Tag: book reviews

Book Review: Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich

Book Review: Explosive Eighteen, Janet Evanovich

| 28 December , 2011 | Reply

Stephanie Plum, almost-capable bounty hunter, is still going strong in Explosive Eighteen, the latest in Janet Evanovich’s best-selling series. The novel opens with Stephanie returning from Hawaii – alone – and reflecting on her capacity for ruining what should have been a happy ending. Again. And as soon as Stephanie’s plane lands in New Jersey, [...]

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Book Review: A Private Affair, Leslie Lokko

Book Review: A Private Affair, Leslie Lokko

| 20 December , 2011 | Reply

Modern warfare is, on the surface, different from the past. After all, technology has changed, methods of fighting have changed, even the definition of the “good guys” and the “bad guys” has changed. But what hasn’t changed is that men are men, and even army men will get married. Army wives have been around as [...]

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Book Review: Liesl & Po, Lauren Oliver

Book Review: Liesl & Po, Lauren Oliver

| 20 December , 2011 | Reply

It was all a mistake. At least that\’s what Will thought. He had been given very clear instructions to deliver a box to the Lady Premiere, but instead he had gone to see her—the girl in the attic—the one whose face he could see in the glow of a lamplight from his hidden spot on [...]

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Book Review: Seriously … I’m Kidding, Ellen Degeneres

Book Review: Seriously … I’m Kidding, Ellen Degeneres

| 12 December , 2011 | Reply

I love Ellen, everyone knows how much I love her (I have my own website dedicated to her, but it’s not finished, 2012 is the year I’ll finish it okay) so I was really excited to receive her third memoir Seriously… I’m Kidding.  I had high expectations of this book, high and I was left [...]

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Book Review: Seven Days One Summer, Kate Morris

Book Review: Seven Days One Summer, Kate Morris

| 12 December , 2011 | Reply

Set in the heady natural beauty of the Tuscan countryside, Seven Days One Summer is Kate Morris’s third novel. In here you will meet eight people linked together by a mutual friend, who has invited them to all spend a week at his family villa. As you probably have experienced yourself, relationship woes will follow [...]

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Book Review: All That I Am, Anna Funder

Book Review: All That I Am, Anna Funder

| 12 December , 2011 | Reply

Berlin, 1933, Hitler’s rise to power. So starts the scene in Australian Author Anna Funder’s first novel, All That I Am. Though fictional, it is based on the lives and movements of real people of the time, centred around the poet and playwright Ernst Toller and his political cohort, the members of the Socialist Workers’ [...]

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Book Review: Tiger’s Voyage, Colleen Houck

Book Review: Tiger’s Voyage, Colleen Houck

| 25 November , 2011 | Reply

Colleen Houck shocked readers with her ending of Tiger\’s Quest (book two in The Tiger Saga) and now she\’s back again with Tiger\’s Voyage, and she isn\’t slowing down. Neither are her characters; Houck has brought everyone back for the third book and delves even deeper into the emotional rollercoaster that is Kelsey, Ren and [...]

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Interview: The Real Katie Lavender Author Erica James

Interview: The Real Katie Lavender Author Erica James

| 22 November , 2011 | Reply

Erica James, author of 15 novels, was in town recently to promote the launch of her 16th novel, The Real Katie Lavender. Having not read any of her previous work, I was excited to be able to sit down and have a chat with Erica and find out a little bit more about her inspirations [...]

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Book Review: The Real Katie Lavender, Erica James

Book Review: The Real Katie Lavender, Erica James

| 22 November , 2011 | 1 Reply

The Real Katie Lavender is the latest novel from bestselling author Erica James and a real treat for your holiday reading. Right from the beginning you can’t help but feel sorry for Katie, as she has lost her father, her mother and her job all in the first few pages. But hidden in there is [...]

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Book Review: The First Wife, Emily Barr

Book Review: The First Wife, Emily Barr

| 22 November , 2011 | Reply

The scene for Emily Barr’s latest novel The First Wife is a quiet Cornish village, where Lily Button has spent the last few years as sole carer for her increasingly incapacitated grandparents. When they both die within months of each other, Lily is at a loss for what to do. Her only qualification is in [...]

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Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

Book Review: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford

| 22 November , 2011 | Reply

Even before you open this book, the cover hints at the magic inside. There is a couple on the cover, a man in a Western-style suit under a Western-style umbrella, and a girl under a Japanese parasol turning away from the man. Coupled with the delicate gold embossing, it is clear that the story of [...]

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