Book: My Best Friends Girl
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Publish Date: 2006
Start Reading Date: 16th January 2020
End Reading Date: 21st January 2020
First Thoughts
Ok so my first thoughts was that I’ve broken a New Years resolution when it comes to reading, but then I realized my book resolutions are more goals than anything else, and the books I want to read that I haven’t, hadn’t changed.
Conclusion
I absolutely love this book, and I don’t care how many times I read it I’ll always love it and want to read it again and again.
I love how the characters just fit so well together and how easy they seem to get there. I know that Luke and Kamryn and Luke and Nate had difficulties to begin with but I love the dynamics between them.
The book shows just how much people can change and how things are never as easy as you want them to be.
It’s one of those books that I would love a sequel for just to see how everything is going with them.
What are they like now? What are they all doing? How did Kamryn adjust? How did Tegan adjust? How are Luke and Kamryn? What’s Tegan like now?
This book is one of those books that will pull on your heart strings. There are time when I first read it years ago where I wanted to cry because of how Tegan was treated by her grandparents or when Adele died.
Friday, January 31, 2020
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
DNF Books I Need To Read
So I have a few books on my shelf that I’ve started and gotten to different stages of them and given up. Though I’ve given up on reading the book I do try and get back around to reading them, and if I really just can’t then I know it’s time for them to go.
- Just One Year
- Gayle FormanI really struggled with the book when I first read it, and it wasn’t much better the second time around. I know why I didn’t like it and it’s because of Willem. He’s not my favourite character in the entire world and I want to get past hating him.
- Lola and the Boy Next Door- Stephanie Perkins
I read a few chapters of the book, and just couldn’t get into it that much. So hopefully this year is the year that I can.
- Girl On The Train
- Paula Hawkins
When I tried to read the book during the summer last year I didn’t like the book, so this year I want to try and read it again. It’s not normally the kind of book that I read but sometimes I like to get out of my comfort zone.
- Just Listen
- Sarah Dessen
I got about half way through the book and gave up. But this year at some point I want to read it all the way through.
Monday, January 20, 2020
The Rose Petal Beach Book Review
Book: The Rose Petal Beach
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Pages: 672
Publish Date: 2011
Start Reading Date: 4th January 2020
End Reading Date: 14th January 2020
My Goodreads Rating: 5*
This is the first book I am starting in 2020, but the second I’ll have finished
First Thoughts
With all my Dorothy Koomson books I don’t want to read or watch anything related to them. So I am going into the book totally blind.
While Reading
I don’t know why but I’m 30 pages in and I don’t like the woman who Tami called to look after the kids while she went to the police station. There is something about her.
I’m a few more pages on and I feel a little sorry for her.
Though Scott has been arrested for a serious crime (and I don’t know the outcome as I am writing this bit) I like him
Right now I am finding hard to understand Beatrix. I’m not particularly liking her. Her dating problems seem really insignificant. She seems really insignificant.
When something like what Scott has been accused of, and it comes from such a close friend who do you believe. I know you should always believe the woman, but sometimes just sometimes they lie.
I’m just over 100 pages of the book and I don’t know how I feel about it, I don’t love it as much as many of her other books, but I don’t hate it either. It’s definitely a book that you have to keep track of super carefully
I’ve always believed there is three sides to a story, (his side, her side and the truth) and in this book it’s Mirabelle’s story and Scott’s story and what actually happened.
At the point that I’m currently at in the book I don’t know who to believe because both sides are really putting it out there. When I believe one the other comes along and I’m believing them. When it comes to the crime that Scott is accused of its easy to say believe the woman, but sometimes it’s not that simple
Ok so I’ve come to the realization that you have to expect the unexpected with Dorothy Koomson and her writing. I wasn’t expecting there to be a murder thrown into the mix. But I kinda love it.
As I’ve previously mentioned I really don’t like Beatrix. I don’t know if she is meant to be liked or not but I don’t like her. What Mirabelle said to her in the gym felt right. Bea is one of those women who wouldn’t be a feminist because she’d think that feminism would be all men hating.
