The Orphans of Liverpool Lane

The Orphans from Liverpool Lane

By Eliza Morton

Genre:-Historical/Romance/Saga

Pages:-400

Publisher:-Pan Macmillan

Blurb:-A warm yet gritty saga set in Liverpool, The Orphans from Liverpool Lane is a heartfelt story from Eliza Morton, the acclaimed author of Angel of Liverpool.

All she wants is to go home...

1944, Liverpool.

Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage withher older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the living'-a harsh term for those children with living parents, whose families have abandoned them. 

 Things look up when their father finally returns and the girls are allowed home, but it's clear the years in the camp have taken their toll on the sweet man Marcia barely remembers-and the family disintegrates.

 Cynthia finds an escape with an aunt and her ambitions to be a dancer. But Marcia is sent back to the orphanage. And while she finds friends among her fellow 'orphans', it is no substitute for the family she so desperately craves...

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My Review:-This is my first book by Eliza Morton, but I will be looking to read more. Cynthia and Marcia loved days out with their parents. The loved the last time they all out together, it was a trip to the seaside, watching a one-legged man and sitting on the beach. Everything soon changed with war. Cynthia and Marcia are now 'orphans of the living', (I did look this up as I've never heard it before.) Cynthia was more grown up compared to Marcia, she found it harder to understand things. Things would never be the same again. Cynthia could never leave Marcia again not with everything they have been through. Marcia and Cynthia had so much to plan with the wedding coming up, even if Marica wouldn't let Cynthia decide on the dress or food. This is a story that shows just how hard times must of been for families, especially when parents had to make their children orphans of living. Even with everything the family had went through they still had here other. This is both heart warming and heart breaking. The author writing style made you feel the emotions the family had to go through. 

All The World's A Stage

All The World's A Stage-The Comeback Trail Trilogy-Book3

By Guy Hale

Genre:-Crime/Humour

Publisher:-Whitefox Publishing

Blurb:-All The World's A Stage

In the final installment of The Comeback Trail trilogy, Jimmy Wayne has set off on his major tour of Europe, selling out the likes of the Royal Albert Hall and Zenith, Paris. While Jimmy's fame is reaching dizzying heights, behind-the-scenes crime bosses, Jack Lantern and George Digbeth, are scheming ways to bring him crashing back down to earth. But it's not just these two he should be worried about. Jimmy's adventures in Europe have drawn the attention of crime families across London, Paris southern Italy and Madrid and everyone is battling for a piece of the action. From recovering valuable stolen artwork to his mother's romantic escapades, will Jimmy survive the mayhem of his whirlwind tour or will the dubious, murderous circumstances to which he owes all his success, be exposed, for once and for all...?

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My Review:- This is Book Three and the finale in 'The Comeback Trail.' I've read the other two books and didn't think it could get any better, but how wrong can one be. Jimmy is on his way to the top and he's off on his European tour. Jimmy needs to keep low and keep quiet. Crime families as well as Jack and George are wanting a piece of him. Could this be the end of everything that Jimmy has been working for? What's next for him?

Guy's writing style and plot has had me wanting more and more. I didn't want to put these books down. There is something for everyone in these book. All I will say is Guy is a brilliant writer and I can't wait to see what he has next for us.

Blood On The Tracks

Blood On The Tracks-The Comeback Trail Trilogy Book Two

By Guy Hale

Genre:-Crime/Humour

Publisher:-Whitefox Publishing

Blurb:-Blood On The Tracks

 Jimmy Wayne is headed for LA to make the new album that will hopefully make him a star. In a quiet, deserted canyon a few miles outside Blackjack lie the bodies of his victims who inspired each song-all his secrets are buried in that dry and arid ground. Can he leave his past behind or will the ghosts of his past come back to haunt him?

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My Review:-This is Book Two of 'The Comeback Trail.' I've already read and reviewed Book One 'Killing Me Softly' and loved it. So when I was asked to review Book Two, it was a BIG YES.

 After killing his girlfriend Wendy, Jimmy found he could write songs as long as he kills someone first. He was soon on his way to writing an album. Jimmy and The Kid are leaving Blackjack and heading to LA. Jimmy's going from strength to strength and with the help from his ghost girlfriend Wendy always there given advice and keeping a watch over him.  What is in store for Jimmy? How many more songs does Jimmy want to write? All I will say is if you liked 'Killing Me Softly' you will love this one. 

Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly-The Comeback Trail Trilogy Book One

By Guy Hale

Genre:-Crime/Humour

Publisher:-Whitefox Publishing

Blurb:-Killing Me Softly

In the town of Blackjack, Nevada, washed-up singer Jimmy Wayne is down on his luck, playing covers to a limited and uninterested audience in a third-rate casino. One morning he awakens to find that everything has changed. Not only has he accidentally murdered Wendy, his girlfriend, but he's also written the best song he's ever produced. Is it the act of killing that helps him create his finest work? And if it is, should he go for a full album? Wrestling for his desire for success, his grasp of morality and haunted by his past mistakes, Jimmy starts searching for the most terrible people he has ever known.

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My Review:-This is Book One in 'The Comeback Trail Trilogy.'

