Recent Reads: The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune

Posted on 14/05/202314/05/2023 by Pam

My review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune is a sweet cosy fantasy story, with themes of found family, children with powers they don’t understand, and self discovery. There is also a

I really enjoyed the book, but I did find one thing a bit jarring, and that was the sleeping location of one of the orphans, which was in the closet of the man in charge of the orphanage. It felt wrong to me as in the UK we have safeguarding rules about how adults with this kind of role should act, and this isn’t what they should do.

So other than the above, I really enjoyed the story. I know that a lot of people have really enjoyed all of this book.

I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, so my thanks to NetGalley and to Pan Macmillan.

Recent Reads: Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez (book 2 in Part Of Your World series)

Posted on 07/05/2023 by Pam

My review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Abby Jimenez is one of those authors that I get grabby hands about when I hear there’s a new book coming out!

I’ve read all of her books so far, and really enjoyed them – so much that there have all been 5 star reads, as is this one!

Abby Jimenez manages to put these believable characters in situations that makes me keep wanting to turn pages to find out what happens next!

Yours Truly kept this tradition going! Set in a hospital, it’s a work place romance, with our male lead having anxiety. I found it really interesting the way this was written about.

There are pop ins from previous books, and of course lots of references to Nadia Cakes as Abby Jimenez is the owner and founder!

Trigger warnings for this book are renal failure and miscarriage.

If you’re looking for a book that you’ll have a hard time putting down, then Yours Truly is for you!

Thank you to @netgalley and to @littlebrown for access to read this.

Recent Reads: Daphne by M C Beaton (book 4 in The Six Sisters)

Posted on 05/05/2023 by Pam

My review:

I finished reading Daphne yesterday! It’s a light, entertaining read (as are the rest of the Six Sisters series), set in regency times, with a series of sisters finding husbands!

I have enjoyed the different challenges each sister has had, and their different thought processes! M C Beaton obviously has a lot of fun dreaming up weird and wonderful situations that they can get caught up in, and how it is all going to work out in the end!

The other sisters (and their husbands) are often in the background, and I think this one had the most of another couple in it.

I listened to the audio book, and enjoyed her different voices for different characters!

You’ll enjoy this if you like Georgette Heyer books, or if you enjoy Bridgerton (but much less spicy).