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…
This is a super short story in the Sherlock Holmes series and I really enjoyed it. It was one on my Victorian Lit course but by the time it came around to reading it I'd already planned what I was doing for my exam. I did want to read it though, just not under such constrained limits. It didn't take me long to get through this and all…
I really wanted to love this book and it started out with so much promise but by twenty pages in I started to lose interest. The plot had so much potential but seemed to get lost in an effort to write this book in a way that seemed edgy and intelligent for the sake of appearing intelligent. If you don't want to be spoiled I suggest you skip…
Victorian Novels seem to be my thing. I absolutely loved Lady Audley's Secret! The plot had me hooked, which I couldn't quite believe. I've really enjoyed the vast majority of the books I've read on my Vic Lit course but I couldn't say that any had reaaaaally kept me on the edge of my seat until I read Lady Audley. It's considered a sensationalist novel with its themes…
**I was sent a copy of this book as part of the blog tour** I had previously read one of Jeevani's books, Christmas at the Palace (review here) which was a very lighthearted romcom. I expected This Stolen Life to be similar. Whilst there were some very sweet romantic plot points weaved throughout this novel, it also touches on so many heartbreaking topics and I didn't anticipate how…