Author: Fiona Price ISBN: 9781760082451 RRP: $3.99 Fiona Price is a Melbourne based author who has always had a passion for words and she is currently directing that passion at modern fairy tale retellings. Let Down Your Hair is a modern take on the Rapunzel fairy tale with Sage Rampion as our fair maiden. Her tower is one of her grandmother's making, while not … [Read more...]
Review: As Stars Fall
As Stars Fall is the first novel of Victorian writer Christie Nieman, a captivating and poignant story of loss as experienced by four very different characters. Weighing in at only 300 pages As Stars Fall should have been quite a quick read but with everything going on in my life I find that my reading is really suffering so this took me weeks to read, which is no reflection … [Read more...]
Review: Mrs. Hemingway
Author: Naomi Wood ISBN: 9781447229742 RRP: $29.99 Mrs Hemingway is about Ernest Hemingway, his four wives and the people around him. I have a habit of just picking books up off my TBR pile without doing a lot of research and often without even reading the blurb so it is with an open mind and no preconceptions I go in, often also with little real knowledge. I begin with … [Read more...]
Book Review: Fangirl
Author: Rainbow Rowell ISBN: 978-1-4472-6322-7 RRP: $16.99 I have read some great things about Fangirl so when it arrived on my TBR pile I was quite excited to get stuck into it. This was my introduction to Rowell's work and though I had head great things my life's been pretty hectic of late so I hadn't retained any information about the book, just that it was well worth … [Read more...]
Book Review: Secret Lives
Author: Diane Chamberlain ISBN: 978-1-4472-6000-4 RRP: $19.99 Secret Lives is a story that dragged me in and left me with many questions right until the very end but all the threads were masterfully woven to keep the reader guessing. This edition was released on the 1st of March but the Author's Note at the end of the novel tells me it's a re-release. Eden Riley is a … [Read more...]
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