Archives for Duffy’s Favourite Reads - Page 11
Deadly Messengers – If you want a thriller with meat on it’s bones
Deadly Messengers opens right in the middle of a massacre at a cafe. The lone killer stalks his way through, extinguishing lives with an axe. A horrific, gory tragedy, which becomes more disturbing when another mass murder happens not long after in a nursing home; then another at a family…
Tom Houghton – When you love a character so much, you are glad they aren’t real..
Tom Houghton is twelve years old. He is different and the others know it. Some tiptoe around it, whisper loudly about it, some bully him mercilessly, and very few embrace him for it. Fast forward to Tom Houghton at forty. The book unfolds as we wind our way through…
The Hand That Feeds You – Domestic noir and dogs, two of my favourite things!
I don't usually jump on the bandwagon. I'm not having twitter rows about Go Set A Watchman, I would rather chew my own big toenail than read 50 Shades Of Grey, I managed to avoid peplum skirts and I didn't invest in a Uniqlo puffer vest for winter (although I…
Bream Gives Me Hiccups – Jesse Eisenberg – Best Book!
Yep, this review will be very short. Not because this book is bad, or because I have nothing to say; this book is just good and I can't elaborate too much further, but I will try. Jesse has such a precise, extremely detailed way of describing domestic situations, that you…
Montage of Heck – Life, Love & Art of Kurt Cobain
Montage Of Heck - If you love music, this book needs to be on your coffee table. I was a teenager in the 90's and even in a little town in England, the grunge scene crept in and took over. We all embraced it, and the memories I have of…
The Mountain Story – Sadness, redemption and a big mountain
What if you tried to end your life, yet ended up getting a whole new one instead? The Book Jacket Four lost hikers are about to discover they’re capable of something extraordinary. Nola has gone up the mountain to commemorate her wedding anniversary, the first since her beloved husband passed.…
Everybody is somebody elses weirdo – My review of If I Fall, If I Die
I have just finished If I Fall, If I Die, and it is beautiful. This book is the story of Will, a young lad with an agoraphobic mother, living in a large house with rooms named after cities. Cairo, Toronto and Paris become their cocooned world filled with art, creativity…
My Review Of Back Again by Susan May is here!
Imagine being able to turn back time. Not in a 'Cher' type way by straddling a torpedo in a slither of lycra and a giant 80's perm, but in a very real way. If you could slip back through time with the possibility of stopping a tragic event or…
YOU Review – Creepy prose which keeps you page turning
YOU is told from the point of view of a stalker, who works in a bookshop and has a cage in the shop basement. It is a book which is dark, clever, smart and full of obsession, revenge, cunning and nail biting suspense. It took me a while to get a…
One Kick by Chelsea Cain … A real book hangover
Kick was abducted when she was six, from her front yard, by a senior member of a paedophile ring. She did what she was told and learnt what she could, until she was found by Detective Frank six years later. He found her in a secluded home, off a main…