Well, this book certainly surprised me. Not only in how much I enjoyed it but also the turn the plot took! At first, this book appeared to be a very good thriller. Kate Collins was supposed to move in with the man of her dreams. She'd upped her life from Leeds to Brighton but then the day before she was due to move all connection with her boyfriend…
Firstly, a huge thank you to Zaffre and Compulsive Readers for having me on this blog tour. I have a confession, agreeing to this tour scared me. I have never read a historical fiction book, nevermind one heavily entrenched within the military genre. However, I've loved Greek and Roman history for as long as I can remember. I studied it in college and have been independently researching whenever…
I've had my eye on this book for ages. I've picked it up and put it back on the shelf at work more times than I can count. Finally, I decided to sod it, and get the £12.99 paperback. I was doing the typical reader thing of 'I don't want this odd-sized paperback on my shelf'. I'm so glad I decided to. I took this away with me to…
**I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for participation in the blog tour** What a pleasant surprise this book was. We follow the rather mundane life of Sylvia. A fifty-something with a near nonexistent social life, no relationship and no real interests besides the Hedgehog Sanctuary she volunteers at. She's utterly in love with the Professor she works, not that he knows or really even…
Firstly, a huge thank you to Harper Collins and more specifically Ammara for sending me a copy of this book to read and review. Secondly, I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to turn this review into something that resembles sense, or at the very least is coherent. I had massive expectations for this book. Ammara had been raving about it on the Harper Collins twitter, the book…