by Helen | Jun 20, 2024 | Book reviews
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...
by Helen | Jun 6, 2024 | Book reviews
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...
by Helen | May 13, 2024 | Book reviews
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...
by Helen | Apr 11, 2024 | Book reviews
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...
by Helen | Apr 6, 2024 | Book reviews
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...
by Helen | Apr 1, 2024 | Book reviews
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...
