The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a household name in the book industry. It’s a novel published back in 2005 by Stieg Larsson featuring the incredible character Lisbeth Salander, one of the most unique main characters you’ll ever read about. (more…)
The world has conquered hunger, disease, war and misery but people are randomly selected to die to keep the population down. There are assigned people to do these - these people are called Scythes. The premise for this book is highly intriguing and will likely draw you in by itself. Then two apprentices come along who'll change the way the world works forever. This is the premise for Scythe and below is my book review. (more…)
I started my blog not long ago. I thought it would be quite an easy process. Pick a domain, choose your blog host and start posting your articles. But as you delve deeper into the complexities of making it something where hopefully you'll see a profit and gain a lot of traction out of it, you realise there's a lot more to starting and running a blog than you may realise. (more…)
A book that I described as a “stunning debut novel” on my Goodreads, The Terminal List still sticks in my mind as one of the best first books I’ve ever read by an author. Jack Carr pulled didn't hold any punches here. Pin me! Jack Carr is a former Navy SEAL who led special operations teams as a Team Leader, Platoon Commander, Troop Commander and Task Unit Commander and in 2018 he wrote his first fictional book about a character called James Reece who experiences the dark side of the government and becomes an enemy of the state. Plot – 5/5 The plot of The Terminal List sees the main character, James Reece, with nothing left to live for after he finds out the American government are responsible for the…
Back in 2005, Peter May wrote a book in which a crime takes place when the city of London is in lockdown due to the second-coming of the bird flu pandemic in humans. However, when May tried to present this novel to publishers, it was deemed too unrealistic. Then Covid-19 happened. (more…)
Not all of us are wealthy enough to be able to buy all the books we want. Don't you wish that you could save money when making your book purchases? Don't we all? (more…)
You may find yourself here because you’re thinking about watching the Netflix adaptation of the hit young-adult fantasy series Shadow and Bone - that’s fine! You may also be here simply because you wanted to read the book and want an idea of whether it’s any good or not - that’s also fine. (more…)
We've all gotten to that point where the last we book wasn't particularly great or we have nothing in our Kindle library or on our bookshelves that we're that bothered about picking up. A reading slump can be a real downer as you know how much you love to get engrossed in books and there are definitely books you'd like to read - just not right now. Therefore, below are eight tips to help you get out of that reading slump. (more…)
The Midnight Library was recommended to me by a friend and after I also saw it topping the bestsellers lists too, I decided to pick it up. I ended up reading it in about 48 hours. Below is my book review of The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. (more…)
Without a doubt, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was a big surprise for me in 2020. I’d seen that it was on top of the Best Sellers lists on Amazon and other places for so long that I thought I’d buy it and see if it was any good - and WOW I was impressed. Keep reading for my Where The Crawdads Sing review. (more…)
