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critical book reviews
Phillipa Gregory
Jul 24, 20192 min read
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...
Daisy Paterson
Jan 19, 20192 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20184 min read
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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