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Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my September/October/November/December 2014 Wrap Up! So here are all the books I read in  September/October/November/December  2014: The Fault In Our Stars By John Green 29th August - 4th September *****      5 out of 5 stars The Ocean At The End Of The Lane By Neil Gaiman 7th September - 7th September ****      4 out of 5 stars My Sister's Keeper By Jodi Picoult 11th September - 22nd September *****      5 out of 5 stars Fables #2 Animal Farm By Bill Willingham 16th October - 16th October *****      5 out of 5 stars Fables #3 Storybook Love By Bill Willingham 19th October - 19th October *****      5 out of 5 stars Fairest #1 Wide Awake By Bill Willingham 25th October - 25th October ****      4 out ...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of All I Want For Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : All I Want For Christmas Author : Claudia Carroll Publisher : Avon Date Published : 25th November 2014 Genre : Contemporary Romance Pages : 21 Synopsis : Christmas with the one you love. It’s going to be perfect … isn’t it? Three couples. Three Christmases. One perfect day! In three days Lucy and Andrew will to fly to Mexico for their beautiful wedding. What’s a twenty-year age gap when you’re this in love? Christmas dinner feels like the perfect occasion to introduce the two families to each other. What could possibly go wrong? Workaholic Jo Hargreaves spends most of her Christmas day wondering where her unreliable new husband is. Dawn and Kirk spend hours slaving over a mung-bean based vegan festive lunch - but Dawn’s mum is struggling to keep her true feeling to herself. Can these three couples manage the ma...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of Killer Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : Killer Christmas Author : Harper Lin Publisher : Harper Lin Books Date Published : 8th December 2013 Genre : Contemporary Mystery Pages : 71 Chapters : 18 Synopsis : After breaking up with hunky movie star Nick Doyle, Grammy Award-winning singer Emma Wild returns to her hometown for Christmas to get away from it all. In Hartfield, a small town in Ontario, Canada, she gets caught up in a murder case after a fan's drink is poisoned at the Chocoholic Cafe, owned by Emma's sister Mirabelle.  Source : Kindle book I purchased myself. Date Read : 16 December- 26th December 2014 Review : *** 3 out of 5 stars Killer Christmas is the first book in An Emma Wild Holiday Mystery series. Its is about a famous singer called Emma Wild, who has just recently split up from her movie star boyfrie...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of All I Want For Christmas. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Title : All I Want For Christmas Author : Amy Silver Publisher : Arrow Date Published : 25th November 2010 Genre : Contemporary Romance Pages : 325 Chapters : 12 Synopsis : Twelve days and counting... It's Bea's first Christmas with her baby son, and this year she's determined to do  everything  right. But there is still so much to do: the Christmas menu needs refining; her café, The Honey Pot, needs decorating; and she's invited the whole neighbourhood to a party on Christmas Day. She really doesn't have time to get involved in two new people's lives, let alone fall in love... When Olivia gets knocked over in the street, however, Bea can't help bringing her into The Honey Pot and getting to know her. Olivia's life is even more hectic than her own, and with her fiancé's entire ...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Book Haul for July/August 2014! (Clicking on the picture takes to the corresponding Goodreads page) Physical Books These are all the Physical Books that I acquired this month! Discovery Of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Purchased from Tesco) Buy Now: The Book Depository Amazon UK Amazon US Kindle UK Kindle US Shadow Of Night by Deborah Harkness (Purchased from Tesco) Buy Now: The Book Depository Amazon UK Amazon US Kindle UK Kindle US Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs (Received from a friend) Buy Now: The Book Depository Amazon UK Amazon US Kindle UK Kindle US AudioBooks These are all the AudioBooks that I purchased this month! The Finisher by David Baldacci (Purchased from Audible) Buy Now: The Book Depository Amazon UK Amazon US Kindle UK Kindle US The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry (Purchased from ...

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my July/August 2014 Wrap Up! So here are all the books I read in July/August 2014: City Of Heavenly Fire By Cassandra Clare 3rd July - 19th August *****      5 out of 5 stars

Hi Book Lovers and Welcome to my Review of Midnight Crossroad. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS) Buy it now from The Book Depository Buy it now from Amazon UK Buy it now from Amazon US Buy it now on Kindle UK Buy it now on Kindle US Title : Midnight Crossroad Author : Charlaine Harris Publisher : Orion Publishing Group Date Published : 8th May 2014 Genre : Paranormal Mystery Pages : 315 Chapters : 39 Synopsis : Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). Stop at...