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Random things I picked up while listening to this book.
1. If you are going to get a narrator (or 2) to read your book, and that book has an accent, in this case Scottish, please make sure that they both research the accent 1st before attempting it!!
If this is difficult then don't use them, or call Robert Petkoff for some lessons on how to do it properly!!
2. Here in the UK kids do not have an "allowance" we call it Pocket Money, we also do not have Gatorade so it would be difficult to pick one up from the local shop!!
3. Slang words should not be used if you do not know what they mean, while talking to the barman in Scotland it was mentioned that the rugby team were playing the "Dogs Bollocks" since Lauchlain left, this means they were actually playing BETTER not worse, "Dogs Bollocks" means great/brilliant/excellent, e.g. This sandwich is the dogs bollocks, or we went to watch a film (not movie) last night and it was the dogs bollocks.
4. You absolutely CAN NOT pick up a random dog in the USA and fly them over to the UK and expect to be able to just take them home with you, why?? HELLO RABIES! !!
If you bring an animal from overseas, (especially dogs) to the UK they go into quarantine for 6 OR 7 MONTHS before they are allowed into the country.
Here endeth my lesson, I shall climb off of my box of soap!
The moral of the story ..........research research research!!
1. If you are going to get a narrator (or 2) to read your book, and that book has an accent, in this case Scottish, please make sure that they both research the accent 1st before attempting it!!
If this is difficult then don't use them, or call Robert Petkoff for some lessons on how to do it properly!!
2. Here in the UK kids do not have an "allowance" we call it Pocket Money, we also do not have Gatorade so it would be difficult to pick one up from the local shop!!
3. Slang words should not be used if you do not know what they mean, while talking to the barman in Scotland it was mentioned that the rugby team were playing the "Dogs Bollocks" since Lauchlain left, this means they were actually playing BETTER not worse, "Dogs Bollocks" means great/brilliant/excellent, e.g. This sandwich is the dogs bollocks, or we went to watch a film (not movie) last night and it was the dogs bollocks.
4. You absolutely CAN NOT pick up a random dog in the USA and fly them over to the UK and expect to be able to just take them home with you, why?? HELLO RABIES! !!
If you bring an animal from overseas, (especially dogs) to the UK they go into quarantine for 6 OR 7 MONTHS before they are allowed into the country.
Here endeth my lesson, I shall climb off of my box of soap!
The moral of the story ..........research research research!!
The longest 15hrs of my life!
I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.
I'm afraid this book was a huge fail for me, I love the synopsis and the fact the that it was a long friendship that turned into love.
The storyline however was just too much, there was way too many stories going on in one book.
Look, we all have our pet names for people, hell I even call my other half "chick" but throughout the whole book????really????
"Riley Bear" (eye roll) is our MC, her and Clay have been best friends since they were knee high, their parents even think that they will eventually end up together living happily ever after, this is probably why at 16 Riley Bears parents allow her to have Clay stay overnight once a week to watch movies, sleeping in the same bed may I add!!!?????
I mean come on, parents of 16yr old daughters would not allow this, especially with an 18 year old boy with raging hormones, are they stupid or what??
The thing is Clay is not like other boys, oh no, he is a perfect gentleman and treats Riley Bear with the utmost respect (apart from one time copping a feel) even telling his friends to leave her alone!
Oh and what is up with the hickeys ?? Nobody does that NOBODY!!!
The list kinda goes on and on for this book and I feel terrible giving a book a bad review, but I said I would be honest so there you are ;○)
One story morphs into another story, Riley has the most trustworthy parents in the universe, even giving her and Clay $1000 to go gambling, in Vegas, underage! (oh yeah and getting married!) After scoring some fake id's (they just give them away in the US don't ya know) they win twelvety million squillion dollars at the casino and just walk on out with it, without even flashing their sparkly fake id's and pop off to get wed!
Then we have the stalker Blake (eye roll) Then the accident with the miraculous recovery (eye roll)
Riley Bear telling Clays parents that they basically weren't allowed into the hospital room to see their own son on deaths door, and of course the sweet sacherine ending.
After reading it I wanted to go and read some good old fashioned smut to cleanse my pallet! .
I was gifted this book in exchange for an honest review.
I'm afraid this book was a huge fail for me, I love the synopsis and the fact the that it was a long friendship that turned into love.
The storyline however was just too much, there was way too many stories going on in one book.
Look, we all have our pet names for people, hell I even call my other half "chick" but throughout the whole book????really????
"Riley Bear" (eye roll) is our MC, her and Clay have been best friends since they were knee high, their parents even think that they will eventually end up together living happily ever after, this is probably why at 16 Riley Bears parents allow her to have Clay stay overnight once a week to watch movies, sleeping in the same bed may I add!!!?????
