Just In Case by Meg Rosoff is about… a troubled teenager being pursued by the hand of fate My Book Review Rating: 3 stars – an interesting look into teenage life when you feel like everything is out to get you. I picked up Just in Case from the library a few months ago having heard good things about some of Rosoff’s other novels. The novel starts out in the bedroom of David Case; a teenage boy with a baby brother. A baby...

Blog Blazers by Stephane Grenier is a series of interviews of top bloggers who reveal the secrets of their success My Book Review Rating: 3 stars – a book that combines my passion for reading, blogging and making money online When Stephane Grenier dropped me a line and asked me to review his new book I couldn’t really refuse. After all when I’m not spending my time with my nose in a book I am online blogging, and more...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about the disintegration of civilisation My Book Review Rating: 3 stars – an intriguing but shocking novel about a tribe of boys stranded on a desert island. This was another book that I picked up for the Classics Challenge, and I can’t actually believe I’ve reached the wise old age of 32 without reading it! I always thought Lord of the Flies was just a book about a group of young...

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is about… a nice, normal girl called Catherine cursed with an overactive imagination. My Book Review Rating – 3 stars: A classic novel with a modern feel I picked up Northanger Abbey as part of the Classics challenge (which I failed miserably to complete). I wanted to challenge myself to read a Jane Austen novel as my only encounter with her previously had been in the first couple of chapters of...

Rating 3 stars – a harrowing look into the lives of a dysfunctional family The Moon in Deep Winter by Lee Polevoi is a strange and harrowing tale of a young man trying to keep his family from imploding. I’m not sure I’ve ever read anything like The Moon in Deep Winter before. It’s quite a short novel told over a period of days telling the story of Parker Sloane and his family. When Parker returns home after five...

Rating 4 stars – a heartbreaking yet heartwarming insight into Africa at war Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimanda Ngozi Adichie set in 1960s Nigeria and follows the lives of a number of different characters as they are engulfed in the shocking horror of war. I’d heard fantastic things about this novel, and after seeing an interview with Ngozi Adichie was really looking forward to reading it. I imagined it to be similar in vein to...