What a beautiful book! Heartbreaking ... but so, so beautiful! Audrey is terminally ill and moves in with her daughter, single mom Jess, and teenage granddaughter Mia. It was a difficult choice deciding who she should live with, Jess or her other daughter Lily, especially as the two haven't spoken for 30 years! But eventually, … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW: If Only I Could Tell You by Hannah Beckerman
It's Day One of the Blog Tour for The Four of Us, and thanks to the wonderful invention that is 'Load Shedding' in Johannesburg, I wasn't able to post this earlier! But yay ... finally, we have electricity, so here we go ... As much as I say I don’t like girly books (see, I … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – The Four of Us by Áine Toner
Ok, so ... this is the third in a series of which I hadn't read the previous two books. It's easily read as a standalone but I need to say off the bat that although this is the case, and the author does a good job of filling the reader in on the backstory, this … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – Perfect Bones by AJ Waines (Dr. Samantha Willerby #3)
The first thing I need to say is that I absolutely love the fact that the author, a MAN - the 'M' is for 'Mike' - has the incredible ability to create such strong, resilient female protagonists. He must have had some pretty amazing role-models in his life! I've had 'The Girl With All the … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – Someone Like Me by M.R. Carey
A novel about food, whānau, and mental illness. Blurb: Valerie reads George Eliot to get to sleep – just to take her mind off worries over her patients, her children, their father and the next family dinner. Elena is so obsessed with health, traditional food, her pregnancy and her blog she doesn’t notice that her … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – Fishing for Maui by Isa Pearl Ritchie
I loved this book! It has the perfect balance of psychological and supernatural to unhinge you just that much without tipping you completely over the edge! Not many authors have the ability to get that right, but Redmond manages to do it perfectly. The story starts off with Meg as a child, discovering that she … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – The Night Visitor by Patrick Redmond
After reading this I did wonder if the whole idea of artist colonies and the like are really so great after all. All that ego and hedonism in one place! Is there really anywhere large enough to handle it?! Tamar Hodes has based this partly autobiographical novel on Hydra in the 60's. It's a time … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – The Water and the Wine by Tamar Hodes
Far fetched? Possibly. But sadly, as they say, the truth is stranger than fiction. This truth, however, happens more often than we would like to think: men who appear loving and 'perfect' on the surface but who hide something much darker behind that charming facade. That's the case with David who manages to con Annie … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – The Dream Wife by Louisa de Lange
A really unique take on the psychological thriller genre. I must say, authors are coming up with some quite remarkable killing methods these days, ensuring that those of us who are fans of this category of reading never run out of material ... I'm just a little nervous as to where they're getting their ideas … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – The Tattoo Thief by Alison Belsham
Blurb: A young woman is found, emaciated and unconscious, in the mountains surrounding a village in Transylvania. When it is discovered that she is of an ethnic group which was violently driven out of the regions many years before, old wounds are reopened as the villagers are reminded of their role in the bloodshed. … Continue reading BLOG TOUR REVIEW – The Barefoot Road by Vivienne Vermes
