Reading Challenge: Beat the Backlist (2021)

Review: All I Want for Chri..

Posted 31st December 2021
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Review: All I Want for Christmas

Thank you to Bookouture for my copy of this book via Netgalley. I love Jenny Hale and I love her Christmas books so I was very excited to find I had an unread one on my list. I really liked Leah and David. It was so obvious from when they […]

Review: Cemetery Boys

Posted 30th December 2021
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Review: Cemetery Boys

I read this book during Pride month as a book club read with some work colleagues. This book was an interesting mix of magic and mystery. The big themes in this book are being different and not being accepted for them. Our main character, Yadriel is a gay trans teenager. […]

Review: A Christmas Carol

Posted 21st December 2021
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Review: A Christmas Carol

Of course, everyone knows the story of A Christmas Carol. It’s a true classic. I realised that I have never actually read the book only seen the various film versions. My favourite being the Muppets one! I was listening to an interview with Heidi Swain recently and she said she […]

Review: Sex, Snow and Mistl..

Posted 20th December 2021
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Review: Sex, Snow and Mistletoe

I was browsing my Christmas TBR pile for something short and sweet and scrolled upon this book. It was perfect for the spare half an hour I had that evening. Melanie was very funny and easy to identify with. ‘Guy’ is smoking! I can see why Mel was so instantly […]

Review: The Space Between W..

Posted 10th September 2021
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Review: The Space Between Worlds

This book has such an interesting concept. I love a little bit of sci-fi especially if there’s a bit of romance thrown in too. I requested this from Netgalley but I also got this beautiful edition from Illumicrate in my monthly box. If you aren’t a big sci-fi person I […]

Review: Liar Liar

Posted 7th September 2021
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Review: Liar Liar

This is the third book in the DS Allendale series. I LOVED the first two books so I was very excited to see what Grace was up to this time. This book focused less on Grace and her life than the previous 2 books but for me that was okay. […]

Review: A Kingdom of Flesh ..

Posted 6th September 2021
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Review: A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

As soon as I finished the first book I jumped right into this second book. This book picks up right where the first one ended. With the first book ending in such a cliffhanger, I was grateful to be able to dive straight into the second book. I enjoyed the […]

Review: Blood Heir

Posted 28th May 2021
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Review: Blood Heir

I requested this book on Netgalley but sadly never got round to reading it. I also have the Illumicrate edition and I was trying to decide if I should buy the sequel special edition too (I did in the end). Amélie was doing a re-read before book 2 came out […]

Review: Those People

Posted 22nd May 2021
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Review: Those People

This was another book that had been sitting on my TBR pile for too long. I was looking for a book for the psychological thriller book club at work and having previously read Our House I thought this would be perfect. Louise is excellent at taking something so real and […]

Review: Five Years From Now

Posted 20th May 2021
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Review: Five Years From Now

I’ve had this book on my TBR pile for quite a few years so when I was looking for a book for my work’s book club I thought this would be a great pick. I have read many of Paige’s books before and I have enjoyed almost all of them […]