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The 2nd book in the series and Rhiannon is back, as well as her talking unborn baby and her need to kill.
Didn't blow me away like the first book, but had plenty of laugh out loud moments and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Didn't blow me away like the first book, but had plenty of laugh out loud moments and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Meanwhile, over in a Dystopian America....Women have been silenced!
They are no longer allowed to read, write, use phones, hold a job, and most scary of all, they are only allowed to speak a maximum 100 words a day!
To make sure that this is completely set in place, all women have been fitted with a beautiful bracelet, a little bit like a digital watch, it has a counter on it, but instead of telling the time, it slowly counts down from 100 every time you utter a word. When it gets down to zero you will receive an electric shock.
But don't feel it's just us poor old women that get the sh*tty end of the stick, no, the bracelet and the rules will also apply to young female children including babies!
A once brilliant minded Dr. Jean McClellan, a leading doctor in her field of Cognitive linguistics is now just a mother of 4, she is in the house just to cook, clean and wash like the dutiful housewife that she is!
She is however given a slight reprieve when her expertise is needed...to help a man!
With Flashbacks that show how women have been beaten down to nothing, while men are still allowed to do whatever they want, this Dystopian book will give you Handmaids Tale vibes, if you like that one, then you will probably love this book too.
They are no longer allowed to read, write, use phones, hold a job, and most scary of all, they are only allowed to speak a maximum 100 words a day!
To make sure that this is completely set in place, all women have been fitted with a beautiful bracelet, a little bit like a digital watch, it has a counter on it, but instead of telling the time, it slowly counts down from 100 every time you utter a word. When it gets down to zero you will receive an electric shock.
But don't feel it's just us poor old women that get the sh*tty end of the stick, no, the bracelet and the rules will also apply to young female children including babies!
A once brilliant minded Dr. Jean McClellan, a leading doctor in her field of Cognitive linguistics is now just a mother of 4, she is in the house just to cook, clean and wash like the dutiful housewife that she is!
She is however given a slight reprieve when her expertise is needed...to help a man!
With Flashbacks that show how women have been beaten down to nothing, while men are still allowed to do whatever they want, this Dystopian book will give you Handmaids Tale vibes, if you like that one, then you will probably love this book too.
How many times have you thought to yourself I wish I was famous? How many times have you thought that all of your troubles would go away if you were?
How about being famous by accident?
This story is being told by our main MC 23 year old April May, who while wandering through NYC one night spies something that she doesn't remember seeing there before.
Being super quirky and arty, she does the only thing she can think of at this time in the morning, and excitedly calls her best friend Andy.
Andy isn't too happy about being woken up at 3am, but of course he goes along to see what April May is so excited about, when he gets there, so is he.
A huge statue has appeared in the middle of New York, and no-one seems to be paying it much attention, April May is astounded about how much work has gone into this statue, and there is no name attached to it to give any credit.
Andy has his own YouTube channel where he uploads silly videos, so the natural response would be to make a silly video of this, April "interviews" the statue, naming him Carl, and Andy later uploads the video.
The next morning, it seems that the video has gone viral, and April May is hot-stuff due to there not being just one Carl, oh no, that one is just New York Carl, there are also Carl's in cities all over the world, and it also seems that they all appeared at the same time, and Carl seems to be the name of choice, i.e Beijing Carl, Buenos Aires Carl, Tokyo Carl etc.
But April and Andy are the original Carl discoverers, and fame is instant for them.
April has to deal with fame with the whole world watching, and I really do mean the whole wide world!
🎧🎧 - Narrated by Kristen Sieh with a cameo by the author, who both did a fantastic job, I will definitely be looking out for book 2 and more by Kristen.
Until I was about 3 hours into this book I had no idea that Hank is the brother of the super duper famous John green, author of The Fault in Our Stars!
Comparing both authors is inevitable, but Hank hold his own, and dare I say it, even manages for me to slightly outshine his brother **ducks the flying objects**
How about being famous by accident?
This story is being told by our main MC 23 year old April May, who while wandering through NYC one night spies something that she doesn't remember seeing there before.
Being super quirky and arty, she does the only thing she can think of at this time in the morning, and excitedly calls her best friend Andy.
