SPOTLIGHT ~ Little Sister by Isabel Ashdown

 

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Today is my stop for the Blog Tour for Little Sister by Isabel Ashdown where I was supposed to get a copy of the book from the publishers to read and review but it never arrived and my local library wouldn't have had it in in time so unfortunately I didnt get the opportunity to read it so instead I will have to shine a spotlight on the book instead . I was thrilled to be asked by Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Reading in conjunction with who organised this tour to take part along with some other fab book bloggers. You can find out who else has taken part in this fabulous Blog Tour at the end of this spotlight been shone on Little Sister but I really look forward to reading it once it comes back into my local library so without further ado, here it is:

If you can't trust your sister, then who can you trust? 

After sixteen years apart sisters Jessica and Emily are reunited. With the past now behind them, the warmth they once shared quickly returns and before long Jess has moved into Emily's comfortable island home. Life couldn't be better. But when baby Daisy disappears while in Jess's care, the perfect life Emily has so carefully built starts to fall apart. Was Emily right to trust her sister after everything that happened before?

BLOG TOUR ~ The Reunion by M.J.Arlidge & Steph Broadribb

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Today is my stop for the Blog Tour of The Reunion by M.J. Arlidge & Steph Broadribb where I've a review of their latest book. I was thrilled to be asked by Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Reading in conjunction with Orion who organised this tour to take part along with some other fab book bloggers. You can find out who else has taken part in this fabulous Blog Tour at the end of this so without further ado, here it is:

A skull looks up at Jennie from the trench, but it's not the chalk-white bone and grimacing teeth that sends her reeling. It's the heart-shaped gold pendant, it's delicate chain snapped in two. The necklace Hannah never took off. It can't be Hannah. But it is......

When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choose to surround herself with people who were never nice to her? Who still aren't, even now she's a police officer? The only person who truly looked out for her all those years ago was charming, beautiful Hannah. Until the day she disappeared.

Jennie is ready to finally put White Cross Academy behind her, the old school building demolished the morning after the party. But with the demolition comes a call: a teenage girl's remains have been found on the grounds.

The instant drop in Jennie's gut tells her that the remains might be Hannah's, but when she's called in to examine them, the truth becomes undeniable. Hannah didn't run away and abandon Jennie thirty years ago; in fact, she never left White Cross at all.

Suddenly, Jennie has a murder to solve. The murder of her best friend. But can she do so before her colleagues discover just how closely connected she is to the victim? Before a mystery stalker makes good on his threats to silence her for good?

Well, where do I start with this review!? I didn't just like it, I absolutely LOVED IT. It was brilliant and I CAN'T recommend it enough, to be honest I wasn't too sure when I first started the book if it was going to work with joint authors writing it as this was my first time to read a book like this but it was excellent. Full of twists and turns in this complex investigation into the murder of Hannah. I even had to slow down reading it as I didn't want it to end, the story flowed really well and at a fast pace too and there were parts in the book I could feel my heart rate raising a little so it's definitely not for the fainthearted. This is M.J. Arlidge & Steph Broadribb's first joint novel together and I hope it won't be their last either.

The Reunion is published by Orion and is available on Kindle, Audiobooks and is available from all good bookstores and libraries.

SPOTLIGHT ~ 33 Women by Isabel Ashtown

 

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Today is my stop for the Blog Tour for Home Coming by Isabel Ashdown where I didn't have the chance to read it so instead I will shine a spotlight on it. I was thrilled to be asked by Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Reading in conjunction with who organised this tour to take part along with some other fab book bloggers. You can find out who else has taken part in this fabulous Blog Tour at the end of this spotlight been shone on Home Coming but I really look forward to reading it once I have the chance too so without further ado, here it is:

When sisters Celine and Pip get a call telling them their reclusive mother has died, the women are reunited at her riverside home in Arundel to pick up the pieces. But someone is missing - their middle sister, Vanessa, brutally murdered years ago and the victim of an unsolved case. As the sisters confront ghosts from the past, the discovery of another body in similar circumstances throws new light on Vanessa's death. Could there be more to her case than the police first thought? And what do the mysterious residents of Two Cross Farm, the neighbouring women's commune, have to do with it? What secrets are lurking behind their locked gates? And what is the significance of the number 33?

BLOG TOUR ~ Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Buttenwieser

 

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Today is my stop for the Blog Tour of Junction of Earth and Sky by Susan Buttenwieser where I've a review of her latest book. I was thrilled to be asked by Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Reading in conjunction with Zaffre who organised this tour to take part along with some other fab book bloggers. You can find out who else has taken part in this fabulous Blog Tour at the end of this so without further ado, here it is:

Coming of age in 1940s England, Alice's life is thrown into chaos under the shadow of war where she's forced to let go of her hopes and dreams, she finds herself uprooted to America and a life she never could ha e imagined.

Decades late, it is the 1990s and Alice's granddaughter Marnie is living out of a worn-outChevy Bova, running heroin and cocaine along the New England coastline.

Yet she carries with her the memories of a nutured childhood in hardscrabble Rhode Island, where all the disappointments of her young parents were eclipsed by her grandmother's love.

