“We lose ourselves in books, we find ourselves there too."
Hello all, My 4th Netgalley read, The Honey and the Sting. “ My honey lost, and I, a drone-like bee, have no perfection of my summer left, but robbed and ransacked by injurious theft: in thy weak hive a wand’ring wasp hath crept, and sucked the honey which thy chaste bee kept. – Shakespeare, The …
Hello everyone, It’s been a while hasn’t it? I do apologise! Anyway, for this review it is the very first Stephen King novel that I’ve read and is my next read on Challenge 2020 (book to be made into movie/tv). “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” …
Hello everyone, “We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses. We chose peace over war. Life over death.” Next in my challenge 2020 is a book set in Beijing, China. Now many of you probably know the fairytale Cinderella. Well this is Cinder…in …
Hello everyone, The next book in Challenge 2020 is a Nobel prize winner – Toni Morrison with Beloved. It is the mid-1800s. An era is ending. Slavery is coming under the attack from the abolitionists. Meet Sethe, born into slavery and haunted by her past. She has escaped to Ohio but 18 years have passed …
Hello fellow readers, This is my third Netgalley read so thank you to Netgalley for this ARC! The Nothing Man is a serial killer who leaves no evidence behind, hence the nickname… “I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him…” Meet Eve Black. …
Hello everyone, The next read in Challenge 2020 is a book set in Africa – Mark of the Lion. Set in colonial Africa, we meet Jade del Cameron, a young American who can wield a rifle better than any man and after driving an ambulance in World War I, she could do with a break. …
Hello everyone, This is not a Challenge 2020 read but it is my second Netgalley read! Here’s the blurb – Two women. Five centuries apart. One life-changing secret about to be unearthed… 1538 New bride Eleanor impresses her husband by growing saffron, a spice more valuable than gold. His reputation in Henry VIII’s court soars …
Hello all, So we come to the third in the Divergent trilogy – Allegiant. “Every question that can be answered must be answered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must be challenged when they arise. Wrong answers must be corrected. Correct answers must be affirmed.” – Erudite faction manifesto We have followed Tris from …
Hello all, It’s my birthday eve and so I’m going to grace you all with my second book review in two days but this is a Challenge 2020 review. Now for Insurgent, the second book in the Divergent trilogy and sequel to Divergent. DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU HAVEN’T READ DIVERGENT YET…THERE ARE SPOILERS …
Hey everyone, This is not a Challenge 2020 read, this is my FIRST EVER Netgalley book review! What is Netgalley you ask? Netgalley is something I’ve recently joined for free and is a website distributing digital proofs of books, many of which are yet to be published. When you see a book you like the …