Tink's Book Reviews

Lights, camera, action...  Isabella Green has landed a lead role, in James Berkeley’s latest movie. And she’s about to discover, that the famous director is runs a punishing schedule. Both on and off set. But with their relationship still a closely guarded secret, James and Isabella are walking a tight-rope. And when jealousy and danger explode around them, can their feelings hold firm?   James has gone off the map and Issy hasn't heard from him in four days, she's a mess - something she thought she never would be over a man. Though Mr. Berkeley has done something to Isabella, to her mind, body and soul that she just cannot shake.   When the pair meet up again, it's like James has forgotten completely about ignoring Issy for the past few days, but he wasn't ignoring. He was protecting her from the things that are about to come.  With the movie still in place, a new location to film and even hotter temperatures rising, can Issy really s...

No matter how far you go, home is where the heart is... Beth Williams hasn’t been home for ten years. After falling pregnant at sixteen, she ran away from the imposing Scottish estate where she grew up rather than risk her family’s disapproval, working hard to build a life for herself and daughter Isabelle  but now she’s finally returning to Glendale Hall.   When Beth gets a call to say that her Grandmother has taken a turn for the worst, she knows within her heart that she must go back home, even though there are a million other things she would rather do. When she arrives, nothing has changed. The house is the sam e since she left it at sixteen and  even her parents attitude towards her.    Though when she finds out that the once loved village where she spent most of her time as a teen, will slowly come to an end, Beth must quickly think up a way on being able to restore the Glendale village and spirit back to its original self.   Dre...

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...