Pam Jenoff - The Other Girl

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Hey guys, I have another review for you today, this time it's a short by Pam Jenoff.

I found some shorts on Amazon for free, I do like having some short stories on my Kindle for when I want to read something before bed, but not get sucked too into the book that you realise it's 5am and you're half way through a 700 paged book. 

The Other Girl is based in Poland in the 1940's.

Maria our main character ends up marrying a guy she's not completely in love with, purely to get away from her father who she has discovered has been ratting out their neighbours, those neighbours are protecting the Jews from the German's. With her husband off at war, she stays with her in laws. One night she finds a girl, a young Jewish girl who has ran away from her home. Maria risks all to protect this girl, finding out secrets about her own family along the way.

Just when this book got interesting, it ended. 

I would understand it if this was a teaser for a full book, but this was it.  It does say it's Historical Companion Novella to her next book The Winter Guest, but as far as I can see it's just the History and Location of where the books are set that are the same, the characters are not. 

It was one of those moments when you get that frustrated you want to throw your book - only you don't because that would be book abuse.

It was a good start of a story, but left so many questions unanswered. 

You can get it free still on the Kindle, here.

I got a lovely notification on Twitter the other day, the author herself favourited and retweeted this review. 

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Veronica Roth - Free Four

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Hey guys I have another short to review for you today.

I was scrolling through Google Play Bookstore and noticed this book was free, of course being a massive fan of the Divergent series I had to download it, who doesn't love Four? Seriously? 

I have to say I was extremely disappointed in this book, even though I knew it was going to be a scene I've already read and knew what happens, only from Four's point of view. I was expecting to get more than what I did.
Honestly? I feel like this could have been written by someone on Tumblr. That's no way slating the fan fiction you get on Tumblr, but I expected more from the actual author of a series I adore. 

You can still get this free on Amazon if you want to give it a go yourself.
I would class myself as a big Divergent fan, but I could have lived without this book in all honesty. 

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Kelley Armstrong - The Awakening / The Reckoning

 

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Hey Guys, I thought I would put these two books in the same review as they are part of the same series.

I reviewed the first book in the series The Summoning a few weeks ago, I've finally gotten around to reading the rest of the series and I'm so glad I did.

The Summoning really had me turning the pages and these follow up books didn't disappoint.
I don't want to say too much about these books in case you haven't read The Summoning yet, as it would be massive spoilers, but if you can get your hands on this series I would recommend it.

These are supposed to be for teens, but some of these books creeped me out, there is one scene in The Awakening where Chloe is near a rest stop shop that's near some woods, that wasn't a scene I should have read at night, I'm woman enough to admit that it played on my mind that night.

This series is really good though, if you like paranormal and fantasy books then I'd highly recommend this series.

You can buy The Awakening and The Reckoning for £5.49 each.

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Bob Avey - Footprints of a Dancer

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Hey guys, today I shall be reviewing this Bob Avey book for you, I got this on Amazon for free - if you don't check out the freebies on Amazon you really are missing out on some great deals.  This book has now gone back up to £2.67.

This was a strange one, Kenny Elliot spots Laura Bradford 8 years after she disappeared. Kenny's friend Gerald Reynolds also spots her and calls Kenny, before Kenny gets to Gerald he is killed, his body is in an abandoned building, left in a ritualistic fashion. There is a noise outside which Kenny goes to investigate, when he goes back in the body of his old friend has disappeared. 

The rest of the book Kenny - who takes a break from his job as a Police Detective to unofficially investigate his friends death, and how his old class mate Laura is involved.

This book is a mix between mystery and paranormal activity, it does leave you confused at some points but it all pulls together at the end. 

You can get your own copy for as little as £2.67.

Kathryn Player - Shop Gossip

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Hey guys, another review for you today. I have been so behind on writing these reviews yet I keep reading more and more books, it's about time I settled down and started typing.

This was a short on my Kindle that I found free on Amazon although it's now gone up to 99p.

I found this an odd little book, set in a charity shop ran by woman in their late 40's / early 50's, they are worried that the shop will be closed down if they can't pick up business so they have a bake sale.

I couldn't even tell you the out-come of that bake sale or whether the shop stayed open and the book was only 62 pages long.

There was so much the story was all over the place, one woman was going on the internet to find dates, her sister though married was lusting after the shop manager, at some point a canary comes into it.

It was just too much that I ended the book confused as anything.

I wouldn't recommend this, especially not for the price.

If you wish to read it for yourself, you can buy it on Amazon for 99p.

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Sara Shepard - Toxic

Hey guys, I finally got my hands on the 15th (and second to last) book in the Pretty Little Liars series. 

I love the TV show, I love the books. I know most people rant about the show and also how many books there are in this series, but I love them.

One thing I have to say was this wasn't a file intended for the Kindle, I think it was a Nook(?) file that my Kindle then converted to get it to work, only it doubled the amount of pages that were in the book as the writing was huge, after reading it all text looked so small against it. You can buy this on iTunes and Nook, but not on the Kindle for some reason, I'm not sure why but she never releases her books on the Kindle until at least 6 months later. 

It had been so long since I read the last PLL book and I'd read so many other books since then that I was confused when I started reading this, I thought I'd read it before - technically I had but not from that characters view, it was only the first few pages and explained a lot so it wasn't exactly the same. 

I would advise you not to have just watched the show before reading this, the show is completely different to the books but as both have so much going on you can get easily confused. 

Things seem to be looking up for the Liar's in this book, movie roles, selling art, book deals and true love - a little too good for them if you think of how much they have suffered in the past books. Of course you'll have to read the book to discover if A is going to ruin their lives again, or if the girls are actually going to be able to have their dreams come true. 

One thing is for certain though, Alison is alive whilst a lot of other people are dying. 

The next and last book in the series Vicious is expected to be released in December 2014 and I for one cannot wait. 

You can buy this book for £9.94 on Amazon.

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