Reviews

  • Embrace Your Greatness by Judith Belmont

    Embrace Your Greatness by Judith Belmont

    Fifty Ways to Build Unshakable Self-Esteem It’s time to start feeling good about yourself! In this go-to guide, a licensed professional counselor offers 101 quick tips and tools to help you overcome self-doubt, silence your inner critic, be assertive, boost your self-esteem, and embrace your greatness. In our image-obsessed world, it’s easy to compare yourself to friends, celebrities, and models. Social media has skewed our perception of reality by only offering images of people at…

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  • Too Close by Natalie Daniels

    Too Close by Natalie Daniels

    For fans of THE GIRLFRIEND and THE WIFE BETWEEN US, TOO CLOSE is a twisting tale of friendship and betrayal. How close is too close? Connie and Ness met in the park while their children played. As they talked, they realised they were neighbours. Perhaps it was only natural that they and their families would become entirely inseparable. But when Ness’s marriage ends in a bitter divorce, she is suddenly at Connie’s house all the…

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  • Naughty Elf #1 by Tiger Lily

    Naughty Elf #1 by Tiger Lily

    Part 1 of 5  Ginger Mingus is an elf.  Engaged, up for promotion, and on Santa’s nice list. Three weeks until Christmas, Jack Frost comes knocking on her window and convinces her to come outside and play his wicked games. Games that lead Ginger to the most delicious sensations she’s ever experienced. Games she desperately wants to play again, but that would mean becoming a naughty elf.  A very, very, naughty elf! MOMOBOOKDIARY REVIEW I…

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  • Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer

    Last Lullaby by Carol Wyer

    (Detective Natalie Ward #2) Charlotte’s baby is safe. But is she? When the body of mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband Adam, in their bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: The word ‘Why?’ written on the wall in blood. As Natalie begins to delve deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers that Adam has a dark past he’s been hiding and she’s sure that the Brannon’s teenage babysitter…

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  • Pinecones and Promises by Jane O’Brien

    Pinecones and Promises by Jane O’Brien

    A Christmas Novella Nate Finnegan has never been a fan of Christmas. His homelife as a child did not include pine trees and holly wreaths. It was not that he disliked Christmas; he just didn’t have an opinion one way or another. When he decides to move to Michigan to work on a pine tree farm while going to college, he meets the Sparks family. For them Christmas is not only an occupation, it is…

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  • Adorable Fat Girl and the Mysterious Invitation by Bernice Bloom

    Adorable Fat Girl and the Mysterious Invitation by Bernice Bloom

    Six people are invited to a funeral in a remote Welsh village. None of them knows the deceased. What is going on? Mary Brown receives an invitation to a funeral. But she has absolutely no idea who the deceased is. She’s told that he invited her on his deathbed, and he’s very keen for her to attend, so she heads off to a dilapidated old farm house in a remote part of Wales. When she…

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  • Life After Men 🎣 by Karen Charlton and Jean Gill

    Life After Men 🎣 by Karen Charlton and Jean Gill

    A Silver Sex Kitten Short Story #1 Heart-warming comedy for the mature woman – because you’re never too old to have fun. Shy and recently-widowed, Carys Newham is anxious and excited in equal measure when her friend, Moira, suggests they take up a challenging new hobby. Despite Carys’ already strained relationship with the local wildlife, the two friends tackle up and go fishing in the Yorkshire countryside. After all, if ten year-old-boys can do it,…

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  • The Diary by Vikki Patis

    The Diary by Vikki Patis

    Best friends. Better liars.   A completely addictive psychological thriller ‘I know all your secrets, Lauren.’ Lauren has spent years running away from her home town, her childhood and the memories of her best friend, Hannah. Until the tenth anniversary of Hannah’s death forces her to return home and to the group of friends she abandoned there. It should be a quick visit, just so Lauren can pay her respects. At home, Lauren finds Hannah’s old diary.…

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  • A Miracle on Hope Street by Emma Heatherington

    A Miracle on Hope Street by Emma Heatherington

    Remember the true meaning of Christmas with this heartfelt and beautiful novel from bestselling author Emma Heatherington. Can a single act of kindness change a life forever? To many people Ruth Ryans has everything: the perfect job, a home to die for and a loving family. But it’s all lies. As Christmas approaches, Ruth feels lonelier than ever. Then Ruth meets Michael. A man who, on the night of her father’s death the year before,…

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  • Book Launch of The Lingering by SJI Holliday

    Book Launch of The Lingering by SJI Holliday

    I was at the book launch for SJI Holliday’s The Lingering at Waterstones (Edinburgh). I was lucky enough to have a chat with the lovely Susi whilst she was signing my book I had bought – yes I have already read the book but I needed a paperback copy as it was so good to stay hidden inside my ebook reader!  This was the second book launch I have attended (first one was Owen Mullen…

