The Faithless By Martina Cole.

Product Details:
Publisher: Headline 2011.
 Hardback. 453 Pages.
Source: Bought For Me.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
Synopsis/Blurb:  Gabby looked at the woman she had hated nearly all her life. Then she sat down on the ladder-backed chair, put her face into her bloodied hands and cried. To the outside world, Cynthia Tailor is a woman to envy; she has a devoted husband, a lovely home and two gorgeous children. But Cynthia is deeply unhappy with her lot; she has always craved the best things in life, and is determined to see that she gets them. Cynthia will let nothing stand in her way, even if it means devastation and tragedy for those nearest to her. And the casualties are many: her husband Jimmy, weak and unable to fight the wife he can never please; her sister Celeste, from whom Cynthia steals her most precious possession; and her parents, Mary and Jack, who pick up the pieces. But the victims who suffer the most are Cynthia's children. For James Junior and Gabby, the pain she causes will stay with them for ever...
I was recommended by a few family and friends to try this author and when my partner found this book for me at a car boot sale and bought it for me I thought I had nothing to loose. It was written the way I like with the murder first and then how it got to that during the book. I love how books like these are written as I really get into the book to find out who it is. This was written in 3rd person , which I found was a bit strange as I think the book would of worked better if it was written in 1st person from Gabby's point of view. I found this book very long winded and it took me ages to enjoy this book and if I'm honest I will not be reading it again. I will try some of Martina Cole's books as I don't want to judge this author's writing style on one book, but I will choose wisely next time.
See you soon.
Laura xx
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Just to let you know.....

Hey Guys,
This is just a quick post to let you know i am in the process of moving house. i will still be reviewing books for you but you may find the format a little different. i dont have internet at my new home yet so i can write blogs on my phones but they will be without links and pictures. I do have some i have already written saved as drafts but i just thought i would let you know why my blogs might be changing.
I might not be reading as much for the next couple of weels but im sure i will be back to normal soon.
I hope you understand
Laura xx

The Blue Skies of Autumn By Elizabeth Turner.

Product Details:
Publisher: Simon & Schuster 2011
Paperback, 215 Pages.
Source: Bought By Myself.
Rating: 3 out of 5.
Synopsis/Blurb: On September 11th 2001, 32-year-old Elizabeth Turner was working at Channel 4 when news broke of the attacks on the World Trade Centre. Surrounded by TV screens, like her colleagues, she watched as the horror unfolded. But for Elizabeth, the atrocities were all the more painful - her husband Simon was at a meeting in the restaurant at the top of the towers as the planes crashed into them. Elizabeth was seven months pregnant with their first child. As the destruction unfolded, and Simon did not call, Elizabeth's world crumbled, and she spiralled into an abyss of grief more painful than most of us can imagine.
I was looking forward to reading this book as 9/11 being my birthday I find the horrors that happened that day very interesting. I have read websites and other books on 9/11 but never read a book from someone's point of view that was affected so much by this event. I would say this is not really a story but as what happens in this book are all facts but it is definitely a self help book. I have never been through anything so global so I will never understand how you truly feel when something like this happens but I can say if it were to happen to myself with the help of Elizabeth's book I think I would have the tools to get through it all. This book is only small and you really get to know Elizabeth as a person. I would like to say I didn't know who this lady was and I had never even heard her name in the press or websites, but now I feel as if I know her so well. I don't know this lady and yet I feel so proud of her for getting through to the other side and becoming a stronger person than she was before. This is a very heart warming book and makes you realise what you have in life. I wouldn't say I would read it again for just a story, but I haven't threw it away as in times of need I may find myself wanting a little self help time.
Elizabeth Turner has her own web page here and I found just her website was very inspirational. Find some time to check it out.
Hope you enjoyed this post. See you soon
Laura xx

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Relentless By Simon Kernick.

Product Details:
Publisher: Corgi 2006.
 Paperback. 461 Pages.
Source: Bought For Me.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
Synopsis/Blurb: Saturday afternoon: you're with the kids in the garden when the phone rings. It's your best friend from school. Someone you haven't seen for a few years. It should be a friendly call catching up on old times. But it's not. This call is different. Your friend is panting with fear, his breaths coming in tortured, ragged gasps. Someone is inflicting terrible pain on him. He cries out and then he utters six words that will change your life forever...the first two lines of your address
Tom (main character) starts of being a very happy married guy to the most wanted man over night, his world is turned upside down over the space of a weekend. He meets many people in his book and you learn a lot about each one. This book is very fast paced and is a great page turner but leaves you wanting more. I couldn't put this book down and did read this within two days. This was written in 1st person for the main character Tom and 3rd person for all the other characters. There are many twists and turns in this book and the ending it a brilliant ending. This book was quite long anyways being nearly 500 pages long, but I would have loved to be able to read more of this book and that is what stopped me giving it 5 out of 5. I will reading more of Simon Kernick's books and will be reviewing them for you in the future.
See you soon.
Laura xx
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Book sites.

