Review: The Curator by Owen King

Publication date 7 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this While I’ve read Sleeping Beauties by the same author that was a joint project so I wanted to try a book where they were the sole writer. Review copy or purchase Purchased as ebook. What it’s

Review: End of Story by Louise Swanson

Publication date 23 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? Yes Why I picked this I liked the sound of it. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author, publishers Hodder & Stoughton and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and

Review: The Drift by C.J. Tudor

Publication date 19 January 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this After being disappointed by this author’s first couple of novels, I’ve seen many people with similar book tastes to me rave about subsequent books, so I thought it was time to give them another chance. Review

Review: The Library Suicides by Fflur Dafydd

Book release date: 19 January 2023 Book blurb: You can get in. But you can’t get out. Welcome to the library… Twins Ana and Nan are lost after the death of their mother. Everyone knows who drove Elena, the renowned novelist, to suicide – her long-term literary critic, Eben. But the twins need proof if

Review: The Girl with the Green Eyes by J.M. Briscoe

Book release date: 5 November 2021 Book blurb: Bella is defective. You need to take her back. Nine-year-old Bella D’accourt has always known she was different; she was born into a controversial ‘designer baby’ eugenic programme, difference is in her DNA. Bella has been designed to be exceptionally beautiful, but when she uses her sadistic,

Review: Metronome by Tom Watson

Book release date: 31 March 2022 Book blurb: For twelve years Aina and Whitney have been in exile on an island for a crime they committed together, tethered to a croft by pills they must take for survival every eight hours. They’ve kept busy – Aina with her garden, her jigsaw, her music; Whitney with

Review: Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift

Book release date: 4 February 2021 Book blurb: December 2023. The human race has fought a deadly virus and lost. The only things left from the world before are burning cities and rotting corpses. But in London, one woman is still alive. Although she may be completely unprepared for her new existence, as someone who

Review: The Every by Dave Eggers

Book release date: 16 November 2021 Book blurb: When the world’s largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet’s dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic,

Review: Femlandia by Christina Dalcher

Book release date: 19 October 2021 (ebook); 28 October 2021 (hardback) Book blurb: Miranda Reynolds has lost her home, her job and her husband – all thanks to an economic collapse that has brought America to its knees. The shops are empty; the streets no longer safe. Miranda and her daughter Emma have nowhere left

Review: Lights Out In Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey

Book release date: 2 September 2021 Book blurb: Sometimes all it takes to bring a family together is the possible end of the world Meet the Altman family. Fifty-something Dan is struggling to cope with a mid-life career change. MBA-educated wife and mother Jen has dealt with life’s disappointments by becoming a closet alcoholic. Seventeen-year-old