Sent to me by Titan Books in exchange for an honest review. Release Date: 03/10/17 Publisher: Titan Books ISBN: 978-1785651656 Format: Paperback, 448pp Genre: Horror/Thriller/Bizarre Rating: 5/5 Summed up in a word: Outlandish First Impressions It is soooooo good to be back with this series! I am a huge fan of David Wong (Jason Pargin) and……
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Rating: 5/5 I adored this book. The innocence of it all struck me over and over again, and despite knowing they were both going to die at the end, I found myself falling in love with each of these characters. It wasn’t the biggest sob-fest out of any book I’ve read lately, but I did
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In between university reading I found and bought a copy of Turtles All The Way Down. This is my review of the book I’ve been waiting years to read! REVIEW: Turtles All The Way Down Ever since I read The Fault In Our Stars, all the way back in 2013, I’ve been waiting for a
Read More from: https://novellique.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/review-turtles-all-the-way-down/Review: Every Dog has His Day
Synopsis: A stray kitten and a rambunctious poodle bring together a small-town bachelor and a single mother in the latest romance set in Bluff Point, Maine. Bluff Point brewery owner Zachary Caine wants nothing to do with commitment. His wild bachelor lifestyle suits him perfectly—until a foster kitten named Chaos makes him a reluctant hero.
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Richard Brautigan’s 1967 novella Trout Fishing in America is a difficult book. The opening chapter, “The Cover for Trout Fishing in America,” immediately puts the reader off balance, with a description of the actual book cover that we enter into, as if it is a magic portal. “Around five o’clock in the afternoon of my
Read More from: https://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/reviews/book-review-trout-fishing-in-america-by-richard-brautiganAn Unexpected Afterlife, by Dan Sofer:
Set in East Jerusalem, An Unexpected Afterlife follows the journey of Moshe Karlin, a forty year old husband and father, who awakens from the grave two years after unknowingly leaving the world of the living, to find that he has been replaced by supposed best friend, Avi. As we learn more about Moshe’s predicament, others
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The New York Times Book Review editors announced their top ten books of 2017, with the individual critics’ lists still to come. In fiction, Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award-winning Sing, Unburied, Sing makes the list, along with NBA shortlisted Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, plus: Autumn, by Ali Smith Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid The
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/ny-times-top-10-books/Non-Fiction Appreciation!
Welcome to my Non-Fiction November appreciation post. I am going to be sharing the book that made me fall in love with the genre, What If? by Randall Monroe, and the elements I appreciate the most about it. I also have a selection of quotes from some of my favourite bloggers sharing their own personal favourites.……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/non-fiction-appreciation-nonfictionnovember/The Girls ~ Emma Cline
Rating: 4/5 Cline certainly accomplished what she set out to do with this novel. This chilling tale is so abject in nature that you’re sure to experience a shiver running down your spine. These sensations will hit you hard if you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you weren’t able to control your body anymore
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/the-girls-emma-cline/The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger: A Review
Title: The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger (Dr. Ribero’s Agency of the Supernatural #2) Author: Lucy Banks It’s only been a couple of months since his mother died and he discovered that ghosts and spirits are real, but Kester is part of a whole new life now. One with friends, sort of, and a father,
Read More from: https://speedyreadercom.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/the-case-of-the-deadly-doppelganger-a-review/Review: Slammed
Synopsis: Not every goalie plays it safe… As a publicist for the San Francisco Thunder hockey team, Dixie Braddock is too busy rescuing the players from trouble to get into any of her own. Except, of course, when it comes to the super hot new goalie. Because when a guy’s
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/review-slammed/Who Is Dracula’s Father? by John Sutherland (Review)
Sent to me by Icon Books in exchange for an honest review. Release Date: 02/11/17 Publisher: Icon Books ISBN: 978-1785782978 Format: Hardback, 208pp Genre: Non-Fiction Rating: 4/5 Summed up in a word: Inquisitive Book Synopsis Why is Dracula aristocratic? Where does the word ‘nosferatu’ really come from? Just what is the point of R.M. Renfield? For……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/who-is-draculas-father-by-john-sutherland-review-iconbooks-nonfictionnovember/Review: The Rogue is Back in Town
Synopsis: Hide your daughters and your maiden aunts…Lord Samuel Travis is back. —The London Hearsay, special society edition Equal parts scoundrel and seducer, he’s returned to London determined to mend the rift with his older brother. All Sam must do is take possession of a tumbledown town house. A
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/review-the-rogue-is-back-in-town/Icebreaker by Horatio Clare (Book Review)
Sent to me by Penguin in exchange for an honest review. Release Date: 09/11/17 Publisher: Chatto & Windus ISBN: 978-1784741952 Format: Hardback, 224pp Genre: Non-Fiction Rating: 3.5/5 Summed up in a word: Experience First Impressions I barely ever get the chance to read any travel NF and I was elated when Penguin sent Icebreaker my way.……
Read More from: https://alwaystrustinbooks.wordpress.com/2017/11/29/icebreaker-by-horatio-clare-book-review-chattobooks-nonfictionnovember/Review: Cowboy Stole My Heart
Synopsis: It takes true grit to build a billion-dollar dynasty like the Ford family ranch. But when it comes to finding love, all it takes is one handsome cowboy to steal a woman’s heart… SHE’S RIDING SOLO… As one of the heirs to the River Ranch fortune, Mia Ford is
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/review-cowboy-stole-my-heart/Turtles all the Way Down ~ John Green
Rating: 4/5 John Green’s latest novel, about a teen girl with OCD, initially hit me as an existential crisis. I mean, he starts right off the bat with Aza talking about all the microorganisms in her body and how she wasn’t really one animal at all but a host for parasitic organisms all trying to
Read More from: https://showthisbooksomelovewordpresscom.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/turtles-all-the-way-down-john-green/Review: When You Love a Scotsman
Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell sweeps readers away with the passion-filled adventures of the MacEnroy brothers, seven daring Scotsmen who take on America in her most turbulent days—and capture the hearts of the ladies each is destined to wed . . . With danger closing in from
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/11/26/review-when-you-love-a-scotsman/Review: Lady Jayne Disappears
Synopsis: When Aurelie Harcourt’s father dies in debtor’s prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet houseguest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company.
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• James Anderson, Lullaby Road (Crown, 1/16) • Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving (Flatiron Books, 1/16) • Dara Horn, Eternal Life (W. W. Norton & Company, 1/23) • Howard Frank Mosher, Points North: Stories (St. Martin’s Press, 1/23) • Thisbe Nissen, Our Lady of the Prairie (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1/23) • Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in
Read More from: https://urbanbookreviewsrus.wordpress.com/2017/11/27/recommended-books/Commercial Fiction Releases…
Some of the big names and talents launching new books in the second half of January: • Melanie Benjamin, The Girls in the Picture (Delacorte Press, 1/16) • Alafair Burke, The Wife (Harper, 1/23) • Pierce Brown, Iron Gold (Del Rey, 1/16) – Book 4 of the Red Rising Saga. • Karen Day, I’ll Stay
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