I read this June 2013
Why: I found this in a charity shop and as I had read some of hers before.
This one is about the 1941 siege of Leningrad. I don't think I had really thought about how awful it must have been before and reading how it effects a family brought home the real impact of what life must have been like. So many people died that winter -blockaded in. I also hadn't thought how dependent a city - any city is on the import of goods, as there is no farming, stockkeeping even smallholdings. Chilling
9/10
Sunday 30 June 2013
Saturday 29 June 2013
Betrayal by Karin Alvtegen
I read this June 2013
Why: A guest had left this in our condo and I wanted something easy and quick to read
How wrong I was, this is a really good book, complicated, tense and intriguing.
What a find
A couple have been living together for 15 years and have a young son, the husband has an affair, the wife has a one night stand - with the wrong person! the character has OCD and is a possessive of a former 'girlfriend' in a coma after an accident... Strange, weird things happen...
Chilling!
9/10
Helen
Why: A guest had left this in our condo and I wanted something easy and quick to read
How wrong I was, this is a really good book, complicated, tense and intriguing.
What a find
A couple have been living together for 15 years and have a young son, the husband has an affair, the wife has a one night stand - with the wrong person! the character has OCD and is a possessive of a former 'girlfriend' in a coma after an accident... Strange, weird things happen...
Chilling!
9/10
Helen
The Calling by Alison Bruce
I read this June 2013
Why: I have read Cambridge Blue and Alison came to our Writing Group to talk to us, I ha also previously seen her at Waterstones and we read CB for Book Club.
I really enjoyed this one in the Gary Goodhew series.
The Chapters are really short - ideal bedtime reading for me...
The plot is not overly complicated but very interesting and easy to follow the different characters...
9/10
Helen
Why: I have read Cambridge Blue and Alison came to our Writing Group to talk to us, I ha also previously seen her at Waterstones and we read CB for Book Club.
I really enjoyed this one in the Gary Goodhew series.
The Chapters are really short - ideal bedtime reading for me...
The plot is not overly complicated but very interesting and easy to follow the different characters...
9/10
Helen
Utterly Fuelled by Pauline Manders
I read this June 2013
I have read the first Utterly book, Utterly explosive and know the author.
I enjoyed the first bok in the series and I must say I enjoyed this even more. A good read,- well paced and relevant to how life really is in Suffolk.
Well done Pauline - highly recommended
Helen
I have read the first Utterly book, Utterly explosive and know the author.
I enjoyed the first bok in the series and I must say I enjoyed this even more. A good read,- well paced and relevant to how life really is in Suffolk.
Well done Pauline - highly recommended
Helen
The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda
I read this June 2013
An impulse buy at Waterstones
The blur says think of the Hunger Games with Vampires - this book does exactly what it says on teh tin!
A teen read - gory in parts
I enjoyed it for what it was...
6/10
Helen
An impulse buy at Waterstones
The blur says think of the Hunger Games with Vampires - this book does exactly what it says on teh tin!
A teen read - gory in parts
I enjoyed it for what it was...
6/10
Helen
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