Jimmy Wayne is a washed up singer. Wendy is his girlfriend. After a night drinking, Jimmy and Wendy head back to the hotel, where Jimmy ties Wendy up and kills her, but doesn't know this until he wakes in the morning and sees Wendy hanging in the wardrobe. That's not the only thing, Jimmy has wrote the best song of his life. He also realises that he real did love her. What will he do now?

 I love the characters, especially Wendy and Dave Parker, I would love to know more about David. I don't want to say to much about the story and spoil it for others, apart from saying 'I'm already reading Book Two'

A Dangerous Fossil

A Dangerous Fossil

By John J. Delaney

Genre:-Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Pages:-363

Blurb:-Fossils aren't dangerous, are they? Jemma didn't think so.

 When 'Jurassic' Jemma Thorne and her dog, Dino, find an incredible fossil on a Dorset beach, she doesn't realise that it will lead to a trail of greed, jealousy and murder.

 As the guilt of her past comes back to haunt her, Jemma must fight to protect her family, her friends, her town and herself.

 Can she overcome her demons and escape from the danger surrounding her? You'll love this gripping mystery, because everybody loves reading a book that they can't put down.

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My Review:-'Jurassic' Jemma Thorne a fossil hunter, along with her dog Dino. While on the beach in Dorset with Dino, Jemma finds a rare fossil. Without knowing just what finding this fossil has instore. Jemma is sure finding the fossil will help save the local museum from property developers, that want to build a hotel spa and Casino. The story has a bit of everything, murder, mystery, greed, jealousy and even a drone. I have to say I've found out some things I didn't know about fossil. I find this book both interesting and easy read.

The Paper Pirate

The Paper Pirate

By Dawn McIntyre

Genre:-Cosy Mystery

Pages:-276

Blurb:-As if the looming deadline to pay off a balloon mortgage isn't enough to worry about, the five partners who own the small town book store The Paper Pirate find themselves menaced by a stealthy crook who systematically searches first the shop, then each of their homes. Beacause he takes nothing and barely leaves traces of his presence, the police, can't be of much help. and simply promise to keep an eye on Charlie Santorelli, Lavinia "Vinnie" Holcomb, Al Rockleigh, Felicia Cocolo and Lenora Stern.

 It's a mystery to them but the reader knows that Rick Foster, a shady rare-books dealer and his sidekick Nina Bartov are on the hunt for a particular old volume that sits unnoticed on a shelf in The Paper Pirate's used book section. It's an obscure early work of the not=terribly-successful author Benjamin Conway, and it's badly defaced-but a very wealthy man is willing to pay Rick a half a million dollars for it. Seems an ancestor of his eluded the henchmen of a nineteenth-century dictator by escaping to New York, and eventually took refuge in the northeastern Pennsylvania countryside. Before he was captured and killed, he'd scribbled as much evidence of the tyrant's sins as he could fit into the blank spaces of a copy of The Stargazer at Dawn and hid it where he hoped his comrades would find it. They never did.

 The five friends also are members of a writers' group, and each of them has a secret. One is penning an erotic novel on the sky, another hides a painful estrangement with an only child, and a deadly teenaged mistake causes a third to sabotage her every chance to be unpublished actually is a one-hit-wonder with a thirty-year-0ld best-selling novel followed by a crippling literary failure, and the last has a family with criminal connections-he's spent half a lifetime avoiding them.

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My Review:-I felt like I had to review this book with it being about a book store. Five friends own a book store between them but things have been hard and they are struggling to find the money to pay the next payment that is due on the loan. But there is a way to pay off the loan altogether. Only problem is, they don't know that there is a book in the store that is worth half a million dollars. Each of the characters had a secret that they didn't want the others to know about. Why?

I found this a quick and enjoyable read.

21% Monster: Serpent Strike

21% Monster: Serpent Strike (21% Monster #3)

By P.J. Canning

Genre:-MG

Publisher:-Usborne Books

Blurb:-For once, 21% monster teenage-boy Darren Devlin think he has the upper hand over Xastris, the secret organisation that transformed him into a genetically-modified superhuman. Since joining forces with 19% alien boy Marek Masters, 17% sabre-tooth polar-bear Aurora Valero, and now 16% alien girl Genie, Darren has never been in a stronger position...but neither have Xastris.

 For they are planning an attack on the world's greatest superpowers, with the fate of millions at stake. Can Darren and the team intercept Operation Serpent Strike...or will Xastris land their deadliest bite yet?

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My Review:-This is Book Three in '21% Monster' and I've had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Books One and Two, so when I was asked to do this one I was only to happy to. I love the cover, especially with it's bright green 21% MONSTER, every book has a different colour which stands out. We are back with are group of teenagers, each with a superhuman power. In this book Darren Devlin and Marek Masters are joined by Genie, Aurora, Blue and Otto, known as Helix 51. There is only one thing they are thinking about and that's taking down Xastris, Nathan Reaver and the Xastris council. They have one thing that nobody knows about super SQUID. Nathan thinks Marek and his sister Genie are dead, which is working in their favour, but for how long. There are many twists in this book that I love but that's for you  to find out. Will they be able to destroy Xastris and Nathan with it or is this the end for them all?

The story pulls you in with every page you turn. I did fall in love with Otto. All I can say is Thank you for another fast pace action filled story.