I mean come on, parents of 16yr old daughters would not allow this, especially with an 18 year old boy with raging hormones, are they stupid or what??
The thing is Clay is not like other boys, oh no, he is a perfect gentleman and treats Riley Bear with the utmost respect (apart from one time copping a feel) even telling his friends to leave her alone!
Oh and what is up with the hickeys ?? Nobody does that NOBODY!!!
The list kinda goes on and on for this book and I feel terrible giving a book a bad review, but I said I would be honest so there you are ;○)
One story morphs into another story, Riley has the most trustworthy parents in the universe, even giving her and Clay $1000 to go gambling, in Vegas, underage! (oh yeah and getting married!) After scoring some fake id's (they just give them away in the US don't ya know) they win twelvety million squillion dollars at the casino and just walk on out with it, without even flashing their sparkly fake id's and pop off to get wed!
Then we have the stalker Blake (eye roll) Then the accident with the miraculous recovery (eye roll)
Riley Bear telling Clays parents that they basically weren't allowed into the hospital room to see their own son on deaths door, and of course the sweet sacherine ending.
After reading it I wanted to go and read some good old fashioned smut to cleanse my pallet! .
Book: The Darkest Minds
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
WHAT !!!! No Wait?!?! That's it ????? I'm sorry but it can't just finish like that...... come on !!!!!!!!
Holy crap bags Batman this book is sooo good.
I mean this is actually a bump into someone on purpose, just to be able to talk to someone about it good.
So this is a normal little girls story. We shall call her Ruby.
Now Ruby is just about to have her 10th birthday and dang it, she manages to wipe her parents memories just by giving them a kiss on their cheeks as they are sleeping.
Ruby is an Orange! !!
Kids are basically dropping dead around about 10yrs old and up, not all of them do though and they develop these powers that range from electricity to mind control.
So, after they report a stranger ( but not really ) in their kitchen, Rubys parents ship her off to a camp to "help" her to get better.
The camps are supposed to be a good thing and parents willingly send their children however the kids are treated like cattle.
Depending on the power they are put into groups green, yellow, orange blue and red.
After escaping from the camp Ruby meets up with Chubs, Zu and Liam (swoon).
These guys are amazing and their friendship blooms before our eyes.
This book is filled with everything, friendship, love, loss and betrayal.
DROP WHAT EVER YOU ARE DOING AND READ THIS BOOK NOW.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
WHAT !!!! No Wait?!?! That's it ????? I'm sorry but it can't just finish like that...... come on !!!!!!!!
Holy crap bags Batman this book is sooo good.
I mean this is actually a bump into someone on purpose, just to be able to talk to someone about it good.
So this is a normal little girls story. We shall call her Ruby.
Now Ruby is just about to have her 10th birthday and dang it, she manages to wipe her parents memories just by giving them a kiss on their cheeks as they are sleeping.
Ruby is an Orange! !!
Kids are basically dropping dead around about 10yrs old and up, not all of them do though and they develop these powers that range from electricity to mind control.
So, after they report a stranger ( but not really ) in their kitchen, Rubys parents ship her off to a camp to "help" her to get better.
The camps are supposed to be a good thing and parents willingly send their children however the kids are treated like cattle.
Depending on the power they are put into groups green, yellow, orange blue and red.
After escaping from the camp Ruby meets up with Chubs, Zu and Liam (swoon).
These guys are amazing and their friendship blooms before our eyes.
This book is filled with everything, friendship, love, loss and betrayal.
DROP WHAT EVER YOU ARE DOING AND READ THIS BOOK NOW.
Many thanks to TBC on FB for gifting me a copy of this audiobook for an honest review.
After reading White is the Coldest Colour by John Nicholl I was very excited to read Portraits of the Dead.
As per his previous book the bad guy in this book was definitely badder than bad, in fact he was downright despicable!
The thought of being taken from my bed in the middle of the night and waking up in a dark room with no windows or light just makes me shudder, and listening to some dirty old man talking to me over a microphone with only speakers in the room is even more chilling!
The book was off to a fantastic start and was really good up to the 60% mark, however it seemed to go slightly downhill for me after that.
The writing was still brilliant, but it seems to me that Nicholl was maybe trying to get a quick finish to the book, and it seemed quite rushed at the end, so everything was tied up with a nice blood red bow!
Also. John, I can't believe what you did to Rankin!!!!!
Another great choice of narrator again he really made the Welsh accent work.
Another great read, but just short of 4 Stars for me.
