⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the #RRbooktours #blogtour for the thriller #Safekeeping by #evamackenzie How far will we go to protect our secrets, and the ones we love? Are the choices we make for love ever really justifiable? In this book we meet Sonia, Jamie and Jenna,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Historical fiction at its absolute best. This fascinating foray into the beginnings of the Scottish Reformation tells the fictional tale of Bethia and her brother Will, children of a wealthy merchant who are caught up in the activities surrounding the historical seizure of St. Andrews castle…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “It was impossible to tell a pauper from a prince in this city”. Jamie Buckby, the narrator of our story, is a strange and unsettling character. A self-proclaimed provocateur, Jamie is arrogant, his humor skirting a definite edge, his relationship with his long-time lover Clare shuttered…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the @rrbooktours1 #blogtour for the YA/NA book @Catwalk by @nicolegabor “I was sick of following the rules”. What teenage girl hasn’t dreamed of chucking it all in - college, suburbia, ( and parents), and heading for a new beginning in the bright lights…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monsterAnd when you gaze long into an abyss then the abyss also gazes into you”. With those words from philosopher Nietzsche, we get a glimpse into the soul of Detective Sergeant…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “The Five Things” is an evocative, gentle book that wraps you up and pulls you into its beguiling world. We first meet Wendy, the main protagonist and our narrator, when she is a young child, aged around nine, living in the South of England in a small…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What could be better than to be by the sea, the beaches with “long swathes of golden looking pebbles”, a glass of chilled wine, freshly baked “burek”, and the shimmer of the evening ahead of you - on holiday on the lovely Croatian island of Brac. Or…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] The third installment in the “Sam Applewhite” series, this madly manic romp has Sam, - once again inadvertently enmeshed in a labyrinth of criminal activity - fighting for her life, scouting out stolen antiques and staring down Hugh, a rangy elderly tiger. All of this mayhem takes…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Even more uproarious than Sealfinger, the first in the Sam Applewhite series, the follow-up novel Doggerland is full-on chuckle-out-loud delightful - think P.G Wodehouse populated with homicidal maniacs, woolly mammoths, Viking misfits, and British pensioners; cavorting over the ancient lands of Doggerland, buried deep within the wintry…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “Sealfinger”, the first in the “Sam Applewhite” series is a one-of-a-kind smorgasbord of crime that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, totally engaging, and incredibly horrific (in a funny way). Based in the seasonal mayhem of Skegness, Lincolnshire, Sam Applewhite, is a tough, level-headed wonder who works for a…