Tink's Book Reviews

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!  Happy New Year you lovely lot...to those of you who actually still read my blog. We were very quiet last year in the blog department, so many things have happened and I simply didn't have the time.  However, if you follow me on Instagram or twitter, then you'll know that I was still about and reading!  I did have about 13 reviews to post from 2020 (Since there was A LOT of books that were read, 33 to be precise!) But seeing as we're practically a year out, I thought I was start a fresh and just keep everything up to date this year instead. The good news is, is that I'll never forget to review - seeing as I now review more on IG too! (The handle is @tinksreviews should you wish to hit that follow button! 😉)  Reading Update: This year I have no set goal, I have literally dropped my goal all the way down to one , which I have already completed by the way - Go me! Woo!  No in all seriousness, I thought the pressure to keep upping my goal was...

Amelia and her friends are taking part in a competition to visit Pumpkin Paradise Park – the most bloodcurding theme park ever! All they have to do is sell as many cookies as possible. But the creatures of Nocturnia have begun to act stranger than usual . . . Amelia and friends are back at it again and on a wild adventure!  When a new teacher arrives at Catacomb Academy, the gang can't wait to get started on their new cooking classes, apart from Grimaldi and Florence - they think something isn't right, though they can't place their fingers on what it could be!  Though Amelia's friends and family can't remember her name, or theirs for that matter! What's even odder is that not a single one of them remembered Amelia's birthday party - they never forget!  Soon the gang are on a mission to find out, just what is happening with everyone losing their marbles, before it's too late and they can't even remember their own names too!  Amelia Fang & The Memo...

Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete's two-year-old, Theo, isn't Pete's real son - their babies got mixed up at birth.  The two families - Pete, his partner Maddie, and Miles and his wife Lucy - agree that, rather than swap the boys back, they'll try to find a more flexible way to share their children's lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an investigation that unearths disturbing questions about just what happened the day the babies were switched. What could be your worst nightmare as a parent? Your child getting hurt? Them not having any friends? Or perhaps, someone telling you that your own child, who you have given birth to and loved, isn't actually yours? Theo had a traumatic entrance into the world, one that Pete and Maddie will never forget, but nothing trumps Miles Lambert showing up at their home with a private investigator and sa...

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. A weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives. Alina knows no fury, she has become Sankta Alina - but at what cost?  To free Ravka and all other borders, she must fight to survive, even if it's against a former lover, to save the current one from ruin.   The Darkling will stop at nothing to find the remaining firebird and leave no one standing in his path.   She will get the last remaining amplifier, fight the strongest man in Ravka, even if it means losing the ones she holds so dear. Before it's too late. Though what if the amplifier has been under her nose the entire time?  As A...

Being a sex goddess should be my dream come true—as much sex as I want, with magic powers to heal people, too. Until I realize the enormously strong human I desire most is completely off-limits. My people will put me in prison if I’m caught with a human. But one encounter together leaves me panting for more. So I kidnap him and take him to an alien sex retreat. I soon discover not only is my big strong human a virgin, his bio-engineering might have made him the largest person I’ve ever seen, but also it made him unable to feel any sensation on his skin. Niva has a magic gift, she is the holder of the Exstare. A rare and and strong power that gives the her ability to heal her people in time of need, through Sex.  Graven shouldn't even be on the planet. He escaped the clutches of the dreaded and evil Ten Systems, a system strong enough to wipe out Niva's people. He should know, he was tested and made just for the purpose, but he fled.  Graven can't keep away from Niva, she...

This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter’s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic home life with parents who seemed incapable of staying in any house for longer than six months; his first experiences in the world of work as a teacher who knew nothing about the subjects he was expected to teach; his hamster-owning days at Cambridge; and his first encounter with the man who would be his writing partner for over two decades, Graham Chapman.  Punctuated from time to time with John Cleese’s thoughts on topics as diverse as the nature of comedy, the relative merits of cricket and waterskiing, and the importance of knowing the dates of all the kings and queens of England, this is a masterly performance by a former schoolmaster.   "This is an ex-parrot!" National Treasure and comedian John...