Murder is a Family Business - Heather Haven

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Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? - GoodReads.

Hey guys, I found this book on Amazon a few weeks ago, it was free at the time so I thought "Why not?!" Does anyone else scroll through Amazon for free books? I have found some amazing ones on there, then have gone to look back and found the price has gone back up. Wooo bargains. 

Back to this review, I decided I needed a break from the A Song of Ice and Fire series, just a nice book I could curl up with and have read in a day - this was just the thing I needed.
I love a good murder mystery book and though this wasn't the best I've read - it was an easy read. I didn't need to think too much, I could sink into that world very easily and get lost for a few hours - just what I wanted. 

The only reason I say this wasn't the best I've read is because I just couldn't connect with the main character. I'm not sure why but I didn't root for her. Her kitten on the other hand I wanted to hear more about as he sounded very cute. Saying that though I did enjoy reading it.
I'm sounding like I'm contradicting myself now. I enjoyed it, it was a good read - just not the best. 

This book is set in San Francisco which I liked, I've always been fascinated with San Francisco for some reason, so to have that as the location made me happy. It's the little things.  

Lee Alvarez - our main character, comes from a family of detectives, Lee is sent to watch the husband of her mother's friend who they suspect is cheating. What Lee doesn't expect is to find the husband shot dead, and a famous dancer is involved. 

This book proves that you can know someone, but not actually know them at all.

You can buy this book for as little as £1.80 on Amazon.

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A Feast For Crows - George R.R Martin

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The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. - GoodReads

Hey guys, I have another review from the A Song of Ice and Fire series for you, slowly making my way through this series, although I still can't decide whether I like the books or the TV show better - which never happens to me. I'm all for books usually.

Now I have to admit I found this book to be boring. For me personally throughout this series I've found there to be pages of writing that either go over the same thing, or don't seem to have a purpose other than to fill up space.
With this series being so detailed and having so much happening as it is, I don't understand the need for some of the passages in here - but I will carry on as hopefully they will all make sense once I've read them all. 

I did get a little confused I have to admit, where certain characters change their names it took me a while to figure out who they were actually on about, as SO much had happened since they actually changed their names. You really do need to read these books with no distractions around you.

This book is based around a few characters, in the following book you catch up with the rest, but it does mean you could get fed up of Cersei very quickly - she had a lot of chapters.
This is the first in the series where chapters were given to other characters - without a name. "The Kraken's Daughter"  for example, where we are used to seeing the chapters as the characters names. 

This is a good story and lots happened that made you want to turn the page, but for me there was too much "extra" details that didn't seem to need to be there, and having to read that to get to the good parts was quite boring. 

You can buy this for as low as £3.49 on Amazon. 

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Looking For Alaska - John Green

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Hey guys I have another John Green book review for you, I actually read this book before The Abundance of Katherines, yet am reviewing it afterwards because that makes perfect sense, right?

Looking For Alaska is actually my favourite book by John Green (Though I've yet to read Will Grayson, Will Grayson so that could change), I'm sure a lot of people are standing there shocked as "TFIOS" is the best book EVER! Which don't get me wrong, it's a great book but this one for me just better. 

I loved all the famous last words that were used, it definitely sounds like a morbid way to pass time - looking up the last words of people, but it's curious to see what people say in their last moments and makes you wonder what yours would be. 

I actually really cried in this book and there was a part I refused to believe had happened until I had finished the book, then I had to accept it. It took me by surprise - which it shouldn't have done, I've read John Green books, it really shouldn't have shocked me, but it did and had me sobbing because of it. 

Definitely a book I could curl up and read again and again, which to me is the best kind of book. I like revisiting worlds now and again.

You can buy this for as little as £2.99 on Amazon.

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A Storm of Swords - George R R Martin

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Hey guys, today I have the third book in the series, I have to admit that I really wasn't looking forward to this book, not after the hate I felt reading the first and the boredom reading the second.

So what did I think of A Storm of Swords parts 1 & 2?

I actually enjoyed it, there was a lot more story instead of like the last book, that just had a lot of details that felt like they were just there to take up space. This one was a page turner, though I could live without hearing about rape (again) and the use of the word c**t is uncalled for and a little bit cringy, the story was much better and had me wanted to read through the books.

I have to admit I was very confused as this is book three, but on my copies it's split into two books so part 1 and part 2, but along the spine of the book it called book 3.2 book 4, so there was me frantic thinking "I haven't got the next book, I have book three and book 4, I need book 3.2!" Yeah just to confuse me, book 4 was book 3.2.  Apparently it's the same with book 5, for me that's book 6 and 7. Way to confuse people.

You can get this book for as little as £9.49 on Amazon.

Although if you go into Asda they were doing a 3 for £10 on the Game of Thrones books, so you could get both parts of this book and another for 51p more than you'd pay for the book on Amazon.

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A Clash of Kings - George. R.R Martin

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Hey guys, the next instalment of the Game of Thrones books. 

If you can recall I wasn't the biggest fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, it made me angry. 

By the time I got to this book, I wasn't as angry though still made me cringe reading about rape, as well as how bad woman are treated. 

In honesty this book bored me. I just went from feeling angry with one book to being bored. It got better the further I got in the book but it started off way too slow for me. So slow apparently that the start of Season 2 (yep I've caught up on the series now) cut off most of it. 

There are too many "kings" and most of them irritated me, especially Joffrey - that child needs a slap. 

I think with this book is that there was so much detail where there really didn't need to be, that by the end of the chapter you were left there wondering what you'd just read, so by the time you got back to that characters next chapter, you had no clue what was going on. It's great he has this world down to have so much details but I felt like it was just used to take up room in the word count form. 

I am currently on A Feast With Crows now and am enjoying the series much more, just this book was not the best. (For me).

You can buy this book for as little as £3.49 on Amazon. 

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Letters From Alcatraz - Michael Esslinger

Hey guys, today's review is on this book based around the inmates of Alcatraz.

I don't know why but I've always found Alcatraz fascinating, not sure why - it was a prison, I can't say I've been curious about other prisons before. I don't know if it's location - I've always wanted to go to San Francisco and this prison was located off shore on a rock. Fascinating.

When I saw that Amazon were giving this book away for free I had to download it for my Kindle. It did take me ages to get around to read it as there was so many other books ahead of it on my list, but when I did I was glad. 

Not only does this book go into details about certain inmates, what they were in there for and what was recorded about them whilst they were there, it also had letters from the inmates to family members and their replies. It was so interesting to read knowing it was written by the actual people, in those moments of what could only be described as living in hell. 

Some of the letters repeat themselves so  I can understand that could get boring for some readers, but all in all it was a great read.  Not only are all the letters typed out so you can read them properly, there are copies of the actual letters, lots of photocopies of photos, as well as history on the prison and the reason it ended up closing its doors. 

This book is no longer free on Amazon, you can buy it for £4.28 on Kindle though.

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