Hey Guys,
Todays post is a bit different from the usual book review as I would like to mention a few book sites I use. I tend to use these few sites for reviews to see if a book I have just purchased it any good or I like to check to keep up to date with new books that come out all the time.
First site: https://www.goodreads.com/ I found this site by accident as I was writing a blog and had thrown my copy of a book away, which meant I didn't have the back cover to copy the synopsis/blurb down, so I typed in the book title and author and this site came up. It's pretty easy to sign up and all you do it rate out of 5 stars books you have read and click the books you would like to read or ones you are not interested in. It gives you recommendations which I think is really good.
Second Site: http://www.blognation.com/ I signed up to this site myself right after I created this blog as I wanted to find and read other blogs. This puts a little badge on you blog which links them together and helps you create a better blog.
Third Site: http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/ This is my favourite site out of the lot as it's an online book store. It tells you new books, which are the best sellers, which are coming to stores soon and also events. The events tells you when authors are coming to book stores near you to do book signings and also lets you find certain authors.
I hope this links helped you out a little bit, if you have any links you would like to recommend just comment below and I will try them out.
Laura xx

The Violet Hour By Richard Montanari.

Product Details:
Publisher: Avon Books.
Paperback, 322 Pages.
Source: Bought For me.
Rating: 2 out of 5.
Synopsis/Blurb: A popular priest lies dead of a heroin overdose in a Cleveland apartment, following an apparent tryst with a high priced call girl. A freelance journalist recognizes a great stow -- salacious and saleable -- in the cleric's demise...and follows it into the twisted, terrifying mind of a psychopath. While in an affluent suburb a world away, a cryptic threat written in a great poet's words appears on the computer screen of a long-suffering wife and mother. And suddenly she knows that a nightmare stands just outside her door, waiting to devour everything she loves. Because twenty years ago, something terrible happened at a Halloween night gathering of brilliant, arrogant youths ... Because it is reunion year, a time of remembrance and celebration; a time of reckoning and poetic justice. And the party is just beginning...
Murder starts from page one and gets you hooked from the very beginning, this is the type of writing I enjoy, murder first and then how it gets to that and why. This book was written in 3rd person and I found it gripping and very thrilling. There are a lot of characters within in this book that are all linked together in some way, but I found this slightly confusing as it changed characters point of view quite a lot and I had to re-read a few chapters just to keep up. this book reminded me of the Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross which I have already reviewed here. It was a quick easy read, one that I won't be reading again as the beginning with the character changes ruined it for me. Not much else to say on this book as I didn't enjoy it all that much
Sorry is you enjoyed this book and you have different opinions to myself but everyone has there own opinions and likes and dislikes, this was one book i didn't enjoy myself.
Laura xx
Picture was taken from here.

Reading Habits Tag.

Hey Guys,
Today I thought I would do a tag for you. I recently found this on YouTube and even though I'm not on YouTube I still wanted to do this tag for you guys, so you can maybe find out a little bit more about myself.

