Book Stop Corner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” 




Hilary Thompson, an American author, has penned an extremely compelling YA dystopian book, Justice Buried which is the first book in the Starbright series and one look at the Goodreads page of this book makes me wonder, why isn't more number of YA readers are reading this thoroughly gripping YA science fiction dystopian that is mixed with astrology and lots of mythology, featuring our world, not so far away from the current day, where everything is ruled by prophecy or zodiac and people believed their fates in the stars.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed” 





V.M. Giambanco, an Italian-English author, has penned a thrilling crime fiction, The Dark which is the second book book in the Alison Madison series. Alison Madison is the detective in the Homicide department of Seattle PD, who is working on a twenty-five year old abduction of little boys case, but on her investigation, she is shadowed upon by a stalker who has other intentions to stop her from investigating to the core of the horrific crime, while her own demons from her dreams are threatening to take away her career from her.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”




Michel Bussi, a French award-winning author, pens his latest crime thriller, Un avion sans elle, that has been translated into English by Sam Taylor and the English title is called, After the Crash. The mystery revolves around the identity of the youngest survivor of a plane crash accident among 169 passengers aboard that happened eighteen years ago, and now in the present, the detective, who was assigned to find out the identity of the girl, is now laying down his pen and have finished jotting down each and every clues of this unraveling mystery from every possible angles, is ready to take his last breath by killing himself, when he stumbles upon the last piece of that mystery which stops him from killing himself.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.” 




Elisabeth Elo, an American author, has penned her debut thriller, North of Boston, that unfolds a riveting mystery behind the accident of a man fishing with her friend on boat who were hit by a large freight ship that came out of nowhere and left no trail behind it's disappearance thereby killing the man and leaving his friend floating in the sub-zero temperature of the Atlantic waters.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”





Sally Ann Melia, an English author, pens the third part of the Guy Erma and the Son of Empire trilogy, Exile which traces the story of two young boys one rich and other poor racing against their kingdom's villainous characters and their evil ways to protect their land, but can they trust each other?

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"The brevity or prolonging the life of a human being depends primarily on the flow of pain that person is forced to endure." 




Eduardo Sacheri, an Argentinean author, has penned a gripping novel, The Secret in Their Eyes which has later been translated into English after this book's movie adaption won an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2010. So they call it "the novel that became an Oscar-winning film", which traces the story of a retired investigator trying to write a novel based on a decade old rape-cum-murder of a young married woman and in the process of going through the past, old memories as well as romances cloud up his soul thus re-opening the window to his much cherished past but it comes with a price and with some mind-blowing revelations both personal as well as political.

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Good morning folks,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!

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Hello Folks,

Welcome to a new Author Interview session and today we have the author who recreates the realistic worlds of teenagers so vividly with his mind-blowing and intriguing stories. Meet the YA author, Simon Packham, who just released his lasted YA book, Only We Know. So Simon is here to talk about his latest books, his inspirations, his journey as well as about his life beyond books and all.

Read the review of Only We Know here

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