Ok so I am starting to love the book. I think it’s going to get interesting. For the simple fact there are so many suspects
Now that Mirabelle has died, and your seeing more of her background through her daughter, I am back at that stage where I don’t know if I believe her when it comes to the allegations agains Scott, because through her daughter you can see snippets of her life where she’s lied to people about her daughter.
I think Fleur wants a mother figure that Mirabelle never gave her and that her step mother is incapable of doing, and that’s why she is clinging onto Tami. I think as well that she is very much a typical young woman where she thinks her dad is controlling her life. We’ve only seen glimpses in to Mirabelle’s life before everything that’s happened.
I’m so confused. But in a good way. Scott is having an affair, but not who you thinking it’s with, though I kinda had a clue but never really put two and two together.
Mirabelle is gay, though that shouldn’t matter, if she was assaulted by Scott then I wonder why she backtracked on her statement.
I knew there was a reason that I didn’t like Beatrix. Finding out things about her one of my previous statements about her dating life seeming insufficient really rings true. I believe she is one of those women that actually believe that while they are in an affair the married man will leave their partner. But I’m a firm believer that they never will. And if he told her would than he would have done it by now.
I think Tami was right to tell her how she feels when it all comes out, and I agree with her that it all makes sense that Beatrix was trying to replace her. And even after the revolution that she is ill I still don’t like her.
She literally is friends with a woman, having an affair with that woman’s husband, the woman finds out, and that woman is being nice enough to go to the hospital appointments with you because your sick and your mad at her. I know it’s very much a Beatrix heavy at the moment but that’s just part of the book I am on. But right now I am very much with Tami when she gave Beatrix a dressing down. For the simple fact that she (Beatrix) said she loved Scott and Tami telling her she didn’t. For all the reasons that she listed she’s right. Any normal woman would have asked the questions Tami had asked Beatrix to answer about Scott and Beatrix got none of them right. As women I think it’s ingrained into us to ask questions about the person we loves background.
I know I should feel sorry for Beatrix but I don’t. And haven’t throughout the book so far. I find her childish in her actions.
Ok, so I’ve not talked a lot about Mirabelle, I kinda feel a lot more sorry for her in some ways. But in other ways I wish she was more open, and didn’t lie about her daughter.
I shouldn’t be surprised at who the murderer was, but I kinda am, I knew it couldn’t be any of the main 4 characters (Tami, Scott, Beatrix or Fleur) but I was kind of betting it would be Beatrix. So I was surprised at who it was.
Conclusion
It’s one of those books that I don’t love or hate, it definitely takes you on an emotional trip. I felt like I couldn’t trust most of the people in the book. You never know what the real truth is with them. I love the fact that Dorothy takes you through the history of Tami and Scott
I don’t know if it’s Dorothy’s amazing writing that I am just clueless to all the obvious, or I’m just not super clued on.
I liked how the book shows that anyone can change, and not follow their families path, but they can also hide things really well. I just wish that Mirabelle could’ve opened up to Tami about her past. I know it’s not one she’s proud of, but seeing how understanding Tami can be at time’s she wouldn’t have judged.
Tami is a stronger person than I would’ve been if I ever found out my husband cheated on me the way Scott did. The things she did surprised me, and I know I wouldn’t have given anyone the time of day yet she has it in her to do what she did. I know it must’ve been hard for her not to have believed Mirabelle about what happened. But still she knew Scott longer than anyone and sometimes it’s just easier to believe that nothing bad can happen.
Scott, though he did horrible stuff, I do applaud him for leaving behind family who had a bad influence on him as a child/teen.
Beatrix is one of those people that I feel is lucky to have any friends. And I think she is so lucky that Tami stayed by her side when she became ill. I think her love life is a disaster, and if she ever loved Scott like she said she did then she wouldn’t have tried so hard with all those other men. I feel like she is a typical bunny boiler in the fact that when Scott ends it with her she’s wanting him to call and email, and thinks they’ll be together.
With Fleur I think it’s easy for her to hate Mirabelle, without actually knowing what’s going on in her life.
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Pages: 672
Publish Date: 2011
Start Reading Date: 4th January 2020
End Reading Date: 14th January 2020
My Goodreads Rating: 5*
This is the first book I am starting in 2020, but the second I’ll have finished First Thoughts
With all my Dorothy Koomson books I don’t want to read or watch anything related to them. So I am going into the book totally blind.
