That. Was. Petrifying. Thrillers aren’t my bag. This book is so removed far from my genre. I had to put it down constantly! I don’t like being scared, let alone fearful. Oh my goodness, that was scary! But bloody hell, if you do like thrillers this is such a thriller! I was so worried for […]
2 Show more Review I’m so not a thriller reader, so I was scared to start reading my ARC, but this was perfect for me. It’s definitely more character based domestic noir than bloody and violent. The storyline was so interesting. 17 year olds can so self centred, obnoxious and casually cruel in ways a 37
What an epic quest. So different from what I was expecting. So much more than what I was expecting. Beautiful girls doing unbelievable things. It is such evocative language “knobs turning, doors opening, cupboards slamming shut…”. Such beautiful messages “I think we’re supposed to to find ourselves things to etch”; a world where gold rots
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I don’t understand the indifferent reviews. I thought it was brilliant. I think it makes such a compelling statement on our national identity. There were definitely times when I felt chills. I thought it was a powerful story that really describes what could have been. For me the plot and narrative was tight. I thought
This was such a great iso escape for me. What a difference world! Lady Anne Glenconner has shown me a life where ‘she tried her hardest to be a boy’, one in which ‘she didn’t think to question’, where the qualities of her children’s childhoods where unashamedly down to the right nanny ‘which made all
I really liked it. I thought the fact that Eleanor was so vain and arrogant just made her a rich, entitled fully formed character. I liked seeing WW2 through the eyes of an American living in Paris, a French policeman, and the German outcast. I loved Bauer, haven’t we all made bargains with God…I really
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I didn’t think I liked short stories, but these were fantastic. They are all full stories just condensed, I felt completely satisfied and happy with all of them. April was a great time to be reading them too, very Easter Perfect. I loved that these were all strong female role models crossing boundaries at pivotal
Such a sad, hopeful, thought provoking, insightful novel. I loved Martha and I know she’ll be fine. It’s an engrossing novel about a woman, her family, her life and her marriage. I thought it provided real insight into mental illness “my whole adult life I’ve been trying to work out what is wrong with me…”
Such a moving, powerful story of love, war, literature and longing. Seen through a German surgeon during the doomed Russian invasion in 1941. It showed me so well the horrors of war (made iso look like a holiday) the camaraderie of war, as well as the gift literature is in times of crisis. The story
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** spoiler alert ** Gosh I was completely immersed in this story. It’s a novel concerned with mental illness and domestic violence “he felt so scared..the fear of missing made him stop from even trying” “the bitch will pay”. I think it does a brilliant job at looking behind the names and headlines of tragedies like
