“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."
Hello everyone, “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M Schulz. Another Christmassy delight for you all and this time it features…CHOCOLATE! Meet Emma, owner of The Chocolate Shop by the Sea. With Christmas just around the corner, the locals are popping in to collect their …
Hello all, It’s time…for the first Christmas book review of the year! And it’s the sequel to The Cosy Teashop in the Castle. “Why did the bad stuff always have to happen to the good guys? Life didn’t seem fair sometimes.” It’s been 5 years since Ellie moved to Claverham Castle and baked her way …
Hello everyone, My first blog post instead of a book review! Now to start everyone off, a challenge! We all struggle with our TBR lists right? And there’s always another 5 added to the pile when you take one off. So I’ve decided for 2020, I’m going to do something different – a book challenge. …
Hello all, Remember Zoo? The story about animals of all kinds, big and small, wild and domesticated, turning on humans in quite a savage manner? Well this is Zoo 2, and boy have they cranked it up a notch And the stakes are so much higher. If you haven’t read Zoo yet then I wouldn’t …
Hello everyone, So by now you’ve either read my previous reviews of His Dark Materials and La Belle Sauvage or you’ve skipped ahead, spoilers dearies! You have been warned. The Secret Commonwealth is the second book in The Book of Dust trilogy and is set after the His Dark Materials series. “Everything possible to be …
Hello all, So by now you’ve either read my previous review of His Dark Materials or you’ve skipped ahead to here. So greetings all! “War asks many people to do unreasonable things.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage is the first book in a trilogy which focuses on some characters you may recognise from …
Hello all, “People should decide on the books’ meanings for themselves. They’ll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.” I’ve just finished reading The Book of Dust: Volume Two, The Secret Commonwealth but for those who haven’t read the prequels …
Hello all, So something spooky for the month that brings us Halloween! Book of Souls is essentially about a secret library of books that can tell you who is born and who dies in every day of every year until the year 2027. “And on each page was written the selfsame words. 9 February, 2027. …
Hello all, Sorry for such a delay between reviews! I have been reading this mammoth of a book! “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going …
Hello all, And now for another animal themed book for you all only this Zoo is very different to Our Zoo – in this book, the Zoo is the world, where the animals are predators and humans are the prey. “If there is an indication this morning of something being amiss, it is not in …