Book: Tell The Wolves I'm Home

Genre: YA

Type: Audiobook.

Book rating: ♡♡♡♡♡♡

Narration rating: ♡♡♡♡♡♡

Review


Yes that is 6 stars!

Narration was perfect, all of the characters were beautifully spoken and created with the narrators lovely voice. Thank you.

I finished this book last night at 1 o'clock in the morning, I couldn't not finish it.
With tears running down my face and proper ugly crying, I managed to get to sleep, but this was the first thing I thought of when I woke up.

This beautiful story is written in the voice of June, she is 14 and a little bit quirky, but she doesn't care what anybody else thinks, only Finn.

Finn is her uncle and she worships him, he is also quite a famous painter, and also dying of AIDS.

June knows this, as does the rest of her family, her sister Greta who is always mean to her but really just want her sister back, and her Mother Dani who doesn't really know what to do with June.

The story is set in 1987 when AIDS had just come on to the scene, and everybody was ignorant about it.
You remember when it was just a "Gay disease?" and people were careful about who they touched?

A couple of the things about that made me laugh, but then thinking back, it was actually like that. Rude ignorant people, not touching someone incase they caught "The AIDS"

After Finn dies, June has nobody that understands her, not like her uncle Finn, and she starts up an unlikely friendship with her uncles boyfriend Toby who she never knew before, and was and still is a secret.

The book is so beautifully written that I found myself going back to passages to re read.

This book will make you laugh, cry, and even break your heart a little, Please please read it, you must.

Well just finished this, and although I usually step away from non fiction, it was a fantastic read.

Answers to the questions in your head.

1. Yes they are completely bonkers
2. Yes she does spill the beans about a lot of celebs
3. Yes there is a lot of info about Tom Cruise in there
4. Yes, he is completely BAT. SHIT. CRAZY!!!!!

4·5 stars from me

Omigosh i Luuuuurved this one!!

Leah Raeder is not your usual fluffy romantic Ahhhhh kind of writer, hell most of the time you want to punch the MC in the face!

But Oh. My. God. She can WRITE, her words are like poetry, just beautiful.

In this book Vada the MC is an artist, so everything is about colours and brush strokes, ugh just beautiful.

“Red. Harvest red. A jacket of russet, and sienna, and umber.” She didn’t object to extra words, so I went on, “Soot-black socks. A vest of pure snow. And amber . . . buttons. Old, wise amber that holds the sun, and carries it into the darkness, like tiny lamps.”“Is it a fox?” she whispered.

I received this audio book in exchange for an honest review.

The first part of the book is quite harrowing, Sydney is abused by her mother, she takes on a lot of different personas the worst being "Nurse Mama"

Sydney finally gets shot of her mother and moves into apartment 2B, she still has issues, one of these being that she doesn't like to be touched, at all.

I enjoyed the book, however the narration didn't pull me in to much.
The characters all sounded the same and sometimes I struggled to distinguish the difference, especially when there was 2 men talking.

Apart from that I enjoyed the book and was glad to read it.

i really enjoyed this one, considering it was a kindle freebie i wasn't expecting much!

Lucy is very proper, she does not interact with people at all although she is very clever and even went to university at 13.

Lucy has to try and find an experiment to keep her funding, however she can not get close enough with people to be able to do this.

She decides to do a social experiment on herself and young people to understand attraction and passion.

Lots of funny one liners and awkwardness.

This book very much reminded me of Celeste from the Flat out books as she was very similar.

Book: The Night Circus

Genre: YA

Type: Audiobook.

Book rating: ☆☆

Narration rating: ☆☆

Review


Have you ever watched that film called The Prestige with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman?

It’s not really my sort of thing usually but I gave it a go and it is brilliant, if you haven’t seen it I would highly recommend it.

Anyway, this book is kind of like that, in that there are 2 magicians (illusionists) trying to outdo each other in a circus.

There is an challenge between 2 older magicians in that their protégés will be the victor – they will ‘fight’ to the death, however the 2 protégés do not know who the other is ………and they fall in love with each other  dun dun duuunnnnn !”!!!!!!!

This sounds like a brilliant book right?.........................................Wrong !!


The writing in the book is beautiful, and the explanation of everything is wonderful and you are transported to another world, however the book itself is just a little bit mehh.

 
It didn’t ever seem to really get going and I was so looking forward to this big battle but it just sort of faded to a blip.

I was more interested in the relationship between bailey and poppet to be honest, they seemed to have more of a story even though they were supposed to be in the background.

The love story between Celia and Marcus sort of plodded away and didn’t really break into a run, it was just a slight jog!

 
Narration from Jim Dale…….. well I was expecting it to be amazing , considering he is Mr Harry Potter (My little boy is currently listening to him reading this and loves him) I was so excited…….lets just say that I will not be borrowing it from him and shall stick with the legend that is Mr Stephen fry.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Picture perfect stars

When you read a Lauren Blakely book you always know that you are going to get a good story.

This one was no exception, I love her characters that she writes, especially her females as she makes them so likable.

I love the fact that Lauren released this book on audio first, it just shows how far audios have come :o)

This was a sweet love story between Joy and Griffin.

Meet Joy

Joy starts a brand new job in a new country, she has moved to Paris and cannot wait, the only thing is she doesn't know any French and has to rely on a translator to help her.

June has a passion for smells, and luckily bags herself her dream job working for a fragrance company.

June is a very likable character, she doesn't come across as one of these blushing "oh my" women that you read about sometimes, nope she's an independent woman and she can do it all on her own thank you very much!

Meet Griffin

Griffin is a Brit, working in Paris as a translator.

He is planning to leave in 1 month's time and travel somewhere else, he doesn't like to stay in one place for too long, he has a strong impulse to travel and explore the world (he has a Wanderlust).

He has nearly packed all of his bags ready for his big trip, he just has one more job to do, he is asked to help as a translator for a new person starting a job in a fragrance company.

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Ms Blakely has managed to catch the beauty and essence of Paris, the sights and scents of the air were there when i closed my eyes and listened to Grace Grant and Richard Armitage telling me this wonderful romance story.

This is a slow burner guys, friends to lovers, the best kind, prepare to be swooned!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Ripped at the Seams stars!

Alessandra Torre is a go-to 1 click author for me and this book was no exception I loved it every single word.

Imagine if you will, somebody saying to you, I will give you millions, no, billions of dollars would you want it? Of course you would you are not a fool!

What do I need to do would be your question?

"Well you need to be seen with me in public and you need to be seen with me in magazines, oh, and you need to be seen with me on the TV and any public appearances that I do."

"Brilliant what's the catch?"

"No catch really, you will be treated like a king, wined and dined at all of the most famous & expensive restaurants, dressed to the 9s in beautiful fantastic clothes .........oh but you do have to pretend to be gay, like forever!"

For a chance of a billion dollars this is Marcos life.

Avery lives in Detroit she is what you would call a small time crook, she is known and is friendly with some very bad people, however she is not bad herself she's only trying to help others.

Avery was adopted when she was a very small child and eventually moved away from her adoptive parents.

The only thing she has of her father is an old worn photograph, imagine her surprise when she sees her father on the TV when she is in a local bar!

Avery decides to go and find him and here is where the story begins.

Sparks Fly and Seams Rip with this little cracker of a book go buy it!

** thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy of this book this review is my opinion alone and has no bearing on the story**