The Future...

Hey guys, you may have noticed that I've not posted on this blog for the longest time.
Part of this was because I was re-reading the Harry Potter series and although I have never reviewed them, I wasn't sure if anyone would actually want a review from me. I think most people know how much I love the series and everything Harry related without me gushing about each book in a seperate post.

I have however read two books since finishing the Harry Potter series again, those are Girl Online by Zoe Sugg and Vicious by Sara Sheppard, the last book in the Pretty Little Liar's series.
These reviews however will be going live on Juyey.com as will all other book reviews from now on.

I did a survery on Juyey.com and it turned out what I took from the site at the start of 2014, is what people missed the most, one of them being book reviews. I made this blog thinking my book reviews would annoy those who just read Juyey.com for beauty posts but it seems they were missed.

It's easier for me to run just one blog and it's better for the readers if everything is in one place, instead of following all different blogs, so from now on if you're looking for my blog posts head over to Juyey.com.
I will however be keeping this blog online as I have written many reviews on here which I do not wish to lose, but as of 2015 all other book reviews will be over on Juyey.com.

I would like to thank everyone who has followed this blog, shared links and of course commented. I hope to see you over on my main blog in the future. :)

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M.A. Harper - Ghost in the Bedroom

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M.A. Harper - Ghost in the Bedroom.

Hey guys today's review is going to be on the M.A. Harper book "Ghost in the Bedroom". I got this thinking it would be completely different, haunting, scary, a little bit creepy at least.

It definitely was about a haunting but the theme of the book was not creepy in the slightest.

This book is about a woman called Michelle who has two kids Cam and Nicole, after her husband was killed in a car crash, her family are heartbroken. Nicole turns to art, Cam turns in on himself and Michelle ends up meeting a guy, Phil, who has not long been left by his wife.

They end up getting married and moving in together, in a brand new house - with no ties to his prior family or her dead husband. Only thing, her dead husband's presence is all around to the point where Phil is seeing him.

I have to admit this was an odd book for a couple of reasons.

There was a point in the book where Phil mentioned about it being a year since him and Michelle had met, but this was near the end of the book and you'd just spent months with them. Did they really just meet and get married within a few months of meeting?

Also, Phil's ex wife who is now married, has no issues in taking Michelle's kids for the holidays, these kids that have nothing to do with her except they're her ex husband's step kids.

Maybe his ex wife is a nice lady, but I wouldn't take my ex's kids and let them stay over the holidays.

Get over those and it's a good book, it really made you want to find out how it ended, and then it ended. I feel robbed, I just didn't get the ending what-so-ever, it made no sense to me and I felt like a lot of ends were left untied.

If there is going to be another book in this series with these characters then I can understand the ending - somewhat, but I just feel a little lost if it's just a singular book, which is a shame as I was enjoying it - even with it's odd moments.

You can get your own copy on Amazon for £1.93

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Giovanna Fletcher - Christmas With Billy and Me

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Hey guys, today's review is on this short story called Christmas with Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher. 

You have no idea how excited I was when I learnt that Giovanna was writing this. I absolutely loved her debut novel which featured the characters Sophie and Billy - Billy and Me.

This follows up from Billy and Me so if you haven't read that book and don't want any spoilers from the original book, I suggest you click off this page now. 

Christmas has come to Rosefont Hill and is destined to be a particularly special festive season for Sophie May. 

Christmas has not always been Sophie's favourite time of year, since her dad passed when she was 11 her and her mum just kind of ignored it as it brought with it too many painful memories. However after working with Molly in the Tea Shop and being the place for the locals to go to after carolling, she soon realised there was more love to give at Christmas. Add in her handsome actor boyfriend Billy, her mum's new partner Colin and his two kids - this year is set to be a great Christmas.

One thing? With the passing of Molly, it's the first time Sophie has set the Tea Shop up for the locals - and their families without her best friend. With the help of her patchwork family she manages to pull off a special evening for everyone. She then gets an email from a smitten stranger asking if he could use her tea shop on Christmas Eve to propose to the woman he loves. Even though Christmas is a busy time for the tea shop, Sophie cannot refuse. 

This was such a good read, I loved seeing where the characters where in their lives since the first book, I also got 8% in and was tearing up, that happened a few more times throughout the book. Giovanna really knows how to make you feel those feelings. 

If you haven't read Billy and Me yet, I highly recommend it. Then get this, it's heart-warming, heart-breaking and just an all-round great book.

Plus if you want to feel festive, this is the book for you.

My only complaint is that I now want more of Billy and Sophie. 

You can get this on Amazon for 99p. 

My review on Billy and Me and You're The One That I Want.

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Shae Buggs - Remember This

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Hey guys, sorry there hasn't been any posts for a few days. I've been extremely tired and full of cold that every time I went to read, I'd end up falling asleep. Not the best when you're trying to read a book.

With that in mind I opted for a shorter book, one with less than 200 pages and I found Remember This by Shae Buggs.

This book follows Lucy, a hard working woman who finds evidence that her husband Mason has cheated on her, doing what most people in this situation would want to do (but probably shouldn't), she threw a bottle of wine at his head, causing him to lose his memories.

On doctors orders she is forced to help Mason try and remember who he is, meaning she has to reenact their life together before it went down hill, including their wedding.

