15 April 2016

Author Q&A Session #62: With Constance McKee



Hello and welcome readers,
Hope y'all are having an amazing day/night. For me, the heat is sucking put all energy from me, and trying to stay under the comfort of AC as much as possible and drinking loads of water.
Enough about my boring life.

Today in an all new author interview session, we have a debut author, Constance McKee, who is also a former psychiatrist. And she is here to talk about her book, The Girl in the Mirror, along with other exciting stuffs about her life and career.

So stay tuned and keep reading.


Read the review of The Girl in the Mirror

Review #398: Early One Morning by Virginia Baily



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -- they are your family. ”


----Jim Butcher



Virginia Baily, an English debut author, has penned a heart-touching tale of family love in her book, Early One Morning which unfolds the the story of a woman living in Rome during the WWII, who faces the consequences of saving a Jew child from being sent to the concentration camp with his family. With years to come by, this woman's life grips the readers with the pain that was caused by this child.



14 April 2016

Review #397: Red Queen (Red Queen, #1) by Victoria Aveyard



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

----Suzanne Collins



Victoria Aveyard, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned a stunning and a heart-wrenching debut YA dystopian, Red Queen which marks the onset of an exciting new young adult series, Red Queen, which is a mixture of so many bestselling dystopian series, namely, The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Selection. This series opens with a girl, belonging from a submissive bloodline, that is dominated by the powerful bloodline, who will soon be conscripted for the army to serve the powerful bloodline's frontier.This is her story of how her life changes all of a sudden and has to make terrible choices to save the ones she loves.


12 April 2016

Review #396: The Secret by the Lake by Louise Douglas



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”

----James Joyce



Louise Douglas, an English author, has penned an intriguing tale of historical mystery, The Secret by the Lake that unfolds the story of a nanny living with the Laurent family, but when tragedy strikes, the whole family move from the suburbs in Paris to a countryside cottage in Somerset. And in his village mystery lurks everywhere, before the nanny stumbles upon which opens the door to a hidden past related to this family.


11 April 2016

Review #395: Intrusion (Chris Bruen #2) by Reece Hirsch



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream."

----Dan Kaminsky



Reece Hirsch, an American author, has penned a fast-paced, action-packed gripping thriller, Intrusion that narrates the story of a lawyer, who is called upon in the middle of the night to handle a search-engine company's delicate situation when some of their major algorithms are got stolen by some petty Chinese hackers, that finally leads the lawyer and his girlfriend on a dangerous and an almost life-threatening track.



10 April 2016

Review #394: The Road to Rangoon by Lucy Cruickshanks



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”

----Nelson Mandela



Lucy Cruickshanks, an English author, has penned yet another enticing and poignant tale, The Road to Rangoon that is set across the beautiful yet sad land of Burma which is centered around three characters whose lives are entwined and engulfed in the clutches of the civil war against the Burmese Military Armed Forces, officially known as Tatmadaw.






Review #393: Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Amnesia is not the only time you’ll forget who you are. It’ll also happen the first time you see your own clone.”

----Jarod Kintz



S.J. Watson, the international bestselling and an award winning English writer, has penned a tantalizing and a thoroughly anticipating psychological thriller, Before I Go to Sleep that unfolds the story of a woman who wakes up every morning with no clue about her identity or the identity of the man who sleeps next to her or any idea about her life. Everyday is a struggle for her to go through the same introduction and same stories of her past from the only man whom she can trust, but is he being honest about the woman's past life?


8 April 2016

Review #392: Liberty's Fire by Lydia Syson



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”

----Jess C. Scott



Lydia Syson, an English author, has penned a heart-touching tale of love set in Paris during the Civil War era, Liberty's Fire that unfolds the story of a young man and woman caught in the cross fire of country's war and politics try to hold on to each other despite their indifferences, the protests and the war.