The House that Jack Built (Jack Ryder Book 3)
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Scott Kingston is afraid of monsters. He thinks they’re lurking outside his bedroom window at...
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Make Me (Make or Break, #1)
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"Make me, Channing. Make me fall. Push me, shove me, just make sure I get there.” I shout at him,...
Of Hoaxes and Homicide
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The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings—when you...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Chasing the Dragon in Books
Feb 14, 2024
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Chasing the Dragon
By Mark Towse
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A town on its knees, dread's bony fingers wrapping around its throat and squeezing, death rattles soon to follow.
Drugs, filth, and a lack of human decency are starving it of hope.
Introducing Simon Dooley, our trauma-driven wannabe superhero, the relentless voice of his dead mother pleading with him to "end the chaos." Dressed in a leotard and armed only with a dozen dog poop bags, Simon's plight will find him falling in love and going head to head with the seediest characters walking the streets.
The town needed a hero... it got Reformo.
This was honestly such a fun read. This dude has some parental issues that’s for certain. So Simon decided on the advice of his dead mother that he’s going to clean house and the neighbourhood. So he invents Reformo the super hero everyone needs. Now all the way through this book I couldn’t stop laughing which when you’re on a bus full of people you get crazy looks. You can tell the author has poured everything into this book and it really has paid off. It’s dark, funny, bloody , violent and even a little emotional at the end there. Please read any trigger warnings as it does touch a few and it is dark and violent with some graphic details.
I was kindly given this to me by the author in return for an honest review.
ClareR (6256 KP) rated Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen in Books
Jun 3, 2024
Elizabeth was far too clever to be caught, and that comes across really clearly. She was her parent’s daughter: clever, resilient and she knew the best people to have around her. These personality traits and the things that happened to her, formed the young woman and queen she would later be.
Nicola Tallis read through, and included, a lot of Elizabeth’s personal correspondence. It must have been exhausting for Elizabeth. She was constantly under suspicion of treason. She may well have been though, and she certainly didn’t conform wholeheartedly to Catholicism as Mary wanted her to.
This was such a fascinating read - and I’m notoriously picky with non-fiction. I often find it dry and hard to concentrate on, but not with Young Elizabeth. It was riveting, and held my attention from start to finish!
The Family That Finds Us
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Phee hides her secrets well, until they become too much to bear. Her biggest secret is one she's...
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The Cameo Keeper (Tofana #4)
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Rome 1644: A Novel of Love, Power, and Poison Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of...
Historical Fiction Renaissance Giulia Tofana
My Forever (Townsends of Texas #3)
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Savannah I was only eighteen years old when I thought I had found my happily ever after. After...
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Lost Ones (Detective Jackie Cooke #1) in Books
Jun 21, 2022
There is so much to like about this book - the characters, the plot, the pace, the twists, the back-stories, the inventiveness of the murders, the writing style - pretty much all of it to be honest which made this a particularly hard book to put down. Luckily, I was on holiday so didn't have the usual work and life distractions so was able to devour the pages at my leisure.
Jackie is a strong, female character; she might be heavily pregnant, the mother of twin boys, with a musician for a husband, her mother living in her basement and a boss that clearly doesn't like her but she doesn't let these hold her back or prevent her and her team from investigating what is a horrific set of murders.
The book is packed full of tension, secrets, lies and the twists and turns and the scenes of peril just keep coming. A warning here though, the descriptions of the murders are quite graphic so if you don't like to read that sort of thing, you might want to skip over those bits.
My verdict - an excellent new series to get my teeth into and I can't wait to see what happens next with Jackie and her team and I must give my thanks to Bookouture and NetGalley for enabling me to read The Lost Ones and to share my thoughts.
Shouting Match (Amore Matchmaking #1)
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After the death of his father, Capone Lombardi was tasked not only with keeping his father’s...