Review #310: The Girl Who Collected Butterflies (Haunted Minds #3) by John Hennessy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.” ----George R.R. Martin John Hennessy, the British...

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Review #309: Red River, Blue Hills by Ankush Saikia

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.” ----Criss Jami Ankush Saikia, an Indian crime writer, yet once again captivates the hearts of the readers with his new book, Red River, Blue Hills which is set across the...

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Blog Tour with Giveaway: The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4) by David Lagercrantz

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.” ---- Stieg Larsson The journalist and the female hacker are back with a bang! David Lagercrantz, a Swedish author, takes up the authority to continue with the legendary Millennium...

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Review #308: Looking for Alaska by John Green

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”  ----John Green John Green, an award-winning bestselling author, has penned his debut YA novel, Looking for Alaska that accounts the story of a teenage boy and how his life drastically changes...

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Review #307: Alice by Christina Henry

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.” ----Lewis Carroll Christina Henry, a national bestselling author, pens her latest book, Alice which is a creepy retake on the Lewis Carroll's popular book, Alice in Wonderland where Alice wakes...

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Review #306: Need by Joelle Charbonneau

My rating: 4 of 5 stars "The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber."  ----Michael Mullen, a retired United States Navy admiral Joelle Charbonneau, an American author, pens her latest YA thriller, Need, that is about a bunch of high school teenagers...

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Review #305: The Paper Swan by Leylah Attar

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ----Martin Luther King Jr Leylah Attar, the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, pens her latest contemporary romance novel, The Paper Swan...

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Review #304: Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1) by Rae Carson

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.” ----J.R.R. Tolkien Rae Carson, the New York Times best selling author, pens her latest YA fantasy book, Walk on...

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Review #303: The Saffron Trail by Rosanna Ley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate...

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Review with Giveaway: Lola's Money by Rosanna Rae

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.” ---- Vera Nazarian, a two-time Nebula Award Nominee, award-winning artist, and member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, a writer with a penchant...

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Review with Giveaway: Riding by Cassia Cassitas

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”  ----Molière, a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature Cassia Cassitas, a Brazilian author, pens her latest book, Riding that is...

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Review #302: A House Called Askival by Merryn Glover

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “A man's daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.” ---- Mat Johnson, an American author Merryn Glover, a debut author, pens her extraordinary book, A House Called Askival, that tells two stories of a father and a daughter in two different timelines...

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Review with Giveaway: Heart Dancing: A Story Alchemy Adventure by Kathryn Eriksen

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “The past is never where you think you left it.” ----Katherine Anne Porter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist. Kathryn Eriksen, a motivational speaker, teacher, coach and writer by passion,...

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Review with Giveaway: Mind Over Bullies: A Mob Forms by D.K. Smith

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ----Michael J. Fox D.K. Smith pens his latest novel, Mind Over Bullies: A MOB Forms , that is a coming-of-age story about children getting bullied...

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Review with Giveaway: Welcome, Reluctant Stranger (Between Two Worlds #3) by E Journey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” ---- Kiran Desai Evy Journey has penned a soul touching contemporary romance novel, Welcome, Reluctant Stranger which is the third book in the Between Two Worlds series, that tells...

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Review with Giveaway: Hello, Agnieszka! (Between Two Worlds, #2) by E. Journey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”  ---- Denise Hildreth Jones Evy Journey has penned a heart touching love story,...

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Review with Giveaway: Hello, My Love! (Between Two Worlds, #1) by E. Journey

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”  ---- Donald Miller, an American author Evy Journey has penned a heart touching contemporary love story, Hello, My Love! which is the first book in the Between Two Worlds series,...

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Review #301: The Drowning (Fjällbacka #6) by Camilla Läckberg

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.”  ----Mark Vonnegut, an American pediatrician and memoirist Camilla Läckberg, an international bestselling Swedish author, has penned yet another bone-chilling thriller, The Drowning in...

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Review #300: Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály, Alex Zucker (Translation)

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Innocence is a kind of insanity”  ----Graham Greene, an English novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenplay writer, travel writer and critic Heda Margolius Kovály was a Czech writer, whose book, Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street was inspired by...

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Review #299: The Wrong Man by Kate White

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.” ---- Aaron B. Powell, an American author Kate White, the New York Times bestselling author, pens her latest suspense novel, The Wrong Man, which is a heart-stopping...

