Our gang of wildlings @TheNeverendingTBR ❤️

@TheNeverendingTBR and I lost our pug Dennis yesterday.

He‘d been with me 11 years, through 4 house moves and 4 babies, loving each one kindly and gently from afar, just watching.

He was a good dog, and will leave a really big hole in our family.

Rip my old friend, run free over the rainbow bridge 🌈🖤

Molly Skye 💜 07-09-2023 @TheNeverendingTBR

Anyone else read this?

I‘m 3 chapters in and I‘m not sold and reviews seem to be mixed across the board…

Not sure whether to keep going or DNF 🥴

My life is too busy and hectic to waste time reading books that don‘t capture my interest…. 😬

Fun and cosy murder mystery 👀🥟

We‘ve had an awful week where our daughter has had a viral bug and didn‘t eat or drink for nearly 4 days, we‘ve bought nearly half the bakery, takeaways, chocolate, fruit, all kinds in efforts to get her to eat and drink *anything*

The doc who examined her took one look in her mouth and told her she needed to try or she‘d end up on a drip from dehydration 🥴

Hopefully over the worst now though, she perked up yesterday.

What a week 🥸

My 21st King read 👍🏼

Just finished this game.

Yes, Your Grace.

Was really enjoyable and fast paced, acting as a king with a kingdom in turmoil.

Been a bit absent for the last 6 months or so due to being pregnant and having a small gang of wildlings to look after!

8 months pregnant and hoping to start being more present and posting again!

Here‘s our little gang and me at a ninja obstacle course last weekend! @TheNeverendingTBR 🖤

Currently reading The Fog, however I just wanted to pop in and let y‘all know that @TheNeverendingTBR and I are welcoming another new addition to our wild family 🖤 we are expecting daughter no2 in September! 😍

Current read - not bad so far 👍🏼

Our gang of nutters ❤️

Current read and current WIP #litsycrafters

This surprised me with how good it was.

Post apocalyptic nuclear war murder mystery vibes.

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This is the second book I‘ve read by this author and both times I‘ve been left touched.

He has gone above and beyond, risking his job and reputation to take on patients who are essentially dead or dying and bring them back from the brink.

Of course he has had patients die, the one that touched me the most was the young African child and mother, which was a terribly sad outcome and you can tell this surgeon carries these cases with him daily.

Our gang 🖤 @TheNeverendingTBR

Wasn‘t expecting to enjoy this one as much as I did!

Didn‘t see the twist til right at the end 🤯

What in tarnation did I just read?

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I found this really uncomfortable reading but I couldn‘t put it down.

What a messed up story.

Just finished this.

I really enjoyed it, the art is good and the stories are messed up!

It‘s repetitive but there was enough variety to keep me interested!

Another really bizarre one from PKD.

Haunting, terrifying, and a horrible insight into the unravelling of a mind, falling into insanity.

The hotel is creepy, filled with horrors around every corner, I felt so sorry for Danny and everything he had to face and overcome.

Jacks battle with the hotel was raw, hard to read, and as one of his final acts to tell his son how much he loved him - you knew the hotel did not win.

Another enjoyable novel from SK.

This was a wild book, aliens, plagues, some casual sexism (why not 🙄)

This book shows it‘s age, however I did enjoy the storyline and the general writing style is easy to follow.

I think it could have probably been longer and more detailed but for a quick read, it was enjoyable enough!

Well written and well drawn.

A sad and scary insight into the teenage years of Jeffrey Dahmer.

Troubled from the start, with a family that never paid him any attention, no friends and completely isolated, life was very lonely for Dahmer.

Haunted by his thoughts and fantasies, this is the start of him becoming a monster who would go on to kill.

A really interesting though sad (for all involved) read.

I love this series, anything history related always holds my interests.

In the 3rd book in the series, the team travels to Troy to see the Trojan horse, they get in all sorts of trouble and find different ways to cause chaos.

The world building is awesome, the character development is exceptional. Looking forward to the next book!

I really enjoy anything plague related and this was good!

A bunch of workmen accidentally open a plague pit and manage to infect the whole of London, causing mass deaths and chaos, with looting and violence.

The writing style isn‘t the best but the story was interesting enough 🦠🦠

Ugh I‘m not really sure how I feel about this one.

The writing style feels very jumbled, with over the top descriptions of things that aren‘t even related to the story or what‘s happening, quite often I felt lost.

The only redeeming feature is Area X itself, there isn‘t much to go on, on what‘s really happening in this abandoned and disturbed place.

If I read the next book, I hope I get some more clarity because I feel a bit let down.

After humans have destroyed the planet and become extinct, a species called Erta try to fix things and bring humanity back to life.

Ima is the Erta who takes on the task of bringing up Reed.

As he grows and changes she realises she loves her child, and will do almost anything to protect him.

A story that revolves around a mothers love, a species destroyed, a planet remade. I loved this one, this will stick with me for a while 🌍

Was a quick and easy read.

Nice to know some back story from the villain from my favourite Disney movie 🧜🏻‍♀️

Was enjoyable enough to hold my attention, though it very closely followed the movie itself.

This is one of my favourite series of all time.

The ending was perfect, left open to interpretation in terms of what the characters did next.

The characters are well developed, the storyline and world building are amazing and very well thought out.

