Update from Caroline

Hi guys, we hope that you are all enjoying a great book at the moment. It would be fantastic to hear what you are/have been reading recently! I’m sure many readers in the UK have been enjoying the rare sunshine we have been having and soaking up the sun as well as a good story over this beautiful weekend.

So, last week at A Reader’s Review Blog we have had a great response for our Liebster Award nomination, thanks again to Sabrina from The Urban Book Thief for nominating us. If you haven’t had a chance to read some fun facts about Tina and myself, along with some answers we gave to some trivia questions, please check it out here. We have also announced the winner for our Werewolf Themed Wish List competition – congratulations to Emma Lynch! Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. And, in regards to reviews, we have posted our double review of Ann Logan’s ‘Charades’. This is a fantastic romantic suspense and thriller, involving love, deceipt and a great adventure across the globe and back with car chases, threats, kidnapping and murder, along with fantastic characters and a story that stretches back to the Second World War! At A Reader’s Review Blog we were also privileged to have author Shannon A. Thompson to write an author post to accompany Tina’s review of Shannon’s ‘Minutes Before Sunset’ novel. ‘Minutes Before Sunset’ is the first book of a young adult paranormal romance trilogy which tells of the elemental power struggle between dark and light.

THIS WEEK

At the moment I am currently reading ‘The Mating (Law of the Lycans, Book 1)’ by Nicky Charles, which was recommended to me by one of our followers. Thank you! It is an excellent novel which ties in with our ongoing werewolf theme perfectly! As a Lycan herself, Elise is falling for her friend, Bryan. However, a pack nearby her fathers territory has just been taken over by a new Alpha, Kane, who is looking for a mate to help create an alliance between the two territories. As Elise’s father is her packs Alpha it is he who makes the decision, along with Kane and The Elders, for Elise to become Kane’s mate. Within a day Elise is mated and living with Kane! Where does that leave Bryan? Will she ever feel anything towards Kane? Can she live up to her Alpha’s expectations? I am loving this novel already and only a quarter of the way through! Look out for my review later in the week!

My following read will be ‘Ways to See a Ghost’ by Emily Diamand. Received by Templar Publishing gratefully in return for an honest and fair review, ‘Ways to See a Ghost’ is a young adult paranormal adventure, in which a young girl, Isis, the daughter of a charlatan psychic, can see ghosts! She has to try to use her ability in order to protect her mum from being led astray by the leader of an elite psychic society of which her mum joins! Gray, the son of a UFO-chasing conspiracy theorist, is there to help her with her quest! I will hopefully be posting my review soon, with Tina’s to follow shortly after!

Meanwhile, Tina will be having a family break this week, however she will still be posting her review of Samantha Holt’s Borderland Beauty, a Medieval Romance! Tina’s next reads will be from author Sarah Colliver’s ‘The Peggy Rodman Series’ with ‘Echoes From the Past Part One – Harry’ and ‘Echoes From the Past – Eloise’ (alongside which we will also have an author post to accompany Tina’s reviews)! In book 1, Peggy, a likeable normal housewife, is struggling to cope with the recent death of her mum. Coming across a secret hideaway she stumbles across Harry – a lost spirit in need of help from someone special –that someone is Peggy. Peggy is taken on a journey of discovery-a journey which awakens a part of her mind that has lain dormant, waiting it seems for this very moment. It will change her life forever. In book 2, we find Peggy as she attempts to re-join the world of work. Out of the blue she finds herself thrust back into her secret role as detective in order to help Eloise, a young lady from the 1890s who once worked at The Moreland Match Factory in Gloucester. Can she help Eloise to untangle the web of deceit which has bound her to an earthly existence? Will she be able to finally lay her to rest? Another journey of self-discovery for Peggy as she perhaps realises that her own life is not quite so bad after all….