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I read the paperback of this book, a gift from a friend a while ago now. It’s been waiting on a pile for me to get to it and I’m so pleased I did. Amy Blue is a diazepam-fogged young woman struggling with life as she exists in a grotty flat in Balmoral Street, which […]

  I chose to read this book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author. This does not alter my review in any way. Carrie and her husband, Jason, renovate houses that other people make into homes. But this property Carrie wanted to make into their forever home […]

  These short stories were recommended to me a long time ago now but I was delighted to eventually get round to reading them. They are stories from the Broken World series which I haven’t read but that didn’t matter as they worked perfectly well on their own. The writing is excellent and the pace […]

This was a pleasant afternoon read while on my sunbed recently. Having read the original trilogy I was intrigued to read that Gray had expanded the series to six books and this novella can be read as a standalone or as a prequel to The Eyre Hall series. Jane is married to Mr Rochester, and […]

  Grand Stand is the final part in the Grand Union Series – Union Clues was reviewed here and Broken Lock here. There are several threads to pick up and run with through this book. Trying to remember where each of the characters was the last time I met them was tricky as that was […]

I chose to read this book as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author, but this doesn’t change my review in any way. I took Cauliflowers Through the Catflap on holiday with me and read it in one day. Cassandra Campbell-Kemp is a 65-year-old single woman who has […]

So, I’ve gone on holiday, as in an abroad, proper lie down and do nothing but read holiday, for the first time since 2019. Where There’s Doubt was the book I’d started before I left on my travels. I read it continuously on the flight and finished it once I’d reached my first destination, just […]

  I have been leaping from one genre to another in my reading choices recently having gone from science fiction to clean romance and now onto horror. I chose to read Black Rock as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team. I received a copy from the author but this does not change my review […]

    I chose to read this clean romance novella as a member of Rosie’s Book Review Team and received a copy from the author but that does not alter my review in any way. It has been a while since I felt the Mediterranean sun on my skin and I have to say that […]