Tink's Book Reviews

The Mortal Instruments: City Of Ashes by Cassandra Clare Haunted by her past, Clary is dragged deeper into New York city's terrifying underworld of demons and Shadowhunters - But can she control her feelings for a boy who will never be hers?  Clary just wants her life to go back to normal, before she found out that her best friend Simon, is in love with her. Her hear mother is still in a coma. And that her crush is on Jace, who might just be her brother.  If things couldn't get any worse, there is a strange woman in town that goes by the name of the Inquisitor, who soon decides to pin Valentines show up, on his son Jace Wayland. Jace isn't trusted anywhere, not even by the parents who adopted him and in the same house as Isabelle and Alec.  Clary's quite happy at the moment besides wanting her life back to normal, she's got Simon back safe and sound and enjoying watching cheesy films with him and talking about comics. But things soon start to go strange whe...

Afternoon everyone!  Hope you are all feeling well, is it hot where you are? It's boiling over here, well it's very humid and sunny but it's lovely! nice day to get out into the garden with a good book and some sunshine :)  Just a little update for this month seeing as I haven't done one in a while. I've written quite a few book reviews though, which is good and I'm really happy about :D  As you can see with the above pictures, I have managed to grab hold of two new books! I finally used one of my Waterstones giftcard's and managed to get these two lovely books for about £2. I have also found out that I can now use a giftcard at Waterstones to buy books with it that are also on the Buy one get one half price offer which I am really happy about! (I didn't know you could do it you see, as some stores are funny with buying things on a giftcard if it is in a sale)  Love, Nina - I loved the look of this book and thought it had qui...

Lucy In The Sky by Paige Toon Settling down for a 24-hour flight to Australia, Lucy finds a text message on her phone - not from her boyfriend James, as she fondly hopes, but from a woman claiming to have slept with him four times in the past month.  Trapped on the plane, she questions everything about her relationship with James.  Nathan is a happy-go-lucky surfer boy, with no prospects, no place to live, an almost-girlfriend in tow. And the other side of the world...Lucy - a girl caught between two distant continents - and two very different men... "Hi Lucy, Just shagged James in ur bed! 4 times this month! Nice Sheets xxx" What could be worse than sitting on a plane for 24 hours? Receiving the above text from your loving boyfriend that someone has been shagging him in your own bed. But when Lucy phones James, he reassures her that the text was from a few friends just messing about. But this can't be right surely? As Lucy prepares for the w...

The Help by Kathryn Stockett Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Mississippi 1962 Eugenia "Skeeter" doesn't want to be like every other white woman in Mississippi. She doesn't want to find a husband, settle down and have children at her age of twenty-two. She wants to be a journalist and excel in her dreams and ambitions, but finding the right things to write about let alone find a job is more difficult than it seems. Especially with her over controlling mother, who wishes her to join the crowd and be like every other woman.  Though finding the right thin...

Afternoon everyone! Hope your all doing well? Just posting a little update on here to let you all know that I will be joining in on Sheffield's Memory walk on the 11th October 2014 to help raise money for Alzheimer's! My goal is to raise £100 for the cause, and I will be walking 1okm on the day. At the moment I have already raise £5 with my Just Giving page being up for only a couple of hours which is amazing!  I am doing this for my Nanan who was diagnosed with Dementia nearly a couple of years ago now, she is still fighting the illness, but has deteriorated a great deal much to the upset of my family and my granddad. It has been very hard for all of us to cope with my nan and see her the way she is, it's an illness that is soul destroying and very upsetting, it's horrible.  My nanan is still here though and my mum and auntie and my granddad have done an AMAZING! job with looking after her and caring for her in her own home throughout the...