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The first of November's
#CalendarChaos
with
#November9
by Colleen Hoover
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#November
#November
#family
#contemporaryfiction
#romance
#suspense
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Calendar Chaos: November 9 â Colleen Hoover
Welcome to the twenty-first of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Up first in November is NOVEMBER and the book is November 9 by Colleen Hoover (and can we all please just politely pretend that I got this review out for 9th November, like I planned?
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/calendar-chaos-november-9-colleen-hoover/
about 1 hour ago
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#IllustratedGirl
#LoveLettersToASerialKiller
#AShortWalkThroughAWideWorld
#CursedUnderLondon
#ACaseOfLifeAndLimb
#bookreviews
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#catchupquickies
#NetGalley
#fantasy
#romance
#humour
#crime
#mystery
#series
#booklove
#amreading
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Catch-Up Quickies 104
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) NetGalley reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/catch-up-quickies-104/
5 days ago
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: Flora by @linobyrne @wonda36 @ZooloosBT
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#Flora
#TheCousinsOfPemberley
#series
#PrideAndPrejudice
#clean
#sweet
#romance
#LindaOByrne
#ZooloosBookTours
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Blog Tour: Flora â Linda OâByrne
*I received a free DRC of this book with thanks to the author and to ZoĂŠ of Zoolooâs Book Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: In 1837 it is not considered desirable for a young lady of good family to have views and opinions that are different to those of society. When scandal surrounds Flora McGregor, Mr Darcyâs niece is sent from her home in Scotland to Pemberley in order to learn refinement and ladylike behaviour.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/blog-tour-flora-linda-obyrne/
15 days ago
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#Review
: The Fury of the Betrayed by @parrydox.com
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#TheFuryOfTheBetrayed
#DawnsWarden
#fantasy
#urbanfantasy
#superheroes
#mythology
#action
#series
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The Fury of the Betrayed â Richard Parry
*I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Isolde has fought monsters, gods, and her own past. But nothing has prepared her for thisâa city on the edge of collapse, its people turning against each other, and a war that threatens to swallow them all.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/the-fury-of-the-betrayed-richard-parry/
16 days ago
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Mark Lawrence
17 days ago
This year I only came away from Bristolcon with one book đŽ Magic, Maps and Mishchief, by
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16 days ago
Thank you, Steph, for reviewing Tales from the Parish!
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Oli Jacobs - Author
19 days ago
Quotes courtesy of
@bookshineblog.bsky.social
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@catmachine.com
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@markallardwill.bsky.social
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#reviews
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#TalesFromTheParish
#OrdinaryWorld
#PacificOdyssey
#BusyThisEvening
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#TenCatsAndOneCrazyCatLady
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#shortstories
#speculativefiction
#surreal
#memoir
#taxidriving
#cats
#indieauthors
#SupportIA
bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/c...
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Catch-Up Quickies 103
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabâŚ
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/catch-up-quickies-103/
16 days ago
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Concluding October's
#CalendarChaos
with
#SundayMorningAtTheCentreOfTheWorld
by Louis de Bernières
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#Sunday
#Sunday
#playforvoices
#UnderMilkWood
#modernBritain
#Earlsfield
#humour
#communitylife
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Calendar Chaos: Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World â Louis de Bernières
Welcome to the twentieth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Closing October is SUNDAY and the book is Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World by Louis de Bernières. Read on to find out moreâŚ
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/calendar-chaos-sunday-morning-at-the-centre-of-the-world-louis-de-bernieres/
17 days ago
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#Review
: Returning Secrets by @Shawn_McGuire @shawn.mcguire1
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#cosymystery
#Wicca
#sheriff
#smallcommunity
#WhisperingPines
#ReturningSecrets
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Returning Secrets â Shawn McGuire