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Review #298: Find Virgil by Frank Freudberg

My rating: 5 of 5 stars "The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray." ----David Byrne, a Scottish-born American musician Frank Freudberg, an American author, has penned a compelling and thoroughly...

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Review #297: When We Were Sisters by Beth Miller

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”  ----Elbert Hubbard, an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher Beth Miller, a debut English author, has penned a heart-touching contemporary story, When We Were Sisters about two...

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Blog Tour with Giveaway: Blackmail Boyfriend by Chris Cannon

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.” ----Jasper Fforde, an English author Chris Cannon, an American author, pens her new book, Blackmail Boyfriend, which is a cute high school love story between a rich guy and a middle class...

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Review #296: The Isle of the Lost (Descendants #1) by Melissa de la Cruz

My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”  ----Desmond Tutu Melissa de la Cruz,a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, pens her new YA book, The Isle of the Lost which is the...

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Review #295: Before We Were Strangers by Renée Carlino

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “That’s the thing about life. You don’t always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.”  ----Linda Becker, an American author Renée Carlino, USA TODAY bestselling author, pens her latest tear-jerking new adult...

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Review #294: The Fall of Princes by Robert Goolrick

My rating: 5 of 5 stars "Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time. " ----Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street Robert Goolrick, #1 New York Times bestselling author, pens his new novel,...

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Review #293: Mortom by Erik Therme

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” ----Anonymous Erik Therme, an American author, has penned his debut novel, Mortom, which accounts the story of a brother and a sister who are left a huge estate by one of theirs distant cousin who committed...

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Review #292: It's You by Jane Porter

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!”  ----C. JoyBell C. Jane Porter, USA Today bestselling author, pens her new book, It's You, which tells the story of a young woman who after the...

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Review #291: Court of Fives (Court of Fives #1) by Kate Elliott

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” ---- Charlotte Brontë Kate Elliott, an award-winning American YA author, pens her new book, Court of Fives which is the first book in the Court of Fives trilogy, that tells...

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Review #290: The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” ----Winston Churchill Charles Belfoure, a national bestselling author, has penned a heart-touching as well as enlightening and nostalgic novel, The Paris Architect, that accounts the story of an architect based in...

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Review #289: Forsaken (Shadow Cove Saga, #1) by J.D. Barker

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.” ----Terry Pratchett J.D. Barker, an American author, pens a heart-stopping and extremely hair-rising story, Forsaken...

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Review #288: The Heat of Betrayal by Douglas Kennedy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”  ----Friedrich Nietzsche Douglas Kennedy, an American best-selling author, pens a thrilling and completely exotic marital as well as adventurous story about a couple who are...

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Feature & Follow #19: The ARC that I'm Waiting For Eagerly

Good morning Y'all, Well it's once again a wet and rainy Friday, but I'm not feeling that bad about it, since I'm going a join a new company in my city, and I'm feeling elated about it. Wish me luck! But it's also sad to say goodbye to my now colleagues. It's time to have a new feature...

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Review #287: Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “It's crazy what a heart blinded by love can lead you to believe.” ----Jourdane Erasquin Heather Brittain Bergstrom, an American author, pens her poignant as well as compelling debut novel, Steal the North that accounts the story of a young teenage girl who, after...

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Review #286: What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ----Anonymous Aaron Hartzler, an American author, pens his debut novel involving teens, assault, lies and mystery, What We Saw that accounts the story of a high school teenager who...

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Review #285: Crooked Heart: A Novel by Lissa Evans

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."” ----C.S. Lewis Lissa Evans, an English writer, pens a heart-touching historical fiction, Crooked Heart: A Novel about unusual friendships set...

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Review #284: Baby Please Don't Go by Frank Freudberg

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!” ----Stieg Larsson Frank Freudberg, an American novelist, journalist and ghostwriter, pens his latest psychological thriller, Baby Please Don't Go , that accounts a heart-stopping and thoroughly intensifying...

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Author Q&A Session with Giveaway #52: With Elaine Dimopoulos

Hello, Good day and I hope y'all are having a awesome Friday. Today I bring you another author interview with a debut YA writer who created a fantastic dystopian tale about fashion, yes, that's right, Elaine Dimopoulos is here to talk about her debut book, Material Girls, also about fashion, and life beyond books and all. A terrific writer as well as a teacher, Elaine has penned a beautiful and...

