Bitter Disenchantment
Aggie McClure is heir to the Manhattan pack. Her father is divorcing her mother in a bid to produce a male heir but in the meantime, Aggie must get married. Hoping to choose her own mate, she is shocked to…
Dead Ever After
Dead Ever After is the 13th and final book in the Sookie Stackhouse series and therefore this review may contain spoilers for the previous books. There’s a devil in New Orleans; trading wishes for souls. Meanwhile, barmaid and now co-bar-owner,…
Incoming!
AKA Showcase Sunday I really need to have a sort out of books soon. Maybe I should be harsh and say if I haven’t read it in 3 years, it goes? This will get rid of hundreds of books I…
The 5th Wave
Sometimes I think I might be the last human on Earth. The first wave crippled power and communications. The second wave destroyed cities. The third wave, a cruel plague and four billion dead. By the fourth wave, all trust is…
10 Things I Have Discovered About Blogging
Guest post by Matt Haig, author of The Humans and The Radleys. 1. It is fun. I don’t honestly think I would have started blogging if I hadn’t been asked by Booktrust to be their writer-in-residence, and I was a…
Dear Seventeen-Year-Old Matthew Quick
Guest post by Matthew Quick, author of Silver Linings Playbook and Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock. Dear Seventeen-Year-Old Matthew Quick, It’s you (me?) from the future—at thirty-nine. Yes, thirty-nine! I was only allotted two paragraphs so I can’t explain how this…
Billy and Me
Bookish Sophie is living in a little village and working in the local teashop when Billy Buskin walks in to her life. In the area to film yet another adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Billy takes an instant shine to…
Digital Shorts Round-Up
The New Hunger I can safely say this is the best digital short I’ve read. It’s actually a full novella length at 160 pages and is a prequel to the utterly fantastic Warm Bodies. You will get more out of…
Incoming!
AKA Showcase Sunday After last week’s splurge, I’m kinda happy to have a small pile of paper books this week. Both were ones I’d decided not to ask for because I was trying to be restrained…and then they turned up…
What’s gone on the wishlist?
It’s been a while since I did a wishlist post…possibly because I’ve been sneakily buying books instead of saving them for later. Bad hands! But I have been adding books here and there. First up is Eleanor and Park by…