*I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Deputy Jayne OâShea believes the Northwoods village of Whispering Pines to be a place of charm and serenity. This season, though, it feels like anything but. The rowdy tourists are disrespecting the villagersâ Wiccan ways and overwhelming local law enforcement.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/returning-secrets-shawn-mcguire/
17 days ago
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: Darker Days by @thomasoldeheuvelt @RandomTTours @bantambooksuk @penguinukbooks
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#horror
#folkhorror
#Faustianpact
#occult
#monsters
#ghosts
#DarkerDays
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Blog Tour: Darker Days â Thomas Olde Heuvelt
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author, Bantam Books, Penguin Books UK and Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: In Lock Haven, a quiet little town in Washington State, there is a very special street.Bird Street. The residents of Bird Street are all successful, wealthy, healthy and happy.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/blog-tour-darker-days-thomas-olde-heuvelt/
17 days ago
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Catch-Up Quickies 103 First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain someâŚ
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First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/catch-up-quickies-103/
21 days ago
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#BlogTour
: Maximum Pressure by @sheila_lowe @sheilalowebooks @partnersincr1me
#bookreview
#giveaway
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#ClaudiaRoseForensicMystery
#murdermystery
#psychologicalmystery
#suspense
#thriller
#ForensicHandwritingExpert
#MaximumPressure
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Blog Tour: Maximum Pressure â Sheila Lowe
*I received a free DRC of this book with thanks to the author and Partners In Crime Virtual Book Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Old friendships turn deadly and the past comes back to haunt Claudia Rose in unexpected ways. Claudia never intended to confront her past at her 25-year high school class reunion in Edentown, California.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/blog-tour-maximum-pressure-sheila-lowe/
24 days ago
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: The Mumbai School for Murder by @MeetiShroff @ZooloosBT @JoffeBooks
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#murdermystery
#Mumbai
#addiction
#bereavement
#traditionalmystery
#MeetiShroffShah
#JoffeBooks
#ZooloosBookTours
#TheMumbaiSchoolforMurder
#ATempleHillMystery
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Blog Tour: The Mumbai School For Murder â Meeti Shroff-Shah
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author and ZoĂŠ of Zoolooâs Book Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Discover a dazzlingly witty new whodunnit from Indiaâs answer to Agatha Christie â CWA Dagger-shortlisted author Meeti Shroff-Shah! Mystery novelist Radhi Zaveri has a new job, teaching spoiled kids at Mumbaiâs prestigious North Star High School.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/blog-tour-the-mumbai-school-for-murder-meeti-shroff-shah/
26 days ago
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: Little Secrets by @VictoriaGoldma2 @RandomTTours
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#crime
#thriller
#murder
#secrets
#BritishMystery
#prison
#hotel
#mystery
#LittleSecrets
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Blog Tour: Little Secrets â Victoria Goldman
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author and Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Welcome to the true-crime controversy thatâs divided the media for the last twenty years. To discover the truth, we need to delve back into the past⌠THEN: In June 1999, the last five prisoners at HMP Panbrook were killed just before the prison closed its doors for the final time.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/blog-tour-little-secrets-victoria-goldman/
26 days ago
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The first of October's
#CalendarChaos
with
#OctoberOctober
by Katya Balen
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#October
#October
#childrensbooks
#middlegrade
#family
#growingup
#nature
#wildlife
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Calendar Chaos: October, October â Katya Balen
Welcome to the nineteenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Up first in October is OCTOBER and the book is October, October by Katya Balen (has the word 'October' lost meaning for anyone else?!).
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/calendar-chaos-october-october-katya-balen/
about 1 month ago
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Partners in Crime Tours
about 1 month ago
MURDER AT THE WEDDING by Christine Knapp is a really fun and engaging series starter that definitely made me want to read on -
@bookshineblog.bsky.social
pictbooks.tours/217pyEjd
#ModernMidwifeMystery
#BirthDeathMayhemMurder
#NewEnglandMystery
#NurseMidwifeSleuth
#MysteryNovel
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Big Green Books
about 1 month ago
It's Bookshop Day. *looks in the mirror* I'm a bookshop! So, it seems like a great time to encourage you to buy books from me. BUY BOOKS FROM ME PLEASE.
