A Spare Life
Lidija Dimkovska and Christina Kramer
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Zlata and Srebra are 12-year-old twins conjoined at the head. It is 1984 and they live in Skopje,...
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The Memory Chamber
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An afterlife of your own design, what could go wrong? The dark and gripping thriller from an...
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The Queen of the Citadels (King's Germans #3)
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October 1793: The French border. Dunkirk was a disaster for the Duke of York’s army. The...
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Last Light (Restoration #1)
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Book 1 in a masterful what-if series in which global catastrophe puts a family’s very survival at...
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The Flight Attendant
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Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the...
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Merissa (12069 KP) rated The Ostin Rebel (Isle of Ostin #4) in Books
Aug 8, 2023
This was a great book to finish on, and I was glad Ledger got his HEA. After being tortured for five years, he definitely deserved it. It is full of dark moments but lighthearted times are there - usually courtesy of Arbor, but also, sometimes, Everest. They are both similar although Everest isn't quite as bad!
I loved Roland getting his but I think I may have a bit of Arbor in me as I felt it was all over too quickly. Still, I'm glad the way it went down with the final blow being struck as it was. I'm also glad it wasn't Ledger! For someone with his crippling anxiety and PTSD, that really would have made it fiction!
A great series that I thoroughly enjoyed and have no hesitation in recommending.
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Aug 8th, 2023
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages
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Extraordinary women have held positions of power throughout history. But, aside from the select few,...
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Blackout Trail
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When the world goes dark, a doctor embarks on a perilous journey. Doctor Anna Hastings is no...
Post Apocalyptic Science Fiction Thriller
Don't wake up by Liz Lawler was one of those stories that is impossible to put down. I was awake half the night reading, as this was such a compulsive story and I just had to know what was going to happen next.
To summarise we have Dr Alex Taylor, A doctor working A&E. One night upon leaving work she is attacked, upon rousing, she discovers herself naked on an operating table, with a masked stranger.
waking from this traumatic ordeal and believing she could have been raped the police are called. The problem is Alex when found unconscious in the hospital grounds by a security guard and her boyfriend Patrick The vet, is fully clothed with not a mark on her and nobody really believes her thinking she has suffered a head trauma and imagined her horrific experience.
Alex then spirals into a downward plunge of alcohol, anxiety and diazepam.
No one will listen to her, and events are escalating. I won't go into any more detail as I really don't want to spoil this excellent read for others, let's just say we have murder, intrigue a bit of romance and a story of phycological warfare that keeps you guessing until the end.
In conclusion, this is one book that you don't want to miss this year, the writing is excellent and in a sea of fiction, Don't wake up really stands out as a brilliant dark psychological thriller if I could give it more than five stars I would it was that good.
A job well done, Liz Lawler
I received a free E-Copy of Don't Wake Up from NetGalley and this is my own honest opinion.
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The Time Machine
Marina Warner, H.G. Wells, Patrick Parrinder and Steve McLean
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A seminal and hugely imaginative work of early science fiction, H.G. Wells's The Time Machine is the...