While Reading
I don’t know why but I’m 30 pages in and I don’t like the woman who Tami called to look after the kids while she went to the police station. There is something about her.
I’m a few more pages on and I feel a little sorry for her.
Though Scott has been arrested for a serious crime (and I don’t know the outcome as I am writing this bit) I like him
Right now I am finding hard to understand Beatrix. I’m not particularly liking her. Her dating problems seem really insignificant. She seems really insignificant.
When something like what Scott has been accused of, and it comes from such a close friend who do you believe. I know you should always believe the woman, but sometimes just sometimes they lie.
I’m just over 100 pages of the book and I don’t know how I feel about it, I don’t love it as much as many of her other books, but I don’t hate it either. It’s definitely a book that you have to keep track of super carefully
I’ve always believed there is three sides to a story, (his side, her side and the truth) and in this book it’s Mirabelle’s story and Scott’s story and what actually happened.
At the point that I’m currently at in the book I don’t know who to believe because both sides are really putting it out there. When I believe one the other comes along and I’m believing them. When it comes to the crime that Scott is accused of its easy to say believe the woman, but sometimes it’s not that simple
Ok so I’ve come to the realization that you have to expect the unexpected with Dorothy Koomson and her writing. I wasn’t expecting there to be a murder thrown into the mix. But I kinda love it.
As I’ve previously mentioned I really don’t like Beatrix. I don’t know if she is meant to be liked or not but I don’t like her. What Mirabelle said to her in the gym felt right. Bea is one of those women who wouldn’t be a feminist because she’d think that feminism would be all men hating.
Ok so I am starting to love the book. I think it’s going to get interesting. For the simple fact there are so many suspects
Now that Mirabelle has died, and your seeing more of her background through her daughter, I am back at that stage where I don’t know if I believe her when it comes to the allegations agains Scott, because through her daughter you can see snippets of her life where she’s lied to people about her daughter.
I think Fleur wants a mother figure that Mirabelle never gave her and that her step mother is incapable of doing, and that’s why she is clinging onto Tami. I think as well that she is very much a typical young woman where she thinks her dad is controlling her life. We’ve only seen glimpses in to Mirabelle’s life before everything that’s happened.
I’m so confused. But in a good way. Scott is having an affair, but not who you thinking it’s with, though I kinda had a clue but never really put two and two together.
Mirabelle is gay, though that shouldn’t matter, if she was assaulted by Scott then I wonder why she backtracked on her statement.
I knew there was a reason that I didn’t like Beatrix. Finding out things about her one of my previous statements about her dating life seeming insufficient really rings true. I believe she is one of those women that actually believe that while they are in an affair the married man will leave their partner. But I’m a firm believer that they never will. And if he told her would than he would have done it by now.
I think Tami was right to tell her how she feels when it all comes out, and I agree with her that it all makes sense that Beatrix was trying to replace her. And even after the revolution that she is ill I still don’t like her.
She literally is friends with a woman, having an affair with that woman’s husband, the woman finds out, and that woman is being nice enough to go to the hospital appointments with you because your sick and your mad at her. I know it’s very much a Beatrix heavy at the moment but that’s just part of the book I am on. But right now I am very much with Tami when she gave Beatrix a dressing down. For the simple fact that she (Beatrix) said she loved Scott and Tami telling her she didn’t. For all the reasons that she listed she’s right. Any normal woman would have asked the questions Tami had asked Beatrix to answer about Scott and Beatrix got none of them right. As women I think it’s ingrained into us to ask questions about the person we loves background.
I know I should feel sorry for Beatrix but I don’t. And haven’t throughout the book so far. I find her childish in her actions.
Ok, so I’ve not talked a lot about Mirabelle, I kinda feel a lot more sorry for her in some ways. But in other ways I wish she was more open, and didn’t lie about her daughter.
I shouldn’t be surprised at who the murderer was, but I kinda am, I knew it couldn’t be any of the main 4 characters (Tami, Scott, Beatrix or Fleur) but I was kind of betting it would be Beatrix. So I was surprised at who it was.