After reading White is the Coldest Colour by John Nicholl I was very excited to read Portraits of the Dead.
As per his previous book the bad guy in this book was definitely badder than bad, in fact he was downright despicable!
The thought of being taken from my bed in the middle of the night and waking up in a dark room with no windows or light just makes me shudder, and listening to some dirty old man talking to me over a microphone with only speakers in the room is even more chilling!
The book was off to a fantastic start and was really good up to the 60% mark, however it seemed to go slightly downhill for me after that.
The writing was still brilliant, but it seems to me that Nicholl was maybe trying to get a quick finish to the book, and it seemed quite rushed at the end, so everything was tied up with a nice blood red bow!
Also. John, I can't believe what you did to Rankin!!!!!
Another great choice of narrator again he really made the Welsh accent work.
Another great read, but just short of 4 Stars for me.
I love Lauren Blakely so I was excited to receive this book from the author, however I am not familiar with Lili Valente so I had my fingers crossed that I wasn't going to be disappointed.
Of course I wasn't!!! 😂
Loved this story but I only gave it 4.5 stars as opposed to 5, my reasoning is that I have been listening to a lot of contemporary books recently and they do all tend to start blending together if you are not careful, so I'm sure that at some point I will re-listen to this one and 5 star it, but for now it has a stellar 4.5 🌟
Now you have to know that when you get yourself a Ms Blakely book, you're going to have a good time, let me count the ways 😇
1. Her comedy timing is always perfect, I love the way her characters banter with each other.
2. Graham - This is a man that will have you turning into a puddle of goo, no kidding, HE DESIGNS LINGERIE PEOPLE!! He knows what looks good on what size women, and loves them all the same.....sigh.....
3. C.J - If ever there was a strong, independent woman, then C.J is your girl, she knows what she wants, and she's not afraid to ask for it!.......Well, unless you are asking about her virginity!
4. Stephen King 😂
Ms. Blakely is the queen of what she does for a reason, she knows her market and damn does she deliver!
Narration: PERFECT, just perfectly perfect in every way!!!
Ok I may be exaggerating a slight bit, but Sebastian York and Andi Arndt are my 2 favourite narrators in the whole wide world so they gave the sexiness a whole new level 😇
When Sebastian York whispers in your ears to undress slowly and seductively, well, you just damn well do what that man says!!!
🌟🌟🌟🌟 · 5 stars
Of course I wasn't!!! 😂
Loved this story but I only gave it 4.5 stars as opposed to 5, my reasoning is that I have been listening to a lot of contemporary books recently and they do all tend to start blending together if you are not careful, so I'm sure that at some point I will re-listen to this one and 5 star it, but for now it has a stellar 4.5 🌟
Now you have to know that when you get yourself a Ms Blakely book, you're going to have a good time, let me count the ways 😇
1. Her comedy timing is always perfect, I love the way her characters banter with each other.
2. Graham - This is a man that will have you turning into a puddle of goo, no kidding, HE DESIGNS LINGERIE PEOPLE!! He knows what looks good on what size women, and loves them all the same.....sigh.....
3. C.J - If ever there was a strong, independent woman, then C.J is your girl, she knows what she wants, and she's not afraid to ask for it!.......Well, unless you are asking about her virginity!
4. Stephen King 😂
Ms. Blakely is the queen of what she does for a reason, she knows her market and damn does she deliver!
Narration: PERFECT, just perfectly perfect in every way!!!
Ok I may be exaggerating a slight bit, but Sebastian York and Andi Arndt are my 2 favourite narrators in the whole wide world so they gave the sexiness a whole new level 😇
When Sebastian York whispers in your ears to undress slowly and seductively, well, you just damn well do what that man says!!!
🌟🌟🌟🌟 · 5 stars
Book: The Rosie Project
Genre: Adult
Type: Audiobook
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆•5
Review
Don is different to everyone else and he knows it!
He has routines, down to the second for EVERYTHING including what he is having for dinner that night (Lobster on Tuesday, kept in the bath until he kills it!)
He decides that it’s high time that he gets himself a partner and so starts “The Wife Project”
A questionnaire is prepared for all candidates to complete and it is passed out in hilarious fashion on speed dating nights, online dating sites and randomly wherever he sees fit.
The questionnaire is precise …..I mean really precise, Height, Weight, BMI (to make sure that the candidate can complete mundane maths problems), do you smoke? Drink? How often? Etc. etc. etc. …. Some of the questions are ridiculous, but Don doesn’t see this as he is wired differently, although it isn’t actually stated, Don is clearly on the Autism scale, probably Asperger, ironically what he is studying!!
