Review: While the Bombs Fell

Read from 30 August – 11 September, 2020.

Synopsis: What was it like for children growing up in rural Suffolk during World War 2?

Elsie and her family live in a small double-storey cottage in Bungay, Suffolk. Every night she lies awake listening anxiously for the sound of the German bomber planes. Often they come and the air raid siren sounds signalling that the family must leave their beds and venture out to the air raid shelter in the garden.

Despite the war raging across the English channel, daily life continues with its highlights, such as Christmas and the traditional Boxing Day fox hunt, and its wary moments when Elsie learns the stories of Jack Frost and the ghostly and terrifying Black Shuck that haunts the coastline and countryside of East Anglia.

Includes some authentic World War 2 recipes.

Review: Dying on the Streets

Read from 6-13 August, 2020

Synopsis: A young woman turns up dead on the streets of Viriconium but before Dai Llewellyn can investigate he first has to prove it is actually a murder.

Join Dai and Julia as danger stalks their steps in an alternative modern day Britain where the Roman Empire still rules.

Bookish Things: 78 pages. The cover is simple but works with the story. This is book #8 in the Dai and Julia Series but can be read alone.

Review: The Gate Guardian’s Daughter

Read on 28th of June 2020

Synopsis: The interplanetary gates require guardians and the reformed demon Malthael is one of them.

His adoptive daughter, Elisabeth, is special, but her dangerous ability hasn’t awoken yet. Malthael knows it will one day and from then on her life will forever be altered. Malthael isolates her from outside world as much to protect everyone else as to safeguard her. It is all he can do to delay the inevitable.

Now that Elisabeth is ten, how long can Malthael keep her confined?

Review: Degenerate

Read from 14 – 17 June, 2020

Synopsis: After receiving news of his father’s untimely death Tyler Rydek sets out on a journey back to his childhood home, he learns quickly that he wasn’t the only one keeping secrets in that house.

Bookish Things: 131 pages. The cover is suitably creepy but really has nothing to do with the story.

Review: Deadly Games – a Tale of Horror

Read from 11 – 12 June, 2020

Synopsis: A game of truth or dare turns very, very serious as Carson is dared into summoning an evil spirit by her brother and his cruel friend. What started as a simple attempt to scare her turns into a nightmare. When the ghost kidnaps the boys, Carson finds herself in a terrifying game of hide-and-seek. She must find them before it’s too late. But the spirit is angry and determined to kill anyone she believes is trying to bully her. Will they survive this deadly game? Or are they all doomed to death at the hands of a vengeful ghost?

Review: Dirty – The five part Serial Bundle

Read from 8 – 13 October, 2019

Synopsis: Three. This is my number. It’s the exact sum of reasons I continue to go on.

One: To strengthen my body. Make it strong. Make it a machine. Make it so that what happened before can never, ever, happen again.

Two: To help others find their own strength so that what happened to me, what happened to my Olivia, doesn’t happen to them.

And three: My favorite—to find the bastards that took my life away and make them pay for what they did.

This is what my life is now. A dead man, inside a scarred body, living only for revenge.

*This is all five parts of the Dirty serial, bundled into one book.

**Due to strong sexual situations and acts of violence, this series is recommended for 18+ only.