For anyone doing #authoramonth #99pkindledeal

This was hard but here‘s my final six nominations for Camp Litsy! #camplitsy23

I enjoyed this. I don‘t normally like dual timelines (or triple in this case) but all three storylines were interesting and I liked all the characters. It‘s very readable.

This was a mixed bag for me. I loved the premise (I‘m a sucker for a good old fashioned revenge plot) and the writing was refreshing and so funny at times. But other times it was long winded and dragged?! Not sure about the ending either…! Bit disappointing.

I was dead chuffed to find a secondhand bookshop in the basement of Walmer Castle! 😁

I should have bailed! Really disappointing. The modern storyline was too long, boring and by the end quite depressing. The wartime storyline was really good at first, I liked the sections on her training as a spy but her actual mission is really brief with too much attention given to the love story and the end of that plot line… really? It just didn‘t ring true for me. Not what I was hoping for.

This was just the sort of palate cleanse I needed. Easy to read and charming, it was a delight and just what my frazzled brain needed right now. 👍

Totally engrossing! A young couple buy a farm in Cornwall to start a commune with a group of friends and live sustainably but then things take a turn for the worst….!
This is so gripping, I loved living their idyllic life on the farm then it went really dark and sinister! Absolutely loved it.

I loved this book. Frida is a struggling single mother who has a very bad day and the state send her away for a year to teach her how to be a good mother. It‘s like The Handmaid‘s Tale meets One flew over the cuckoos nest. It is so immersive and scary and I still can‘t stop thinking about it. Loved it so much, I read it on my kindle but had to buy the hardback. (God bless Waterstones hardback sale).😉

If any of the ladies doing #nunlit are looking for some soothing music to listen to while reading, this is a lovely little piece written by a medieval nun! 🧘 🎶

Looking forward to doing a chapter a day of this chunkster. I am going to cheat and use the serial reader app tho as this is a monster to hold. 😆 #buddyread #chunksterchallenge #pemberlittens

Thank you lovely Litsy Ladies for the cards. ❤️ 😀

Last book of the year and what a book it was! I thought this was going to be really literary and boring but, like Fleabag, it‘s real, gritty and raw. I laughed and cried and absolutely loved every damn page. Best book of the year and one of my top ten favs of all time! (Plus it‘s only 99p on kindle at the mo 👍)

I loved this! I have never been into gaming but my kids love it. I now have a new found respect for the work and effort that goes into it and how it is essentially interactive storytelling. I loved the John Greenesque bittersweet writing. Highly enjoyable. My only complaint… it is a little long.

Thank you @jhod this sounds fab! I love books about Pompeii so I can‘t wait to dive in! 😀 👍

Thank you so much @Oryx 😀 I had just added this to my Christmas wish list so perfect timing! I can‘t wait to read it. 👍

Birthday book haul! 🎉😁 Thank you so much @kathedron @squirrelbrain @TrishB @kaysworld1 for my lovely books and cards. I can‘t wait to dive into them all!!!

I‘ve bailed on the last couple of Three Pines books but this felt like a return to form for me. If a little long winded at time. I‘ll give the next book a go tho. 👍

What kind of ending was that??? I loved the beginning of this, plenty of dysfunctional family drama but then there were more characters and more till I got new perspective fatigue and then that ending?!?!? 🤬 so lazy!

I really enjoyed this! I loved Joy, the Mum of a family obsessed with tennis. It was overly long at times but I loved all the family drama and the writing was so easy to read. Thank you @squirrelbrain for gifting this to me. 👍

For anyone doing author a month, 99p on kindle. 👍 #authoramonth

I throughly enjoyed this dark Victorian murder mystery. Full of gothic atmosphere, suspense and intriguing. The perfect mix of historical fiction and a thriller; it had so many twists and turns!! Really good! 👍

This is really good! Caught up in a dodgy curse, Juliet keeps reincarnating and reliving a doomed romance. It‘s really readable and I loved the historical sections. Reminded me of Interview with a vampire but I hear others compare it to Addie Larue. Well worth 99p on kindle. 👍

I don‘t normally like short stories but this collection of ghost stories written by Laura Purcell, Jess Kid and Kieran Millwood Hargrave (to name but a few!) is so good. They‘re all creepy, gothic classic ghost stories. Perfect for Halloween. #99pkindledeals

Only 99p on kindle today if anyone is doing author a month? #authoramonth #99pkindledeal

Thank you so much for thinking of me @squirrelbrain and sending me the infamous new Stephen King book! It‘s really cheered me up and I‘m dead chuffed to be able to join in the buddy read next weekend esp as I can‘t be there in person! So thoughtful! Thank you! 😘 ❤️

My overly ambitious Autumn TBR pile!! 😆 🤦‍♀️

This is a good book and so well written but it really dipped in the middle. At over 600 pages, this is wayyyy to long for a whodunnit, there‘s only so long you can keep the suspense going. I started to not care. Also the main relationship between the 34yr old writer and a 15yr old girl was gross and the constant references to their great love for each other was too much over so many pages. A very strong ending though.

I‘m not mad, I‘m just disappointed! With myself, for not listening to the negative reviews. This is as bad as everyone says! I can‘t believe it was written by the same guy who wrote The Silent Patient. This was so predictable and daft with cardboard characters and even worse dialogue. Meh.