Conclusion
It’s one of those books that I don’t love or hate, it definitely takes you on an emotional trip. I felt like I couldn’t trust most of the people in the book. You never know what the real truth is with them. I love the fact that Dorothy takes you through the history of Tami and Scott
I don’t know if it’s Dorothy’s amazing writing that I am just clueless to all the obvious, or I’m just not super clued on.
I liked how the book shows that anyone can change, and not follow their families path, but they can also hide things really well. I just wish that Mirabelle could’ve opened up to Tami about her past. I know it’s not one she’s proud of, but seeing how understanding Tami can be at time’s she wouldn’t have judged.
Tami is a stronger person than I would’ve been if I ever found out my husband cheated on me the way Scott did. The things she did surprised me, and I know I wouldn’t have given anyone the time of day yet she has it in her to do what she did. I know it must’ve been hard for her not to have believed Mirabelle about what happened. But still she knew Scott longer than anyone and sometimes it’s just easier to believe that nothing bad can happen.
Scott, though he did horrible stuff, I do applaud him for leaving behind family who had a bad influence on him as a child/teen.
Beatrix is one of those people that I feel is lucky to have any friends. And I think she is so lucky that Tami stayed by her side when she became ill. I think her love life is a disaster, and if she ever loved Scott like she said she did then she wouldn’t have tried so hard with all those other men. I feel like she is a typical bunny boiler in the fact that when Scott ends it with her she’s wanting him to call and email, and thinks they’ll be together.
With Fleur I think it’s easy for her to hate Mirabelle, without actually knowing what’s going on in her life.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Tell Me Your Secret || Dorothy Koomson || Book Review ||
Book: Tell Me Your Secret
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Pages: 472 (Hardback)
Publish Date: June 27th 2019
Start Reading Date: December 26th 2019
End Reading Date: January 3rd 2019
My Goodreads Rating: 5*
Pieta is a single mum living in Brighton, who ten years previous had been kidnapped by a man called The Blindfolder.
Jody is a police officer, who recently moved to Brighton to solve the newest murder of The Blindfolder
The Blindfolder is someone who kidnapped black women, he told them to keep their eyes closed for 48 hours and he’d let them go, if they didn’t he’d kill them
First Thoughts
Before even picking the book up, I didn’t want them read any reviews on it; with any Dorothy Koomson books I want to make my own mind up, even though I know it’s going to be brilliant, I still want it to be brilliant without others ruining it for me.
While Reading
Less then 100 pages in, I’m loving it so far, but I will say that the layout of the book isn’t my favourite. It seems like there isn’t that much that’s on the page and it’s as if it had been centred more than anything.
I’m about 150 pages in, and The Blindfolder is looking for past victims, and he’s branding his victims. All of the victims seem to have ‘shady’ pasts, they have pasts where people who haven’t been through them will judge them, but Pieta’s past hasn’t yet been revealed in much detail, sure you find out she was bullied by a boy, who she is now working with but the past where people judge hadn’t been revealed
I’m just over 200 pages in, and I really want to know what happened in Pieta’s past for The Blindfolder to have targeted her in the first place.
I find Jody can be really blunt in what she says, especially when during the flashbacks she seems really nice and caring, it’s definitely down to her sisters death and the fact that her sister was also a victim of The Blindfolder. I think she’s been hardened because of the experiences.
For me so far, there are three suspects. Kind of. So Jody says to Pieta about her ex Jason and Ned (the photographer that through out Pieta’s life is there) know each other. In Jody’s mind they could be suspects. Jason for me less so than Ned, for the simple fact that the night that Pieta was taken she was on the phone to Jason, so she would have heard him etc. For me Ned is more likely because he’s in and out of her life.
As for the third suspect, I’d have to say Winston, Jody’s boyfriend. There is something about him that I don’t like and he’s only been in a small amount of the book.
A lot can happen in 100 pages of a Dorothy Koomson book, and this one is no exception. I knew my theory’s on the three suspects that I had were way out there, and they were just my theories, but it surprised me on who The Blindfolder actually is, and I don’t know how I feel about it if I am honest.
