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  • Book Review – GONE by Lisa Gardner

    BOOK RATING: The Writing 3 / 5 ;  The Story 4 / 5 BOOK DETAILS: Gone (The Book Depository), Gone (Amazon) Book Synopsis Ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy has just been thrown into his worst nightmare. A car has been found abandoned,…

  • Four Fast Reviews – Peters, Marquez, Unger and Fluke

    When my reviews outstanding hit four I have decided I just have to stop procrastinating on the perfect way to describe my feelings about the books and post my thoughts quickly otherwise I will never keep up with my reading pile! So…

  • SHIVA’S ARMS by Cheryl Snell, Book Review + Author Interview

    BOOK RATING: The Story 4 / 5 ; The Writing 4 / 5 BOOK DETAILS: Shiva’s Arms (Amazon), Shiva’s Arms (The Book Depository) BOOK SYNOPSIS: Is there a happy medium between Hindu tradition and American style, or does the battle of wills between a…

  • SEND FOR PAUL TEMPLE by Francis Durbridge

    BOOK RATING: The Story 4 / 5 ; The Writing 4 / 5 BOOK REVIEW: Vintage mystery. This little tale by Francis Durbridge was a delightful audiobook to listen to. The narrator Anthony Head does a marvellous job conveying the…

  • NO THOROUGHFARE by Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins

    BOOK RATING: The Story 4 / 5 ; The Writing 4 / 5 BOOK REVIEW: Captivating. This story was originally written as a play, and perhaps because of that has a succinctness that I found very enjoyable. At only 134 pages (PDF)…

  • TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE by Mary Higgins Clark

    BOOK RATING: The Story 4 / 5 ; The Writing 3 / 5 BOOK REVIEW: Intricate and compelling. This is the first Mary Higgins Clark that I’ve read and I’ve found her to be a skilled story crafter. The subjects…

  • DIRTY LITTLE ANGELS by Christopher Tusa

    BOOK REVIEW: Compelling. Tusa’s debut novel Dirty Little Angels is gritty, and really something out of the ordinary. I usually find myself propelled through a book because I can empathise with the characters or find some parallel to my own…

  • THE FRONT by Patricia Cornwell

    BOOK REVIEW : Having read this book, my first ever from Cornwell, I’m somewhat perplexed. I’d heard great things about this author, and this wasn’t at all what I had expected. To begin with, this is the shortest book I…

  • PANTS ON FIRE by Maggie Alderson

    BOOK REVIEW : In this story Alderson introduces a diverse mix of outrageous, larger than life characters – in locations ranging from the streets of Sydney’s Kings Cross to the pristine Australian Outback. The flaw in some chick lit these…

  • KILL STORY by Jerome Doolittle

    BOOK REVIEW : This story just was not as interesting as I expected from the blurb. The best thing about the book was Doolittle’s leading man, Tom Bethany – an appealing character, part hired gun with a shady past, part…

  • KICK BACK by Val McDermid

    My new favourite private-eye! McDermid has created a wonderfully real and feisty female character in Kate Brannigan PI – she has no fear and is not afraid to call a spade a spade. This story rockets along with mystery and…

  • LUCY SULLIVAN IS GETTING MARRIED by Marian Keyes

    What girl doesn’t like a fun summer read? This is good chick lit, a story about a girl in and out of love, who can’t see what she has right in front of her (at times she’s slightly too oblivious…