My Review for The Start of Something by Miranda Dickinson, Read by Claire Morgan and Simon Pothecary

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Do people ever really get together by writing notes to each other in windows? I’m not sure they do, but I wish they would. The Start of Something is just a lovely, happy story for those incurable romantics out there. There are lots of times when I wanted to slap the two main characters, Lachlan and Bethan, just for being so pig-headed and not talking to each other! Come on, you’re adults, stop behaving like kids!Bethan doesn’t want Lachie to...

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My Review for The Boy in Makeup: TikTok made me buy it by Anthony Connors-Roberts

⭐⭐⭐⭐ I wanted to get this review out before the end of Pride month and June 20022. A great read, and ideal for younger people who are perhaps coming to terms with their sexuality. The Boy in Makeup is fun, entertaining and in parts heartbreaking as we follow Cory as he deals with the people who can often be narrow-minded, uneducated and prejudiced as well as his close friends who accept him for who he is. He is an inspirational young lad who knows...

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My Review for The Girl From Jonestown by Sharon Maas

⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’m not sure whether I’ve been living under a rock for the last forty-odd years but I knew nothing about the Jonestown cult and the horrific things that went on there so when I read the synopsis for The Girl From Jonestown by Sharon Maas, I knew I needed to find out what had happened.Inspired by actual events, Sharon Maas sympathetically retells the story of how the cult came about and what happened in the following few years. To say I was shocked...

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My Review for The Hotel Nantucket, Read by Erin Bennett

When lots of my bookish friends started talking about The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand, I knew I just needed to read or listen to a copy. When my request for the Audiobook was approved, I couldn’t keep the smile from my face! Read by Erin Bennett, I was enveloped completely into The Hotel Nantucket and its staff, residents and ghost (yes you read that correctly) from the moment they opened their doors to guests.Following a fire in 1922 in...

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My Review for The Hideaway by Norma Curtis

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well, there was a tear in my eye within the first couple of chapters, and it was more about how The Hideaway by Norma Curtis was written, rather than what she was writing about at that moment. Right from the beginning, I wanted to be the one to move into The Hideaway for the summer, nestled somewhere in Wales, and somewhere you could go and dangle your feet in the water! A dual timeline story, set both in the present day and towards the...

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My Review for An Island Summer by Jenny Hale

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awww, An Island Summer is such a lovely read. I’m a sucker for ‘a girl who leaves a busy life/boyfriend behind and moves to the coast’ sort of story. Usually, it’s set in the UK though, so to read one based in the US is a change for me. Meghan returns to Hatteras Island with her best friend, Tess, moving into her Pappy’s old cottage that he left to her when he passed away. Meghan is set on creating a new life for herself away from NYC,...

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My Review for The River Between Us by Liz Fenwick

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love Liz Fenwick, one of my favourite authors who writes about Cornwall, and The River Between Us didn’t disappoint. We are currently looking at houses in Devon and Cornwall, possibly a small renovation project, but nothing quite as big as the one Theo, our protagonist, took on in Boatman’s Cottage on the banks of the Tamar.Theo is escaping from the breakdown of her marriage and, whilst looking around her new home, she discovers some love...

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My Review for Too Close by Gayle Curtis, Read by Imogen Church

⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love Imogen Church as an Audiobook narrator, so when I was at a loss for a new book to listen to, I just had to choose Too Close by Gayle Curtis from the Borrowbox list I was perusing!Slow to begin with but quickly picking up the pace, Too Close follows the lives of twins, Cecilia and Sebastian and the dark and troubled journey they both endure. The book is tense, troubling, violent and sometimes just plain weird, but I loved it. There is...

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My Review for The Midwife of Auschwitz by Anna Stuart

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heartbreaking, shocking, unbelievable, and harrowing. These are just four words that only make a dent in how The Midwife of Auschwitz will make you feel. Inspiring, courageous, graphic and brilliant. Another four words that only make a dent in how Anna Stuart has written about and portrayed the events that occurred in Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1943 and 1944, from the point of view of the midwives that were imprisoned there but who helped to...

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