Spanning six decades and two continents, from the shores of World War II in England to the underside of the 1990s America, Junction of Earth and Sky unfolds in multiple timelines- the enduring bond of grandmother and granddaughter, plagued by the past but determined to find their place in the world against all the odds.

Well, where do I start with this review!? I didn't just like it, I absolutely LOVED IT. It was brilliant and I CAN'T recommend it enough, to be honest I wasn't too sure when I first started the book if I was going to like it but I'm so glad I stuck with it as it was brilliant and very emotional in parts so prepare yourself and maybe have a tissue handy (just incase). It has it all from family, love, lies, betrayal to more darker subject matters of alcoholism and domestic violence which was covered and handled with great empathy, was well researched and described so well I could feel it coming out on to me on the pages. I even had to slow down reading it as I didn't want it to end, the story flowed really well and at a fast pace too and there were parts in the book I could feel my heart rate raising a little so it's definitely not for the fainthearted. This is Susan's first novel and I hope it won't be too long before there will be another novel from her as this novel will stay with me for a long time.

Junction of Earth and Sky is published by Zaffre and is available on Kindle, Audiobooks and is available from all good bookstores and libraries.

BLOG TOUR ~ One Girl, One Summer by Isabel Ashdown

 

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Today is my stop for the Blog Tour of One Girl, One Summer by Isabel Ashdown where Ive a review of her latest book. I was thrilled to be asked by Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Reading in conjunction with who organised this tour to take part along with some other fab book bloggers. You can find out who else has taken part in this fabulous Blog Tour at the end of this so without further ado, here it is:

Dark secrets cast long shadows...

On a peaceful hilltop campsite in the heat of summer, aprivate plane crash-lands. Several are killed, and many more lives are shattered- including those of the Gale family who own the site. For single parent Cathy Gale, her everyday struggles are eclipsed by the tragedy, as her boy Albie is one of the victims. He hangs onto life, while 18-year-old sister Nell, who was meant to be looking after him, is overcome with guilt.

As DS Ali Samson leads the investigation, locals are scandalised to learn that the amnesiac pilot has plans to stay in the community- and as dark secrets come to light, teenager Nell goes into free-fall. What is it she's so desperate to conceal? And exactly who is the Unknown Pilot?

Well, where do I start with this review!? I didn't just like it, I absolutely LOVED IT. It was brilliant and I CAN'T recommend it enough, it had me gripped from the first few pages right through to the end, there were some great twists and turns too which I definitely wasn't expecting. It has it all from family sagas, secrets, lies, betrayal to a more darker subject matter which was covered and handled with empathy and was well researched. I even had to slow down reading it as I didn't want it to end, the story flowed really well and at a fast pace too and there were parts in the book I could feel my heart rate raising a little so it's definitely not for the fainthearted. This is the second book that I've read by Isabel and I am really looking forward to reading more of Isabel's books and coincidentally I'm currently waiting on Little Sister and Beautiful Liars from my local library and I hope it won't be too long before they come in so I can get to read them.

One Girl, One Summer is published by Orion and is available on Kindle, Audiobooks and is available from all good bookstores and libraries.

SPOTLIGHT ~ Home Coming by Isabel Ashdown

 
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Today is my stop for the Blog Tour for Home Coming by Isabel Ashdown where I didn't have the chance to read it so instead I will shine a spotlight on it. I was thrilled to be asked by Tracy Fenton from Compulsive Reading in conjunction with  who organised this tour to take part along with some other fab book bloggers. You can find out who else has taken part in this fabulous Blog Tour at the end of this spotlight been shone on Home Coming but I really look forward to reading it once I have the chance too so without further ado, here it is:

Welcome to The Starlings... sun, sea and neighbours to die for.

Security, a sparkling sea view and the best kind of neighbours - The Starlings gated community has it all. Here, doors are left open, children run free, and at the heart of it all is the entrepreneurial Gold Family, who first dreamed up this aspirational vision of 'Dorset's Safest Community'. To the outside world the popular family appears glitteringly blessed... until an idyllic party takes a dark turn and one of their number is found slumped at the foot of the clocktower. Who knows what really happened? And what answers are harboured within the old building, the former Highcap Mother and Baby Home?'

COVER REVEAL~ The Time of The Fire by Emma Kavanagh

Northern California, end of summer. Fire Hazard Severity Zone: Very High.

A mysterious death.

On the anniversary of her mother's death, CEO-in-waiting Robyn Sandoval goes for a morning run. She knows her father - a local fire fighting hero - is desperate to speak to her, to tell her something he wants her to know before she starts her new job leading the corporation that owns most of their Northern Californian town of Destino. But when Robyn arrives, she finds him dead.

A devastating fire.

Meanwhile, after months of drought, a freak forest fire ignites on the mountain ridge looming over the town. Destino has never burned; its unique position protected by the seemingly insurmountable barrier of the ridge, a favourable wind direction, and a belief long held by the community that they are categorically safe.

A life split in two.

Robyn is shaken to the core by her father's death, and her life is shattered in two, the fabric of her reality shorn by the sheer force of her grief.

The next time she wakes, everything is different: her father is alive, and there's no sign of the fire on the ridge.

To understand what is happening, she has to confront not only the secrets of her past but both versions of her present. Because back in her world, the fire is spreading and the time to find answers is running out...