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: The Gameshow by @elraphael @rararesources
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#TheGameshow
#celebrity
#morality
#revenge
#fear
#phobias
#satire
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Blog Tour: The Gameshow â Alexander Raphael
*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author and Rachel Gilbey at Rachelâs Random Resources blog tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: In a waiting room hidden high away from everyone, six disgraced celebrities are desperate to recover their heavily tainted reputations. An incredibly controversial new gameshow is offering them a route back to the big time, along with a $7.2 million jackpot.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/blog-tour-the-gameshow-alexander-raphael/
about 1 month ago
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Concluding September's
#CalendarChaos
(late!) with
#Autumn
by Ali Smith
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#love
#time
#art
#politics
#literaryfiction
#womensliterature
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Calendar Chaos: Autumn â Ali Smith
I'm quite late posting this (due to the usual ill health!) but welcome to the eighteenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Closing September is AUTUMN and the book is Autumn by Ali Smith.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/calendar-chaos-autumn-ali-smith/
about 1 month ago
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#GuestPost
: Writing as a Young Author by @priya_rohella_
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#writingadvice
#writerscraft
#writing
#writing
#youngauthor
#indieauthor
#SupportIA
#PriyaRohella
#ThroughTheEyesOfAServant
#PricillaPhantomAndTheMonochromeBook
#booklover
#booklove
#booklove
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Guest Post: Writing as a Young Author â Priya Rohella (author of Through the Eyes of a Servant & Pricilla Phantom and the Monochrome Book)
Something a little different for you all today, as author Priya Rohella has kindly provided a guest post on the subject of writing as a young author. Let's have a look at her books first...! Blurb: âFrom what you become⌠you cannot run...â âThe butlerâs pupils broadened as he took in the features of the man behind the mask.â
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/10/03/guest-post-writing-as-a-young-author-priya-rohella-author-of-through-the-eyes-of-a-servant-pricilla-phantom-and-the-monochrome-book/
about 2 months ago
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#BlogTour
: The Santa Hat by @RebeccaLMarsh1
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#TheSantaHat
#family
#relationships
#parenting
#womensliterature
#love
#bereavement
#growingup
#Christmas
#drama
#angel
#contemporaryfiction
#shortstories
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Blog Tour: The Santa Hat â Rebecca L. Marsh
*I received a free DRC of this book, with thanks to the author. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Rebecca L. Marshâs collection of short stories will bring the joy of the Christmas season alive!As these ordinary characters, struggling through difficulties and past traumas, find healing and renewed hope, the essence of the season of miracles jumps off the pages.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/blog-tour-the-santa-hat-rebecca-l-marsh/
about 2 months ago
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#reviews
of
#MayowaAndTheSeaOfWords
#LuckyDay
#LulaDeansLittleLibraryOfBannedBooks
#TheWildernessOfGirls
#TheMidnightHour
#catchupquickies
#bookshine
#NetGalley
#books
#books
#magic
#middlegrade
#bannedbooks
#politics
#feminism
#family
#secrets
#mystery
#contemporaryfiction
#womensfiction
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Catch-Up Quickies 102
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) NetGalley reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/catch-up-quickies-102/
about 2 months ago
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The first of September's
#CalendarChaos
with
#September
by Rosamunde Pilcher
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#contemporaryfiction
#womensfiction
#marriage
#family
#friendship
#drama
#familysaga
#Scotland
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Calendar Chaos: September â Rosamunde Pilcher
Welcome to the seventeenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Up first in September is SEPTEMBER and the book is September by Rosamunde Pilcher (keeping it simple!). Read on to find out moreâŚ
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/calendar-chaos-september-rosamunde-pilcher/
about 2 months ago
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#BlogTour
: Murder at the Wedding by @chriswknapp @maevecw @partnersincr1me
#bookreview
#giveaway
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#ModernMidwifeMysteries
#murdermystery
#cosymystery
#cooking
#midwifery
#NurseMidwifeMystery
#MurderAtTheWedding
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Blog Tour: Murder at the Wedding â Christine Knapp
*I received a free DRC of this book with thanks to the author and Partners In Crime Virtual Book Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Birth, death, mayhem, and murderâŚ.. Maeve OâReilly Kensington loves her job as a nurse-midwife at Creighton Memorial Hospital in the quintessential New England seaside town of Langford. Nothing could bring her more pleasure than helping women usher new life into the world...
