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Although a story about black magic and fantasy wouldn't normally attract me, I was immediately...
Maybe it's because I've read a number of books recently which were set in WWII but I just didn't...
As I have no interest in the sort of films mentioned, and so even less interest in the "science"...
Comparisons with Liane Moriarty and Lisa Jewell (authors I know I can rely on!) were an immediate...
I love this author's books and from reading the opening pages of this latest one I know I won't...
I wasn't attracted by the cover of this book but I was to the storyline and the Australian...
I thought this book would appeal to me more but, although I'm sure it has elements which would...
By the time I'd got to the end of the first twenty pages of this story, I could already hear the...
With descriptions of brutal cruelty I found this a disturbingly powerful start to this story. The...
My first impression is that this will be "edge of the seat spooky"! The introduction immediately...
Having two sisters I'm always eager to discover how other siblings manage their relationships,...
I have a number of friends who arrived in England in 1939 via the Kinderstransport programme and...
Although the synopsis sounded intriguing I didn't find myself being drawn into the main...
I've never been dispappointed with any of Elizabeth Buchan's novels and, from my first impression...
My first impression is that this would be an entertaining, amusing read. Not everyone comes from...
What a start! Immediately creating a creepy and atmospheric scenario, it's clear that the story...
My first impression from the early chapters of this historical crime novel is that the author has...
I haven't read the first book in this series and, having read the opening chapters to this book,...
I'm sure this will be a heart-wrenching book to read, full of raw emotion from the very...
I've always enjoyed Susan Lewis's story-telling and my first impression of her latest novel is...
My first impression is of an evocatively atmospheric story which is sure to appeal to fans of...
Although initially concerned about the story being told in "Singlish" (would this feel either too...
Celebrating your 40th birthday surrounded by your closest friends, their husbands and children in...
Although I often enjoy books which are aimed at the YA market, my first impression was that I...
My first thought on reading the synopsis was that this would be a fairly lightweight love story,...
I found the opening chapters of this story immediately drew me into the violence of gang warfare...
Alongside the feminist sub-text, an account of a powerful female friendship and the subject of...
I loved "All the Missing Girls" and my first impression of "The Last House Guest" is that it...
Augusta's reflection that her parents "didn't seem the sort of people who would end up killing...
From the opening pages my first impression is that this will be not only be an engaging story,...
Conspiracy, murder and espionage in Elizabethan London, and a comparison with the novels of...
The opening pages of this novel promise a tense, atmospheric story, aided by all the indications...
Having enjoyed the "appetiser" of the start of this story, I'm definitely left feeling that I...
The brutal murder of Sara's husband may be confounding the police, but she isn't about to sit...
I loved Jennifer Donnelly's second novel, "A Gathering Light" and my first impression of this...
I signed up to the Organ Donor Register many years ago, hoping that by doing so I will be able to...
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