Category Archives: Books

Book Review: After You – Julie Buxbaum

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After You by Julie Buxbaum My rating: 4 of 5 stars Ellie drops everything & jumps on a plane after receiving the devastating news that her best friend has been murdered. She travels across the Atlantic to London to be with her God daughter Sophie. A little girl who witnessed the ‘accident’ with her mother...

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Book Review: If I Stay

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If I Stay by Gayle Forman My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book didn’t start off well for me. I didn’t like all the cute American family having breakfast scenario. However, it pays to stick with it. Mia is in her late teens, she has a decision to make about which route her life...

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Book Review: “A gripping Cold War thriller” – honest…

Child 44

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here is a great example of why going to a reading group is worth while. It means that you read books that never in a million years would you have picked up from the cover alone. Set in 1953 during the end of...

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Book Review: Death of a Murderer ~ Rupert Thomson

Death of a Murderer by Rupert Thomson My rating: 3 of 5 stars An interesting premise for a novel. A middle-age copper having a mid life crisis finds himself guarding the body of a notorious child killer. His twelve hour night-shift gives him too much time on his hands and he finds himself examining his...

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Book Review: Of Mice & Men~John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was quite shocked regarding some of the adult themes in the book, which I obviously didn’t get at GCSE age, when read the first time. It is a brilliantly constructed novel, and you can immediately appreciate why it is used as...

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