9 May 2016

Review #425: A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House, #1) by Kathleen Baldwin



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“And if we burn, you burn with us.”

----Suzanne Collins



Kathleen Baldwin, an American author, has penned a powerful and riveting historical regency-themed story in her book, A School for Unusual Girls that unfolds the story of a young rebellious and an exceptional girl who is a science-freak and loves to experiment with chemicals, irrespective of the polite girls in her society who are not allowed to meddle with chemicals, and that is when her parents decide to send her off to a boarding school, more like a correctional facility, so that she is transformed into a decent marriageable lady.



8 May 2016

Review #424: What I Couldn't Tell You by Faye Bird



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

----Margaret Atwood



Faye Bird, an English author, pens her intriguing young adult thriller story in her new book, What I Couldn't Tell You that narrates the story of a young teenage girl suffering from Selective Mutism, whose elder sister is under coma after an attack on her head when she was with her boyfriend, and following her attack, the boyfriend goes missing but it is only the selectively mute sister who listens to those who are spilling their secrets about her sister's attack.



Review #423: Little Boy Blue (DI Helen Grace #5) by M.J. Arlidge



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

----Heinrich Heine



M.J. Arlidge, the bestselling English author, pens an exciting new thriller in his DI Helen Grace series, Little Boy Blue that is the fifth book in the series as it revolves around the life of DI Helen Grace getting sucked into yet another mind-boggling murder mystery and this time the killer preys on someone who is close to Helen Grace. But it is difficult for Helen to confess the fact that she knew the victim personally as that might open the door to her other life that she has kept hidden from the public eyes for so long.


6 May 2016

Review #422: Adultery by Paulo Coelho



My rating: 1 of 5 stars


“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”


----T.F. Hodge



Paulo Coelho, the international bestselling author, has penned a compelling tale of love and infidelity mixed with the good ol' Coelho style of philosophy in his book, Adultery. This story is centered around a married woman who is lucky enough to have a good, rich and loving husband and two beautiful kids and a grand house, yet she still longs for some drama in her marriage to be specific, she needs excitement in her life as well as in her marriage.


5 May 2016

Review #421: Saving Jason by Michael Sears



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


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

----Marcus Aurelius



Michael Sears, the New York Times bestselling author, pens a heart-wrenching and thrilling crime fiction in his new book, Saving Jason which is the fourth book in the Jason Stafford series that is centered around a financial investigator who saves a firm from tumbling down and losing its shares and stocks as he investigates his way through the glitch, but little did he knew that he would get into life-threatening trouble with his autistic kid.




4 May 2016

Author Q&A Session #74: With Sreemoyee Piu Kundu


Hello and welcome my dear readers,

Hope you all are having a great day. And as for me, I'm having a really pleasant and charming day as today on author Q&A session, Sreemoyee Piu Kundu, the sassy and talented Indian author, is here to enlighten us with her life, her books, and everything in between books and drama. 

So let's not waste any more time and get down to chat with this beautiful and amazing author.

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Review #420: Persuasion by Jane Austen



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”


----Jane Austen


Our most beloved author as well as one of the most widely read author of all times, Jane Austen's, last notable piece of literature, Persuasion, unfolds the story of a twenty-something woman in the early 19th century England who is caught between the choices of her heart as well as her family to decide on whether she will honor her heart's choices that once loved a man so dearly or or will she pay heed to her family's wishes who once persuaded her not to marry the one whom she loved because of his status or poor finances.


Review #419: The House on Bellevue Gardens by Rachel Hore



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”


----John Lubbock



Rachel Hore, an English best-selling author, pens her latest contemporary story in her new book, The House on Bellevue Gardens, that narrates the story of four central characters among whom three are trying to find their way in life as they are lost and heart-broken, and the fourth person is a god-send who is here to give them shelter in her sanctuary, the house which is centered around all the four characters and holds them together tightly with an invisible string.