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Today it is my stop on the Blog Tour for A Cornish Secret and I will be sharing with you my review for this wonderful book set in the idyllic village of Tremarnock. I loved Tremarnock and The Cornish Guest House by Emma Burstall I can’t believe I have missed out Tremarnock Summer I will definitely be on the look out for it on my next bookshop visit. I was a little worried to start reading Emma Burstall’s latest release A Cornish Secret having not read book 3 as I was worried that I may have missed something that would then put me off the storyline of this one but I am pleased to say that this book was easy to read and I didn’t feel at any point that I had missed anything. Esme and her childhood friend Caroline have always kept in contact but with Caroline living in Paris they haven’t seen each other. They decide to embark on a walking holiday but poor Caroline has an accident so Esme tempts Caroline to stay in the idyllic village of Tremarnock so she can look after her. A secret from t...

Today it is my stop on the blog tour for what is possibly the most Summery cover sent my way so far this year but don't be taken in by this alluring picture there is a sinister storyline hiding inside that will give you a chill on these hot evenings! Mad by Chloe Esposito is out NOW! Chapter Seventeen I look at the hand as though it were a stranger’s; I don’t seem to recognize it. I can’t remember who it belongs to. I don’t know the back of my own fucking hand. It’s shaking, shak- ing so hard I can’t steady it. I try to reach the handle and open the door that leads out to the patio, leads out to my sister, but I can’t quite grasp it. My fingers tremble, my palm slips away and I can’t – can’t even open the fucking door.  Ambrogio’s on the phone again, speaking to his ‘friends’. Who are these guys who owe him a favour? Who dispose of dead bodies in the middle of the night? I don’t care as long as they get rid of her. I never want to see her again. I don’t know how long I stand here t...

Today we offer something special: Reviewer Sala Wyman reviews the book and interviews the author. Nonfiction Make your poor husband an egg ALL THE WOMEN IN MY FAMILY SING : Women Write the World  –  Essays On Equality, Justice, and Freedom 366 pp. Nothing But The Truth Publishing Edited by Deborah Santana Reviewed by Sala Wyman As I looked through the list of luminaries who have praised  this book – such figures as Alfre Woodard, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Isabel Allende – my first thought was, “I have absolutely  nothing  more to say.” But as I relaxed into the pages, I was met with a rich tapestry of experiences from 69 women of all diverse races, backgrounds, and cultures. Every story is told with such vulnerability, ease, and raw emotion that I felt as if I were sitting with each writer, sharing tea while listening deeply to her words. There is brilliance in how this community of women captivates while revealing the struggles, unique for each one, to achi...

Today on the blog it is my stop on the blog tour for Somewhere Beyond the Sea which is the new release by a favourite author of mine, Miranda Dickinson. Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the latest release by Miranda Dickinson and I can say the storyline is just as beautiful as the alluring cover. I have loved every book Miranda has ever written but this book is completely different to her previous novels and is by far my favourite. Seren has lost her father and she now has the weight of his previous commitments on her shoulder from his failing business to his ambition to protect the heritage of a local known astronomer from becoming a new housing complex. Taken so much on has left Seren questioning who she is or what she wants from life but she can not let her father down. Jack Dixon is a newly single parent to the adorable Nessie but the struggles of a single parent have already reared their ugly head. Desperate to be able to secure a job so he can provide stability for his daughter may me...

When Ana inherits a broken-down camper van from her best friend, she takes the chance for a quick trip to Cornwall - some sea air and fish and chips on the beach is just the tonic she needs. But St Felix has bigger plans for Ana. She discovers a series of unsent postcards, dating back to the 1950s, hidden in the upholstery of the van. Ana knows that it's a sign: she'll make sure that the messages reach the person that they were meant for. And as the broken-down van is restored to gleaming health, so Ana begins to find her way back to happiness. I don’t seem to be able to get enough of books that are set in Cornwall so I was looking forward to reading this new release by Ali McNamara who is an author whose books I have previously enjoyed. When Ana loses her best friend Daisy to breast cancer she is left a camper van that is in desperate need of repair. As Ana travels to Cornwall where the camper van is currently situated she enlists the help of Malachi to carry out the repairs b...

Fiction And the winner is – SAVAGE LIBERTY : A Mystery of Revolutionary America By Eliot Pattison 387 pp. Counterpoint Reviewed by Dennis C. Rizzo This is the second book by Pattison I have reviewed and the fifth I have read. I have a passion for historical novels, and mysteries in particular. Eliot Pattison delivers both history and mystery, and no more so than in Savage Liberty . Following up in the Bone Rattler series, protagonist Duncan McCallum returns as the skilled warrior-hero who dares all and survives by his strength and wits. No matter we have to suspend disbelief at times - McCallum evades more death traps than Indiana Jones, escapes traitorous allies, is blind-sided by self-serving American patriot rebels, is chased and tortured by self-serving Royalists, and finds himself once again the target of Lord Ramsey’s revenge for daring to love his daughter. This is the classic entertainment portion of a Pattison novel. It works for the most part. In Boston harbor abo...