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Summer 2017 Teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim. At 4:30 a.m., Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home. Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the wood nearby called Dark Place. Tallulah never returns. Summer 2018 Walking in the woods behind the school where her boyfriend has just started teaching, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence. A sign that says: DIG HERE... A while ago I did a story on my Instagram warning my followers of Lisa Jewel as an author; I'd fallen in love with the first book I'd read by her - The Night She Disappeared - and immediately got more of her work because I was very impressed by her writing in this one. Unfortunately the other three books I read by her were dragged out, tedious and bored me to tears... *cough* The Girls *cough* I felt like I wanted to re-read this book to refresh myself on this masterful tale and review it as one of t...

One day there'll be a place for the women to live freely. All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds they've lost control. The Day of The Girls has arrived - but where will it end? I picked this gem up in Waterstones and what drew me to it me was the idea of a world where the patriarchy disappears and men have no say in its return. This is the story of four lives in separate parts of the world that come together to help the people of Earth adapt to the new rulebook: where women have the final say. The Main Plot: With this story, Naomi Alderman holds a giant mirror to our society and how the genders treat one another. Buckle up 'cause things get real. Trigger warning: SA and rape. We begin with four normal lives in different parts of the world: Roxy, a teenage girl in Britain. Tunde, a young man from Nigeria. Margot, a mayor in America, and Alli...

My listicle for this week! I thought it would give a good mid-week chuckle for you all to see a couple common things I've experienced as a reader. 😁 The lie we tell ourselves as we watch the night time tick away! 'Just in case' of what? Nobody knows. We bring one anyway. I've got this problem with the final book in the I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore; I've had the last book for about 5 years and I refuse to read it because I don't want the story to end! Oh yeah, this is the exact pain I've managed to avoid with I Am Number Four but I've succumbed to finishing the story with many others and inevitably felt the emptiness when I have. 😭 If you know, you know . When a guy says something cringe and I feel it in my bones . Paula Hawkins's book Into The Water has a mind-blowing final line and it took me 10 minutes to recover. That's it for this week's listicle, I hope you enjoyed! What other things have you noticed you do as a reader? Let me kno...

A killer without limits He comes into your home at night. He watches you as you sleep. He waits. A city in turmoil He called himself 'The Locksmith'. No door can keep him out. No security system can catch him. And now he's about to kill. A race against time Nobody in New York is safe. It's up to forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme to catch him. But with Lincoln under investigation himself, time is running out... I'd never read anything from Jeffery Deaver before and once I realised this book was part of a long series I got nervous that I'd be missing out on lots of information and inside jokes but, as it turns out, you are given all the details needed to thoroughly enjoy this story; either way I liked this book so much that I'm sure I will be getting more of this series after reading this segment of it. The Main Plot Introducing Lincoln Rhyme, renowned New York criminalist who, even from a wheelchair with only limited movement in one hand, solves crimes using for...

After reading a couple of Colleen Hoover's shattering heartbreakers, I felt this week's listicle will be dedicated to those books that bring out the ugly tears in us all in a way that can only be accomplished through truly fantastic literature. Enjoy! #1 Me Before You by Jojo Moyes 🔴Trigger Warning: Self-harm and suicide🔴 I hadn't and still haven't seen the movie based off this book. After reading it I can safely say I don't need to; Jojo Moyes tells the shattering story of an ordinary woman, content in her routine, falling in love with a brilliant but paralysed man intent on ending his life. It's got a bittersweet ending that had me in floods. Official blurb: Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what...

  "Life to me had always felt like a burden I had to bear. Something heavy and murky that made waking up difficult and falling asleep a little bit scary." After last week's re-read of It Ends With Us,  I was so excited to begin the sequel to Lily and Atlas's love story. I had seen some conflicting opinions on the second book not being as good as the first and whatnot so I wasn't sure what to expect, but a message from Colleen herself was not my first guess! She had written thanks to all her fans and how she hadn't expected to write a sequel to It Ends With Us but as so many had fallen for Lily and her journey, Colleen felt it right to give Lily her happy ending. This book was indeed different to the first in a number of ways, but not necessarily bad. Read on to find out how. The Main Plot (Spoilers Ahead!) We pick up the story at the exact moment we left off; Lily was delivering her little girl, Emmy, to Ryle for his day with her and ran into Atlas on the way...