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/blog-tour-murder-at-the-wedding-christine-knapp/
about 2 months ago
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#BlogTour
: A Mirror Murder by @HelenHollick @rararesources
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#mystery
#historicalcosymystery
#Englishcosymystery
#AMirrorMurder
#AJanChristopherMystery
#series
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Blog Tour: A Mirror Murder â Helen Hollick
*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author and Rachel Gilbey at Rachelâs Random Resources blog tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: The first in a series of quick-read, cosy mysteries set in the 1970s Eighteen-year-old library assistant Jan Christopherâs life is to change on a rainy Friday evening in July 1971, when her legal guardian and uncle, DCI Toby Christopher, gives her a lift home after work.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/blog-tour-a-mirror-murder-helen-hollick/
2 months ago
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#Review
: Death in the Aviary by Victoria Dowd @DaturaBooks
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#mystery
#TheCharlotteBloodChronicles
#womensleuths
#postwar
#historicalfiction
#lockedroommystery
#ravens
#DeathInTheAviary
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New Review: Death in the Aviary â Victoria Dowd
*I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author and Datura Books. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: New Yearâs Eve 1928Â â In the grand residence of Ravenswick Abbey, isolated in the wilds of Dartmoor, nine members of the household step into an ornate lift. The power fails. The lift stops.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/new-review-death-in-the-aviary-victoria-dowd/
2 months ago
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#APeddlerOfChains
#SweetCompetition
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#StoneSoup
#RerunToEden
#HorrificTales
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#bookshine
#romfantasy
#TheMountainFell
#cosyromance
#CalabrianCoast
#shifter
#folktale
#YA
#scifi
#AI
#shortstories
#darkhorror
#triggerwarning
bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/c...
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Catch-Up Quickies 101
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabâŚ
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/catch-up-quickies-101/
2 months ago
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#BlogTour
: Well, This is Awkward by
#EstherWalker
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
@bedfordsq.publishers @RandomTTours
#contemporaryfiction
#womensfiction
#family
#siblings
#parenting
#WellThisIsAwkward
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Blog Tour: Well, This is Awkward â Esther Walker
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author, Bedford Square Publishers and Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: MairĂŠad is single, child-free and head of a successful influencer talent agency. The young people at work may be mean to her, she hasnât seen her only sister for nine years and sheâs one bad date away from giving up on men completely â but other than that, sheâs got life sorted.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/blog-tour-well-this-is-awkward-esther-walker/
2 months ago
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Catch-Up Quickies 101 First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain someâŚ
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Catch-Up Quickies 101
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/catch-up-quickies-101/
2 months ago
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Concluding August's
#CalendarChaos
with
#Saturday
and The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood by Gill Sims
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#TheSaturdayNightSauvignonSisterhood
#family
#friendship
#romcom
#grief
#humour
#mumlife
bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/c...
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Calendar Chaos: The Saturday Night Sauvignon Sisterhood â Gill Sims
Welcome to the sixteenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! ClâŚ
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/calendar-chaos-the-saturday-night-sauvignon-sisterhood-gill-sims/
3 months ago
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#BlogTour
: An Heir is Misplaced by @HelenGoldenAuth @rararesources
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#mystery
#historicalcosymystery
#ADuchessOfStortfordMystery
#novella
#AnHeirIsMisplaced
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Blog Tour: An Heir Is Misplaced â Helen Golden
*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author and Rachel Gilbey at Rachelâs Random Resources blog tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: A missing heir. An out of sorts duchess. A Season in High Society that just became far more interesting⌠London, 1891. With the gossip broadsheet The Society Page…
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/blog-tour-an-heir-is-misplaced-helen-golden/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
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#BlogTour
: Swirls of Magic by @KerryLawBooks @LoveBooksTours
#LBTVirtualBookTour
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#SwirlsOfMagic
#Ad
#LBTCrew
#Bookstagram
#freebookreview
#KerryLaw
#fantasy
#urbanfantasy
#Edinburgh
#comingofage
#teen
#YA
#OldTownTrilogy
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Blog Tour: Swirls of Magic â Kerry Law
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author and Kelly Lacey of Love Books Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Step into an 18th century Edinburgh bursting with magic, monsters, and thieves. Isla Campbell knows stealing is wrong, she just happens to be really good at it. And with her family struggling under a huge debt, sheâll do whatever it takes to free them.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/blog-tour-swirls-of-magic-kerry-law/
3 months ago
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The first of August's
#CalendarChaos
with
#August
and Enchanted August by Brenda Bowen
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#EnchantedAugust
#TheEnchantedApril
#Maine
#contemporaryfiction
#womensfiction
#marriage
#family
#friendship
#bereavement
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Calendar Chaos: Enchanted August â Brenda Bowen
Welcome to the fifteenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Up first in August is AUGUST and the book is Enchanted August by Brenda Bowen. Read on to find out more⌠Blurb: Everyone needs a place like Hopewell Cottage â a romantic holiday rental on a small, sunny island.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/calendar-chaos-enchanted-august-brenda-bowen/
3 months ago
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New
#Review
: The Undefeated Throne by @parrydox.com
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#TheUndefeatedThrone
#DawnsWarden
#fantasy
#urbanfantasy
#superheroes
#mythology
#action
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The Undefeated Throne â Richard Parry
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Isolde has already faced deathâand come back changed. The battle for Valhaven left her scarred, but the fight isnât over. A new threat lurks in the shadows, one that doesnât just want to kill herâit wants to unmake everything she is.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/the-undefeated-throne-richard-parry/
3 months ago
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#BlogTour
: Schoolbot 9000 by @SamHepburn @PenguinKids @LoveBooksTours
#LBTVirtualBookTour
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#Babybows
#childrensbooks
#comicbook
#graphicnovel
#scifi
#robots
#Schoolbot9000
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Blog Tour: Schoolbot 9000 â Sam Hepburn
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author, Penguin Kids and Kelly Lacey of Love Books Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: A hilarious - and ominous - new graphic novel series about what happens when one schoolâs human teachers are replaced by robots! James Gordon is already annoyed by the robots in his life - the drones that look like bugs, the dogbots at the park, his HomeBot babysitter, and now?
