Tag: Books

OK, let’s do this. I adored this book. I wasn’t expecting to, but wow! A while ago I read Garden Spells by this author, which was a sweet story and I definitely knew that I wanted to pick up another book by this author at a later date. So I bought Sugar Queen and it sat on my bookshelf for…

Kiss me First was utterly unputdownable from the first page. It’s a psychological thriller which just pulled me into its pages, there’s no other way to describe it. Leila is in Spain to trace the last steps of Tess, the girl who killed herself and trained Leila up to take over her online profiles and emails. Leila is deeply naive…

Lies Like Love is a book which is not what it seems at first. It’s a book with a frustratingly ambiguous blurb so I will elaborate here. Audrey is a sixteen year old girl who has mental health issues and she is embarking on a tentative new relationship with an older boy, Leo. However, her mother is worried that due…

This is a book which I have wanted to read for a while, and I’m glad to have finally done so. The unnamed narrator marries Maxim de Winter after a short acquaintanceship with him, in order to escape her life as a paid companion. In reality she is only swapping her situation for another similar one, destined as she is…

I would call this a family saga, a long novel featuring numerous characters who are tied together by the House of Farrell, a failing cosmetics company. There’s Bianca, the new boss of the company, Lady Farrell, the founder of the company, her friend Florence, among several others. Children are bullied, adulterous liaisons are revealed, marriages crumble, allegiances are lost and…

You must read this book, there’s no doubt about this. It’s amazing, a compulsive book which I couldn’t put down and which stayed with me long afterwards. Rachel has lost her job, her home and her husband. As she passes the street where she used to live on the train, she becomes obsessed with the couple who live a few…