Ness's Book Blog - Reviews

Hi, I’m Ness and I’m passionate about books. I’m Former Editor, Researcher and Audiobook Artist as well as an avid reader based in the UK and Australia. I recommend books to family and friends and through book clubs. I’m partial to literary fiction, mysteries and thrillers. All reviews are my own. 
To me, a book review should give the prospective reader enough information to decide whether or not they should read the book. Not too long, not too short and should never simply restate the blurb. So that’s my aim here!
 

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3 Stars from me Let me say from the outset that I am huge fan of Brené Brown's work. I read all of her books, listen to her podcasts, watch her talks on Netflix and Youtube and I even have…

3 Stars from me I love the cover of this book and I can see that in print form, it will be beautiful; it has a lovely, sparkly design that is clearly very on-brand (Follow Your Bliss, or fyb, is…

5 Stars from me I loved this book so much. It's a Modern Marple and I ended up buying it for 3 family members. I'm a big fan of the rare epistolary novel and here it's given a fresh and…

5 Stars from me I love that female authors are reclaiming HERstory. This book would absolutely appeal to those who have loved Circe, A Thousand Ships, Sistersong and The Silence of the Girls. For those who haven't yet read either…

4 Stars from me I am a HUGE fan of the Inspector Chopra/ Baby Ganesh books by this author and I also really enjoyed the first in the series following the lead character here, Persis Wadia, so I was delighted…

5 Stars from me Even better than the first! I loved getting back into the retirement village with Joyce, Ron, Elizabeth and Ibrahim. They’re such well-defined characters… and they’re hilarious! I started highlighting sections that I thought were particularly funny…

5 Stars from me I can’t believe I have had the pleasure of watching Liane Moriarty’s “Nine Perfect Strangers” whilst reading her next book: Apples Never Fall. Having loved the author’s previous work, I was so excited to be granted…

4 Stars from me This book is certain to win awards and be on bestseller lists (deservedly so) for some time. So why the 4*? I'm comparing this, inevitably, with Towles's previous work: A Gentleman in Moscow, which is one…

4 Stars from me I loved the first book in this series The Windsor Knot, so was delighted to be given a copy to read the second book in the series. As with some sequels, for me, this was missing…