Lizzie's Reading Nook

  Book Review Title                    A Dark And Stormy Night Author               Steffanie Holmes Read Dates          10th January 2026 Rating                    4.5 / 5 Format                    Paperback Blurb Book boyfriends may do it better, but they're more trouble than they're worth. After being fired from my dream fashion job, I return home to my village under a cloud of failure and take a job at the quaint Nevermore Bookshop. I'm hoping for an easy few months while I get my life together. But this is no ordinary bookshop. A mysterious curse on Nevermore brings infamous fictional villains from classic literature to life in the real world. My "easy" job involves rescuing customers from a 6foot4, grumpy, tattooed Heathcliff, drinking tea and evadin...

Book Review Title            Fourth Wing  Author         Rebecca Yarros Read Dates        2nd February 2024 - 10th February 2024 Rating                5 / 5 Format                Paperback Blurb Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College . . . Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre:  dragon riders . But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away . . . because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadet...

 Book Review Title             Zodiac Academy: The Awakening Author         Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti Read Dates         30th January 2024 - 4th February 2024 Rating                 4.5 / 5 Format                 E-Book Blurb I’m a Gemini. Impulsive. Curious. Headstrong. A twin. Heir to a throne I know nothing about. And it turns out, I’m Fae. But of course there’s a catch - all I have to do to claim my birth right is prove that I’m the most powerful supernatural in the whole of Solaria. And sure, technically that’s true as I’m the daughter of the Savage King. But the bit they didn’t put in the brochure was that every single Fae in this Kingdom would claim my throne if they could. The school they’ve sent me to is both dangerous as sh*t and one helluva party. Vampires...

Book Review Title                     Say Goodbye Author                Karen Rose Read Dates           1st December 2023 - 30th January 2024 Rating                     5 / 5 Format                Paperback Blurb The closer you get to the truth, the more dangerous it gets. FBI Agent Tom Hunter has been chasing down leads to find the brutal cult that damaged some of his closest friends. They managed to escape to tell their stories, but Eden's location has always remained a mystery. Liza Barkley is struggling with her feelings for Tom and wonders if their friendship can survive the secrets they've kept from one another. But they may be forced to confront the truth when a chance to help the investigation puts Liza directly in the line of fire. ...