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Today it is my stop on the Blog Tour for Million Love Songs by Carole Matthews. I will be sharing my review for Million Love Songs and I will be sharing my favourite Love Songs with you. All Of Me by John Legend Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran How Long Will I Love you by Ellie Goulding A Thousand Years by Christina Perry At Last by Etta James You can also check out Carole Matthew's favourite Love songs on Spotify  BY CLICKING HERE Ruby Brown is ready for a change. She's single for the first time in years and she's going to dive into this brave new world with a smile on her face and a spring in her step. The last thing she's looking for is a serious relationship. Mason represents everything Ruby wants right now: he's charming, smooth and perfect for some no-strings-attached fun. Joe on the other hand is kind and attractive, but comes with the sort of baggage Ruby wants to avoid: an annoyingly attractive ex-wife and two teenage children. MY REVIEW I am always eager to...

Nonfiction The Syrian humanitarian catastrophe HARA HOTEL A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece By Teresa Thornhill 354 pp. Verso Reviewed by Tom Glenn Teresa Thornhill, a middle-aged Briton, worked with Syrian refugees at the Hara Hotel in Greece in 2016 for two weeks. Several months later, she went to Austria to meet with one young Syrian Kurd she had helped and to record the story of his clandestine walk through the mountains of Macedonia and his journey on foot through Serbia and Hungary. At the beginning of 2017, she returned briefly to Greece to learn what had happened to the Syrians she had tried to help. These three trips make up the three parts of Hara Hotel , a book that details the misery of the hapless Syrian refugees. Woven through the story is the history of the rebellion against the bloodthirsty regime of Hafez al-Assad and his son, Bashar al-Assad; the rise of Daesh (acronym for the Arabic phrase al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham , that is, the Islamic State of Iraq an...

When Lou Wandsworth ran away to France with her teacher Mike Hughes, she thought he was the love of her life. But Mike wasn’t what he seemed and he left her life in pieces. Now 32, Lou discovers that he is involved with teenager Chloe Meadows. Determined to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself, she returns home to confront him for the damage he’s caused. But Mike is a predator of the worst kind, and as Lou tries to bring him to justice, it’s clear that she could once again become his prey… I have read a lot of positive reviews for The Fear by C.L Taylor and I have previous enjoyed her books so I was eager to track a copy down and see what thrilling storyline she has instore for us this time around. Louise Wandsworth has reached the ripe age of 32 but she hasn’t fully embraced life as her past is still holding her back. When she was a teenager she ran off to France with her Karate Teacher believing she was totally in love with him but she began to see Mike had another side to him tha...

It is hard to believe it has been a year since I have attended a book publisher event but I can tell you I really have missed being amongst authors, publishers and bloggers so it was wonderful to be invited to The Books and the City Spring Blogger Event hosted by the wonderful SJ at the Simon and Schuster Offices which has had an amazing major revamp. W e were spoilt this year with not one not two but TEN yes 10 authors to talk to us about their new book babies which are released this year. Each of the authors were asked some questions about their books and then they kindly read an extract of their books which if I wasn't tempted to read before I certainly was after I had heard a little snippet of them. We heard from Victoria Walters, author of Random Acts of Kindness which is being released in four parts the first of which is currently FREE on Kindle. I have read part 1 and 2, I am so eager to read part 3 to see what happens to the three main characters next. PART 3 is published 2...

--> Fiction The fickle nature of fame MODERN LOVERS By Emma Straub 353 pp. Riverhead Books Reviewed by David E. Hoekenga, M.D. The central character of this book is a young woman named Ruby, “a black Jew with lesbian moms.”  When the book begins, she is a senior but hates high school and the SAT as well. She likes a lad named Dust who sports a shaved head and a chipped tooth and is good at skateboarding and oral sex. Ruby’s moms – Jane and Zoe, run a very successful restaurant, Hyacinth, in the Ditmas Park neighborhood of Brooklyn. Zoe spends her time hunched over her computer, working on the payroll and the schedules and the billing for the restaurant. Jane dreams of heirloom tomatoes from New Jersey, perfect soft-shelled crabs and corn so fresh “you could just peel the silk back and eat the kernels right off the cob” when she isn’t cooking. In college Zoe and Jane were “screwing every day between one period and the next,” but now not at all and they are barely talking. An...

Fiction Not one of those psychopaths DOMINIC By Mark Pryor 239 pp. Seventh Street Books Reviewed by Eric Petersen Mystery writer Mark Pryor, best known for his acclaimed and popular Hugo Marston   mystery series, is back with a flawed yet worthy sequel to his equally acclaimed 2015 standalone novel, Hollow Man , (also reviewed on this site) which introduced readers to the most charismatic literary antihero since Tom Ripley. Like the author who created him, Dominic is an Englishman living in Austin, Texas, where he works as a prosecutor by day and spends his nights playing guitar and singing at bars and clubs. Like most Texans, he wears jeans and cowboy boots and carries a pistol wherever he goes. One of the D.A.’s top prosecutors, Dominic has been reassigned from adult to juvenile prosecution – not as a punishment, but because the city is too cheap to hire more prosecutors. Working juvenile means having to accept a steep cut in pay. It also means going from prosecuting murderers a...