Andy isn't too happy about being woken up at 3am, but of course he goes along to see what April May is so excited about, when he gets there, so is he.
A huge statue has appeared in the middle of New York, and no-one seems to be paying it much attention, April May is astounded about how much work has gone into this statue, and there is no name attached to it to give any credit.
Andy has his own YouTube channel where he uploads silly videos, so the natural response would be to make a silly video of this, April "interviews" the statue, naming him Carl, and Andy later uploads the video.
The next morning, it seems that the video has gone viral, and April May is hot-stuff due to there not being just one Carl, oh no, that one is just New York Carl, there are also Carl's in cities all over the world, and it also seems that they all appeared at the same time, and Carl seems to be the name of choice, i.e Beijing Carl, Buenos Aires Carl, Tokyo Carl etc.
But April and Andy are the original Carl discoverers, and fame is instant for them.
April has to deal with fame with the whole world watching, and I really do mean the whole wide world!
🎧🎧 - Narrated by Kristen Sieh with a cameo by the author, who both did a fantastic job, I will definitely be looking out for book 2 and more by Kristen.
Until I was about 3 hours into this book I had no idea that Hank is the brother of the super duper famous John green, author of The Fault in Our Stars!
Comparing both authors is inevitable, but Hank hold his own, and dare I say it, even manages for me to slightly outshine his brother **ducks the flying objects**
I've said it before and i'll say it again, if you want to listen to a great romance audio, then you should listen to Lauren Blakely.
Why?
Because she spends so much time on her audio books as she is an avid listener, she ALWAYS delivers with the narrators that she picks, and her stories are ALWAYS sweet, sassy and low drama.
And if you are really lucky, (such as this book) you will also get some swoon worthy singing in it YES I SAID SINGING!!
So if you want to be swept off of your feet with yet another cracker of a story by Ms Blakely, then you should really grab this one.
Not only do you get the brilliant story of Sloane & Malone, a friends to lovers story, with some great crooning from Jason Clarke (Swoon) you also get your hands on the Novella for book 1.5 in the Sinful Nights series, which will have you desperate to get your hands on the full series.
Why?
Because she spends so much time on her audio books as she is an avid listener, she ALWAYS delivers with the narrators that she picks, and her stories are ALWAYS sweet, sassy and low drama.
And if you are really lucky, (such as this book) you will also get some swoon worthy singing in it YES I SAID SINGING!!
So if you want to be swept off of your feet with yet another cracker of a story by Ms Blakely, then you should really grab this one.
Not only do you get the brilliant story of Sloane & Malone, a friends to lovers story, with some great crooning from Jason Clarke (Swoon) you also get your hands on the Novella for book 1.5 in the Sinful Nights series, which will have you desperate to get your hands on the full series.
Hello book friends,
I’m super happy to bring you a review for a new series that I think is going to keep me busy for a while as I couldn’t tear myself away from it.
Sorry for being MIA for a while, Real Life bitch-slapped me in the face for a while and I kind of got stuck in a bit of a slump!
But I think I’m back and ready to make up some lost time (and reviews!)
Why did you pick it up Vicci?
Well, I saw lots of people talking about this book in a Facebook group that I am in, and you know how I don’t like to be left out of anything!!
Well, I have found myself a new series to binge, I can’t wait to read the next one in this series, I was on the edge of my seat for most of it.
A genre that I wouldn’t usually read was being banded around on a FB group that i am in, then I heard the narrator, Julia Whelan…..and I was invested.
I promptly bagged the whole series on KU and upgraded the Audio’s for £3.47 each!!! what a bargain!
Told in the POV of Cassie, we see her in her home town of New York, there seems to be some sort of “flu” epidemic that is sweeping the city, so people are being quite cautious, but until she gets a call from her friend explaining that people are dying and there is no cure does she really start to worry.
Her friends tells her to get out of town immediately, so her and her friends try and do just that, except it turns out that the people that are dying from this epidemic, have not done being dead yet!
This was such a great story, I was so invested in all of the characters, and they were all brilliantly narrated by the awesome Julia Whelan, one of my favourite narrators, who bought every one of them to life in my head.
This is not a gory book, there is a little gruesome talk, but nothing too bad, if you liked The Walking Dead then you will probably like this, as it is about a group of people trying to survive.
