My take on books, writing, life in general, and everything else that interest me as a visually impaired writer of women's fiction.
Book Review: Sacrifice By Nadia BashooPosted by Jessica on February 17, 2012
This really is a vampire novel with a difference. Suspense, danger, romance… Sacrifice has it all. For a vampire, Lysander is as ruthless as they come. He has prowled the earth for almost two centuries, terrorising his fellow supernatural creatures and feeding off humans at will. However, all this is about to change. Lured into [...]
Book Review: Vanishing Acts By Jodi PicoultPosted by Jessica on January 16, 2012
Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall. [...]
Book Review: Almost A Crime By Penny VincenziPosted by Jessica on October 10, 2011
Tom and Octavia Fleming have what the media likes to call a “power marriage”. As well as having three children, they run their own highly successful companies and are always ready to share their individual expertise to help the other. They’re portrayed in the press as the perfect modern couple, and are much sought after [...]
Book Review: Learning To Swim By Clare ChambersPosted by Jessica on September 26, 2011
When Abigail Jex is befriended by fellow classmate Frances, she quickly falls under the spell of the Radley family. Their bohemian lifestyle is so different from the quiet conventionality of her own home life that she is drawn to self-assured Frances and her handsome, talented brother Rad, and finds their parents both extraordinary and refreshing. [...]
Review: The Beachcomber By Josephine CoxPosted by Jessica on September 19, 2011
Before I start picking this novel apart, I have to acknowledge that it has without doubt one of the most powerful openings I’ve ever read. The book begins with the hero Tom in the car with his wife and young children, while a faceless lunatic tries to ram them off the edge of a cliff. [...]
The Birdcage By Marcia WillettPosted by Jessica on September 12, 2011
Now that both her mother and her mother’s close friend are dead, the links to Lizzie’s lively and rather eccentric childhood have been severed. Yet, while sorting through her mother’s things, Lizzie discovers a postcard that brings the past flooding back. She remembers Felix, her mother’s married lover who spent many a weekend with them [...]
Love Letters By Katie FfordePosted by Jessica on September 5, 2011
At twenty-six, Laura Horsley is a hopeless romantic and still a virgin, saving herself for Mr. Right. She lives her life through her passion for books, working in a bookshop by day and reading in her spare time. However, when the bookshop that has been her haven since leaving university closes, Laura is forced to [...]
