Tink's Book Reviews

Wow,  Hey everyone how are we all doing?  I can't believe that the last time I did a book review was in July, that's so crazy! I used to post one or two up nearly every month!  Life has been so busy recently, what with my new job, the cakes, college and all the crochet I've got to do, there's just so much for me to do and I hardly have the time to do it, do you ever feel like that too?  I promise that there will be a book review up soon, certainly before the end of the year. I think that I won't be beating my 2014 reading challenge this year for sure, and I know for a fact that I haven't logged onto Goodreads in so long, I don't even know what my last read was!  Thank you to everyone who has still been coming onto the blog, either to see updates, read past reviews (I hope they help in your choice of reading, let me know!) or whether you're just passing by, you're always welcome! I've not been every well over these past ...

Morning all,  how are we all doing?  Just a quick one to say Hi, and that I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth and that I am intact still alive and well!  I have been so busy over the past few months, I don't know where to start! I haven't read so much which I am gutted about, I've got about 5 blankets to make and only just nearly finished one for next month - ahh! I also have been so quiet on my cake page which I am not too happy about either.  In-between doing all this, I've been visiting family members, looking after family (my dad recently had a sinus operation so he's not been too great, but is slowly not he mend now) Looking for jobs, going to interviews, going to college and catching up with said college coursework!  It's been hectic! But hopefully I will be able to relax a bit soon and get some reviews up! I'm halfway though The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass, which I can't wait to get ba...

A Walk In The Park by  Jill Mansell  It's been a while, but Lara Carson's back in Bath and lives are set to change as a result.  Because Lara left her family and boyfriend Flynn eighteen years ago without a word to anyone. Why has no one heard from her since?  Things have changed since Lara last left Bath, but returning eighteen years later hasn't changed her mind on what she has to do. She wouldn't have come back if the solicitors hadn't asked for her to be there at her late fathers funeral.  Sitting at the back of the church, it seems like not everyone has forgotten that she left home when she was eighteen. Especially not her evil stepmother, if she had to be in any Disney film, she would place herself in Cinderella.  But not everything is as bad as it seems, when she bumps into her oldest and best friend from school Evie, they act like as if Lara had never left. Evie has waited all her life to be able to see Lara again, and to ...

Broken by  K. Webster Andi has the perfect life. She is about to graduate with an Architecture degree and marry her-All American baseball star-fiancé. Her world is soon turned upside down. Left to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, she takes on a new persona—a promiscuous one. This new role protects her heart from ever being broken again.   Andi had it all, with finishing college just around the corner and an All-American, baseball loving fiance who she is destined to marry, things we're starting to look up for her.  So when she decides to surprise her finance with an early visit, she wasn't expecting her world to come crashing down around her feet and her heart to be broken into a million shattered pieces. He had only gone and slept with another woman.  Since then Andi has taken on a new persona, she meets a new guy every weekend and only sees them for three nights, doing whatever tickles there fancy. Her best friend Pepper, doesn't...

Tigers In Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann Nick and her cousin Helena have grown up together and shared long hot summers over at Tiger House. With husbands and children of their own, the girls keep returning. But against the background of parties, cocktails, moonlight and Jazz, how long can perfection last?  There is always the summer that changes everything.  Set int the elegant 1940's Nick and Helena have always been close family members and best friends, spending hours chatting and having cocktails in the hot summer sun, to spending every summer holiday together in their Holiday home - Tiger House.  All goes to plan, Nick falls madly in love with Hughes, a fighter in the war but soon feels disengaged and lonely when he is hardly ever there, searching for more glamour and romance in her life, Nick decides to go in search for it, but going in completely the wrong direction.  Helena on the other hand has married into a disastrous m...

Operation Sunshine by Jenny Colgan Sun, Sea, Sangria and... Evie is desperate for a holiday - a good one. Not only from working all hours as a receptionist but also because every break she's ever been on has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting - sometimes all at once. Why can't she have a holiday like everyone else? Peaceful sunbathing and (fingers crossed) some much needed sex.  And then Evie's employers invite her to a conference in the beautiful South of France. At last, the chance to party with the rich and glamorous. It's the holiday of a lifetime - but things don't work out in quite the way Evie imagines... Evie can't seem to get away, she's always working, being pestered by her idiot brothers and is still single. But when her employers talk about going away for a conference  Evie  can't help but jump at the chance to go on a holiday of a lifetime. Even if her employers have other things for her to do whilst she's the...