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  • The Little Book Café: Amy’s Story by Georgia Hill

    The Little Book Café: Amy’s Story by Georgia Hill

    Amy’s Story is the final instalment of The Little Book Cafe series so wrap up warm this Autumn and treasure this wonderful book. Amy, the manager of The Little Book Café, is a hopeless romantic who had her heart broken, but quietly refuses to give up on love. With her friends Tash and Emma, not to mention their shared love of books and delicious cake from the café next door, Amy might just find the…

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  • The Windmill Café: Christmas Trees by Poppy Blake

    The Windmill Café: Christmas Trees by Poppy Blake

    Christmas Trees (Book 3) As Rosie Barnes takes her latest batch of warm St Clement’s mince pies from the oven, even December’s wintery weather can’t dampen her spirits. With friends Grace and Josh getting married on Christmas Eve, and her beloved Windmill Café hosting its inaugural Christmas Tree Carousel competition the night before, there’s so much to look forward to. But when Theo, one of the stag party, has a nasty accident during a bike…

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  • Christmas at Borteen Bay by Morton S. Gray

    Christmas at Borteen Bay by Morton S. Gray

    Christmas has a way of bringing family secrets to the surface … Christmas is a bittersweet time for Pippa Freeman. There are good memories, of course – but some painful ones too. Then her mother is implicated in a mysterious occurrence in their home town of Borteen, and Pippa wonders if she’ll ever experience a happy Christmas again – especially when a family secret is revealed. But when police officer and old school friend Ethan…

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  • The Lingering by S.J.I. Holliday

    The Lingering by S.J.I. Holliday

    Married couple Jack and Ali Gardiner move to a self-sufficient spiritual commune in the English Fens, desperate for fresh start. The local village is known for the witches who once resided there and Rosalind House, where the commune has been established, is a former psychiatric home, with a disturbing history. When Jack and Ali arrive, a chain of unexpected and unexplained events is set off, and it becomes clear that they are not all that…

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  • May I Have Your Attention Please? by James Corden

    May I Have Your Attention Please? by James Corden

    The Autobiography As far back as he can remember James Corden has only ever wanted to be in one place: in front of you, doing something to make you laugh, cry, shout, or giggle uncontrollably. At the age of 4, he grandstanded throughout his baby sister’s christening, standing on a chair in front of the whole congregation, pulling faces and cracking everyone up. Despite himself, the vicar was impressed. And from then on he couldn’t…

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  • Talisman by David Evans

    Talisman by David Evans

    The Wakefield Series (Book 3) Book Blog Tour | The Wakefield Series TROPHIES – TORMENT – TALISMAN David Evans @DavidEWriter Bits about Books  @CarolineBookBit Following a fire in a terraced house, the body of a prominent lawyer, Charles Chamberlain, is found naked and shackled to a bed frame. Six weeks earlier, DI Colin Strong is investigating the sudden death of a transsexual, left undiscovered in the bath for over a year. Initially, it appears to be a…

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  • The View from our Window by LJ Ryan

    The View from our Window by LJ Ryan

    “Definitely a light and refreshing read… this book has everything in it …death …sorrow …suspense …mystery …and romance.”  “This delightful, complicated and twisty tale has the advantage of being a remarkably well-written saga.”  All Laurel needs is a new life for herself and her two children. Recently widowed, she moves to a picturesque village just outside Marseille. A world apart from her hectic life in Dublin, Laurel is determined to leave behind the person she once…

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  • Melissa and Kasho by Camilla Chance

    Melissa and Kasho by Camilla Chance

    Melissa, a shy teenage girl, feels lost in a transnational high society world that drives her to the depths of despair. But her attraction to the very human Kasho, who has snippets of philosophy to impart, eventually enables her to develop her own strengths. But Kasho doesn’t dwell physically on Earth. Melissa’s realistic story traverses class, gender, and power dynamics. She is expected to walk, or is bullied into walking, a certain path required of…

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  • The Break by Marian Keyes

    The Break by Marian Keyes

    The Break isn’t a story about falling in love but about staying in love. It is Marian Keyes at her funniest, wisest and brilliant best. ‘Myself and Hugh . . . We’re taking a break.’ ‘A city-with-fancy-food sort of break?’ If only. Amy’s husband Hugh says he isn’t leaving her. He still loves her, he’s just taking a break – from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months…

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  • Torment by David Evans

    Torment by David Evans

    The Wakefield Series (Book 2) Book Blog Tour | The Wakefield Series TROPHIES – TORMENT – TALISMAN David Evans @DavidEWriter Bits about Books  @CarolineBookBit A message left in error on a young woman’s answerphone is the catalyst for uncovering some dark deeds. Three young women are missing; luxury cars are being stolen; and just what did happen to two young schoolgirls, missing since the 1980’s? DI Strong and journalist, Bob Souter are drawn into murky and dangerous…

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