Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce

I picked this book up after having read one from her more popular trilogy. I wanted to know if the Harold Fry book was available in my library, but only the Dutch version was available. I saw this one was available. It did make quite a buzz when it first came out.I liked the overall…

Never Too Old to Save the World: A Midlife Calling Anthology

Edited by: Addie J. King, Alana Joli Abbott I collected quite a few short story books to read, and I have finally been getting down to it. With books like this, and the varied content, I feel like talking about individual chapters is the only way I can make sense of what I think of…

The Tick and the Tock of the Crocodile Clock by Kenny Boyle

This was an unexpected book. Nothing about the title or the cover would confirm to any unsuspecting reader the content they are about to encounter. The blurb, obviously, might help, but that, too, is a little vague (for good reasons).Wendy is our protagonist. We watch the entire sequence of events through her eyes. The events…

Beyond the Frozen Horizon by Nicola Penfold

If I was ever given a prompt that had the words younger readers, horror/thriller, adventure and a dash of mystery thrown into life-threatening situations, I would be hard-pressed to come up with an appropriate storyline. This book is a combination of all of them.When I started the book, I was unsure what I expected. We…

The Girl Who Rowed the Ocean by Alastair Humphreys

I wondered long and hard before writing this review about what I really thought of this book and how to rate it. On the one hand, it was a fascinating way of providing information without making it tedious - on the other, given the factual nature of everything, I was surprised how easily the family…

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Narrated by Aysha Kala I would not recommend listening to this book in a public space. It has some explicit content that I forwarded in parts even when I was at home. I had to begin with this disclaimer because it is probably one of the more elaborate books I have listened to. While reading,…

The Limitless Sky by Christina Kilbourne

I really enjoyed the introduction of the book. It drew me to the plot itself. I have imagined collaborating on stories before, but nothing ever panned out in time. I hold out hope that someday it will!This is a standard dystopia scenario. You meet two young adults who live in different scenarios. It is hard…

Secret Lives by Mark de Castrique

It is hard to imagine the direction that the story will take by just the starting pages (if you have not yet read the blurb). The plot begins with a man making a transaction and dying at the end of it. He is a boarder at Ethel's who only hosts government agents and has security…