Practically Perfect by   Katie Fforde Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, has decided it's time to put her money and her expertise where her mouth is. She's risked everything on buying a tiny but adorable cottage so she can renovate it, sell it on, and prove to her family that she can earn her own living. But all is not what it seems, after all, one should never judge a book by it's cover.  On a super of the moment and to start up her dream job, Anna has bought at the perfect cottage of her dreams, in the tiny town of Amberford.  But there's another reason why Anna moved to the picturesque village, her old tutor. Max, the charming, sophisticated, handsome and downright dishy tutor from her student days that she's held a candle for the past three years, lived somewhere near the town. Or at least his mother did, and she just might get to see him again.  Upon closer examination Anna has realised that there is a lot m...

Three Seconds To Midnight by Clarifications  In which Death answers the questions of the dead and discovers himself along the way. Have you ever wondered what conversations went on with death and the people he meets along the way? Ever thought what it would be like to pass judgement onto people and their doings in life or thought what Mr. Reaper might say?  Then read this book, don't just take a glance at it read it.   Throughout history, things have happened there has been the devastating Holocaust, people on Death Row, children being killed or taking their lives and people dying in general for the sake of being somewhere in the wrong moment at the wrong time.  Follow death as he has very in depth conversations with children who have died for no reason, horrible nasty people who hate everything and wish to know why they aren't going to Heaven and why Death has to make his mind up on where to send these people on their merry way. And w...

Hey everyone!  Long time no speak, how are we all? Good I hope?  It's just a quick post to say what has been happening lately! So, so start with, I'm sorry that I haven't been posting anything recently, I've been tied up with the Cake page -  Sprinkles, Sparkle & Magic  That I haven't been reading in a while, wait! I have before everyone panic's haha  I've been doing a little bit of reading now and then, I'm currently reading about 4-5 books, simply because I can't make my mind up on what genre to read and what mood I'm in. Since it's getting into the summer, I want to go straight to my chicklit's and summer romances, as you know! If you have been following this blog for a while, there's a certain way in which I go through my books haha.  The books that I have been currently reading (Or that are on my Goodreads 'currently reading' shelf are as follows:  1.  The Yard  by  Alex Grecian   2. Tigers In ...

Undenied by Maya Banks Payton Ricci is the last person Wes Hoffman ever expected or wanted to see again. After the disastrous sexual experience between them twelve years ago, he was only too happy to put the whole episode behind him.  Wes Hoffman is happy in his life, he's surrounded by loving friends, a great job and no commitments. But when his group of friends slowly start to all get married and pop out children, he soon starts to feel a little out of place and like a third wheel.  Payton Ricci is on a night out with her best mates, it's a bachelorette party and she feels like she is always the bridesmaid and never the bride, but that's okay. She's not really looking for a strings attached kind of relationship, just a quick fondle with a handsome man. So when she catches her eye on Wes Hoffman sat at the bar, Payton can't believe her luck.  There couldn't be anything worse than spotting Payton Ricci at the same bar as him. All W...

Overheard by Maya Banks Gracie Evans is a woman tired of the men in her life not satisfying her in bed. She’s had a string of boyfriends, but none of them have come close to satisfying the vivid fantasies she has.  Two weeks before Valentine’s Day, she breaks up with her latest boyfriend after a night of lackluster sex.  Gracie Evans isn't afraid to say what's on her mind, or of the consequences after she's opened her mouth and said a few words. So when she splits up with her boyfriend because the sex wasn't up to standards, she isn't surprised when he hits the roof and nearly her.  Luke Forsythe has known Gracie for as long has he can remember. They we're in school together, college together and now they don't live that far away from each other. So when Luke bumps into the argument brewing up outside, he couldn't help but interject. But something is on the tip of his tongue that he wants to ask her, something he knows she will be angry about. ...

Understood by Maya Banks Jake Turner committed the ultimate mistake of falling in love with his best friend’s wife. The distance he puts between them costs both him and Ellie Matthews dearly.   Jake will never forgive himself for not seeing what a bastard his friend was. Now that Ellie is free from her nightmare, Jake waits, needing and wanting.  He’ll be there when Ellie is ready to spread her wings. Ellie Matthews is still haunted with what happened to her in the past, and she won't ever be able to get over it. Not just yet at least.  Jake has always been in love with Ellie, ever since she married his best friend and NFL Football player, Ray. When Ellie married "The golden boy" of the area, everyone loved it, everyone apart from Jake. It tore him deeply, cut him in two that she married Ray, so he kept himself at a distance to keep him away from the pain.  But whilst he did that, Jake didn't know the shocking truths behind Ellie and Ray's marriage, un...