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My rating: 1 of 5 stars


“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”




Dr. Robin Cook, the international best-selling author, has penned his another gripping medical thriller, Host that unfolds the story around two fourth year medical students discover that in their hospital some patients are going into coma due to anesthetic complications and then they need to figure out who or why they are behind such inhumane activity that are taking away innocent patients' lives, before they jeopardize their medical scholarship or rest assured their precious lives.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”





Celeste Ng, the New York Times bestselling author, has penned an entrancing tale about a Chinese-American family set in the 70s America, Everything I Never Told You. This story opens with the eldest daughter's death but her parents and her siblings are not aware of it, and from there the story shifts from one family member's past life and secrets to another and on the background, the police are looking for the missing daughter.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
 




Wilbur Smith, the bestselling author, pens his latest thriller from his Hector Cross series called, Predator that is also contributed by the internationally bestselling author, Tom Cain. This book centers around the ex-SAS warrior and former private security consultant Major Hector Cross who is now on a man-hunt yet one more time to finish off his enemy who murdered his wife as well as to find a new enemy who is creating terrorism and fear in the name of global domination.

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My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Fashion is not about utility. An accessory is merely a piece of iconography used to express individual identity.”





Rosie Nixon, the joint Editor of HELLO! magazine, pens a hilarious and The Devil Wears Prada kinda sassy story, The Stylist that follows the life of an assistant to a Hollywood celebrity stylist who flies from one glitzy award function to another ducking through the celebrity scandals and rumors and through handsome and glamorous men.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. If you can bend space you can bend time also, and if you knew enough and could move faster than light you could travel backward in tie and exist in two places at once.”



Ross Welford, an English author, pens his debut middle grade science fiction story, Time Travelling with a Hamster that unfolds the story of a 12-year old boy who after his father's death travels back in time with his father's invented time machine to meet his father along with his pet hamster, but things do not go well when he go backs in time.

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Hello and welcome my dear fellow bookaholics,

Wish you all a very Happy Earth Day. Hope you all are saving some kind of energy or Earth's natural resources and trying to pay respect to our lovely planet.

On this Earth Day, I present you a brand new and best-selling YA author's interview, Jacqueline West, whose first venture into the YA world resulted into an amazing book, Dreamers Often Lie, apart from her award-winning middle-grade already epic series, The Books of Elsewhere.

Let's discuss with her about her life, her books and everything beyond  books and all. Keep reading!


Read the review of Dreamers Often Lie

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My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”




Alwyn Hamilton, a Canadian best-selling author, pens a gripping and powerful tale laced with love and magical powers in her new YA fantasy story, Rebel of the Sands which marks as the first boon in an exciting new fantasy series with the same name. This story is set across the golden sands that harbors both common people and mystical beings like djinnis and horses and it is centered around a young girl living in a town, who wants to escape her boring and dull life by using her shooting skills.

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My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill."




Deborah Lawrenson, an English writer, pens a fascinating tale of romance, mystery and escapism, in her new book, 300 Days of Sun that unfolds the journey of two women- one in the present times and another in the World war II era, and set against a mystifying and eye-catchy backdrop of the country, Portugal, where they both discovers that the country is not only laced by the beauty of mother nature but is gripped by a seeding underworld where corruption, scandals and murders are the major highlights.

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