Review: This Summer’s Secrets by Emily Barr

ONE HOT SUMMER, FIRST LOVE AND SO MANY BURIED SECRETS . . . Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything exciting before. Always the sidekick . . . Until the summer that changes everything. Cliff House is closed off for most of the year until its rich Londoner owners come down to …

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Review: You, with a View by Jessica Joyce

Two weeks on the road... stuck in a car with your high-school enemy. Noelle Shepard is grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos and letters that hint to a forbidden love in her gram's past. Needing to know the full story, she creates a TikTok video appealing for information - …

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Review: Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every …

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Review: The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence #TheLibraryTrilogy

A boy has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities. A girl has spent hers in a tiny settlement out on the Dust where nightmares stalk and no one goes. The world has never even noticed them. That's about to change. Their stories spiral around each …

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Review: Much Ado About Nada by Uzma Jalaluddin

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On the cusp of thirty, she's still living at home with her brothers and parents in the Golden Crescent neighbourhood of Toronto, resolutely ignoring her mother's unsubtle pleas to get married already. While Nada has a good job as an engineer, it's a …

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Review: The Moon Represents My Heart by Pim Wangtechawat

The Moon Represents My Heart follows a Chinese-British family of time travelers as they seek connections over borders―both national borders and those created by time. A love lost in time. An eternity to find it. The Wang family are hiding a secret―they all have the ability to time travel. When parents Joshua and Lily depart …

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Blog Tour: Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

Lush and visual, chock-full of delicious recipes, Roselle Lim’s magical debut novel is about food, heritage, and finding family in the most unexpected places. At the news of her mother’s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her …

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Short Review: Let’s Be Legends by Sean Fesko

Title: Let's Be Legends Author: Sean Fesko Genre: Fiction Published: 21 February 2019  Publisher:  Red Finch Publishing Disclaimer: I got this copy from the author in exchange for a review. Kara Olecki didn’t mean to kill her boyfriend Matt. But she did—and she’s paying the price. As she waits for the jury’s decision, she has …

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Review: Hamartia by Raquel Rich

Title: Hamartia Author: Raquel Rich Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller Published: 15 August 2018 Publisher: Words Matter Publishing   Grace's nine-year-old son, Jordan, is dying. First, the Metagenesis disease will tear his soul from his body, and then it will kill him. Desperate for a cure, Grace agrees to take part in an illegal clinical trial …

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ARC Review: Since We Were Friends by Zøe Haslie

Title: Since We Were Friends Author: Zøe Haslie Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Friendship, Family Publisher: pre-publishing phase Disclaimer: I got this book from the author via Swoon Reads but it surely will not affect my review.  (in case you guys haven't known yet, Swoon Reads is a site that allows readers to read manuscripts. More excitingly, …

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Review: Gaston’s Tale by Celeste K. Ramirez

Title: Gaston's Tale Author: Celeste K. Ramirez Genre: Fantasy, Teenage Published: 24 February 2016 Publisher: Olympia Publisher Amazon \ Book Depository | Official Site  Thank you so much to Olympia Publisher for providing me the review copy in exchange for an honest review! But surely, it will not affect my review in any way. "A different and slightly modern …

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DNF Review: If Only I’d Listened

Title: If Only I'd Listened Author: Claire Boley Genre: Fiction Published: 27 July 2017 Publisher: Olympia Publishers Amazon   ◊   Book Depository IS YOUR GIRLFRIEND PREGNANT? How ready are you for that? How would you deal with becoming a parent before you've left school? One thing's for sure, you can't unmake babies. A fact that's borne …

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Review: Down in The Devil’s Hole

  Title: Down in the Devil's Hole Author: Isabel Carter Genre: Thriller, Suspense Published: 26 October 2017 Publisher: Pegasus Elliot McKenzie LTD Amazon   ◊   Book Depository   ◊   Official Site Seconded to a sleepy costal town, Detective Chief Inspector John Macgregor is desperate to get back to the big city. When a body washes up on …

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