Then a curve ball is thrown in……..Rosie!
Rosie is the complete opposite of what Don “thinks” he wants, she smokes, drinks, swears like a sailor and has bright red hair.
This book was very funny and I enjoyed it very much, it made me laugh out loud quite a few times reading the antics that they get up to, and Dons general weirdness.
A fun filled 4 ☆ read.
Genre: Adult
Type: Audiobook
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆
Narration rating: ☆☆☆•5
Review
Don is different to everyone else and he knows it!
He has routines, down to the second for EVERYTHING including what he is having for dinner that night (Lobster on Tuesday, kept in the bath until he kills it!)
He decides that it’s high time that he gets himself a partner and so starts “The Wife Project”
A questionnaire is prepared for all candidates to complete and it is passed out in hilarious fashion on speed dating nights, online dating sites and randomly wherever he sees fit.
The questionnaire is precise …..I mean really precise, Height, Weight, BMI (to make sure that the candidate can complete mundane maths problems), do you smoke? Drink? How often? Etc. etc. etc. …. Some of the questions are ridiculous, but Don doesn’t see this as he is wired differently, although it isn’t actually stated, Don is clearly on the Autism scale, probably Asperger, ironically what he is studying!!
Then a curve ball is thrown in……..Rosie!
Rosie is the complete opposite of what Don “thinks” he wants, she smokes, drinks, swears like a sailor and has bright red hair.
This book was very funny and I enjoyed it very much, it made me laugh out loud quite a few times reading the antics that they get up to, and Dons general weirdness.
A fun filled 4 ☆ read.
Book: Until November
Genre: New Adult
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
LOVED THIS BOOK ♡♡
Okay so I was not expecting to love this book too much (sorry Aurora) I thought it was going to be the normal, Girl, Bad boy, instalove, hot sex ....The end!
And it sort of is exactly that but, BUT it was brilliantly done.
This girl can WRITE!
We have the cast....
November, she is leaving New York after having a nasty encounter and is going to live with her dad.
Her dad runs a club, a strip club, and November is going to work for him..........just doing the books mind, nothing else!!
Here we meet Asher, panty wetting, swoon worthy, bit of a douchebag Asher, my favourite kind of book boyfriend ........hummmmmm!
Alpha male, hot brothers, funny FUNNY cringe worthy times and a Southerton accent, what more could a girl ask for.
Oh and a little quick look into the next HOT brother Trevor. .........yumtastic!
Get it, read it, Love it ♡♡♡
Genre: New Adult
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡
Review
LOVED THIS BOOK ♡♡
Okay so I was not expecting to love this book too much (sorry Aurora) I thought it was going to be the normal, Girl, Bad boy, instalove, hot sex ....The end!
And it sort of is exactly that but, BUT it was brilliantly done.
This girl can WRITE!
We have the cast....
November, she is leaving New York after having a nasty encounter and is going to live with her dad.
Her dad runs a club, a strip club, and November is going to work for him..........just doing the books mind, nothing else!!
Here we meet Asher, panty wetting, swoon worthy, bit of a douchebag Asher, my favourite kind of book boyfriend ........hummmmmm!
Alpha male, hot brothers, funny FUNNY cringe worthy times and a Southerton accent, what more could a girl ask for.
Oh and a little quick look into the next HOT brother Trevor. .........yumtastic!
Get it, read it, Love it ♡♡♡
Book: The Summer I Turned Pretty
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆
Narration rating: ☆
Review
Soooo this book is about your typical selfish teenager who's life revolves around herself and boys......Queue Belly !
This book in a nutshell:
Hi I'm Belly, I really really fancy Conrad and I have been in love with him since I was 11.
Even though he doesn't fancy me I hate anyone he talks to or goes out with.
His brother Jeremiah is lovely and is my best friend (and fancies me) but I will play him along in case I don't get Conrad. Oohh I also have a boyfriend called Cameron who I will also play along until I get Conrad.
Conrads mother is sick , really sick ...but anyway I'm in love with Conrad.
This book basically tells teenage girls to play along anyone you want until the one that you actually want, wants you back!
DUMB!
True Story
When I was younger (12) I moved to a new school after my parents had divorced, it was in a new town and it was already in the third year so all of the little cliques and friendship groups had already been established.
It was a really hard time for me as I was quite an introvert but then I realised I could actually be whoever I wanted to be as I didn’t really know anyone.
I became a funny extrovert and made quite a few friends (Wahoo go me!)
I also noticed and fell completely in love with a boy lets name him boy X ……………………. I was completely and utterly besotted with boy X for at least 2-3 years at school, in fact I turned in to quite the stalker !
