“It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.” Genre: Thriller Pages: 321 Published: December 7th 2018 Rate: 4.5 stars Goodreads Synopsis Lowen Ashleigh is… Continue reading Review: Verity by Colleen Hoover
Tag: Romance
Review: Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
“There’s power in knowledge passed between generations, whether it’s by those books of yours or by an elder’s mouth.” Genre: Romance Fiction Pages: 400 Published: 23rd June, 2020 Rate: 4stars Goodreads Synopsis Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension.… Continue reading Review: Take A Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
Review: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
"Everything in the world had a story. He had a story too. He would write his story one day, and write about the mermaid" Genre: Fiction, Magical Realism Pages: 187 Rate: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a… Continue reading Review: The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Review: Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
"Love reveals its insanity by its refusal to acknowledge the inherent normality of the loved one." Genre: Fiction, Romance Pages: 249 Published: November 1993 Rate: 3 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Charting the progress of an affair, from first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to anxiety, this is a wholly modern attempt to… Continue reading Review: Essays In Love by Alain De Botton
Blog Tour: The Meeting Point by Olivia Lara // Review
"There's enough sadness in the world as it is." Genre: Romance Fiction Pages: 368 Published: 2nd September, 2021 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis What if the Lift driver who finds your cheating boyfriend's phone holds the directions to true love? 'Who are you and why do you have my boyfriend's phone?' 'He left it in… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Meeting Point by Olivia Lara // Review
Review: How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
"They were a comfort amid the silent howl of grief." Genre: Fantasy Fiction Pages: 352 Published: July 6, 2017 Rate: 3 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a… Continue reading Review: How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
Review: Bad Love by Maame Blue
"I am not a romantic. I do not know how to tell those kinds of stories, the ones filled with magic and laughter and purple hue." Genre: Fiction, Romance Pages: 340 Published: June 18, 2020 Rate: 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken word poetry in London, Venice, Accra… Continue reading Review: Bad Love by Maame Blue
Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
"And the young, who love so passionately, have no idea how ugly this world is." Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 308 Published: June 18, 2019 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with… Continue reading Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali