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Book reivew: Nightborn by Jessica Thorne

Nightborn by Jessica Thorne

I enjoyed the first book, Mageborn, so when I saw this pop up on Netgalley, I grabbed it. Wow. I enjoyed it even more than the first.
The story opens with Grace Marchant and Bastien Larelwynn (the Lord of Thorns) in a foreign court, where Bastien is playing -or rather trying not be played by courtly games. Meanwhile something odd is happening to the Mageborn. They are being converted, filled with darkness and turned into vicious and powerful Nightborn. Theres no...

Book review: The Lonely Fajita by Abigail MAnn

The Lonely Fajita by Abigail Mann My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I requested this book from Netgalley because I loved the title.
This is a fun, light hearted read and is genuinely funny. Elissa is in an intern position thats losing her money, she has a terrible boyfriend and is about to be made homeless. She signs up to be a companion for the an elderly lady called Annie.

The story is about loneliness both Elissa and Annie, with their different lifestyles, are lonely. They find in each other the...

Book ReView: That Girl From Nowhere by Dorothy Koomson

That Girl From Nowhere by Dorothy Koomson
This was an interesting book. Clemency Smitty Smittson is adopted and the only clue she has to her roots is the box with butterflies on that she was given when she was adopted. She moves to Brighton, the town of her birth, with her adopted mother (who is arguably, her real mother) and secrets from the past start cropping up.

There was a lot going on in this book. Themes to do with adoption and the sense of belonging, family pride, familial bullying,...

Book review: The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

This is a lovely story about Josh (tech CEO) and Sarah (pie maker extraordinaire). Josh is throwing a pi day party in the hope that it will be the catalyst to healing the rift between him and his dad. He hires Sarah, from the Happy As Pie shop to cater for the event.
The characters are all really well developed and I felt I knew both Sarah and Josh. I loved that Sarah has been working so that she feels she hasnt made many female friends and these...

Book Review: Miss Amelia’s Mistletoe Marquess by Jenni Fletcher

Amelia/Millie Fairclough walks home in a blizzard and has to take shelter in a gatehouse. Where she encounters Cassius. The episode leaves her reputation tarnished, which is bad. Very bad.

Millie is trying to work out who she is. She has spent all her life working for her parents charitable foundation and is having trouble separating who she is from what is expected of her.
Cassius is still grieving for his cousin and his friend (not the same person) and trying to do right by his cousins...

Book Review: Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn My rating: 5 of 5 stars

What a delightful book! The heroine, Meg, is a lettering artist. It affects everything about her the way she sees the world, the way she responds. This is entirely as it should be.

Reid is more of a numbers and patterns guy. So when Meg puts a code into the wedding brochure for Reids (later aborted) wedding, he spots it. Of course he does.

I love the gentle relationship between Meg and Reid. I really enjoyed the visual aspects of the...

Inheritance Books: Ainslie Paton

Todays guest on Inheritance Books wrote a great series about high class con artists. Welcome, Ainslie Paton. Why dont you kick things off by telling us a bit about yourself?

I started writing when I was able to hold a pencil.  I was a child playwright mostly, but I also wrote long and boring stories with chapter headings likeAn uneventful day.  I very clearly hadnt learned to start with a bang.  

I converted that interest in the written word into a journalism degree and I work in corporate...

Book review: Get a Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. I loved how measured Chloe was and how her disability was depicted not just how she felt, but how she adapted everything to live her life. I loved the family dynamic between the sisters too.
Red is a big scary tattooed biker dude, but is an artist at heart. I liked how his experience of an abusive relationship was portrayed because abuse covers so much more than one person beating up another.

Warm,...

Book review: The Lawson Sisters by Janet Gover

The Lawson Sisters by Janet Gover My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is an excellent book about grief and the persistence of love. They story centres around Liz and Kayla, who were orphaned suddenly when they were in their teens. Liz took over running the family stud farm, while Kayla was sent away to get an expensive education, in accordance with their fathers wishes. The estranged sisters are brought back together when the farm is in financial dire straits and Liz needs Kayla to help.

Liz is...

Book review: Mageborn by Jessica Thorne

Mageborn by Jessica Thorne My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Grace is a soldier and her job is to round up the Mageborn who have magic. What she cant tell anyone is that she suspects she might have some magic too. And it might be getting stronger.
Bastien Larelwynn, the Lord of Thorns, is the kings brother. Kinda shadowy. Grace comes into contact with him when he drains the magic out of her friend and her friend dies.

I liked the complexity of the world especially the criminal world that isnt...