pickGreat book if you like horror films. A little clichéd at the start but good once the action gets going properly
I wish the publishers would stop changing the name for the UK/US markets. I much prefer The Mary Shelley Club as a title.
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pickFast-paced adventure in a Wild West-style, post apocalyptic Britain with bank robbers, monsters, and all manner of exciting capers. It might be aimed at young teens and tweens but it is an exciting read for us older folks too.
pickAn irreverent reverend, a creepy old church, and the ghosts of burned witches. What more could you want? Another great read from CJ Tudor.
pickThis book is a murder mystery wrapped up in dark witchcraft, and devilry, with a pretty, bow ribbon of historic Sicilian culture on top. The perfect creepy read for Halloween.
pickTwo days after finishing this book, with a severe book hangover, I have bowed to the inevitable and just started reading the whole story again!
I finished Midnight Sun. Now I want a Twilight book from Alice‘s perspective. Imagine the fun it could be with all the alternate timelines!
pickFantastic whodunnit that includes a whole other whodunnit book embedded within the main story. Great writing style too. (Immediately checks what other murder mysteries the author has written🤓)
Out 20th August 2020
pickAnother book with a different name in the UK and USA
Dystopia in which everyone is given a Q or Quotient based on exam results, attendance, family income and other factors. People with high Q have everything including power. When her daughter is sent off to a state school for children with a low Q, a high ranking teacher sabotages her own score to go bring her back, but things are much worse than she suspected. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It felt like a mistake. Like a dream. Like they could just call time-out and do it all again. But there are no do-overs in real life.
Sadie, you‘re a genius!‘
Sadie beamed. ‘I know. I‘ve been tested.‘
Promises were easy to make and hard to keep
two storeys, several tonnes of stone, a very dusty passageway, five kids and one really big secret.
Things are supposed to look better in the morning – that‘s what people always said. But, in April‘s experience, people lied. A lot.
April was proof that sometimes heroes end up half drowned and bleeding to death, needing heroines to do the heavy lifting.
Once again publishers trying to fox me by giving a book a different name in another country
April had never let being at a disadvantage stop her, and she wasn‘t about to start now.
she‘d never seen him look like that – like he‘d just skipped to the last chapter and found out he wasn‘t ever going to get a happy ending.
April thought about the paintings of the little boy holding his father‘s hand as if he had no idea that sometimes people let go.
April suddenly felt like turning around and running just as fast and as far as she could.
That‘s the thing about fear, April had learned a long time ago. Sometimes the scariest thing of all is standing still.
Family isn‘t always something we‘re born into.
things are more likely to get worse than they are to get better and you‘re always better off playing the odds.
‘I knew that.‘ (She totally didn‘t know that.)
She was always doing that – letting her inside thoughts become her outside words.
Lovely easy and fun read for a long day in lock down. I don‘t know when book 2 is out but it better be soon because I have questions.
Foster kids get taken in by an institute based in a mansion with a sad history. However they were not chosen at random, and this mansion has secrets.
“this fear of yours? It means you have something worth fighting for”
he‘d grown up in a court where people wielded smiles and clothes like weapons.
“You will find, Your Majesty, that a loyal friend is a rare thing indeed.”
he‘d always considered her cleverness to be a mighty magic on its own
She would show the world that lie as well. Make them believe it. Maybe she‘d one day believe it, too.
Be what you wish—a thing far easier said than done.
“welcome home.” Nesryn wondered if those words might be the most beautiful she‘d ever heard.
“You looked at me without an ounce of pity. You saw me. Not the chair or the injury. You saw me.”
the books that might contain a far more valuable weapon than swords or arrows: knowledge.
She would have an adventure. For herself. This one time.
I have to believe it‘s better. Somewhere, it‘s better than this.
The princess might have been many things, but she certainly knew how to throw a party.
It was tentative, and soft, and full of wonder, that kiss. He tasted like the wind, like a mountain spring. He tasted like home.
“The khagan holds all people accountable to the rule of the law, whether they‘re servants or princes.” It shouldn‘t have been such a novel concept
Kadara dove and dove, a star falling from the heavens
“You would be surprised by how closely the healing of physical wounds is tied to the healing of emotional ones.”
strength could be hidden beneath the most unlikely faces
even the smallest snakes could contain the most lethal venom.
“Don‘t say hello, Simon,” she‘s told me. “Because then we‘ll have to say good-bye, and I can‘t stand good-byes.”
She was the worst kind of out of control–the kind that thinks it‘s just fine, thanks.
