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I Heart Paris is the third instalment of the I Heart series, with my favourite leading lady, Angela. Paris…the Eiffel Tower, boat rides on the Seine, gorgeous designer clothes, her gorgeous rock star boyfriend, it sounds like the perfect romantic trip, but that’s not quite the case for Angela!
I love the descriptions in this book, I could picture exactly the setting of Angela’s adventures, it made me miss the beautiful city and I just wanted to hop on the Eurostar for a weekend…wishful thinking I know
I love the descriptions in this book, I could picture exactly the setting of Angela’s adventures, it made me miss the beautiful city and I just wanted to hop on the Eurostar for a weekend…wishful thinking I know
I’ve been told by many people that And Then There Were None is their favourite Agatha book. That it’s incredible and nothing like they’ve read before. My expectations were high! However, this is not my favourite book of hers I’m afraid, Death on the Nile still holds that title strong!
10 people all stuck on an island, no one knows each other, and one by one then all end up dead. It’s such an interesting story! And yes, I’m sure it is like nothing you might have read before…however last month I was on a blog tour for a YA thriller that was based on this book, and had 10 social influencers trapped on an island, dying one by one. So it felt a little similar to You’re So Dead, which I guess it was meant to! That made it a little harder for me to get into it, mainly because I was like ‘oh I just read something EXACTLY like this!’ So I think I either should’ve read this before I did the blog tour for the YA book, or waited a lot longer to read this one and left more than a few weeks between them. (Although the original still wins for me)
That aside, it really was a good book! I found the start a little confusing, getting to know and remember 10 characters can be a bit much, but about halfway through I was better accustomed with them. The ending was incredible! That final chapter had me hooked! It is so so clever how it was done, I genuinely had no idea who the murderer was and how they pulled it off!
I’m so glad I read this one, I just wish I’d have read it at a different time then I might have loved it a bit more!
10 people all stuck on an island, no one knows each other, and one by one then all end up dead. It’s such an interesting story! And yes, I’m sure it is like nothing you might have read before…however last month I was on a blog tour for a YA thriller that was based on this book, and had 10 social influencers trapped on an island, dying one by one. So it felt a little similar to You’re So Dead, which I guess it was meant to! That made it a little harder for me to get into it, mainly because I was like ‘oh I just read something EXACTLY like this!’ So I think I either should’ve read this before I did the blog tour for the YA book, or waited a lot longer to read this one and left more than a few weeks between them. (Although the original still wins for me)
That aside, it really was a good book! I found the start a little confusing, getting to know and remember 10 characters can be a bit much, but about halfway through I was better accustomed with them. The ending was incredible! That final chapter had me hooked! It is so so clever how it was done, I genuinely had no idea who the murderer was and how they pulled it off!
I’m so glad I read this one, I just wish I’d have read it at a different time then I might have loved it a bit more!
Here Is The Beehive is a tricky one. It’s all about a woman grieving the unexpected death of her lover…her lover that no one knew about, because they’re both married to other people. Cheating is a huge no no for me. I find that I can’t emphasise with characters who cheat in books. So I found it a bit hard to read such strong emotions from a character, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really happy with. But there were points where the feelings and words were so heartbreaking that I forgot for a moment the situation. Then I went back to not really liking her again
I’ve seen this book quite a lot on here, but not really from any British bookstagrammers, and as I hadn’t looked it up properly, I kinda just assumed that it wasn’t out here yet. So when I walked into the library the other week and it was the first book I saw, I had to get it!
This is such a fast pace read! Charlie is a university student who desperately wants to get home after the murder of her roommate and best friend, so she accepts a lift from a virtual stranger, Josh, that she met at the campus ride board. As they start to talk on the drive, it begins to dawn on her that Josh, might just be the Campus killer…and is she his next victim? The whole book takes place in just one night, but the question is, can she survive it?
