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: The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone

Publication date 2 March 2023 Standalone or series Standalone First time reading this author? No Why I picked this From the moment I heard the author mention this book at an online launch for his last Skelfs book, I knew I wanted to read it. Review copy or purchase Thank you to the author 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 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: The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamby

Book release date: 15 September 2022 Book blurb: When disgraced former police officer Harriet Kealty discovers a plea for help in the margins of a second-hand book, she sets out to unravel a mystery that quickly leads her to confront some uncomfortable ties to her own life, including her ex-lover Ben. Following the deaths of

Review: Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

Book release date: 2013 Book blurb: If the whole of History lay before you, where would you go? When Dr Madeleine Maxwell is recruited by the St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, she discovers the historians there don’t just study the past – they revisit it. But one wrong move and History will fight back

Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Book release date: 16 August 2011 Book blurb: A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes

Review: The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney

Book release date: 8 August 2019 Book blurb: “There’s something I have to explain, my love,” he says, taking your hand in his. “That wasn’t a dream. It was an upload.” Abbie wakes in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. The man by her side explains that he’s her husband.

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: 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,