Question 1) Do you have a certain place at home for reading?
I love reading in two places at home, first place is in bed all snuggled up warm a Yankee/scented candle going and a lovely hot drink. Second place is in a chair in my living room, no TV on just me and a book.
Question 2) Book mark or random piece of paper?
Book mark all the way. I actually get myself a yearly calendar. It's a bookmark with each month on and at the 1st of every month I chance it to the next month. I love these types of book marks as they come in very handy sometimes. I also purchase them for other family or friends and they have come to love them too.
Question 3) Can you stop reading or do you stop at the end of a chapter?
I try to always finish a chapter, but say in the morning I have a spare 10 minutes before work nd I read a bit if I don't finish the chapter I have to leave it obviously but 90% of the time I have to finish the chapter.
Question 4) Do you drink or eat whilst reading?
Yes I do drink whilst I'm reading and sometimes I have been known to eat too but only if the book is really good and I can't put it down. I try not to eat by books though as you can get dirty marks on the books, I would say I only eat sandwiches and crisps whilst I read.
Question 5) Do you multitask whilst reading a book? Eg music or TV
No I prefer silence so I can really get into a book. I don't mind the TV on if someone is watching but I prefer peace and quiet.
Question 6) One book at a time or several?
I have tried reading several books at a time but I found I got a little confused which characters were in which book. I prefer to enjoy one book at a time as you can get the books full potential.
Question 7) Reading at home or elsewhere?
I usually read at home as I'm not the type of person to go sit in a café or coffee shop reading. I try to stay away from reading on journeys too, as I get bad travel sickness.
Question 8) Read out loud or silently in your head?
Silently in my head. When I was younger at school we had to read out loud so the teachers could hear us read correctly and once you were a very good reader you became a "free reader" which meant you could choose your own books to read, once a term you still had to read out loud but other than that you could read all by yourself. I used to hate reading out loud to people and kind of still do, but luckily I was a great reader and become the youngest in my school to become a "free reader" and I loved it.
Question 9) Do you read ahead or skip pages?
Once I did read ahead to see how book would end as it was very, very long winded but I regretted after so much as the book was actually really good in the end. I wished I hadn't skipped ahead. As for skipping pages I have done that on one book Misery By Stephen King as parts of the book was a book a main character was writing himself to keep himself alive and I didn't want to read the book within in the book so I skipped those parts, it didn't ruin the book for me as I still enjoyed it so much but other than those twice I don't read ahead or skip pages.
Question 10) Breaking the spine or keeping it like new?
Keeping it like new. I love the look of new fresh books and want to keep them that way as long as I have them. If I buy a book for a market or car boot and the spine is already broken I do cringe a little but I can't help that.
Question 11) Do you write in your books?
Not anymore, when I was little as I mentioned earlier in this post I was a free reader so my mum or step dad would buy me a lot of books, I found they would go missing so my mother used to write my names in them and as I got older I did that myself but now unless it's a educational book I don't in books and sometimes I just get a notebook to write in for books.

I hope you enjoyed this post/tag and I tag all of you to do this too.
Laura xx

What I Had For Christmas.

Hey Guys,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and today I would like to share with you the books I received for Christmas and the books I have purchased myself in the sales with money I had got for Christmas. I would like to say I am in no way bragging, I just thought you may enjoy this type of post and you get to see what books to expects to see a review on soon.

Books I Had For Christmas:
1) Still Standing By Kerry Katona.
2) Nothing Is Impossible By Dynamo.
3) The Invisible Ones By Stef Penney.
4) The White Queen By Philippa Gregory.
5) Grim Tales By Philip Pullman.
6) The Moaning Life By Karl Pilkington(already read).
7) West Midlands Murders By Michael Posner.
8) Ripley's Believe It or Not 2014.
9) You Only Live Once By Katie Price(already read).
10) Love, Lipstick and Lies By Katie Price.
11) My Life By David Jason.
All of these books were chosen by myself and my mother and fiancé bought them for me. A few I had wanted for awhile but never purchased myself and others I thought I would try new style of books as I'm not a auto/biography person.

Books I Purchased In The Sales:
1) Killing The Shadows By Val McDermid.
2) Ready To Die By Lisa Jackson.
3) The Necromancer By Michael Scott(Book 4 of The Secrets of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel).
4) The Favored Queen By Carolly Erickson.
5) The Roaring Boy By Edward Marston.
6) The Beautiful Mystery By Louise Penny.
7) Mad River By John Sandford.
8) The Omen Machine By Terry Goodkind.
9) 15 Seconds By Andrew Gross.
10) Never Tell By Alafair Burke.
11) Bones of Betrayal & The Bone Thief By Jefferson Bass(set of two).
12) Beautiful Disaster By Jamie McGuire.
13) The Vampire Of Highgate By Asa Bailey.
I received some money for Christmas and went a bit book mad. I did try to get different types of books but I really enjoy crime/thriller.

For Christmas I also received a nice surprise. When I started writing my blog I came upon a lady named Debra and I have subscribed to her blog here and her youtube channel here, I fell in love with the mug in her opening scene on her videos and my fiancé bought it me for Christmas. I love it so much as, I tend to have a cup coffee, a Yankee/scented candle going and a book to relax.


I hope you enjoyed this book haul and if you would like me to review any books very soon or would like to know certain books a little more than just the name and who they are by please let me know in the comments below.
See you in a week...
Laura xx