I wasn’t expecting that one of the victims to do what she did, I knew that The Blindfolder wanted Pieta, and the way that some of the victims are linked together, and the way that Pieta is linked back to The Blindfolder, and how she called him Peter to make him more human in ways.
I know with her books Dorothy likes to throw you curve balls and you have to look for them, but blimey this is just… I have no words… I’m utterly speechless… and the person who The Blindfolder is, was in plain sight.
The police officer Jody, has an inclination about the Blindfolder before it’s revealed who he is, and that’s the fact she thinks that there are two people involved because of how organized it seems, and how quickly everything seems to happen. Once it’s revealed who The Blindfolder is, I am now wondering if it’s true what Jody thinks and if someone whose been in the book all along is involved.
Ok, so I thought that the one victim was an actual victim but now I’m not so sure, and that she is the second person, that’s helping The Blindfolder. If Jodys theory was correct about the second person helping I imagined it to be another man,
Even though I know his name I am still calling him The Blindfolder because if anyone sees this review I don’t want to completely spoil it for them.
By this point in the book, we know why he’s killing his past victims is because he wants to get to Pieta who he believes loves him, because of how she acted towards him, when he held her. But what I want to know, and I’ve said it before is I want to know why he took her in the first place. Why she was one of his victims because all the other victims had ‘shady’ pasts, so what did Pieta do that made her past shady.
Do I believe the story of why the person whose behind it, a little, I can see why they would do something like they did with the reasons that they brought up, what happened to that person isn’t ok, but it’s not ok to go and kidnap, taunted, humiliate and kill women of colour because of your past. At the moment I don’t 100% believe the person is doing it because of the past, but I can see it happing. It’s simple things that happen everyday to people, yet the person can’t get over it.
The person who fell for Pieta I think is delusional, and while it was two people doing all the things to these black women, it was the brainchild of one person who manipulated their brother into helping, I think both became delusional and I feel like they are doing it all for the wrong reasons.
I don’t know what was more of a shock, the fact that I got the Blindfolder completely wrong, the fact that there were two of them, the reasons behind why they did what they did, the fact that one killed the other, the fact that the Blindfolder wanted Pieta because he was delusional and thought Pieta wanted him, and she had his kid, or the fact that the person behind it is willing to lie and cheat and kill, and think it’s ok in the reasons why.
The ending is really dramatic, and amazing
Conclusion
It obviously a very different story, but at times I felt like it was a little like Dorothy’s previous book The Brighton Mermaid. The fact that the person behind what was happening was in plain sight.
Even though it has similarities I think this book is brilliant, and obviously very different because it keeps you in suspense and questioning everything
I really enjoyed the book, and while I don’t agree with the reasons why the person decided to do what they did because of their past,
The book deals with so many topics that Dorothy Koomson covers so well in her books.
The book has a way of reminding you that you can’t always trust people, or what they say and that sometimes bad people are in plain sight.
“She isn’t complex and cleaver, she is just and everyday person who express her prejudices in a deadly way” - I don’t know why but this quote from the book really resonated with me. Wether you replace she with he, I feel like that’s how most racist people who kill think they are.
I loved how the book made me love and hate characters, and made me change my mind on some of the characters
When I got nearer the end of the book, everything is pretty much wrapped up and I have a few more pages to read I get that same feeling as I get with most of Dorothy Koomson books. I don’t want it to end.
Not in the slightest
Not at all
And yet here I am near the end.
It’s 100% a book I love and knew I would, once I got into it I knew I’d read it quick, and I feel like I’ve not read any of the book at all and I’m sad it’s finished.
What I love about the book, was just how in plain sight The Blindfolder is, and how the person behind the person who becomes the Blindfolder is as well (because if you’ve not noticed from above there are two of them).
I loved how even though there are these two bad people, that there are so many more better people there are in the book.
I felt bad for one of the police officers that was working the case, because from the get go Jody really wasn’t nice to her, yet you could see she was nicer to other people.
Despite her reputation I don’t think Jody is a completely bad person, she has been through a lot and I think that hardened her as a person
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Pages: 472 (Hardback)
Publish Date: June 27th 2019
Start Reading Date: December 26th 2019
End Reading Date: January 3rd 2019
My Goodreads Rating: 5*
Pieta is a single mum living in Brighton, who ten years previous had been kidnapped by a man called The Blindfolder.
