A fun easy book written in a memoir style about one girl's experience of working in an retirement home whilst dealing with a chaotic family in the late 70s

It seemed unkind but understandable - they had all loved her very much before she left and the feeling of abandonment made that love turn sour. It always does.
A feeling I can relate to well at the moment...

Enjoying the end of my birthday with this book and a G&T in the sun. Totally worth the hype, a really interesting and addictive read

I loved this book - interesting, intense, dark and twisty with the constant overhanging atmosphere of a hot heady summer at the end of the 60s. Exactly what I was hoping for.

Current TBR pile

I absolutely loved this book! It felt like reading a fantasy version of Snatch. I wish we could have a Guy Ritchie film version!
Excellent book with excellent, diverse and intriguing characters. I adored it.

Ill and trapped in bed for the day, really looking forward to getting cracking on this!anyone read it?

I loved my box from illumicrate ~ Truth or Dare by Non Pratt was a fun and engaging story about a boy doing everything to help his critically injured brother. I got a little frustrated with Claire, the female protagonist, as her drama with her friends was at some points trite (although it did cover some serious issues too). Maybe it's just that I'm not 16 anymore so fail to empathise.

I had forgotten how much I love this book. A true work of art!

Maybe it's because my attention span is fried but I just couldn't get into this at all. Too many characters and place names from the start left me completely lost and one hundred pages in I was just bored. It's a shame because I thought it sounded really interesting.

Continuing with the thrillers - this one is a thriller-ish. One day two identical twins decide to swap places but when one refuses to swap back one of them's whole life unfurls... I wasn't a massive fan. There is something missing from this book and there it is definitely an unbelievable scenario particularly from the mother - I find her character very unrealistic and difficult to buy into.

On my thriller kick this is the 3rd time I've read this book. The warped version of family portrayed in this book always gives me chills and the mystery behind the killings keeps you guessing most of the way through. A fantastic book - a darker twistier novel than Gone Girl.

A good easy read, fast paced and kept me interested until the end. John Wallace wakes up with a noose around his neck... he is trailed by a killer who will stop at nothing to get to him.

I enjoyed this book as a quick easy read, I read it in half a day and did find that I wanted to follow the story through to the end. It's nothing groundbreaking: boy and girl meet one another and spend the day together... I'm sure you can piece the rest together. However I did like how the chapters occasionally jumped to other perspectives and I appreciated that the book's protagonists questioned what it means to belong to more than one culture.