Sunday 30 September 2018

The Reading Group By Della Parker


This is the first time reading this lovely author and here is my honest review of this story.

This book is based in a lovely seaside village, where a group of friends start up a reading group. This book is about loyalty  and friendships through good and bad times.

We start if in the book with Emma with the reading group and we meet Anne-Marie who thinks apart from friends that everyone she meets she is the rich kid but she is far from it and has worked for every penny running and working for her cleaning business. her head is always for of big ideas and wants to help people so she starts up a match making service. She hosts her first dinner event but it doesn't go to plan but made her think that she is missing love on her own life but has there been some one there but she just can't see it.

In the next chapter we meet Kate and in this months read its the turn of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Kate love life has gone down Hill since her husband had to demotion at work but they marriage has more problems than that. Katie feels she is missing something, when Bob the builder turns up to build her new kitchen, Kate's world changes which man does the dirty and breaks her heart.

Next its Jojo turn in March, she has been married twice and is still married to her second husband but she has not seen him in four years when he walked out the door to go find himself . Jojo has been living her life but now feels its time to start dating and has a date with a friend Daniel who has asked her a couple of times before  and they hit it of from the  the first minuet if they date but will her past catch up with her like poor Rebecca  this months book.

In the fourth Chapter we meet Serena who is the dark horse of the family , she feels she was always a disappointment to her family. The first sister was born with brains and is following her father footsteps and is a top notch doctor in London, the youngest sister was born with beauty and became an opera singers like her mother, but Serena feels she was born with neither but kept her head down and become a teacher. Thats when she meet Liam and loved down to the sea far away from her family has possible but fate deals a blow and she loses Liam the love of her life, this months books is Jane Eyre but Serena doesn't feel that her life is anything here the book until Mr Rochester comes into her life.

In the last chapter we meet Grace and Mikey and this month is their wedding and the book is The Great Gatsby and thats all I'm going to say as they are many spoilers in this last chapter so you will have to go and great a copy of this fabulous read and sit back and enjoy.


Thursday 20 September 2018

Summers of the Sisterhood forever blue by Ann Brashares




If you ever seen the film the this book is a must and cosy up on the sofa and then watch the films.

The travelling pants are back for a whole summer long !!!!

The four girls have gone they separt ways since leaving school but sill remain close even tho they are miles apart.

Lena now hides within her paintings rather than people, she is trying to forget the past, her first love but he turns up out of the blue  will she stay with the old or let in the new.

Carmen tends to keep herself to her self but one day is taken in by a new friend , who understands the power of the pants. Carmen has a down day and wears the pants and lands her first acting role but is new friend or foe?

Bridget lost her mother at an young age and she never made roots at her home and moves to Turkey for a work dig but falling for the handsome professor is this a replacement for Eric ?

Tibby goes off to college and falls in love , but fates desk her another card will their relationship survive ??

What I really liked about this book how you are right in the middle feeling what the girls feels the ups and downs the closeness of their friendships.

so grab a copy I was hooked from the first page, you won't be disappointed. 

Tuesday 18 September 2018

A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland



This is not my normal genre of reading and I never refuse a book to review so I gave it ago.

This book is based in 1316 when the world was a different place. the setting is in a priory St Marys in Dartmoor. The priory was built over an old well whichlocals worship daily and the priory is run by prioress Johanne.

One evening Sister Fina sees a vision along with her other sisters when attending to the well and on that same evening Sister Fina  comes across a deaf and muted  boy the priory walls. The priest does not want the boy stay and insist the boy will bring a curse to them all. The next day the priest is found dead, but prioress Johanne to keep a lid on the situation as she is having visitors to the priory brother knight Nicholas who there to investigate  the pilfering of priory money and age has her own secrets to hide.

Things begin to happen the minuet the boy turns up, there are many twist and  turns through out this story and great detail has gone into the characters, history events and the  harsh conditions of the prior of time.

so if you are a historian or a supernatural fan then go get a copy and sit back and enjoy.



Wednesday 12 September 2018

In The Name of Love by Louise Lee


This is the second book from Louise Lee that I have picked up and not wanted to put down,

We meet Florence Lee a P.I  from Dorset.
Flo is normally catching out cheating husbands and wives  and future partners,but this case was personal.

Flo was six years old when Bambi her Mother appeared to of killed herself but her body was never found and Flo cant let it go .That's where the story begins in Italy tracing her Mothers foot steps, history and finding out the truth.
As well as searching for her Mother against her Fathers wishes, her Father has meet another woman while Flo  been on assignments  and her little bother is too marry his gay lover to Flo dislike as she doesn't trust him as far as she can throw him.

Her investigations take her all over Italy and meeting and investigating characters like Tom, a beautiful Italian strangers that grabs her heart but also has many family connections to help her find information on her Mother, the only catch is his father Rocco is head of the Mob.

Flo has many dramas going on in her life but her main target is finding her \mother 
will she find what she  is looking for or will she  leave disappointed..........

Go grab a book and find out.