Audiobook narrated by Will Damron.

I quite enjoyed reading this book via audiobook and finding out all the absolute crazy things that Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes managed to get away with, and how the company duped so many people for such a long time. It is just an eyebrow-raising riot of a time.

I'm not business minded or tech-minded but I still did get a lot out of this book, and as someone who worked in the journalism field, I really appreciated the sleuthing involved in this story, and how the expose slowly unveiled itself.

I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers/author via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

When Aiden Bishop wakes up in a body that is not his, and with hardly any memories, he knows there's something strange going on. He soon learns that he is in a time loop in Blackheath Manor, during which he has eight days and eight different bodies to figure out the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle. As Bishop repeats each day, eight different times, he begins to learn more about himself and about the people surrounding him but also about the mysterious hunters desperate to kill him before he's completed the mystery of Evelyn.

I quite enjoyed this book and found it very vividly written with a great atmospheric setting. The setting of Blackheath was quite spooky and austere all at the same time, and there were so many different things happening all at once. I really enjoyed all the people Bishop inhabited and finding out about them - and how their personalities would affect the overall mystery and how bishop interpreted everything he learned that day.

There were times the book mentally exhausted me as there was just so many things going on, and so many characters (I did keep confusing Davies and Derby) to remember. And I was frustrated at the amount of times Bishop seemed to give up and allowed the footman to find him or do something to him. As I already said though, the book was quite vivid which I enjoyed - I did not, however, enjoy the stabby dreams i had while reading this and i can only blame the book XD

The ending was interesting and not what I would have guessed at all, so I was nicely surprised. It would be nice to have found out a bit more about the world beyond, and the technology allowing Bishop and Anna to be in the time loop and how it all works, and if they are from the future or how it is all happening but I'm not sure if we'll ever find out. A short story set in the same world with the time loop system would be very interesting.

Good book for fans of Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl!

Chloe Townsend is back in Dublin a year after being left at the altar. Now she is the manager of a brand new hotel with a difference - the guests are all going through a divorce, and by the time they leave the hotel, their divorce will be complete. It's a divorce retreat of sorts. Chloe ends up meeting a lot of different couples, including some who still seem to love one another.

This was a sweet contemporary romance that I really enjoyed reading as it was set in Dublin City and the hotel itself was situated on the exact same street I work on, and that I walk on every single day! I really enjoy reading modern books set in Dublin and recognizing the different landmarks and being able to picture everything. This probably comes from reading so many books set in the UK and US and not always feeling familiar with setting. Sometimes it's nice reading a book set at home and where all the characters talk like you and your friends.

I enjoyed the different couples in this book a lot but unfortunately their stories completely overshadowed Chloe who was suppose to be the main character but was just so boring compared to everyone else. While she was a nice character, there wasn't anything particularly interesting about her (except her being jilted at the altar). There was nothing in her storyline that was surprising and I knew exactly how everything would work out with her and the person who she would clearly end up with. Her storyline with her ex also wrapped up really quickly and while it was satisfying, there was very little there to explain why she was with him in the first place.

There was also a very dated moment in this book when a character's bisexuality was completely erased as just "a step" towards fully coming out as gay which we all know is bs. This book wasn't written that long ago that I feel like this is okay and I was really surprised by it.

3.5 stars

DNf - 60%

I received this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lucy Alling is fairly happy in her job selling rare, antique items when she falls in love with a customer, and is introduced to his grandmother - who knows a lot more about Lucy and her family members than Lucy herself. When a secret comes to life that rattles Lucy, and ends her relationship, she ends up being employed by her ex's grandmother to travel to England on an antique hunt - as well as a literary tour.

This book has the ingredients to what I thought would be my perfect recipe but it ended up being really bland, and lacked any kind of spice or seasoning. I just couldn't bother reading more, and dnf'it at 60%.

