2020
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Weekly Wrap Up | 28/12
Hello everyone, and merry Christmas if you celebrate. I have missed wrapping up my weeks reading these last few months, and I thought what better time to bring it back than at the end of the year from hell!! Enjoy my weekly wrap up (28/12) for the last week! Books Read Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli I listened to the audiobook of this novel on my last few days of work before Christmas, and I thought it was ok. It felt to me like it was trying too hard to do too many things at once, and it ended up not really doing any of them. Buy from Waterstones…
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Book Review- 337
Title: 337 Author: M. Jonathan Lee Publisher: Hideaway Fall Published: 30th November 2020 Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, Rating: 4/5 stars 337 follows the life of Samuel Darte whose mother vanished when he was in his teens. It was his brother, Tom who found her wedding ring on the kitchen table along with the note. While their father pays the price of his mother’s disappearance, Sam learns that his long-estranged Gramma is living out her last days in a nursing home nearby. Keen to learn about what really happened that day and realising the importance of how little time there is, he visits her to finally get the truth. Soon it’ll be…
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Book Review- The Silent Companions
Title: The Silent Companions Author: Laura Purcell Publisher: Bloomsbury Published: April 2019 Genre: Horror, Historical fiction, Rating: 4/5 stars When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband’s crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting . . . When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. Inside her…
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Book Review- The Wizard In My Shed
Title: The Wizard In My Shed Author: Simon Farnaby Publisher: Hachette Children’s Group Published: 1st October 2020 Genre: Middle-Grade, Fantasy Rating: 3.5/5 stars Merdyn the Wild is from the Dark Ages. He’s the world’s greatest Warlock (don’t call him a wizard), banished to the 21st century for bad behaviour, and determined to wreak vengeance on his nemesis. Rose is a totally ordinary girl, on a mission to mend her broken family. Bubbles is Rose’s guinea pig. He just poos a lot. When Rose bumps into Merdyn and discovers what he is, she quickly realises that he could be just what she needs. Rose agrees to help Merdyn navigate the confusing…
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Book Review- The Castle of Tangled Magic
Title: The Castle of Tangled Magic Author: Sophie Anderson Publisher: Usborne Publishing Published: 1st Oct 2020 Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy Rating: 5/5 stars Magic awaits, all you have to do is believe… When thirteen-year-old Olia, steps through a magical doorway, she discovers another land. A land tangled by magic, where hope is lost, and a scheming wizard holds all the power. Soon Olia learns that she is destined to save this land, but with time running out and her new friends and family in danger, she must search for the magic within herself – to save everything and everyone she loves. The new fairy tale from Sophie Anderson, illustrated by…