Book reviews

As you should be able to tell from the title - but let me just confirm it - this really is a book all about triangles. Do not buy it if you are not remotely interested in these shapes with three sides! But if you like popular science books, are intrigued by the shapes...

This is a literary romance with bags of charm and a gentle pace.Addie lives on a tiny island running a women's retreat with her mother, who has controlled her every move her whole life. She dreams of getting away but doesn't know how. Sol is visits a neighbouring...

Five years ago, Ryan's girlfriend goes missing during a night out with him - he says she was taken, no one else is convinced, but with no body there is only suspicion rather than arrests. Today, Ryan's at law school, slowly getting over it all - and then her car is...

I see the 5-star reviews and this is a page-turner, but gawd it's depressing, too.Redemption is largely about retribution. Eleven years ago Aaron ran over and killed Evelyn and Josh's nine-year-old son. For eleven years, Evelyn has been waiting to serve justice - to...

This is a slow-burn creepy horror/thriller set in the UK's Lake District. The setting plays a big part of the story here - it's beautiful, ominous, old, mysterious.But let's start at the beginning. Ashley Whitelam is a psychic, and yes she cheats money out of the...

Mania is an interesting and challenging read from Shriver.It's a satire set in an alternate world in which the Mental Parity movement takes off in 2011. This movement essentially states that everyone is equally intelligent (some people simply process things in an...

I'm unsure whether I've read any Myron Bolitor before (I think I might have done but before I kept records; I've definitely read a Win book or two), but that didn't stop me from launching headfirst into this twisty turny crime thriller.It begins when the FBI turn up...

Alien Clay is a book about politics as much as it is about aliens.It begins as Professor Arton Daghdev plummets at speed to the ground of the planet Kiln, thrown from the latest ship bearing new workers. He's been exiled due to political activism, now condemned to...

How to Solve Your Own Murder is an intriguing and cosy-ish mystery that spans two viewpoints and several decades. In 1965, 17-yr-old Frances has her fortune told, but is dismayed to hear a prophecy that includes her own murder. Eventually, she will become obsessed...

I enjoyed the final entry in this series - it was so nice to get to Spring and a bit of (no spoilers) hope!Please note - don't read this book as a standalone, go back to the beginning and start with book 1, okay? But as a recap, there's been a pandemic of sorts, all...

The Collapsing Wave is a sequel to The Space Between Us, and I really would recommend reading them in order if at all possible.This is a compelling page-turner playing with an often used, but somehow here still fresh, science fiction idea - what would we do if aliens...

Lights flash in the skies above Scotland. Many who see it have a stroke and never recover. But three victims recover almost suspiciously quickly, and when there are reports of an octopus-like creature washing up on a shore, they feel an instant and odd connection to...

Five Bad Deeds is an interesting take on a psychological thriller. Filled with a host of mostly unlikeable characters, and based on information that's hidden from the reader, it's going to annoy some people but entertain others. I fell into the side of entertainment -...

This was a hard and challenging read for many plot-related reasons, so I'd only recommend reading Toxxic if you've read and enjoyed Moths (the first in the series) first. That aside, I also found it compelling and thought-provoking, so it was a worthwhile read for me....

The Descent is both a sequel AND prequel to The Forcing, as it plays with two timelines. One that explores what led up to the climate crisis that changed the world forever, and one that takes the story further into the future and the new post-apocalyptic world. I'd...