I found the story didn't flow very well, and was very stop and start from chapter one. I couldn't get my head around Lucy meeting James in the first chapter (which was actually their second meeting - their first meeting where the initial chemistry apparently happened, happened off-page), being in a relationship with him by the second and broken up and heartbroken by the third. It was a whirlwind for two characters who had very little chemistry and barely even kissed. And honestly, I really didn't like James anyway and how he spoke to Lucy and kind of commandeered some of the decisions she made about her life (him giving her furniture rubbed me up the wrong way as it felt a bit controlling or something).

The storyline in general was just very, very boring and it seemed to take way too long for anything to actually happening except repeat conversations about Lucy's dad and granddad, and what terrible people they apparently were. At 60%, they hadn't even made it to any interesting literary hotspot except for some tourist areas around London.

Lucy was also just not a nice character at all. She came off as a bit mean and a bit of a bully to others. There were several scenes where she acted horribly in restaurants and I couldn't get over it. The story is written in a way that we are suppose to forgive Lucy for these misdemeanours and she doesn't really mean it but I just was really turned off by her.

I received a copy of this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

CW: description of self harm

Julia and Will are getting married on a small island off the coast of Ireland. It's beautiful, rugged and dangerous - what could go wrong? It turns out, plenty - especially when Will grew up in a boarding school with a lot of secrets, secrets his friends have been keeping for a long time, and Julia's sister is struggling with her own troubles.

This book was an atmospheric ride and I loved being taken along on it - from the memories of boarding school to possibly the worst wedding I've ever read about - and that doesn't even include the murder!

Lucy Foley is an expert, an expert , at creating groups of people that you can despite with every bit of your reader's heart. The Hunting Party was a mix of similar characters but I feel like Foley honed her expertise even further in The Guest List and created a perfect mix of privileged, private school boys foaming at the mouth, coke dust on their nose still reliving the glory of their school days even though they're fully grown adults. There was a terrific pressure in the novel anytime I read interactions between the men as they felt almost cult-like and there was a tinge of danger. I wouldn't want to be around them, and I felt like snatching at the half-decent characters who came into their reach.

This is the type of thriller where every character we follow has an interesting backstory and they all start to weave into one another, and it all connects in the end. I do think Hannah's

sister's death didn't quite have to be connected to Will as well as everything else, as it was such a coincidence but I can see why it gave a twist to the story because for a while I 100% thought Hannah was the murderer

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I was hooked into this story from the start and I loved every twist and turn. It helped that it was a stormy week in Ireland too because it helped me really understand the mood and feeling on the island. Extra points for me as well for a character with my name, as it rarely happens, AND some really nice inclusions of Irish names, culture and setting without it being mocked by other characters or included in the wrong way. You can tell Lucy Foley has Irish connections which is also a plus from me!

4.5 stars.

I received this book from Titan in exchange for an honest review.

I swear these books just get better and better!!!

In the third book in the Ellery Hathaway series, FBI profiler Reed Markham and suspended small town cop Ellery Hathaway head to Las Vegas to reopen a 40-year-old case - the one that left Reed an orphan following the brutal murder of his mother.

This book was brilliant from the first page. I felt so invested in this case as it was such a personal one to our characters - Reed for obvious reasons, and Ellery due to her close if fraught relationship with him. The particular case came at a really good time in the series too - we've had two books now to get to know Reed as a character, and some of his family, and now with this one, it was tense but exciting to see how he would react to each new discovery and also marvel at the past he never knew he had with him.

I think I also really like thrillers or detective mysteries now that seem to have dirty cops mixed in with the story or a corrupt police department as a whole. I like how that was weaved into this story while not completely being attached to the murder of Reed's birth mother. I'm really excited to see where that storyline goes, and I can only hope it's what the next book in the series will focus on.

I definitely guessed the culprit fairly on in this one, as I think it was a bit obvious from the start but I still enjoyed how it all played out. In true Joanna Schaffhausen style too, she left us with a really exciting bombshell which definitely took me by surprise and was a great twist to the story.

I can't get enough of this crime series!

3.5 stars