by Helen | Mar 31, 2025 | Book reviews
Dissolution is a mind-bending science fiction thriller, largely told through interviews and flashback, that’s ultimately about love and memory.It begins with Maggie Webb, an elderly woman whose ailing husband Stanley is struggling with memory loss. She’s...
by Helen | Mar 25, 2025 | Book reviews
An utterly bizarre book that takes the premise ‘what if the moon turned into cheese?’ and runs away with it, to both logical and hilarious extremes (albeit not always both at once).It’s written as a series of interconnected short stories and the...
by Helen | Mar 20, 2025 | Book reviews
Another solid entry in the ‘Forgotten Victims’ series.This time a body is discovered in an old farm silo when some teens crash into it. The victim is a young girl who went missing years ago with only a single and contentious eye witness for her last...
by Helen | Feb 28, 2025 | Book reviews
Tchaikovsky is incredibly prolific and blessed with ideas, as shown here, in Shroud.If I was pitching Shroud to a friend, I might say it’s a mix of The Martian with a futuristic space horror.We start with a team of scientists investigating a dark and mysterious...
by Helen | Feb 11, 2025 | Book reviews
Nobody’s Fool reminded me why I’ve enjoyed reading Coben so much over the years. A strong premise, a pacy beginning, and some interesting twists and turns even when you are beginning to put things together yourself.Here, ex-copper Sami Pierce flashes back...
by Helen | Feb 2, 2025 | Book reviews
Heartstrings features a cute concept – a young girl rings up a romance hotline on a radio station looking for advice for her mum. A clip of it goes viral and soon the mum and one of the main characters (Lucie) is invited onto the show for a regular segment on...