Try it, You never know, you might like it!!
Book 1 is only £2.49 on audio or free on KU, what have you got to lose?
I’m super happy to bring you a review for a new series that I think is going to keep me busy for a while as I couldn’t tear myself away from it.
Sorry for being MIA for a while, Real Life bitch-slapped me in the face for a while and I kind of got stuck in a bit of a slump!
But I think I’m back and ready to make up some lost time (and reviews!)
Why did you pick it up Vicci?
Well, I saw lots of people talking about this book in a Facebook group that I am in, and you know how I don’t like to be left out of anything!!
Well, I have found myself a new series to binge, I can’t wait to read the next one in this series, I was on the edge of my seat for most of it.
A genre that I wouldn’t usually read was being banded around on a FB group that i am in, then I heard the narrator, Julia Whelan…..and I was invested.
I promptly bagged the whole series on KU and upgraded the Audio’s for £3.47 each!!! what a bargain!
Told in the POV of Cassie, we see her in her home town of New York, there seems to be some sort of “flu” epidemic that is sweeping the city, so people are being quite cautious, but until she gets a call from her friend explaining that people are dying and there is no cure does she really start to worry.
Her friends tells her to get out of town immediately, so her and her friends try and do just that, except it turns out that the people that are dying from this epidemic, have not done being dead yet!
This was such a great story, I was so invested in all of the characters, and they were all brilliantly narrated by the awesome Julia Whelan, one of my favourite narrators, who bought every one of them to life in my head.
This is not a gory book, there is a little gruesome talk, but nothing too bad, if you liked The Walking Dead then you will probably like this, as it is about a group of people trying to survive.
Try it, You never know, you might like it!!
Book 1 is only £2.49 on audio or free on KU, what have you got to lose?
Oohh I think all of you thriller lovers are going to LOVE this one!!
Hello from a surprisingly sunny UK, the sun is out, and because it doesn’t happen very often, we don’t know what to do with ourselves LOL.
So here I am to bring you a review for this little cracker of a thriller, that will keep you on the edge of your seat, right until the very end!
Why Did You Pick It Up Vicci?
Well, I was doing my usual picking-too-many-to-read-and-review-in-time choices on NetGalley (As you do!) and I read the blurb to this one, and I just couldn’t pass it by, it sounded fantastic, and just up my street.
𝔻𝕠𝕟’𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖!!
Let’s play a game of “Would you rather” …….
Would you rather be a victim, or an abuser?
What if you had to be both?
This is what Rachel is dealing with. After dropping her daughter off at the bus stop, as she does every morning, she gets a call from a woman, the woman explains that she has kidnapped her daughter Kylie and she will only get her back by following just a few simple rules, if these rules are not followed, she will kill her.
1. No authorities, and no police!
2. Pay a ransom…….. a staple in a kidnapping right?
3. Kidnap a child…….are you intrigued now?
4. Call that child’s parents and give them the same information that you are getting right now.
5. Hold that kidnapped child somewhere, until the parents of the child have paid the ransom, and also kidnapped another child…….I can see your eyebrows raising!
6. Until all of the above have been completed, Kylie will be held.
7. And here is the kicker!! – After Rachel has followed the rules above, the child of the woman on the phone will be released!
And so on, and so on…
Welcome friends, to The Chain
You see, what is so clever about this book, is that it plays on the “what would you do for your child” part of you, and because you are there with Rachel all of the way, it makes you think ‘what would I do’?
Would I do anything to protect my child? Abso-bloody-lutely, but the thought of putting another parent through the same trauma as you are going through right now is just heartbreaking. And you know that when you get told they will kill your child, you believe them, because their own child is at risk too!
You’ll never look at one of those silly chain letters again!!
Grab this one when it is released on 9th July
You’re Welcome 😉
**𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣, ℕ𝕖𝕥𝔾𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕆𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕟 ℙ𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕡𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜**
Hello from a surprisingly sunny UK, the sun is out, and because it doesn’t happen very often, we don’t know what to do with ourselves LOL.
So here I am to bring you a review for this little cracker of a thriller, that will keep you on the edge of your seat, right until the very end!
Why Did You Pick It Up Vicci?
