The white Queen
This book was the first book I've read of Phillipa Gregory's, and it was a great introduction into the Tudors (which I knew...
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critical book reviews
Daisy Paterson
- Jan 19, 2019
- 2 min
The forgetting time review
Sharon Guskins debut novel blew me away. This book was something I read a while ago and I am telling everyone to read. It is a book based...
Liane Moriarty
- Aug 28, 2018
- 2 min
What Alice Forgot review
I read about this book and was instantly intrigued by the plot. It was a little more of an easy read which I was craving after Alone in...
Hans Fallada
- Aug 8, 2018
- 3 min
Alone in Berlin
This novel was first published in Gemany in 1947, but later translated by Michael Hofmann and published in 2009. It was a challenging,...
Marie Lu
- Aug 8, 2018
- 3 min
Warcross
I have to admit, this was a novel I picked up from the bookshop very quickly and I wasn’t really sure what it would be like. I was even...
Jodi Picoult
- Aug 8, 2018
- 3 min
Nineteen Minutes
I was having a bit of a low on books for a bit, you know that feeling which you can’t seem to find a book that catches you in the first...
Daisy Paterson
- Jul 22, 2018
- 3 min
The woman in the window review
After finishing the last page of woman in the window, I literally feel speechless. It was twist after twists the whole way through and if...
Paige Toon
- Jun 17, 2018
- 3 min
Five years from now review
'five years from now, you'll look back on this moment and realised why it happened' Ok, so I haven’t uploaded in a while as I have been...
Angie Thomas
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
The hate you give
"Whats the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent?" On the back of this book, it says “an essential read for everyone” from...
Elizabeth Gilbert
- Mar 26, 2018
- 3 min
big magic
Wow, I can safely say this book CHANGED MY LIFE. I read it in under 24 hours, and that was only due to the necessity of sleep. I had...
Heather Morris
- Mar 24, 2018
- 2 min
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
This tragic but uplifting story follows a Slovakian man’s story in the concentration camp of Auschwitz and his love for another prisoner....
Geraldine McCaughrean
- Mar 13, 2018
- 3 min
Where the world ends
Set in 1727, nine boys and three men set out to Hirta, where they go every summer to hunt birds. However, no one comes to rescue them and...
Jojo Moyes
- Feb 28, 2018
- 4 min
Still me review
NOTE spoilers to 'me before you' and 'after you' included... This is the third book in the trilogy from the original 'me before you.' Me...
Gail Honeyman
- Feb 19, 2018
- 4 min
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine review
I can not put into words how much I loved this book. Every chapter it got better and better, I was more hooked every page I read. The...
Matt Haig
- Feb 5, 2018
- 4 min
How to stop time review
How to stop time hooked me from the beginning, even from reading the blurb. It had a plot that was completely different from anything I...
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