I really enjoyed this! As the main character is a huge movie fan, the chapters kinda work like a movie script, the chapters themselves are written as normal prose, but the titles are descriptive like a script. For a while I really didn’t know what was going to happen, and there was definitely a twist that I didn’t see coming! Although at the end I did kinda guess something big, but that didn’t ruin the story for me.
I’ve seen some mixed reviews for this one, some people absolutely LOVE it, others really really don’t! I’m somewhere in between
This is such a fast pace read! Charlie is a university student who desperately wants to get home after the murder of her roommate and best friend, so she accepts a lift from a virtual stranger, Josh, that she met at the campus ride board. As they start to talk on the drive, it begins to dawn on her that Josh, might just be the Campus killer…and is she his next victim? The whole book takes place in just one night, but the question is, can she survive it?
I really enjoyed this! As the main character is a huge movie fan, the chapters kinda work like a movie script, the chapters themselves are written as normal prose, but the titles are descriptive like a script. For a while I really didn’t know what was going to happen, and there was definitely a twist that I didn’t see coming! Although at the end I did kinda guess something big, but that didn’t ruin the story for me.
I’ve seen some mixed reviews for this one, some people absolutely LOVE it, others really really don’t! I’m somewhere in between
The Paper Palace seems to be one everyone either loves or doesn’t really enjoy. Me? I’m a little ambivalent.
I am normally a huge fan of multiple timelines, but for some reason I just couldn’t get into it for this one. The first 40% took me so long to read, I just wasn’t really feeling it, I felt like I was reading for ages but only gaining like 5% each time. It was frustrating, especially because I did want to know what was happening, but I also didn’t really want to pick it up
I am normally a huge fan of multiple timelines, but for some reason I just couldn’t get into it for this one. The first 40% took me so long to read, I just wasn’t really feeling it, I felt like I was reading for ages but only gaining like 5% each time. It was frustrating, especially because I did want to know what was happening, but I also didn’t really want to pick it up
I have always been a huge Spice Girls fan, I had the dolls, the bedding, that luminous green Spiceworld VHS tape. I LOVED them! So when I saw Mel B’s autobiography on Audible I had to get it!
Mel B really is brutally honest in this book. She’s open, she’s honest, she tells it all as it was, and it was hard. Not all of it obviously, but when things got bad for her, they really were bad. I had seen bits about her relationship with her ex husband on the news and social media before, but obviously, that’s always the whole truth. Whereas here, here we learn everything. It was heartbreaking to hear our lovely strong Scary Spice, one of the most confident celebrities out there, at her most vulnerable.
This audiobook had me hooked, I didn’t want to turn it off. Mel’s story was gripping, it was awful to hear just how her world was at points, but her amazing personality shone through from start to finish. There were also chapters written and read by her mum and daughter, which were so raw and showed how a abusive relationship affects so many more people than just the person in the relationship.
It was a tough read, but it also had some highlights in there too. I loved hearing about how close Mel was with her other Spice Girls outside of ‘the band’, just how much being a Spice Girl meant to her, how she truly loved seeing her fans and making music that meant something to people.
It’s hard to say I enjoyed this book when a lot of it was so brutal, but I did love having this insight to someone who was part of something that played a big part of my childhood (and let’s be honest, from there onwards).
Obviously with Mel’s past, there are serious trigger warnings for this book, especially about domestic abuse, but feel free to DM me if you want more information on that.
Mel B really is brutally honest in this book. She’s open, she’s honest, she tells it all as it was, and it was hard. Not all of it obviously, but when things got bad for her, they really were bad. I had seen bits about her relationship with her ex husband on the news and social media before, but obviously, that’s always the whole truth. Whereas here, here we learn everything. It was heartbreaking to hear our lovely strong Scary Spice, one of the most confident celebrities out there, at her most vulnerable.
This audiobook had me hooked, I didn’t want to turn it off. Mel’s story was gripping, it was awful to hear just how her world was at points, but her amazing personality shone through from start to finish. There were also chapters written and read by her mum and daughter, which were so raw and showed how a abusive relationship affects so many more people than just the person in the relationship.
