The Proposal – S. E. Lynes (2018) This was quite a unique book. As I write this I am still unsure of how I am going to rate it. I’m still not sure how I feel about it. Aspiring writer Pippa answers the door one day and finds charming salesman Ryan Read more…
Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe #2) – Neal Shusterman (2018) Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been striking out against corrupt scythes—not only in Read more…
99 Percent Mine – Sally Thorne Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach… … If Darcy Barrett hadn’t met her dream man when she was eight years old, the rest of the male population wouldn’t be such a let-down. No one measures up to Read more…
The Puppet Show (Washington Poe #1) – M. W. Craven (2018) A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District’s prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Read more…
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe #1) – Neal Shusterman Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, Read more…
Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in Read more…
Never Say Goodbye (Detective Tom Fabian #1) – Richard Jay Parker (2018) Detective Tom Fabian must follow a sinister map of murders through the city – but where does it lead? And who is next? Detective Tom Fabian – forty-three and divorced – has fallen on hard times. Since catching infamous killer Read more…
Silent Lies – Kathryn Croft ‘Your husband didn’t kill himself.’ Five years rebuilding your life. Five words will destroy it again. Mia Hamilton lived the perfect life with her husband, university teacher Zach, and their two-year-old daughter, Freya. But everything changed when Zach committed suicide on the same night one of his Read more…
Dear Santa – Edited by Samuel Johnson and illustrated by Shaun Tan If you could ask Santa for absolutely anything, what would you ask for? Samuel Johnson OAM, Australia’s favourite skylarker, brother and determined cancer vanquisher, has asked his friends and supporters (who just happen to be some of Australia’s best Read more…
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya Read more…