Tink's Book Reviews

After being let go from her job in a swanky hotel just weeks before Christmas,  Luckily, Hattie’s long-time friend Dolly is on hand to help and invites Hattie to spend one last holiday in the small, festive town of Wynbridge, determined to give her a Christmas to remember... When Hattie is made redundant from her jo b at the Hotel, she doesn’t know what to do with herself. Though when she gets home, her wonderful boyfriend Johnathon gives her an opportunity – a rather last minute one – to up and leave at the other side of the world with him in Abu Dhabi.  With the shock of it all, Hattie needs some time to think this big change  over , so heading to her best friends Dolly’s for the Christmas period in Wynbridge, is just what she needs to have a good ponder.  However,  things  are not  as  plain sailing as she thought. A s soon as she arrives, Dolly is hiding something from her, something that Hattie  cannot  quite  put her f...

Cosmo’s family is falling apart. And it’s up to Cosmo to keep them together. He knows exactly what to do. There’s only one problem. Cosmo is a Golden Retriever. Cosmo knows there's a problem as soon as dad doesn't wait for mum to take the kids Trick-or-Treating on Halloween. Then, when he starts to hear raised voices more often than not, that's when Cosmo certainly senses somethings not right.  Mum and Dad have always done everything together, from getting Cosmo as a pup, buying their first home, holidays and even to having Max and Emily. But when Cosmo notices that both parents have stopped dancing as a family in the evening and have begun shouting, that's when he must act fast, for the sake of everyone.   Soon Cosmo and Max have entered into the local talent show, in hopes of winning their parents over and for them not to do the inevitable of separating. But it's a hard task, especially when you're not the sprightly dog you once used to be.  ...

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is a truly extraordinary Viking hero known throughout Vikingdom as "the Dragon Whisperer"...but it wasn't always so.  Travel back to the days when the mighty warrior was just a boy, the quiet and thoughtful son of the Chief of the Hairy Hooligans. Hiccup isn't your regular dragon hunter. He doesn't know the first thing on how to find a dragon, let alone hunt it down! Much to the happiness of Stoick the Vast, the great Chief. Who just so happens to be his father and the rest of the clan in Berk.  When the time comes for Hiccup's initiation to become a great viking, things don't go as planned. Sure he manages to bag a dragon in the depths of the fearful dragon cove, but he didn't intend on getting the most smallest or useless one out of the cave.   Soon Hiccup finds that he too can train dragons like his fellow peers, it may not be in the same sense and he finds out that that he can speak  dragonese, but ...

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 ...

A flooded world.  A floating circus.  Two women in search of a home.  North lives on a circus boat with her beloved bear, keeping a secret that could capsize her life. Callanish lives alone in her house in the middle of the ocean, tending the graves of those who die at sea. As penance for a terrible mistake, she has become a gracekeeper. A chance meeting between the two draws them magnetically to one another - and to the promise of a new life. North has a secret that no one can know.  Callanish has been harbouring regrets since she was a young girl.  Both women meet by chance and their worlds are changed forever.  Following a death at sea, the Excalibur circus group are forced to visit the closest resting place within their waters - Callanish's Graceland. The two women are drawn to  each other immediately, seeming to know each other but how? When they've never met each other in their entire lives.   Nor...

Drama-school graduate Isabella Green wants to be a script-writer. But when she meets famous director James Berkeley, she’s tempted into the glamorous world of acting.  Behind the camera, the mysterious Berkeley commands discipline at all times. But Isabella soon discovers this man's dominant tendencies also extend into the dressing room.  Isabella Green is an actress, well, trying to be. She's more of a script writer. Though when she goes for an audition on a whim for a role in an upcoming play, she's shocked to find it's actually got an upcoming film. A film by the one and only Mr James Berkeley.  Issy can't quite believe her luck, not only did she meet the infamous, seclusive director, but he also asked her out. Though when Issy hears some troubling truths about Berkeley, can she really trust the man she's only just met?  He's gorgeous, charming and a gentleman. But can Isabella learn to play by his rules and  commands? Or will her hot handed...

Feathers. Lies. Glitter. Secrets. Lust.  Meet Genie Divine, the wise-cracking London show-girl on a hell-bent mission to save her beloved family theatre.  Now meet Abel Kingdom, the australian gym mogul determined to buy it out from underneath her.  On paper they have nothing in common, and when they meet, they have even less.  He wants her theatre. She wants him dead. Genie Devine has lived and worked around the Devine Theatre for as long as she can remember. She loves to take centre stage and strut her beautiful stuff.  But when she overhears and sees her beloved uncle Davey conversing with a strange yet beautiful business man about the theatre, something has to be done.  Abel Kingdom has had a rough start in life, though moving far away from home has worked wonders for his health and his bank account. So when he see's an opportunity to buy the Devine Theatre, he's in a win-win situation.  Though Genie won't go do...