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30 something year old writer, reader and member of the Travel Industry. I used to read more than I do, so it’s all about getting that enthusiasm back.

Category: Book List 2016

  • Review: Asking for It by Louise O’Neill

    Trigger Warning: Rape

  • Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

    Overall Rating: ★★★★ This seems to be one of the most polarizing tales in this universe. You will notice I do not say novel, because what some people seem to forget is that this is NOT a novel. It is the script of a play which, let’s face it, most of us will be unable to…

  • Review: The Orange Cat and Other Cainsville Tales by Kelley Armstrong

    Overall Rating: ★★★★ I love Liv. I really love Liv and so I was glad to be able to get a sneak peak at her life as she travels through Cape Breton with Ricky (who I also love, but maybe not as much as Gabriel). The two of them of course find trouble, because what does…

  • Review: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

    Overall rating: ★★★ I would love to be one of those people who judges the main character for being vapid, silly and a little bit stupid but in all honesty I cannot because I, in a way, was that girl. Though I never harboured feelings for my sister’s bf. Partly because she’s 9 yrs older than…

  • Rapid Reviews: Stephanie Plum 7-9

    Overall rating: ★★★ and 1/2  Rapid review 1: Seven Up by Janet Evanovich This book is a quick fun read, and perhaps contains some of the menacing air of the first novel as Decooch is a sick old man. I loved the return of Mooner. Lula remains a disappointing almost racist caricature and there is no…

  • Review: Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper

    Overall rating: ★★★★★ This books is so well written that I wasn’t surprised to find myself crying quite frequently while reading it. It is a very honest view of how bad the world can be, and yet shows the slightest little glimmer of hope. It is easy to feel how Anderson Cooper changed, the more he…

  • Nostalgia Reads: Goodnight Kiss 1 & 2 by R.L. Stine

      Oh good lord. Oh good lord how ridiculous and fun are these two novels? These are not the Twilight vampires of todays age, nor are they the Buffy the Vampire style vampires of the 90s and early 00s. That being said, the vampires in this novel seemed to be parodies of the monstrous characters.…

  • Review: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

    Overall Rating: ★★★ This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in her late thirties who, like her yoga instructor older sister, Jane, lives in New York City. When their father has a health scare, they return to their childhood home in Cincinnati…

  • The best book I will read in 2016

    This is the best book I am going to read this year. It’s a good thing I love to read or otherwise I would just stop now. Gloria Vanderbilt is an amazing woman, and one who I think needed to have her story told, or at the very least she is someone I needed to…

  • 3 Reviews for the Price of One! (One re-read project)

    15. The Magicians by Lev Grossman (a re-read) ★★★★ Upon second reading it gave me the opportunity to love certain characters more, and like certain characters even less. The normal world becomes mundane and boring in this tale, and so does the magical world until, as per usual, something is at stake. While embarking on this…