Jody is a police officer, who recently moved to Brighton to solve the newest murder of The Blindfolder
The Blindfolder is someone who kidnapped black women, he told them to keep their eyes closed for 48 hours and he’d let them go, if they didn’t he’d kill them
First Thoughts
Before even picking the book up, I didn’t want them read any reviews on it; with any Dorothy Koomson books I want to make my own mind up, even though I know it’s going to be brilliant, I still want it to be brilliant without others ruining it for me.
While Reading
Less then 100 pages in, I’m loving it so far, but I will say that the layout of the book isn’t my favourite. It seems like there isn’t that much that’s on the page and it’s as if it had been centred more than anything.
I’m about 150 pages in, and The Blindfolder is looking for past victims, and he’s branding his victims. All of the victims seem to have ‘shady’ pasts, they have pasts where people who haven’t been through them will judge them, but Pieta’s past hasn’t yet been revealed in much detail, sure you find out she was bullied by a boy, who she is now working with but the past where people judge hadn’t been revealed
I’m just over 200 pages in, and I really want to know what happened in Pieta’s past for The Blindfolder to have targeted her in the first place.
I find Jody can be really blunt in what she says, especially when during the flashbacks she seems really nice and caring, it’s definitely down to her sisters death and the fact that her sister was also a victim of The Blindfolder. I think she’s been hardened because of the experiences.
For me so far, there are three suspects. Kind of. So Jody says to Pieta about her ex Jason and Ned (the photographer that through out Pieta’s life is there) know each other. In Jody’s mind they could be suspects. Jason for me less so than Ned, for the simple fact that the night that Pieta was taken she was on the phone to Jason, so she would have heard him etc. For me Ned is more likely because he’s in and out of her life.
As for the third suspect, I’d have to say Winston, Jody’s boyfriend. There is something about him that I don’t like and he’s only been in a small amount of the book.
A lot can happen in 100 pages of a Dorothy Koomson book, and this one is no exception. I knew my theory’s on the three suspects that I had were way out there, and they were just my theories, but it surprised me on who The Blindfolder actually is, and I don’t know how I feel about it if I am honest.
I wasn’t expecting that one of the victims to do what she did, I knew that The Blindfolder wanted Pieta, and the way that some of the victims are linked together, and the way that Pieta is linked back to The Blindfolder, and how she called him Peter to make him more human in ways.
I know with her books Dorothy likes to throw you curve balls and you have to look for them, but blimey this is just… I have no words… I’m utterly speechless… and the person who The Blindfolder is, was in plain sight.
The police officer Jody, has an inclination about the Blindfolder before it’s revealed who he is, and that’s the fact she thinks that there are two people involved because of how organized it seems, and how quickly everything seems to happen. Once it’s revealed who The Blindfolder is, I am now wondering if it’s true what Jody thinks and if someone whose been in the book all along is involved.
Ok, so I thought that the one victim was an actual victim but now I’m not so sure, and that she is the second person, that’s helping The Blindfolder. If Jodys theory was correct about the second person helping I imagined it to be another man,
Even though I know his name I am still calling him The Blindfolder because if anyone sees this review I don’t want to completely spoil it for them.
By this point in the book, we know why he’s killing his past victims is because he wants to get to Pieta who he believes loves him, because of how she acted towards him, when he held her. But what I want to know, and I’ve said it before is I want to know why he took her in the first place. Why she was one of his victims because all the other victims had ‘shady’ pasts, so what did Pieta do that made her past shady.
Do I believe the story of why the person whose behind it, a little, I can see why they would do something like they did with the reasons that they brought up, what happened to that person isn’t ok, but it’s not ok to go and kidnap, taunted, humiliate and kill women of colour because of your past. At the moment I don’t 100% believe the person is doing it because of the past, but I can see it happing. It’s simple things that happen everyday to people, yet the person can’t get over it.
The person who fell for Pieta I think is delusional, and while it was two people doing all the things to these black women, it was the brainchild of one person who manipulated their brother into helping, I think both became delusional and I feel like they are doing it all for the wrong reasons.
