While my go-to genre choices are usually sci fi and fantasy, I do like to throw in the occasional contemporary/crime/thriller, and I always find myself drawn to authors like Liane Moriarty or Jodi Picoult, who have shades-of-grey characters, a little bit of a mystery, and ethical dilemmas you aren’t quite sure which side to come… Read More The People at Number 9 (Felicity Everett)
I’ve said SO MANY TIMES this year that I want to read more romance, but I inevitably get drawn in by my go to choices of fantasy and sci fi instead, so when I got an invite to the Hairpin Curves tour and the blurb had plenty of things to intrigue me, I decided it… Read More Hairpin Curves (Elia Winters)
I thought for sure I would love The Grace Year, so when I read the description on NetGalley I requested it straight away. As so often happens (to me at least!), by the time I got the approval I was in the middle of something else and I found myself putting The Grace Year off.… Read More The Grace Year (Kim Liggett)
Plot: ★★★★★ Characters: ★★★★ Readability: ★★★★★ I often say I’m not much of a contemporary reader, but I knew I wanted to read I Am Thunder as soon as I heard about it. I grew up in a city with a huge, diverse, multi-cultural population. If you were asked to think of a city with… Read More I Am Thunder (Muhammad Khan)
I’ve seen a lot of great reviews for The Wrath and the Dawn and it’s sequel, but Flame in the Mist is the first Renée Ahdieh book I’d ever picked up, so I had pretty much no idea what to expect. Feudal Japan, Mulan-inspired, Fantasy… It sounded pretty epic, and so I had high hopes. … Read More TBR list review: Flame in the Mist
