Tink's Book Reviews

September 1957 Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It's the end of the season and the town is deserted.  As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their happily-ever-after fantasy. Henry and Effie are the sweetest newlyweds going, when they travel to Cape May for a week for their honeymoon, they are happy to find they have the town to themselves, or so they thought.  Carla is Effie's nemesis from childhood, when Effie learns that Carla is staying down the street with her lover Max, she isn't all too pleased.   But when their invited round, Carla has no relocation of ever being this mean to Effie. With the drinks flowing, music playing and the elegant nights starting to set in, all is soon forgotten as the glamorous parties start to pull Henry an...

How many lifetimes does it take to learn how to live?  Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been a live for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all.  As long as he keeps changing his identity he can stay one step ahead of his past- and stay alive.  The only thing he must not do is fall in love... Tom Hazard isn't your normal man, though he looks forty-one he is actually a lot older. He's mingled with the Fitzgeralds, worked for Shakespeare and Captain Cook and played for Aretha Franklin.  But what if you didn't want to live through all the decades again? What if you were just so fed up, that all you want is a normal life? Though being normal in an underground society is hard, they will always find you and hunt you down.  The only thing that keeps Tom going is the promise that he made all those year...

'What shall we do?' said Twoflower. 'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival. As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld could do with a hero. What it doesn’t need is a singularly inept and cowardly wizard, still recovering from the trauma of falling off the edge of the world, or a well-meaning tourist and his luggage which has a mind (and legs) of its own. Which is a shame because that's all there is... Rincewind never seems to be able to get it right, no matter what he says or does in life.  Last time we saw him, he has just fallen off the face of the Dicworld with his unassigned, utterly  useless sidekick - Twoflower.  Fortunately for them, they landed in a good place albeit in a different continent, away from home and in the company of Bethan, Cohen the barbarian and a bunch of talking boulders. The good bit being that they didn't...

The heart can lead you to dangerous places. Abandoned by the man she loves, with nothing more than sweet words and riddles for an explanation, Sophia Pearce felt like her life was crumbling before her eyes. And then they came for her. Now, things will never be the same. Confronted with the truth about Sebastian's identity, she’s thrust into a high stakes world beyond anything she could have imagined. A world that threatens much more than just her feelings. Sebastian’s enemies will stop at nothing to get what they want, and they want her. Sebastian and Sophia's relationship isn't all plain sailing at the moment. He's hiding secrets from Sophia and he wants anything to do with her - yet why does she still love him?  Though when Sophia is kidnapped, everything changes. Sebastian has no choice but to let her in on the world of 'The Alpha Group' and soon everything is more complicated than Sophia feared.  When someone is trying to sabotage t...

It's springtime at St. Vladimir's Academy and Rose is close to graduation, but since making her first Strigoi kills, things haven't felt quite right. She's having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, and worst of all . . . might be seeing ghosts. Consumed by her forbidden love with her tutor Dimitri and protecting her best friend, the Moroi princess Lissa, Rose is in no state to see the deadly threat that will change her entire world - and make her choose between the two people she loves most. Rose is back at St. Vlad's for her third year, but not without a dark cloud looming over her shoulder. But now with the loss of her best friend, Rose must now navigate her way through her guardian graduation, but is it that simple?  Dimitri is there to help her along the way, but how much longer can they go trying ignoring the only thing they want?..Each other.  Though there's bigger problems at stake when Rose starts seeing strange things and Adrian is the only p...

Lottie collects dead creatures and lovingly cares for them, hoping to preserve them, to save them from disintegration.  Her father understands—Lottie has a scientific mind, he thinks. Her aunt wants it to stop, and she goes to cruel lengths to make sure it does. Little Lottie is at a loss without her Mother and Sister by her side. Stricken with grief, Lottie starts to find more creative ways to help ease her pain and memories, though not everyone in the family is keen on her new creative streak.  This wonderful book is written in verse and is based around the 1980's. It's the first type of verse book that I have read, it did not disappoint.  The story focuses around Lottie, who is silently struggling with the loss of her mother and older sister Annie, the book flits between the past and present whilst giving a glimpse at what her family were like when they were still alive.  As Lottie begins to have a fascination with Taxide...

Ashley Davison is desperate to spend the holidays with her mother in Seattle. Dash Sutherland has an interview for the job of a lifetime in Seattle and must arrive by 23 December.  Both frantic to book a last-minute flight out of California, Ashley and Dash collide at the airport to learn that there are no flights and only one rental car available.  Ashley desperately needs to get home for Christmas, but she wasn't expecting her flight to be cancelled last minute, nor did she did she think that she would be sharing the last remaining car in the rental park. Dash has an important interview to get to, that he simply can't afford to miss. Though when in the company of Ashley, he starts to think that a couple of hours wouldn't hurt.  With only 24 hours to go until Christmas, both Ashley and Dash decide to put their very big differences and opinions  aside and decide that driving through the night is the answer. Though some things are best left un...