I don’t know what was more of a shock, the fact that I got the Blindfolder completely wrong, the fact that there were two of them, the reasons behind why they did what they did, the fact that one killed the other, the fact that the Blindfolder wanted Pieta because he was delusional and thought Pieta wanted him, and she had his kid, or the fact that the person behind it is willing to lie and cheat and kill, and think it’s ok in the reasons why.
The ending is really dramatic, and amazing
Conclusion
It obviously a very different story, but at times I felt like it was a little like Dorothy’s previous book The Brighton Mermaid. The fact that the person behind what was happening was in plain sight.
Even though it has similarities I think this book is brilliant, and obviously very different because it keeps you in suspense and questioning everything
I really enjoyed the book, and while I don’t agree with the reasons why the person decided to do what they did because of their past,
The book deals with so many topics that Dorothy Koomson covers so well in her books.
The book has a way of reminding you that you can’t always trust people, or what they say and that sometimes bad people are in plain sight.
“She isn’t complex and cleaver, she is just and everyday person who express her prejudices in a deadly way” - I don’t know why but this quote from the book really resonated with me. Wether you replace she with he, I feel like that’s how most racist people who kill think they are.
I loved how the book made me love and hate characters, and made me change my mind on some of the characters
When I got nearer the end of the book, everything is pretty much wrapped up and I have a few more pages to read I get that same feeling as I get with most of Dorothy Koomson books. I don’t want it to end.
Not in the slightest
Not at all
And yet here I am near the end.
It’s 100% a book I love and knew I would, once I got into it I knew I’d read it quick, and I feel like I’ve not read any of the book at all and I’m sad it’s finished.
What I love about the book, was just how in plain sight The Blindfolder is, and how the person behind the person who becomes the Blindfolder is as well (because if you’ve not noticed from above there are two of them).
I loved how even though there are these two bad people, that there are so many more better people there are in the book.
I felt bad for one of the police officers that was working the case, because from the get go Jody really wasn’t nice to her, yet you could see she was nicer to other people.
Despite her reputation I don’t think Jody is a completely bad person, she has been through a lot and I think that hardened her as a person
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Most Anticipated Books For The First Half of 2020 Jan 7th 2020 TTT
I’m not normally someone who will do this kind of posts because I normally get my books second hand but there is a few books that I’m exited about.The book I am most exited about isn’t out until August which is a Dorothy Koomson book
Blood: A Memoir by The Jonas Brothers is the book that I’m looking forward to in the first half of the year. It’s going to be released in March, and is released about 12 days before my birthday.
I’m 30 years old and still love the Jonas Brothers don’t hate me for it.
Saturday, January 4, 2020
Book Resolutions 2020
So this post is 5 Book Resolutions that I have for 2020
1. Read The Books That I’ve Not Read or Have DNF’dOk so in my GoodReads challenge post I said I want read books that I’ve got on my shelf that I’ve not even attempted or have and not finished. They are just sitting there
2. To Donate Books
I have so many books on my shelf's, that I don’t read, books that I’ve grown out of, books that I’ve read so many times before that I don’t feel like I could read again.
3. Try Not To ReRead Books
Ok so this is kind of like the first one, but this year I don’t want to re read books I’ve already read. If I do, no biggie,
4. I Want To Do More Book Reviews
I feel like in 2019, I didn’t do many book reviews. They are some of my favourite posts to write because of how I write them.
5. Post About The Book When It’s Relevant
If I have any post that are relevant to a book, weather it be a book review, discussion question what ever, post it within a decent amount of time. Not months later like I have done.
Thursday, January 2, 2020
GoodReads Challenge 2020
For 2020, and my GoodReads challenge I am planning on reading 24 books, the same as 2017 and 2018, I felt that two books a month is perfect for me in those years.
It’s not really a challenge for me in any aspects, I’ve read over 30 books in 2019, but for me I felt like I was just reading to read, rather than to enjoy the book.
I am also challenging myself to read the books that I’ve previously DNFd or I’ve haven’t read that have been on my shelf for a long time, along with any books that I get new throughout the year.
24 books may not seem like a lot, seeing as every year I’ve surpassed it massively but because I am going to be reading books I’ve not read or DNFd I think it’s perfect
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