REVIEWS
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[REVIEW] #ad Born Bad –Â Marnie Riches.
GIFTED* As I am drawing close; finishing this book, I have grown attached to the characters and storyline. I don’t want to ruin it for people but there are some OMG moments throughout. The book is based in Manchester and it is about the underbelly and “gangsters” of the city. Many reviewers have said it is gritty. I don’t think it is that dramatic if you take into account the actual storyline. Although at the beginning I was just asking for someone to take this book off my hands, by the middle I decided it is a slow burner and take a while to acclimatise yourself to the people in the book…
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[REVIEW] Thirteen Reasons Why –Â Jay Asher.
The real reason for reading this amounts to hearing all about it and seeing adverts related to “Netflix” tv show tie-in. As you can imagine there will always be comparisons to TV vs Book, but it depends on which way you watch/read them. The book is written in 3 ways: past, present, and narrator. The ‘looking back’ past is thoughts by Clay,  and the Present is the same. However, the Narrator (of the tapes) is, as the boy Clay listens to them, voiced as if you were listening to her; Hannah Baker. I’m sure you have by now heard of the basic storyline. The boy Clay receives a shoebox full of numbered cassette tapes (ask…
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Why I failed the Epic… GOT book 1
As I get to the 20% mark of my GoodReads Challenge; 2 of 10 books. I am now looking back. There is only one book so far that I have put down mid-way through reading – early in my Challenge. I tried for this book choice in my challenge to read an “epic” just because I’d heard about it and thought I would try and be clever reading it. If you know me you will realise I haven’t read a proper book in a very long time.. and I’m talking nearly ten years. That is other than a certain Harry Potter book released in 2016, and the Wicked series. The…
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[REVIEW] Sherlock Holmes & the Titanic Tragedy –Â William Seil
You can thoroughly absorb yourself in the real people involved. as well as enjoy meeting new and old Sherlockian fictional characters from both A.C.Doyle’s world. It is set in 1912 and although this is an original story by another author, it still maintains a similar sound to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s infamous mystery series. You read through Watson voice and point of view, which makes it interesting. It is also based when both Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are ageing up into their 60s, semi-retired but still as sharp and quick-witted as they always were. The contrast between the two females Miss Norton and Miss Storm-fleming are interesting. One; being more masculine…
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[REVIEW] The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
The basic idea of this book was good but I found it hard to get my head into it. It is aimed at the fantasy and science fiction genre. This is a brilliant book that starts off the Disc-world series by Terry Pratchett. It is the book you are meant to start off reading and divulge into his world; of some normal, some extraordinary characters, that are in various books, throughout the series. The book shows you the events that take place around a dopey wizard called Rincewind and his merry bunch of people he meets along the way. The person, if you want to call it/him/her that, who comes…
