Rebecca's Rave Reviews

Book Review: The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Hello! Welcome back to my blog and to another book review, this time of The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn. Ambrosia Wellington is getting on fine. She might not be the hot shot actress she always wanted to be, but she has a gorgeously caring husband, a steady job, and some old friends who are still there for her. But when she gets a handwritten note through the door,…

Upcoming Release: The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur

Hello and welcome back! The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur is published April 20th in the US and May 1st in the UK (although Amazon does say April 20th for release date.) This is June Hur’s second novel, the first being The Silence of Bones, a YA historical thriller. Her third novel, The Red Palace is set for release in 2022. You can find out more about June Hur and her books at her…

Book Review: The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today’s post is a review of The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason. THEN1976. Loo and her sister Bee live in a run-down cottage in the middle of nowhere, with their artistic parents and wild siblings. Their mother, Cathy, had hoped to escape to a simpler life; instead the family find themselves isolated and shunned by their neighbours. At the height of the stifling…

Upcoming Release: Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone

Hello, and welcome back to my blog! Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone is a thriller by debut novelist Carole Johnstone, published April 15th in the UK by The Borough Press/HarperCollins, and April 20th in the US by Scribner. Add on Goodreads//Storygraph Cat lives in Los Angeles, far away from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El,…

Upcoming Release: The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. Today’s upcoming release post is all about The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent. The Summer Job is release April 15th in the UK and May 18th in the US. Have you ever imagined running away from your life?Well Birdy Finch didn’t just imagine it. She did it. Which might’ve been an error. And the life she’s run into? Her best friend, Heather’s.The only problem is, she…

March Wrap Up and April Reading Plans

Hello! Welcome back to my blog! Obligatory ‘how is it April’ nonsense in here (seriously though, how is it April???) but let’s head straight into my March reading! I read 8 books in March, which takes my total for 2021 so far to 29. My goal for 2021 is 100 books, so I am 4 books ahead of schedule so far. Not bad. The books I read in March were: The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell I loved…

Book Review: The Dinner Guest by B. P. Walter

Hello! Welcome back to another book review on my blog. Today, I’m reviewing The Dinner Guest by B. P. Walter, which I recieved a free copy off from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Charlie and Matthew, along with their son Titus, are living their perfect, Instagram-worthy life in London, when a chance meeting with a stranger named Rachel will change their lives forever, and leave…

Book Review: Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift

Hello and welcome back to my blog! Thank you very much to Hodder and Stoughton for my proof copy, which I won through a giveaway on Twitter. Last One at the Party follows an unnamed woman in her thirties who manages to remain healthy and symptom free as a new virus wipes out the rest of the world. 6DM, which stands for 6 Days Maximum – the longest you’ll live before you succumb to the disease –…

Upcoming Release: Tall Bones/Where the Truth Lies by Anna Bailey

Hello, and welcome back to my blog! Tall Bones by Anna Bailey is published April 1st by Transworld Publishers. In the US, Tall Bones will be released as Where The Truth Lies, and is out April 3rd. Add on Goodreads//Storygraph When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things…

Upcoming Release: Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw

Hello, and welcome back! On todays Upcoming Release post, I will be taking a look at Mina and the Undead by Amy McCaw. Mina and the Undead is a YA fantasy/thriller/horror released April 1st 2021 by UCLan Publishing. (I have seen a lot on Twitter about this book already being out, people having recieved their copies, and even the launch has happened, but… all of the websites still state April…

Book Review: The Split by Laura Kay

Hello, and welcome back to my blog! The Split by Laura Kay Ally doesn’t know what to do when Emily, her girlfriend of seven years breaks up with her. What she probably shouldn’t have done though, is take their cat, Malcolm, with her when she flees to her home town of Sheffield to stay with her dad. She tries to get Emily to come and get Malcom back, and get her back too, but she also reconnects…

Audiobook Review: Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith

Hello! Welcome back to my blog! Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith It’s Pony’s first day at a new high school and his first day of going stealth – trying to pass as a trans guy without anyone realising – when he spots a cute girl outside of school and falls hard immediately. Georgia is smart and funny and a super popular cheerleader, and dating Pony is not what her cheer captain thinks she should be…

Upcoming Release: The Dinner Guest by B.P. Walter

Hello and welcome back to my blog! The Dinner Guest by B.P. Walter is a thriller out April 1st, published by Harper Collins. Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave.Matthew: the perfect husband.Titus: the perfect son.Charlie: the perfect illusion.Rachel: the perfect stranger.Charlie didn’t want her at the book club. Matthew wouldn’t listen.And that’s how…

Upcoming Release: You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

Hello! Welcome back to my blog, and to another upcoming release post. You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes is the third in her ‘You’ series following unhinged and dangerous Joe Goldberg. Previous in the series was ‘You’ and ‘Hidden Bodies’ and the books have been adapted into a Netflix series starring Penn Badgely as Joe, and is an amazing watch! I am so excited for the next installment in this…

Upcoming Release: The Sister Surprise by Abigail Mann

Hello, and welcome back! The Sister Surprise by Abigail Mann, author of The Lonely Fajita, is published is ebook on March 25th and in paperback on 24th June. Journalist Ava takes a DNA test hoping to discover her roots. Instead, she finds out she has a half-sister … whilst on a live stream watched by 100,000 people. Her boss thinks it’s the perfect click-bait story. Ava just wants to go to…

Upcoming Release: Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas

Hello! Welcome back to another upcoming release post! Lost in the Never Woods is Aiden Thomas’ second YA novel, and is out March 23rd (US and UK ebook) and April 1st (UK harback). It is published by Swoon Reads. Add on Goodreads//Storygraph When children go missing in the small coastal town of Astoria, people look to Wendy for answers.It’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went…

Book Review: The Castaways by Lucy Clarke

Hello! Welcome and thank you for visiting my blog. Todays post is a review of The Castaways by Lucy Clarke, which is out today! Lori needs a holiday, and she’s taking Erin with her. The two sisters have been inseparable since their parents both died, and then Lori’s husband got another woman pregnant and Lori moved into Erin’s spare room. But such close relationships are never without tensions,…