24 July 2015

Review #283: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“When you convert a good book to a film.. stupid things happen”


----Jesse Andrews



Jesse Andrews, an American novelist and screenwriter, has penned a brilliant and thoroughly funny YA contemporary novel about friends and films, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, where two odd teenagers come across in each other's lives with a common ground- social awkwardness. This book simply turns their friendship into something beautiful, funny and thoroughly inspiring.



Feature & Follow #18: My Favorite Movies



Hi Good day guys,
Hope Y'all are doing great. Time for Friday fun!!!



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!




23 July 2015

Review #282: The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.” 


----James Clavell, a British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and POW



Michael Arditti, an English writer, has penned a thoroughly riveting thriller The Breath of Nightthat takes the readers not only back in time but also to a beautiful and exotic destination of the world, Philippines, where a young priest travels to Manila to find out exactly what happened to his would-have-been-uncle-in-law, who went to Manila to become a priest and years later getting killed on the hands of a communist party.


Review #281: Clara's Song (Haunted Minds, #2) by John Hennessy



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 


----Friedrich Nietzsche


John Hennessy (my friend), an English writer, pens a bone-chilling as well as inspiring and quite thrilling tale about marriage, Clara's Song that is the second book in the Haunted Minds series. Now as the title of the series says, Haunted Minds, the book in the series actually keeps haunting our minds not only while reading but also long after we have finished reading the book.



22 July 2015

Author Q&A Session #51: With Philip Kazan



Good evening everyone,

Hope you're having a great day. In another new author Q&A Session, today we have the author who re-creates Florence vividly and strikingly with his stories that not only traces the outline of a beautiful and elegant city but also takes us back in time in a different era. Yes Philip Kazan is here to talk about art, his objectives, his books and his life beyond books and all. So stay tuned and keep reading the interview.

Read the review of The Painter of Souls




Review #280: Lacy Eye by Jessica Treadway



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.” 


----Amit Kalantri, an Indian author


Jessica Treadway, an American author, pens a compelling as well as heart-wrenching tale of a mother and a daughter in her new psychological thriller, Lacy Eye that accounts the story of a family where the husband and the wife were brutally beaten on their bed, due to which the husband died whereas the wife suffered memory loss and physical injuries unfortunately three years later, the man who did this to them is seeking an appeal to the court and that wife must put all her energy to try to remember that horrific life. And surprisingly this man was the wife's daughter's boyfriend.

21 July 2015

Review #279: Housebroken by The Behrg




My rating:
5 of 5 stars


“Better be the devil you know than the devil you don't.” 


----Jack Heath, an Award-winning Australian author


The Behrg, an American author, pens his debut thriller, Housebroken that accounts the story of a family who are taken hostage by two psycho kidnappers who only wanted one thing from that family- observe the normal daily routine of that family for a week. Sounds weird as well as thoroughly creepy!

Warning: This book is not for those who have a faint/weak heart that can't handle too much creepy and dark violence and horror! Look Away...



Review #278: Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead by Lena Diaz



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Don't play his game. Play yours.” 


----Rachel Caine, an American author


Lena Diaz, an American romantic suspense author, has penned a terrific and gripping story, Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead, which is the third book in the Deadly Games series, that narrates the story of a cop named, Tessa who opens up an investigation based on some unknown and unnamed letters that her office received, which makes her hire her previous and younger-in-age partner to solve the probable case against a serial killer. Little did she knew that those letters might take her to an unknown alley of darkness and death and her forgotten past.