patissier, Lila works part-time in Serafina’s cafe in Magpie Cove and is enjoying getting to know the locals and spending time with Oliver - her new friend at college. However,...

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My Review for This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I bought ‘This is Going to Hurt’ during lockdown 1.0 in 2020 but I’ve only just got around to reading it (the dilemma of having too many books to choose from)!  Having worked in the NHS for 25 years as a Receptionist/Secretary and Personal Assistant, I thought it would be interesting to see what Adam Kay went through as a junior doctor.  Adam Kay wrote snatched entries into his secret diaries whenever he had a chance, ‘after endless...

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My Review for Beta's Bane by Liv James

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. When the opportunity came my way to read and review an ARC of the first in a paranormal series, I jumped at the chance.  Give Me Books Promotions sent me a copy of Beta's Bane by Liv James and it is absolutely outstanding, as the author's debut novel I am only hoping she continues to write more!Cam and Brodie are brothers, born to Cecily, who was the Alpha of the Ridgeway pack.  Cam steps into his mother's shoes and becomes the new...

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My Review for 20th Victim by James Patterson

⭐⭐⭐⭐  20th Victim is my first James Patterson novel and part of the Women’s Murder Club series.   I listened to it as an Audiobook,  narrated by January LaVoy and borrowed from Borrowbox. I enjoyed it but I think James Patterson is probably better to read as a physical book rather listened to as an Audiobook - it got slightly confusing for me - it doesn’t take much these days though!  Having read other reviews of James Patterson's...

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My Review for The Cursed Girls by Caro Ramsay

⭐⭐⭐⭐. Thank you to NetGalley, Canongate and Black Thorn for the opportunity to read and review an ARC of The Cursed Girls by Caro Ramsay.What is the Melvick Curse?  It seems that lives begin to deteriorate for anyone who gets involved with the Melvick family.  Melissa is the eldest daughter, and she’s dying, Megan, the youngest, is deaf and people think she’s mad.  Their mother disappeared. And whatever happened to Megan’s best friend?Megan...

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My Review for Stephen Fry in America

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. In September 2021 we have a 5-week road trip booked in America, flying to Atlanta, Georgia and travelling South, then West, then North a bit and finally East, back to Atlanta!  Whether this will happen in September 2021 remains to be seen as currently (June 2021) we still aren’t allowed to travel there from the UK.   Never mind, we will get there eventually, I tell myself!  If you are reading this and there is also a post...

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