I was lucky enough to get a proof copy of Cecily before it came out in July. My first thoughts were how beautiful the cover is! It’s extremely striking and is so much more modern than lots of other historical fictions novels. That aside, I...
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Luster seemed to be the book on everyone’s lips at the start of this year. My grand plans had been to look away from all the noise of new books and focus on the ones that I have outstanding to read. Within I’ll say a few...
I was really lucky and received some beautiful books as presents at Christmas time, including Hamnet. If you’re on bookstagram you couldn’t move for seeing this book last year. It seems like Hamnet was universally applauded, which is cemented by the fact that it won the...
Hands up who has a pile of reviews to write that’s almost as big as their pile of books waiting to be read? Me too, my friends, me too. No time like the present then! First up is Slack-Tide, a slim but powerful book I...
Heartstopper (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) by Alice Oseman
posted by: Megan
October 18, 2020
I wrote very recently on here that if you’re going to buy Heartstopper, you have to get all three available volumes at once. If not you will be like me, devour the first in one sitting and be kicking yourself that you have wait another...
Oh hey, it’s just me, the last person on earth to read The Flatshare! Or so it seems – this book is basically Bookstagram Famous. When I started my account earlier this year I saw it all over my feed so I thought I’d add...
I did what we say we won’t do and I chose a book based solely on its cover. I mean, look at it – do you blame me? When I was browsing the tables in Storysmith, the scrumptiously vibrant cover of Supper Club stood out...
Let’s be honest, it doesn’t matter how many times you hear the saying, sometimes you’re going to choose a book based on its cover. That’s exactly what happened when I stumbled across Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker during a late-night online shopping trip....
The other day, I was writing a post when I realised that I hadn’t reviewed any Nora Ephron books. That is something that I have to fix immediately. Like I have said elsewhere, I became a fan of Nora Ephron before I even knew it....
So, I read The Vegetarian a little while ago and it’s taken me until now to be ready to review it. It’s one of those books that had to settle before I could start to reflect on my ideas about it. To put it simply,...