Review #685: The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

----Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Ethel Rohan, an Irish author, has penned an extremely heart touching story called The Weight of Him that revolves around an obese father's loss over his elder son who has committed suicide, and his journey to deal with grief and heal over the loss of his loved one lead him on a path to weight loss but sadly that pushes him away from his dear family and his wife. Set in an idyllic back ground of Ireland, this deeply moving story is going to inspire the readers dealing with loss and grief thoroughly.

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Review #472: Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”

----Milan Kundera

Sara Baume, an English author, has penned a life-altering and extremely encouraging story about a man and his pet dog in her debut book, Spill Simmer Falter Wither that unfolds an unusual cord of friendship between a lonely aged man and a badger-baiting trained dog set against the quaint backdrop of an almost secluded island somewhere in the Irish Midlands near the sea. And I will suggest, right at the beginning of my review, to grab a copy of this book which is so much rich in detail and the story that is so much fulfilling. In our everyday daily busy lives, we definitely need a book that will not only be an escape to somewhere exotic or somewhere peaceful but also to be something that can enlighten us with the meaning of life and its importance and as this book fulfills the above criteria, so each and every human soul must READ this book.

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Review #467: Closed Casket by Sophie Hannah

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill.”

----Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot is back again with another new adventure and mystery in Sophie Hannah, an internationally bestselling writer's new book, Closed Casket where the Belgian detective Poirot along with the help of Scotland Yard inspector, Edward Catchpool, solve the mystery surrounding an old rich, aristocrat lady's lavish party at a forgotten Irish countryside where among the guests, there is a killer lurking around and they must try to stop him/her before he/she strikes his weapon to commit a crime.

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Review #412: Summer at Castle Stone by Lynn Marie Hulsman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.”

----Nicholas Sparks

Lynn Marie Hulsman, an American author, has penned a heart-touching, warm, and summery love story called, Summer at Castle Stone that revolves around a recently fired big apple girl who takes a leap to ghost write a book for a world famous chef in an old countryside village in Ireland, so that she can make her own name devoid of her father's celebrity status.

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Review #40: Little Beauty by Alison Jameson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


It is hard to tell about the extent of a mother's love, at what length and at what level she can go to protect her own children.
Joanne Harris, an acclaimed British author, famous for writing the award-winning novel Chocolat has been found quoting these remarkable lines about a "mother and her love":

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”

Laura Quinn is another woman, who had to give up the one thing, that made her feel loved for once in her life, but still she held on to hope that one day....one day... she will again be loved.

Laura is Alison Jameson's protagonist in her new novel, Little Beauty, which opens the door to the expanse of a mother's indefinite love for her own flesh and blood. Oh no, you can't exactly call, Laura selfish, all she wanted was a small piece of happiness in her already so gloomy and lonely life. But in the end she couldn't hold to her piece of happiness, but she never regretted her life and never felt left out in this big, complicated world. Because in the end, even after losing everything, she was felt loved on her last breath.

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Review #37: Mad About You by Sinéad Moriarty

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Emma and James Hamilton are one of those couple who are very much going through their mid-life crisis, but fortunately, no matter how bad the storm gets, they won't let their ship sink to the bottom of the ocean. Their spirit and determination to keep their broken ship afloat amidst of all the wild tsunami in the ocean is remarkable and it gives us a lesson to make it work and hold on to each other even in the worst peroid of our lives. James's elder brother, Henry, thinks that we are not entitled to the terms of husband and wife in our marriages, instead there is no wife or husband, there is just one thing called friend-Marriage is friendship between two friends- a man and a woman and they always trust and love each other till death makes them apart.

Sinéad Moriarty, a bestselling Irish author, in her ninth novel, Mad About You, has spun a tale about the imperfections of a marriage.

Synopsis:
Emma and James move from Ireland to London for James's new job as a coach of a rugby team. James and Emma have two kids, Yuri, adoptive son and Lara, biological daughter. Soon Emma bags a job as a make-up artist at her sister, Bab's TV show. James goes on to prove himself on his team after his fiasco in Ireland, thereby almost getting no time to spend with his wife and kids. Emma leans on a nanny, named Claire, to help her juggle her long work-hours and her kids. Eventually James and Emma drift apart in their marriage, but when James started getting sex texts and sex toys, Emma started to question James loyalty and her trust slowly starts to fade away. Their marriage almost falls apart while James and Emma try to unravel the identity of this stalker.

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