The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Have you ever imagined running away from your life? Well Birdy Finch didn't just imagine it. She did it. Which might've been an error. And the life she's run into? Her best friend, Heather's. The only problem is, she hasn't told Heather. Actually there are a few other problems... Can Birdy carry …

Hold Still by Nina LaCour – Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.That night Ingrid told Caitlin, I'll go wherever you go.  But by dawn, Ingrid was dead and Caitlin was alone. Suddenly Caitlin has to deal with a completely unfamiliar life—a life without the art, the laughter, the music, and the joy she shared with her …

How to Save a Life by Eva Carter – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In this heartfelt love story, three friends find out what it really means to save someone. Kerry Smith is going to save lives--and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working towards medical school, they are about to sit for their entrance exams. But …

Rescue Me by Sarra Manning – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Margot doesn't have time for love.Will is afraid to love.And neither of them are expecting to fall in love with Blossom: a gentle Staffy with a tragic past, a belly made for rubbing and a head the size of a football.After their first meeting at the rescue centre, both Margot and Will …

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins – Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Anna has everything figured out - she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job, and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. …

Married at First Swipe by Claire Frost – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Hannah lives life on the edge. Never one to pass up on a new adventure, she has truly been living her best life. But once the adrenaline wears off, she wishes she had someone to spend the quieter moments with too. Learning that her best friend’s online dating business has taken a …

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour – Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of …

All I Want for Christmas by Joanna Bolouri – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads What if the love of your life was your best friend's girlfriend, and you were the one that set them up? When Nick loses his job and is dumped by his glamorous but demanding girlfriend, he is forced to grudgingly accept work as a Santa at a local Christmas grotto. As his …

Quilaq by Rebecca Burns – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Goodreads Stokeland. It sits at a fork between two roads, one a thick, commercial highway bedeviled by ice for ninety percent of the year; the other a stripped, frozen weave of a road, impassable for ten months out of twelve and huddled beneath wedges of brilliant white snow. It is a wonder that …

We All Die in the End: Scenes from a Small Town by Elizabeth Merry – eARC Book Review

Blurb from Amazon This is a diverse collection of interlinked stories set in a small, seaside town in Ireland. Some of them verge on the macabre; others deal with abusive relationships and many of them are grim. But there is humour here too - although it is dark humour. The following excerpts are just a …