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/blog-tour-schoolbot-9000-sam-hepburn/
3 months ago
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#BlogTour
: No Safe Place by @hannahbrennan_author @avonbooksuk @RandomTTours
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#crime
#thriller
#policeprocedural
#murder
#OCD
#mentalhealth
#womandetective
#NoSafePlace
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Blog Tour: No Safe Place â Hannah Brennan
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author, Avon Books UK and Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Thereâs no one more deadly than the killer you know. A man is found brutally stabbed and left for dead. A young woman is killed in a frenzied attack in the middle of the night on a quiet residential road.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/blog-tour-no-safe-place-hannah-brennan/
4 months ago
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Concluding July's
#CalendarChaos
with
#Friday
and Murder on Friday Street by Russell Cooper
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#MurderOnFridayStreet
#mystery
#humour
#spies
#espionage
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Calendar Chaos: Murder on Friday Street â Russell Cooper
Welcome to the fourteenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Closing July is FRIDAY and the book is Murder on Friday Street by Russell Cooper. Read on to find out more⌠Blurb: If you love Richard Osmanâs Thursday Murder Club series, youâll love this.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/calendar-chaos-murder-on-friday-street-russell-cooper/
4 months ago
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The first of July's
#CalendarChaos
with
#July
and What July Knew by Emily Koch
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#WhatJulyKnew
#family
#mystery
#domesticabuse
#childabuse
#bereavement
#siblings
#growingup
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Calendar Chaos: What July Knew â Emily Koch
Welcome to the thirteenth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Up first in July is JULY and the book is What July Knew by Emily Koch. Read on to find out more⌠Blurb:
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/calendar-chaos-what-july-knew-emily-koch/
4 months ago
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#BlogTour
: Murder at Castle Vyne by @LouiseMarley @Stormbooks_co @rararesources
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#Britishmystery
#cosymystery
#Gothic
#RavensEdge
#MurderAtCastleVyne
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Blog Tour: Murder at Castle Vyne â Louise Marley
*I received a free copy of this book with thanks to the author, Storm Publishing and Rachel Gilbey at Rachelâs Random Resources blog tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: More than a decade ago, the body of eighteen-year-old Sarah Grove was found floating among the water lilies in the pond at Castle Vyne. The case was never solved.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/blog-tour-murder-at-castle-vyne-louise-marley/
4 months ago
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Short
#reviews
of
#WelcomeToGloriousTuga
#Scripted
#TheMidnightFeast
#PippisInnForWanderingSpirits
#VEXXED
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#catchupquickies
#NetGalley
#romance
#relationships
#contemporaryfiction
#mystery
#cosyfantasy
#afterlife
#ghosts
#necromancy
#magic
#humour
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Catch-Up Quickies 100
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) NetGalley reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/catch-up-quickies-100/
4 months ago
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Thank you so much, Steph, for reviewing Tanino and Melinaâs stories. Iâm chuffed you enjoyed themđđ¤đ
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#reviews
of
#DriveMeCrazy
,
#StormsTempest
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#Rehashed
,
#TheManWithoutShelter
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#PortalsAndImmortals
#bookreviews
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#shortstories
#SicilianMama
#marriage
#humour
#epicfantasy
#StormfallChronicles
#horror
#darkfantasy
#war
#homelessness
#morality
#justice
#ExquisiteCorpse
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Catch-Up Quickies 99
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/catch-up-quickies-99/
4 months ago
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Concluding June's
#CalendarChaos
with
#Summer
and The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#TheButterflySummer
#contemporaryfiction
#family
#relationships
#butterflies
#secrets
#womensfiction
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Calendar Chaos: The Butterfly Summer â Harriet Evans