Well, I was doing my usual picking-too-many-to-read-and-review-in-time choices on NetGalley (As you do!) and I read the blurb to this one, and I just couldn’t pass it by, it sounded fantastic, and just up my street.
𝔻𝕠𝕟’𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖!!
Let’s play a game of “Would you rather” …….
Would you rather be a victim, or an abuser?
What if you had to be both?
This is what Rachel is dealing with. After dropping her daughter off at the bus stop, as she does every morning, she gets a call from a woman, the woman explains that she has kidnapped her daughter Kylie and she will only get her back by following just a few simple rules, if these rules are not followed, she will kill her.
1. No authorities, and no police!
2. Pay a ransom…….. a staple in a kidnapping right?
3. Kidnap a child…….are you intrigued now?
4. Call that child’s parents and give them the same information that you are getting right now.
5. Hold that kidnapped child somewhere, until the parents of the child have paid the ransom, and also kidnapped another child…….I can see your eyebrows raising!
6. Until all of the above have been completed, Kylie will be held.
7. And here is the kicker!! – After Rachel has followed the rules above, the child of the woman on the phone will be released!
And so on, and so on…
Welcome friends, to The Chain
You see, what is so clever about this book, is that it plays on the “what would you do for your child” part of you, and because you are there with Rachel all of the way, it makes you think ‘what would I do’?
Would I do anything to protect my child? Abso-bloody-lutely, but the thought of putting another parent through the same trauma as you are going through right now is just heartbreaking. And you know that when you get told they will kill your child, you believe them, because their own child is at risk too!
You’ll never look at one of those silly chain letters again!!
Grab this one when it is released on 9th July
You’re Welcome 😉
**𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕜 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔸𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣, ℕ𝕖𝕥𝔾𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕆𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕟 ℙ𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕪 𝕔𝕠𝕡𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜**
This was such a fun read, it follows the main character Teagan, who has Psychokinesis or PK for short, so she can indeed move shit with her mind.
Tegan works for the Government, who send her on secret missions, simply because she is able to do things that other people can’t.
But all in all Tegan is a young girl, she thinks her abilities are cool, but that’s really about it, she wants to be able to drink beer and have a good time, she really isn’t that bothered about working for the Government, but she does know what will happen to her if anyone ever found out what she can do, so she does the bare minimum, much to her teams frustration.
Tegan’s real passion, is food, and not any old food, she really wants to own a restaurant, and her dream is to eat in every swanky place she can to get ideas for this, but this is just a pipe-dream.
The last job that she took on with her team didn’t go according to plan, and now a body has turned up, but he could only have been killed with powers the same as Tegan’s, she is adamant that she didn’t do it, but her team-mates are not so sure, so she is given 24 hours to prove her innocence before she is reported.
A really fun read, I loved Tegan, she was funny and sometimes really really stupid, but i think that made her more likeable.
A crazy ride that drops you right in the centre of it on the first page, you will never get bored with this story, some great characters and a bit of a cliffhanger that makes you think that book 2 will probably be coming your way soon!
**Many thanks to Orion Books and Netgalley for my copy of this book**
Tegan works for the Government, who send her on secret missions, simply because she is able to do things that other people can’t.
But all in all Tegan is a young girl, she thinks her abilities are cool, but that’s really about it, she wants to be able to drink beer and have a good time, she really isn’t that bothered about working for the Government, but she does know what will happen to her if anyone ever found out what she can do, so she does the bare minimum, much to her teams frustration.
Tegan’s real passion, is food, and not any old food, she really wants to own a restaurant, and her dream is to eat in every swanky place she can to get ideas for this, but this is just a pipe-dream.
The last job that she took on with her team didn’t go according to plan, and now a body has turned up, but he could only have been killed with powers the same as Tegan’s, she is adamant that she didn’t do it, but her team-mates are not so sure, so she is given 24 hours to prove her innocence before she is reported.
A really fun read, I loved Tegan, she was funny and sometimes really really stupid, but i think that made her more likeable.
A crazy ride that drops you right in the centre of it on the first page, you will never get bored with this story, some great characters and a bit of a cliffhanger that makes you think that book 2 will probably be coming your way soon!
**Many thanks to Orion Books and Netgalley for my copy of this book**