This Week In Books is a weekly update on what you’ve been reading hosted by Lipsyy Lost & Found . A similar meme is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words
Family Matter: The Beloveds by Maureen Lindley #BlogTour @TitanBooks #TheBeloveds
Families are more than blood and gatherings. They are a huge part of your life, whether you have one or not…
I would like to thank Titan Books for my review copy of The Beloveds. This review is my unbiased opinion.
Title: The Beloveds
Author: Maureen Lindley
Date of publication: 17 June 2018
Publisher: Titan Books
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
Oh, to be a Beloved—one of those lucky people for whom nothing ever goes wrong. Everything falls into their laps without effort: happiness, beauty, good fortune, allure.
Betty Stash is not a Beloved—but her younger sister, the delightful Gloria, is. She’s the one with the golden curls, sunny disposition and captivating smile, the one whose best friend used to be Betty’s, the one whose husband should have been Betty’s. And then, to everyone’s surprise, Gloria inherits the family home—a vast, gorgeous pile of ancient stone, imposing timbers, and lush gardens—that was never meant to be hers.
Losing what Betty considers her rightful inheritance is the final indignity. As she single-mindedly pursues her plan to see the estate returned to her in all its glory, her determined and increasingly unhinged behaviour—aided by poisonous mushrooms, talking walls, and a phantom dog—escalates to the point of no return. The Beloveds will have you wondering if there’s a length to which an envious sister won’t go.
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A Frenchie in London Week 1
I was going for a much more original name for this post but then I decided it was awesome enough without the need of a sparkling title xD
No More Orenda Books Reviews…
Lazy Saturday Review: Remember Me by Lynda Renham
From Lipsyy : I started doing ‘lazy Saturday reviews’ as a way of getting reviews done in just 30 mins, and they proved to be quite popular. They are quick and snappy, and concentrate less on the plot (or content) and writing and more on my overall feelings about said book. They generally end up being a bit of a rant. My fave!
I was kindly offered a copy of this story by the publisher in exchange for an honest review!
Title: Remember Me
Author: Lynda Renham
Date of publication: 2017
Publisher: Raucous Publishing
Format: e-copy
Number of pages: 292
A new neighbour becomes a new friend. She looks up to you. She admires you, but is it you she wants? You begin to wonder if she wants your husband, or even your child. But then you realise, she wants your life.
When Sharni and Tom move into 24 The Pines, it seems like Clare and Chris have the perfect neighbours. Sharni is always there to help, especially with childcare for Clare’s two-year-old, Ben. But Clare can’t shake off the feelings of anxiety that assail her whenever Sharni is near. Is Clare just being overprotective, or are her feelings justified? As Sharni‘s influence touches everyone around her, Clare finds herself fighting for her sanity as well her family.
The gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist.
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May I take this month and kick its bottom away? May Wrap-Up
Oh my gosh, I have never been happier to see a month gone! I felt I raced against time and the universe for 31 days! But I won!!!
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Over the Rainbow: No Fourth River by Christine Clayfield @ClayfieldChris @Bookollective #BlogTour
Today is all about surviving and finding our inner strength! Happy Sunday everyone!
Thank you very much to Bookollective for inviting me to be part of this blog tour. All opinions in this review are mine. I received a copy of No Fourth River for review purposes.
Title: No Fourth River
Author: Christine Clayfield
Date of publication: June 2018
Publisher: RASC Publishing
Format: e-copy
Number of pages: 217
Electroshock therapy, child abuse and modern-day slavery… just another day in Christine’s life.
Take a heart-wrenching yet inspiring ride through one woman’s incredible journey that is so compelling that you are simultaneously trying to look away and unable to stop yourself from reading on.
Christine’s father is a wealthy, tyrannical man renowned in the diamond business. At the age of just five, little Christine is cast aside into a boarding school where she is ridiculed for two embarrassing problems. She grows up in a never-ending circle of traumatic experiences both in her boarding school and at home. It culminates into a falling out between father and child that was never fully mended, leading her into a world of promiscuity and alcohol, eventually landing her in a violent marriage.
Driven to the limits of despair and heartache, she creates a plan to escape her world of misery. Will her plan work?
A story that asks: How do you find the strength, when you suffer almost unbearable abuse and are broken beyond repair, to pick up the pieces of a shattered life?
#NordicNoir Favorite: Big Sister by Gunnar Staalesen @OrendaBooks @annecater #BlogTour
Some characters stay with you, some stories make you hungry for more. The Varg Veum series is my EPIC FAVORITE NORDIC LOVE. Has Big Sister lived up to my expectations?
My biggest thanks to Karen and Anne for this blog tour!
Title: Big Sister
Author: Gunnar Staalesen
Date of publication: 2018
Publisher: Orenda Books
Format: e-copy
Number of pages: 276
Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in Bergen two weeks ago. Since then no one has heard anything from her. She didn’t leave an address. She doesn’t answer her phone. And the police refuse to take her case seriously.
Veum’s investigation uncovers a series of carefully covered-up crimes and pent-up hatreds, and the trail leads to a gang of extreme bikers on the hunt for a group of people whose dark deeds are hidden by the anonymity of the Internet. And then things get personal…
Chilling, shocking and exceptionally gripping, Big Sister reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the world’s foremost thriller writers.
This Week in Books (May 30th 2018)
This Week In Books is a weekly update on what you’ve been reading hosted by Lipsyy Lost & Found . A similar meme is hosted by Sam @ Taking on a World of Words
What a pleasure it is to schedule your reads without having to think of homework and university. Pure bliss! First TWIB in months for which I don’t wonder if I’ll manage to read them all!
Need a Book Hangover? Dying Truth by Angela Marsons @WriteAngie @bookouture #killerbook #KimStoneSeries
She does it again.
Thank you to Bookouture for my review copy and to Angela Marsons for making me feel so alive!
Title: Dying Truth
Author: Angela Marsons
Date of publication: May 18th 2018
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: e-copy
Number of pages: 384
No more star ratings! (but OMG if I did, this would get all the stars!!)
How far would you go to protect your darkest secrets?
When teenager Sadie Winter jumps from the roof of her school, her death is ruled as suicide – a final devastating act from a troubled girl. But then the broken body of a young boy is discovered at the same school and it’s clear to Detective Kim Stone that these deaths are not tragic accidents.
As Kim and her team begin to unravel a dark web of secrets, one of the teachers could hold the key to the truth. Yet just as she is about to break her silence, she is found dead.
With more children’s lives at risk, Kim has to consider the unthinkable – whether a fellow pupil could be responsible for the murders. Investigating the psychology of children that kill brings the detective into contact with her former adversary, Dr Alex Thorne – the sociopath who has made it her life’s work to destroy Kim.
Desperate to catch the killer, Kim finds a link between the recent murders and an initiation prank that happened at the school decades earlier. But saving these innocent lives comes at a cost – and one of Kim’s own might pay the ultimate price.