I started to listen to the same music he did, liked the same TV shows….I was a proper nutcase !!!
But then one day ….sigh…one day he noticed me, I mean he actually noticed me! One of the most popular good looking boys in my year noticed me!!!.
Well as you can imagine I was a little bit chuffed about this and proceeded to tell everyone within reach about it.
We ‘went out’ for about 2-3 weeks and I thought that I was going to marry him, I had picked out my dress and everything…………………….Then I went down to the park to meet my friends and saw him kissing someone else ………………………I pretended that it didn’t bother me, but it did, it did very, very much.
This book was like listening to my summer when I was 13, and I realised what a complete and utter absolute tit I had been!
It made me angry about how shallow Belly was and how she didn’t care about anything else apart from herself, I know I know that’s what all teenagers are like, but I disliked the MC so much that I didn’t care if, when, why anything happened to her.
So no I didn’t like the book.
Genre: YA
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆
Narration rating: ☆
Review
Soooo this book is about your typical selfish teenager who's life revolves around herself and boys......Queue Belly !
This book in a nutshell:
Hi I'm Belly, I really really fancy Conrad and I have been in love with him since I was 11.
Even though he doesn't fancy me I hate anyone he talks to or goes out with.
His brother Jeremiah is lovely and is my best friend (and fancies me) but I will play him along in case I don't get Conrad. Oohh I also have a boyfriend called Cameron who I will also play along until I get Conrad.
Conrads mother is sick , really sick ...but anyway I'm in love with Conrad.
This book basically tells teenage girls to play along anyone you want until the one that you actually want, wants you back!
DUMB!
True Story
When I was younger (12) I moved to a new school after my parents had divorced, it was in a new town and it was already in the third year so all of the little cliques and friendship groups had already been established.
It was a really hard time for me as I was quite an introvert but then I realised I could actually be whoever I wanted to be as I didn’t really know anyone.
I became a funny extrovert and made quite a few friends (Wahoo go me!)
I also noticed and fell completely in love with a boy lets name him boy X ……………………. I was completely and utterly besotted with boy X for at least 2-3 years at school, in fact I turned in to quite the stalker !
I started to listen to the same music he did, liked the same TV shows….I was a proper nutcase !!!
But then one day ….sigh…one day he noticed me, I mean he actually noticed me! One of the most popular good looking boys in my year noticed me!!!.
Well as you can imagine I was a little bit chuffed about this and proceeded to tell everyone within reach about it.
We ‘went out’ for about 2-3 weeks and I thought that I was going to marry him, I had picked out my dress and everything…………………….Then I went down to the park to meet my friends and saw him kissing someone else ………………………I pretended that it didn’t bother me, but it did, it did very, very much.
This book was like listening to my summer when I was 13, and I realised what a complete and utter absolute tit I had been!
It made me angry about how shallow Belly was and how she didn’t care about anything else apart from herself, I know I know that’s what all teenagers are like, but I disliked the MC so much that I didn’t care if, when, why anything happened to her.
So no I didn’t like the book.
Book: Never Let Me Go
Genre: Fiction
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆•5
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆•5
Review
Wow this book is going to be really hard to review.
This is one that you really have to read yourself, don't read any reviews and go in blind!
It is quite a slow read, and then it builds up, and you find that you can't stop reading as you have to know.........
The story in itself is about 3 children and how their lives are in a type of bording school known as Hailsham.
Tommy is a boy that no one really bother with as he has quite a temper, that is apart from Kathy who has always been friends with him, and Ruth, who's stories are sometimes a little bit "out there"
Kathy is now 31 and is telling the story and is looking back fondly on her memories at Hailsham, but then the story starts to take a more sinister edge, and we are then allowed to look at the school for what it is, and why the children are so special.
A shuddering 4•5 ☆ read.
Genre: Fiction
Type: Audiobook.
Book rating: ☆☆☆☆•5
Narration rating: ☆☆☆☆•5
Review
Wow this book is going to be really hard to review.
This is one that you really have to read yourself, don't read any reviews and go in blind!
It is quite a slow read, and then it builds up, and you find that you can't stop reading as you have to know.........
The story in itself is about 3 children and how their lives are in a type of bording school known as Hailsham.
Tommy is a boy that no one really bother with as he has quite a temper, that is apart from Kathy who has always been friends with him, and Ruth, who's stories are sometimes a little bit "out there"
Kathy is now 31 and is telling the story and is looking back fondly on her memories at Hailsham, but then the story starts to take a more sinister edge, and we are then allowed to look at the school for what it is, and why the children are so special.
A shuddering 4•5 ☆ read.