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⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: "The moment she woke up, her nightmare began..." What would you do if you awakened to find a dangerous stranger in your house? In your bed, next to you? Now your home has become your prison, and your body, a battlefield. How would you hold onto your sanity, your self-esteem, your very soul …
Last Sunday I went to the most magnificent book "shop" of all time and I want to share the beauty of it all with you. It's unlike anything I've (and probably you've) ever experienced and it was A M A Z I N G. What I'm talking about is a well-kept secret, only known to …
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One so many occasions (especially when I'm not enjoying the book I'm currently reading) I think back on all my favourite reads and just wish I could go back read them for the first time again and experience that immense true love book feeling all over again. So that's what I'm going to talk about …
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Synopsis: Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream—and its worst nightmare—American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront. Review: This was …
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ’s church—a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to …
Continue reading "Review: Heaven’s Crooked Finger by Hank Early @hankjearly @crookedlanebks"
An age ago, I posted a similar blog all about the lowest rated books on my Goodreads, which I am planning on revisiting and doing a part 2 of soon. But today I wanted to look at the opposite and take a look at the most loved books on my TBR! Without further ado, let's …
I really love historical fiction, especially when it's focused on a mystery - what I like to call, Mystorical Fiction - but I haven't actually read that many of these type of books. I have loads on my TBR, however, so here's a list of 6 books I'm really excited to read... at some point... …
I used to do a very regular Netgalley Picks of the Week post, but since I don't visit Netgalley much anymore, those blogs kind of fizzled out. I wanted to keep something Netgalley focused on my blog so I thought why not introduce a very loose series of books I've added to my TBR thanks …
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Hey guys, happy new year! It's officially 2019 and time for a whole new 365 days of reading. I have been very absent on here lately, and I hadn't planned for this year round up at all, so I'm just going to a quick post that wraps up all my reading in 2018! Just a …
I'm so happy with how my previous All I Want for Christmas is... post turned out. It generated a great amount of discussion and I was glad to see I wasn't the only one who enjoys a darker reality in fiction with unhappy endings. Today I wanted to talk about something I want that's a …
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