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Travels with my Grief by Susan Bloch

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Thank you @monsue8 @urbaneless @exprimezwrite @KellyALacey @lovebookstours for letting me part of this tour and reviewing this book. Travels with Grief is incrediable book and I love the descriptions of the colours the smells of tbings she come across in India. Travels with Grief is non fiction and I could really feel Susan emotions and pain in the book. I read the book in couple of hours and it pulled on my heart strings. Beauifully written i could not put it down snd it was lovely to see Susan come through her grief near the end. I thought it was so brave of her to go to India on her own . Susan losses her Husband to cancer and is struggling with her grief she moves to India for three years and India helps her with her Grief. Reading this book make me want to go to india and see all what Susan describes. Anyone that is going through grief may found this helps. Beauliful book 5 stars. Blurb This ultimately uplifting memoir is the extraordinary recollection of a middle-aged w...

Wedded Wife by Rachel Lennon

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Thank you @randomTT and @Rachelalennon for being part of this tour and reviewing tbis book. Wedded wife is very intresting and knowledgeable read . Wedded Wife talks about feminism through the history of marrige. This book is well written and you can tell there bern alot of research done in this area. There was alot in the book i didnt know about feminism in marrige and found it very fascinating. I was glad to have read Wedded wife it has open my eyes to areas i didnt know about feminism. Well written 4 stars. AUTHOR BIO Rachael Lennon was the National Trust’s co-founder of the revisionist Challenging Histories programme which Clare Balding claimed “will change the way history is written and thought about from this point onwards”. Having grown up understanding that marriage was only for a man and a woman, she married her wife Claire in Northumberland in 2017 - just 3 years after the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the UK. Rachael lives in Durham with her wife and daughter.

I Love You, Always, Forever by Charlie Dean

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Thank you @rararesources and @CharlieDean for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. I love you always is beauful and heartbreaking read and i did enjoy it. I read it in few hours due to wanting to find out what happens to Charlie and her Mum. The story is written in the future and the past. Charlie is the main character and her and brother Rob need to be there for their mum who going through a life changing illness. Charlie goes back to her parents house and founds her teenages diaries and reads back through them where you found out about her life and relationships. The themes running through the book is love , relstionships, family and illness. I was so happy with the ending. I was very involved with the story and characters and i really felt enjoyed getting to know them all. I will ve reading more by Charlie Dawn. Brilliantly written and engaging from start to finish 5 stars. I Love You, Always, Forever Life is full of highs and lows, but it’s who helps us throu...

Darren, Andrew and Mrs Hall by R J Gould

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Thank you @rararesources and @RJGould_author for letting be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Darren, Andrew and Mrs Hall is part 2 in the seris this is the first book i have read and you can read it as a stand alone. I really enjoyed reading this book. I found the book easy to get into . I like the characters and it was nice to see them develop through the book. It did make me smile and sad at tomes but it was nice to follow Darren, Andre and Mrs Hall story. Great plot and lovely story 5 stars Darren, Andrew and Mrs Hall A tale of two husbands, two wives, and the woman in between. It is a June day and the rain is lashing down as Emma and Andrew move into the house of their dreams in an affluent London suburb. Two doors away, dejected Darren and Kelly are downsizing into their new home. It doesn’t take long for the women to hit it off despite being opposites in many ways. Meanwhile Andrew, a teacher and poet, and Darren, an alarm systems installer, are at loggerheads f...

Mary and Her Seven Devils' by Peter Morris

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Thank you @literally and @PeterMorris for letting me review this book and be part of this tour. I found Mary and her seven devils enjoyable read and really liked Peter Morris writting style. I found this to becl very unique book and a different type of book that i would normal read but i loved. I liked Mary alot and found her story trying to free herself and found who she is as a person to. The characters were likeable and i rnjoyed the plot alit 5 stars.

THESE ENVOYS OF BEAUTY By Anna Vaught

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Thank you @RandomTT and @AnnaVaught for being part of this tour and reviewing this book. I like the front cover with the yellow flowers they are pretty. Anna Vaught writting is beaufully written. I loved how she talks about reconnecting with plants and nature this is so true. This really helps me when i am feeling low.Anna Vaught writes 12 essays and talks about depression and loneness they where all very instresting and fascnating reading. I found her so brave to talk about her mental health. 5 stars very easy to read but some hard topics definatly worth read out now. Bio Anna Vaught is an English teacher, young people’s mentor, Creative Writing teacher and author of several books, including 2020’s novel Saving Lucia (Bluemoose) and short fiction collection, Famished (Influx). Her shorter and multi-genre works are widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies and the national press. She has been a Bookseller columnist and still writes regularly for them, while she is curre...

The Lake by Kevin Lynch

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Thank you @zooloosBT and @KevinLynch for being part of this tour and reviewing this book. The lake is psycholocal thriller and i found it very gripping. It made me think and i tryed guessing few times what was going to happen but i guessed wrong . I like how the book made me think. There some good twists and had good suspense. The characters where easy to like and get to know. The story has good plot and i will be looking to read more books by Kevin Lynch 4 stars. Author Bio Kevin is a Guidance Counselor by day and a psychological thriller author during his off hours. He puts an original slant on some common experiences and creates engaging stories with a personal twist. Kevin lives in Dublin, Ireland with three great kids, a frenetic Westie, Alfie, and a wife who makes him laugh, which is really all he could ask for. Book Blurb Debbie’s holiday has turned into a nightmare. And that’s just the beginning. Debbie has been terrified of lakes ever since her son tragically drowned...