It was a tough read, but it also had some highlights in there too. I loved hearing about how close Mel was with her other Spice Girls outside of ‘the band’, just how much being a Spice Girl meant to her, how she truly loved seeing her fans and making music that meant something to people.
It’s hard to say I enjoyed this book when a lot of it was so brutal, but I did love having this insight to someone who was part of something that played a big part of my childhood (and let’s be honest, from there onwards).
Obviously with Mel’s past, there are serious trigger warnings for this book, especially about domestic abuse, but feel free to DM me if you want more information on that.
I know we all have our favourite main characters, but who’s your favourite side character, your favourite character’s bestie, the one who also deserves their own book? Well mine went and got one!
Mine has to be Jenny Lopez, Angela Clark’s go to woman. The one who helped make a spontaneous trip to New York, the best decision ever. I LOVE her, we all need a Jenny Lopez in our lives.
This isn’t a full novel of Jenny, it’s a short story, but I will take a short story in the hopes that one day Jenny will have her own novel!
Mine has to be Jenny Lopez, Angela Clark’s go to woman. The one who helped make a spontaneous trip to New York, the best decision ever. I LOVE her, we all need a Jenny Lopez in our lives.
This isn’t a full novel of Jenny, it’s a short story, but I will take a short story in the hopes that one day Jenny will have her own novel!
I loved it! Empress and Aniya were such great characters! I loved the idea behind the book, I mean who didn’t love the film Freaky Friday? And a little bit of a witchy spell for an October read…perfect timing! I’m not exactly a big fantasy person, so this is how I like my magic in books
I’m not really a huge fantasy or spooky person, I have read a few that I really enjoyed to be fair, but generally speaking, it’s not really for me. Plus (please don’t hate me), I’m not really into Halloween, at all. Like I could very easily just let the 31st October go by like a normal day, I’m more of a Christmas person myself! But this year I wanted to make more of an effort for spooky reads, so I tried The Shining, and that was a huge no from me, a DNF. But then…then I read The Ex Hex. Now this is my kind of Halloween read!
I saw a review for for Starfish on bookstagram and I immediately went and requested it on BorrowBox. I had to wait nearly three months for it to become available, but it was honestly worth the wait!
I won’t lie, it was hard to read (or listen to) at points. This young girl is not even a teenager yet and the stuff she hears and has to process at such a young age is so mentally draining. I felt so much for her, for her just to be loved for who she was. She had a brilliant couple of friends which was great, and her relationship with her dad was so lovely, but reading everything her mum put her through, that broke me. How a mother could say and do some of the stuff she did to Ellie, I just couldn’t comprehend it. It was cruel.
But of course, there was growth, I mean otherwise this story would just be cruel the whole way through and that would be awful. It was lovely to see Ellie own herself and her identity.
There are some definite content warnings for this one, especially for bullying and fat phobia. But I definitely think young people should read this one and for it be in schools, it shows just what people’s words can do to someone.
I deserve to be seen.
To be noticed.
To be heard.
To be treated like a human.
I won’t lie, it was hard to read (or listen to) at points. This young girl is not even a teenager yet and the stuff she hears and has to process at such a young age is so mentally draining. I felt so much for her, for her just to be loved for who she was. She had a brilliant couple of friends which was great, and her relationship with her dad was so lovely, but reading everything her mum put her through, that broke me. How a mother could say and do some of the stuff she did to Ellie, I just couldn’t comprehend it. It was cruel.
But of course, there was growth, I mean otherwise this story would just be cruel the whole way through and that would be awful. It was lovely to see Ellie own herself and her identity.
There are some definite content warnings for this one, especially for bullying and fat phobia. But I definitely think young people should read this one and for it be in schools, it shows just what people’s words can do to someone.
I deserve to be seen.
To be noticed.
To be heard.
To be treated like a human.