Think a girly Silicon Valley meets We Work! I got totally absorbed into Asha‘s world as she tries to build an alternative to social media. The characters felt like friends, I want to text them and see how they‘re doing! Not sure on the ending though… I really hope there‘s a sequel!

Ohhh super excited about these two biographies being published soon! 😯 👏

I have had a fab reading week reading all these fantastic thrillers on my kindle! I loved em all and highly recommend if you want a decent thriller that is more than dodgy husbands and drunk women. 😆 #bookreport #weeklyreport

This was so absorbing! I got completely lost in the glamour, glitz and grime of the world Ruth got sucked into. This really reminded me of Ozark but set in London with the Russian mafia. I really hope there‘s a sequel. I want to read more unique thrillers like this!! #99ponkindle

Nope! I‘ve been looking forward to getting into bed with a book all day & I just can‘t read any more. Disappointing!!! I loved the beginning. Dragons, the Napoleonic war, beautiful writing! Then the doldrums hit! How can dragon school be boring? When you spend too much time banging on about the dragon bathing, eating and having his harness on and off again! Arghhh! I kept waiting for something to happen?! #authoramonth

I read this on my kindle but I loved it so much I want to get the hardback! A super fun caper story like Good Girls. I didn‘t want it to end and I really hope there‘s going to be a sequel….! 😁

Like a salt n vinegar crisps and chocolate, thrillers are my comfort read and this ticked all the boxes. It dipped a little in the middle & it didn‘t live up to my expectations after Home Before Dark but still a good solid thriller. 👍

Absolutely loved it! Maggie inherits a haunted house with a dark and sinister history and goes on a mission to discover her own family history; was her family terrorised by ghosts when they lived there when she was a kid or did her Dad make it all up to make money? Such a great premise and the writing was engrossing and fully immersive. Can‘t wait to read more by this author.

Book Haul! 😍 I‘m a bit scared of all the hype surrounding Tomorrow so I‘m going to put it by till Christmas. Middlemarch is going to be my chunkster challenge for next year. 👍

I loved this! A lifestyle guru/influencer is built up then taken down by trial by media and ‘cancel‘ culture. I couldn‘t put it down, in a similar vein to Gone Girl it‘s hard to know who to believe and which side you‘re on….!

What a shame! The first quarter of this book is sooo good. I loved reading about down trodden Eve and the miners in Edwardian Yorkshire. The writing is superb and gritty; then it took a left turn into Hallmark territory… she‘s an amazing cook, opens her own bakery which does excessively well, she gets lucky break after lucky break, every bloke that meets her loves her yawnnn. And there are way too many characters. Cheese fest!!

Ignore the cheesy cover, this is an epic adventure of a book! Like LOTR and GoT, this is full of tragedy, battles, betrayal and characters that you absolutely love! This best medieval book I have ever read. #chunksterchallenge

Ignore the cheesy cover, this is an epic adventure of a book! Like LOTR and GoT, this is full of tragedy, battles, betrayal and characters that you absolutely love! The best medieval book I have ever read. #chunksterchallenge

This ticks all the boxes of what you want in a good thriller. An under graduate from Cambridge goes to work as a maid in Florence and gets sucked into the ‘Mean Girls‘ world of the privileged rich kids out there. It jumps back and forth from then to now which is good but the ‘Now‘ chapters dragged a bit at times. The ending was very dark and not what I expected at all!!! Overall, a cracking read!

I‘m noticing a pattern of my enjoyment when I read these very ‘literary fiction‘ novels!
I start off in awe; beautiful writing, such complex characters, oh the observations on life are spot on….then I get restless waiting for something to happen…then I get impatient with the characters… I want to bail but feel obligated to finish….I stumble to the end, feel a sigh of bewildered relief and think, that was as satisfying as a rice cake!! 🤷‍♀️

I bailed quite early on this one. I wasn‘t particularly pulled into the story and then I hit a severe trigger. Trigger warning for anyone who has cardiomyopathy in the family!

Wow! Can‘t believe it‘s my 6 year Litsy Anniversary! I‘m so grateful for this lovely community for giving me much comfort over the years and introducing me to some truly fantastic people. 😘 ❤️

This was surprisingly good and I don‘t really like romances. A 40 year old divorcee has an affair with the 20 yr old lead singer of a world famous boy band. It sounds sordid but the characters are relatable and it‘s really romantic till you get sucked into his world of fame and fans. It‘s got an interesting plot too with Devil wears Prada vibes. Very readable.

This was surprisingly good and I don‘t really like romances. A 40 year old divorcee has an affair with the 20 yr old lead singer of a world famous boy band. It sounds sordid but the characters are relatable and it‘s really romantic till you get sucked into his world of fame and fans. It‘s got an interesting plot too with Devil wears Prada vibes. Very readable.

It‘s the 1st July Baby! Wooo! This is my over ambitious July & August TBR pile. Can‘t wait to jump into these over the summer! 😎 🍹 🌞 #mounttbr

It‘s arrived @Oryx 😃 Thank you so much for sending this to me! It sounds fascinating and I can‘t wait to read it! 👍