I would recommend this series to everyone!

This has so much potential but was actually terrible 😩

The unlikable characters, over the top descriptions (really not needed).

The story could have been amazing, however this was pure junk.

The only thing going for it is the cool cover 😵‍💫

I really liked this, and it wasn‘t what I expected at all.

The twist was something I didn‘t see coming, such an original and cool idea. As Santi and Thora navigate through their many lives, they have to find the real meaning of their constant reincarnation.

As long as they find each other they‘ll be ok, such a sweet story about friendship, fate and learning to grow as a person in different stages of life.

Definitely recommend this one!

What a weird and disturbing story.

Kenji is a tour guide for those who are seeking something a little extra in Japan, such as hookers, drugs and other unmentionables.

His client Frank, is beyond strange, unreadable and completely unpredictable. Also a murderer.

Shockingly cut-throat and bizarre reading. 🍜

Wow this was a trip!

Charlie Manx feeds on kids in his weird messed up world called Christmasland, he steals their souls and they spend eternity celebrating Christmas in a screwed up world of joy.

Violent, messy, some great characters, here‘s to you Maggie 💪🏼

Hills writing style is just like his fathers and I loved it! 🎅🏻

Didn‘t grab me like I‘d hoped. A wishy washy romance, a wishy washy fight for rights, this book didn‘t know whether it was a romance novel or a paranormal novel.

I really liked Daphne as a character, her unrelenting loyalty to her friends is admirable.

Certainly the topic is on point and relatable to the world we live in today - a group of people segregated for things they can‘t help and wouldn‘t change.

A meh read.

I felt it was too detailed in places and went off on a tangent.

Such a unstable and unsure walk of life, mostly based on youth, beauty and allure, and once those you were gone you didn‘t have much going for you. Securing a wealthy man early in life was absolutely imperative.

I felt sad for these women, rich and beautiful but all could fall down in the blink of an eye.

Such a strange and disturbing story.

In the town of Midwich, a ‘dayout‘ happens where everyone falls unconscious, when they wake, all the women of childbearing age are pregnant.

The Children are strange, they all appear alike, they can communicate telepathically and they appear as one rather than separate entities.

Where did they come from and what do they want?

Creepy, atmospheric, and well written. Another good one from Wyndham.

The stories in this book are all so crazy and baffling, totally typical of PKD.

My favourites were The Second Variety and What The Dead Men Say.

What an absolutely mystifying and crazy brain PKD must of had 🧠

I enjoyed this! I really like the movies so it made sense to delve a little deeper reading the books!

I love how much more detail you get in the novels, more insight into the characters, their actions, you can really feel the fear in this book too!

Bit disappointed with this for my first read of 2022.

Too many characters, too many timelines, and nothing made any sense til literally the last few chapters.

I liked Kite and Agatha, about the only redeeming features of this confusing and never ending book 😬

Some jarring reading, what strength it must take to be a heart surgeon dealing with dying patients including children.
Westabys memoir of his life as a heart surgeon is insightful, and interesting, his sadness at the failing NHS we all know of is relatable, once the best health service in the world, now on its knees.

All I can say is what a remarkable man, I can‘t imagine how strong and calm you must be to operate in such desperate conditions.

These are so much fun and make me feel so nostalgic for the old school buffy 🖤

Not my favourite by Kawakami.

A interesting insight into Japanese culture and life. Not much really happens, a bunch of awkward and unsociable characters thrown together to run a thrift store, bumbling through life unsure of themselves or each other.

Mental illness or a ghost? This story never really seems to come to a conclusion of either and you are left wondering, I found the storyline quite predictable, feeling like I was one step ahead of the protagonist all the way through.

The ending was terrible, with nothing wrapped up and no questions answered.

The cover art is beautiful, the story was okay but I felt it was unfinished with a very abrupt ending!

I really liked this story however I felt it went on for a bit too long. There was quite a lot of filler, rather than actual meaningful story.

The multiple POVs mean this story is complex and really well written, I really enjoyed how the characters were entwined together, especially Giles and Zelda‘s feelings towards Elisa.

Overall enjoyable, though strange. Not sure about the fish porn 🤣

A great debut from this author.

Korede is a nurse who is good at her job, she takes no nonsense and is a meticulously clean and good worker.

Her sister Ayoola is beautiful, shallow and a serial killer, she can‘t help herself from killing every man she has a romantic involvement with.

Korede spends her days dealing with her sisters messes, until the day she has to choose between what‘s right and her family.

Fast paced, dark but also funny!

Wow, what a sad story.

A father who will go to the ends of the earth to protect his son in a post-apocalyptic world. You can really feel the soul destroying desperation as he struggles to keep himself and his son alive.

It‘s beautifully written, but heartbreaking.

I loved this.

Keiko has always been a store worker, she lives and breathes her convenience store life and that‘s where she is happiest.

As she struggles with the shackles of society that are imposed on her by her friends and family such as getting a ‘real‘ job or getting married, she realises that she doesn‘t care for that, she is who she is and that‘s that. A convenience store worker.

We could all learn from Keiko.

A surprisingly intense and interesting read.

Overall too many characters and lines of story to keep up with.

Short, enjoyable, but not overly remarkable.

Have a cute picture of baby Ethan to make up for the moderate story and review!🖤