Charley Davidson Book #1 If you loved True Blood and Sookie, you will definitely find some fun moments with Charley Davidson PI and Grim Reaper (not so grim, but). The first book in these series grew on me page by page. I decided to give these series a go for NetGalley. I started the book…
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Siberian Dogs don’t get sick – Book review for NetGalley – Target: Alex Cross by James Patterson
Siberian Dogs don’t get sick or Good Bye James Patterson. I have to admit I was in love with him. I met him by share accident. Along Came a Spider was lying on the car floor in my fiancé’s car. He bought the paperback but never read it. I had. I read it and I…
Can Sugar get sour? – Book review for NetGalley – Sugar: My life as Sugar Babe by Monique X
Sugar This book was first of the kind for me. I heard and have noticed the trend for call girl and escort memoirs and even watched an episode of ‘Secret Diary of a Call Girl’ (the only reason I watched it was because the lead role was played by spouse of the cute guy who…
Men and their bikes – Book review for NetGalley – Three Men On Their Bikes by Richard Mapes
Three Men On Their Bikes Or what a joy it was to read. I have not read Jerome K Jerome’s ‘Three Men In A Boat’ but I’ve seen the Russian movie version of it. The movie was done so well and the actors (all stars) did such a great job that quotes from the movie…
Death of a Maiden – Book review for NetGalley – The Quartet Murders by J.R.Ellis
The Quartet Murders The second installment in Yorkshire Dales’ detective series (Yorkshire Murder Mysteries #Book 1 did not disappoint. DCI Oldroyd comes back again to solve a crime of love, greed, hatred, passion and… music (thus, the quartet). Yes, it is to do with quartet – musical collective of 4 musicians, string quartet at that. Two…
Insincerity in good taste – Book review for NetGalley – Perfect Liars by Rebecca Reid
Perfect Liars Who needs enemies with besties like these? Three girls grew up into three young women. They have their own lives, loves, failures and losses. Their lives are not perfect. They are… lives. However, those three girls are connected to each other forever and ever. They are tied together and tied down by a…
A pack of hungry… magpies – Book review for NetGalley – Henry VIII and Men Who Made Him by Tracy Borman
Henry VIII ‘The retinue plays the king’ the phrase made immortal by W Shakespeare in his King Lear says it all. The book by Tracy Borman is all about the retinue of Henry VIII: the bold, the bad and the ugly. There were so many men around Henry VIII, I lost my count at Cromwell….
New crime series set in Yorkshire – Book review for NetGalley – The Body in The Dales by J.R.Ellis (Book #1)
The Body in the Dales The first instalment of murder mysteries set in picturesque Yorkshire dales, The Body in The Dales was an interesting read, on many levels. Firstly, this was a book about intelligent Oxford-graduated detective who likes classical music and knows a lot of big words. Secondly, Oldroyd (detective) story and stories of…
Love as target on your back – Book review for NetGalley – The Sunday Girl by Pip Drysdale
The Sunday Girl What a scary story. It is een more scarier because you realise that this can actually happen. People are so evil when they are evil, there are no boundaries or limits as to hat they can do to you just for fun if nothing else. Moreover, there is nothing one cannot do…
What a lot of noise – Book review for NetGalley – Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer
Death in the Stocks This book as so much fun to read. It felt a bit like Miss Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries, but not really. Characters were so noisy. They were like wrapping paper being torn and suffled constantly and endlessly. Too much white noise. But the noise itself was fun. Two murders. Too many…