This book is full of moments that will make you laugh, cringe for the characters and a few "aww" moments, definitely a pick up if you're looking for an easy read one evening.

The bad points would be that this book doesn't look like it was proof-read, there are a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes through-out this book. 

You can buy this book for £1.79 on Amazon.

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H.G Wells - The War of the Worlds

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Hey guys, today's review is on the H.G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds.

I will be 100% honest with you, I had not heard of this until I watched Carrie Hope Fletcher's video where she explains that she is going to be in the musical version of the show (which I believe starts this month). 

This book is dubbed as one of the first to be written about mankind and the extraterrestrial race, it originally being written in the late 1800's. 

This book comes in two parts, book one - The Coming of the Martians and book two - The Earth Under The Martians. The copy I had had a lot more information about the author and behind the science kind of stuff on it as well.

I have to be 100% honest with you, I have no idea what I think of this book even though I have just  read it. You have to remember that this was written before the world got sci-fi crazy, aliens etc were not written about or thought about too much, so in that sense the book is very clever and imaginative. 

On the other hand, I am living in 2014 and have seen/read a lot of unbelievable things that this just failed to impress me, as I heard it would do.

Curse of being in the 21st century I guess.

I just didn't connect to the characters at all, whether the aliens killed them or not was neither here nor there. When a person turned up dead I was less upset than when it talked about the bones of an animal, or a hungry stray dog.

Then the very end baffled me.

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The wife, was she alive, was she dead - was the narrator alive or dead?

I don't know. I spent all morning googling and couldn't come up with an answer, in the musical version I've heard the wife dies, but nothing was said about the narrator. In the book I couldn't decide if she had somehow miraculously escaped OR they were both ghosts. 

When I finished the book I was left in a state of "I don't know what to think about that?"

As I said before for the time it was written it is very clever, but I just couldn't get into it.

It seemed rather jumpy, no connection to the main character, or reason why these creatures from Mars had attacked Earth, what they were building or how they suddenly just died - which I know it's explained how they died but why so suddenly like that.

It left me with a lot of questions, questions that Google cannot answer because I don't know how to word them correctly. 

I can honestly say a book has never confused me as much as this one has, add the fact that when I was searching Google I came up with films and the musical - which are only based off of this book, so completely different in a lot of ways, that was too much at 5am for my brain.

I may one day return to this book and re-read it, see if a second reading can make more sense of it, but for now I'm left absolutely clueless about what to think of it.

You can get this book for as little as £2.28 on Amazon. 

Have you read this book? What's your opinions?

If you loved it, what am I missing?

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Julie Smith - Death Turns A Trick

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Hey guys, I picked up this book from Amazon for free on the Kindle, you can still get it for free here.

It was a short book at less than 200 pages, but the description had me intrigued.

Rebecca our main character is a lawyer who is almost busted playing piano in a bordello.

Herself, and to her surprise the Senator are rushed out the back and given the keys to the owners car to get out of there. Only the senator has left something so escapes out of the car - which Rebecca has just crashed into a tree.

After answering questions at the police station, Rebecca goes home to find a dead prostitute on her carpet, the sister of the guy she is currently seeing, a guy who is now the main suspect in this murder case.

For having less than 200 pages this book has a lot of things happening.

Definitely one to curl up with a nice blanket and hot chocolate and spend a cosy night in with.

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The Book Blogger Tag

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Hey guys, I saw this Book Blogger tag on Hayley from Water Painted Dreams blog and knew I had to do it, I do love a good tag and a tag about books? Perfect for me. 

Which book most recently did you not finish?

The one I'm reading now? I always finish books so it would have to be the one I'm currently reading which is "Death Turns a Trick" by Julie Smith.

Which book is your guilty pleasure?

Probably the Twilight series. I've not read them in a long time but they used to be good books for easy reading and a good place to escape to.

Which book do you love to hate?

50 Shades of Grey. I persevered though those books, determined to read them. Almost throwing my poor kindle because of how poor the writing was and uninteresting / repetitive those scenes were. I honestly cannot understand the fuss over them, but I am judging those who think those books are "hot". They made me cringe and yawn. 

Which book would you throw into the sea?

Requiem by Lauren Oliver - the last book in the Delirium series. I felt completely robbed of a good few chapters, the way it ended was awful which, with the rest of the book and two before being amazing, I was disappointed. It's one of those times when you're like "What the actual...?" when you realise there is no more pages left to read.

The worst thing was the author's explanation on the ending and why it ended like that was just a joke. There was so many questions unanswered, her answer to that was "you don't find out everything in life, so why would you in a book," BECAUSE IT'S A BOOK! It needs an end. This needed an end, it was like it was missing a lot of chapters. AARGH!

Which book have you read the most?

The Harry Potter books. The first four especially, those copies are just falling apart now.

Which book would you hate to receive as a present?

A book that was based on true life, but disturbed. Such as ones about serial killers. I can read books about killers if they're made up, but my brain cannot cope with it if it's real. 

Which book could you not live without?

Harry Potter series. I have over 40, possibly 50 copies of those books now. 

Which book made you the angriest?

Requiem by Lauren Oliver. 

Which book made you cry the most?

 Deathly Hallows - Harry Potter.

No book has made me sob as much as that one did. Even now, after all this time I can't read it without tearing up.

Which book cover do you hate the most?

I can't think of any book covers that I hate?! Sorry.

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