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Review #283: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “When you convert a good book to a film.. stupid things happen” ----Jesse Andrews Jesse Andrews, an American novelist and screenwriter, has penned a brilliant and thoroughly funny YA contemporary novel about friends and films, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, where...

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Feature & Follow #18: My Favorite Movies

Hi Good day guys, Hope Y'all are doing great. Time for Friday fun!!! It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View. What is Feature and Follow Friday?   In ...

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Review #282: The Breath of Night by Michael Arditti

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.”  ----James Clavell, a British novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and POW Michael Arditti, an English writer, has penned a thoroughly riveting thriller The Breath of Nightthat takes the...

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Review #281: Clara's Song (Haunted Minds, #2) by John Hennessy

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”  ----Friedrich Nietzsche John Hennessy (my friend), an English writer, pens a bone-chilling as well as inspiring and quite thrilling tale about marriage, Clara's Song that is the...

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Author Q&A Session #51: With Philip Kazan

Good evening everyone, Hope you're having a great day. In another new author Q&A Session, today we have the author who re-creates Florence vividly and strikingly with his stories that not only traces the outline of a beautiful and elegant city but also takes us back in time in a different era. Yes Philip Kazan is here to talk about art, his objectives, his books and his life beyond books and...

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Review #280: Lacy Eye by Jessica Treadway

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.”  ----Amit Kalantri, an Indian author Jessica Treadway, an American author, pens a compelling as well as heart-wrenching tale of a mother and a daughter in her new psychological thriller,...

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Review #279: Housebroken by The Behrg

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Better be the devil you know than the devil you don't.”  ----Jack Heath, an Award-winning Australian author The Behrg, an American author, pens his debut thriller, Housebroken that accounts the story of a family who are taken hostage by two psycho kidnappers...

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Review #278: Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead by Lena Diaz

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Don't play his game. Play yours.”  ----Rachel Caine, an American author Lena Diaz, an American romantic suspense author, has penned a terrific and gripping story, Ashes, Ashes, They All Fall Dead, which is the third book in the Deadly Games series, that narrates...

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Author Q&A Session #50: With Eliza Redgold

Hello and welcome to an all new author Q&A session and today we have the contemporary romance writer, Eliza Redgold, whose new historical fiction, Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva just released. So let's welcome her with a warm hug and let's chat with this amazing writer.Read the review of Naked: A Novel of Lady Godiva...

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Review #277: Queen of Tomorrow (Stolen Empire, #2) by Sherry D. Ficklin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”  ----Libba Bray, an American author Sherry D. Ficklin, an American author, pens her next book in the Stolen Empire series that accounts the journey of Sophie- a young...

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Review #276: Queen of Someday (Stolen Empire, #1) by Sherry D. Ficklin

My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Sometimes, we must learn to open our hearts and grow to love someone we think we might not be able to.” ----Sherry D. Ficklin Sherry D. Ficklin, an American author, has penned a terrific tale about queens, palaces, love and war based in Russia, Queen of Someday...

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Blog Tour with Giveaway: The Beginning of Never (The Never Trilogy #1)by O.E. Boroni

Good morning folks, It is a great morning in Kolkata. Just kiddin! Pretty bad and sucky one with a bad traffic jam that took me nearly two hours to reach my office,  which usually takes only 25 minutes to reach office. Yeah it's pouring heavily from last night and Kolkata's one disadvantage...

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Review #275: The Painter of Souls by Philip Kazan

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ----Pablo Picasso Pip Vaughan-Hughes, an English writer, writing under the name of Philip Kazan, pens a mystifying historical fiction, The Painter of Souls that is based on the life and times of the famous...

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Blog tour with Giveaway: All I've Never Wanted by Ana Huang

Good morning, Today we are hosting the blog tour of the book, All I've Never Wanted by Ana Huang, followed by a book review and  a giveaway, so keep reading to participate....

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Review #274: Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica

My rating: 5 of 5 stars “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”  ----John Holmes Mary Kubica, the national best-selling American author, pens her new psychological thriller, Pretty Baby, that unfolds a gripping and mystifying story about...

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