Tink's Book Reviews

Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, and this time things will be different.  She's making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles, the guy who makes her melt every time he walks into a room.  The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time . . . well, last time things got ugly. Simone isn't like everyone else, she may look like it, but she's keeping a secret big enough to destroy everything she's worked so hard for and if it gets out, she'll need to start all over again.  But then she starts to fall for Miles, the lacrosse team player, who is also one of the set people for the beloved play that she is directing at school. She likes him and he likes her back, but there's a catch...she has HIV.  As Simone wades through this new found relationship with Miles, her friends and her loving parents. Someone is on the war path to spill ...

The Forever House by Veronica Henry Hunter's Moon is the ultimate 'forever' house. Nestled by a river in the Peasebrook valley, it has been the Willoughbys' home for over fifty years, and now estate agent Belinda Baxter is determined to find the perfect family to live there.  But the sale of the house unlocks decades of family secrets - and brings Belinda face to face with her own troubled past. Belinda Baxter loves her job, she loves seeing a houses potential and being able to sell to the right person. But when she gets a call about a local home, one she knows that will be snatched up as soon as it goes onto the market, Belinda can't wait to see what the house holds inside.   Hunter's Moon as been in Sally and Alexanders life for as long as they can remember, but when Alex is diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease they both come to terms with the fact that they will have to sell their beloved home.   Sally and Alexander soon start to go back in time ...

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...

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...

Hi Everyone!!  How are we all doing this afternoon?  I'm terribly sorry I've not been updating in a while, I can assure you that I have still been reading, just not been updating! I have been keeping up to date with my cake page which we are on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  Facebook: Search for Sprinkle, Sparkle and Magic Twitter: Search for @SSMCakes Instagram: Search for Sprinklesparkleandmagic We have this logo!  Please see the links for all the above if you wish to have a look, I do have a blog for it but it's not quite finished yet. Which is on my to do list!  A lot has been happening this month and some of it has been pretty rubbish to be honest. I will start with the good though! I don't know if I told you, but I recently started college! I am studying Level 1 cake decorating and loving every minute of it, it's great! I'm only there for one day but it's awesome. I've also been searching for jobs on the jo...

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...

The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson It's Fran's thirtieth birthday and things are good . . . She's bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket. But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael's old socks. In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran's friends force a very different plan on her and it's nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly make her feel better? But eventually she agrees. And so begins the greatest love story of all time . . . What do you do when you're having the time of your life on y...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 'I walk around the school hallways and look at the teachers and wonder why they're here.  Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day...or wondering who did the breaking and wondering why.' Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it.  Charlie is attempting to navigate his way uncharted territory: The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique percept...

Men, Money and Chocolate by Menna Van Praag Maya spends her days dreaming of a perfect life; a life filled with love, success and pleasure. She tries to find fulfilment in the pursuit of men and money, and when this doesn't work she looks for comfort in chocolate. But this just leaves her feeling empty and lost. Then Maya meets a mysterious stranger and is set on a spiritual journey to discover what she's been missing all this time... A sweet and touching fable about love, courage and enlightenment, Men, Money and Chocolate reveals what is possible when you open your heart to the spiritual secrets within the material world. This tale of transformation shows you how to love a man without losing yourself, find work that fulfils your heart and enjoy chocolate as a source of pleasure instead of pain. Maya Fitzgerald hasn't got it all going for her. Stuck in a job where she has no motivation to work there anymore, with no love life running her way and with financi...

Drummer by Jan Page Liam tries to stay away from home as much as he can - especially if his dad's around.  Usually he just hangs out with his mates, skating. But today, Liam's had an idea: to form a band, with him on drums. All he needs is a kit, so Liam heads for the local junk shop. But the owner, Weird Welly, freaks him out, hinting that something terrible is about to happe n . Something bad to do with the band.  Then the really  weird stuff begins... What if you could rewind and fast forward your life. To be able to see what your life would be like int he future, to be able to know what was exactly going to happen? Would you take that chance, or would you change time itself, just to save one life? Or maybe more.   For Liam Condie, this is exactly what happened. Yes, I know it's hard to believe.  He and his friends CJ and Daz get a crazy idea to start a band. They hardly know any instruments themselves, but they are determined to lea...