Welcome to the twelfth of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Closing June is SUMMER and the book is The Butterfly Summer by Harriet Evans. Read on to find out more⌠Blurb: It begins and ends with Keepsake, the house that holds its shadows too tightly.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/calendar-chaos-the-butterfly-summer-harriet-evans/
5 months ago
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#BlogTour
: The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp by @krystalevanscomedy @octopus_books_ @RandomTTours
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#TheHottestGirlAtBurnCamp
#memoir
#childhood
#parenting
#mentalhealth
#medical
#humour
#family
#bereavement
#trauma
#strength
#survival
#comedian
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Blog Tour: The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp â Krystal Evans
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author, Octopus Books and Anne Cater of Random Things Blog Tours. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: When Krystal Evans was 14, the house that she shared with her mother and little sister burned down. Narrowly escaping by breaking a window and jumping out head-first Krystal suffered burns, smoke inhalation, and the unimaginable tragedy of losing her sister.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/blog-tour-the-hottest-girl-at-burn-camp-krystal-evans/
5 months ago
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#Review
: The Lightning People Play by @octospark @SmithPublicity @brwpublisher
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#TheLightningPeoplePlay
#Weirville
#family
#siblings
#epilepsy
#OCD
#anger
#friendship
#growingup
#theatre
#magic
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The Lightning People Play â Tim Cummings
*I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author, Black Rose Writing and Rachael Fischer at Smith Publicity. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Fourteen-year-old Kirby Renton is a gifted theatre kid who wants to fix things: his dadsâ marriage, his younger brotherâs epilepsy. When ten-year-old Baxterâs seizures start involving visits from âthe lightning people,â who descend from the sky and show him strange symbols, Kirby knows he needs to protect his brother, but how?
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/06/28/the-lightning-people-play-tim-cummings/
5 months ago
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#reviews
of
#CantSpellTreasonWithoutTea
#IHopeThisFindsYouWell
#Dreadful
#TidalCreatures
#ALethalEngagement
#catchupquickies
#bookreview
#bookshine
#NetGalley
#cosyfantasy
#magic
#officelife
#friendship
#anxiety
#humour
#villainhero
#alchemy
#horrorfantasy
#historicalfiction
#mystery
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Catch-Up Quickies 98
First a quick explanation! Due to some severe health issues over the last few years, and a lingering chronic condition, my planned review schedule went right out of the window and I have been scrabbling ever since to get it back on track. In an attempt to try to regain some lost ground, I have been scrunching some of my (overdue) NetGalley reviews together into one or two posts each week: shorter reviews, but still covering all of the points I intended to.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/catch-up-quickies-98/
5 months ago
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Blog Tour: Skin Deep by @sungjwoo @daturabooks
#SiobhanOBrienMystery
#NetGalley
#SkinDeep
#mystery
#PI
#womensleuth
#crime
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Blog Tour: Skin Deep â Sung JÂ Woo
*I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author and Datura Books. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.* Blurb: Korean-American adoptee Siobhan O'Brien has spent much of her life explaining her name and her family to strangers, but her more pressing problem is whether to carry on the PI agency that her dead boss unexpectedly left to her.
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/blog-tour-skin-deep-sung-j-woo/
5 months ago
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The first of June's
#CalendarChaos
with
#June
and The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
#bookreview
#bookblogger
#bookshine
#bookadvent
#TheUnmakingOfJuneFarrow
#family
#love
#fantasy
#paranormal
#scifi
#timetravel
#mentalhealth
#magic
#mystery
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Calendar Chaos: The Unmaking of June Farrow â Adrienne Young
Welcome to the eleventh of my âCalendar Chaosâ posts, in which I take the books I received in my 2024 book advent â each cover representing a different period of time â and review them for you! Up first in June is JUNE and the book is The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young. Read on to find out moreâŚ
https://bookshineandreadbows.wordpress.com/2025/06/18/calendar-chaos-the-unmaking-of-june-farrow-adrienne-young/
5 months ago
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