Spotlight & Giveaway: A Summer Shadow by HL Marsay
6th May / 7 Comments

Spotlight & Giveaway: A Summer Shadow by HL Marsay

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you HL Marsay’s new release: A Summer Shadow     This summer, as the city of York swelters in a heatwave, it appears revenge is still a dish best served cold… Chief Inspector Shadow’s relaxing afternoon watching a game of cricket is interrupted when […]

REVIEW: The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer
5th May / 3 Comments

REVIEW: The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer

The Book Witch by Meg Shaffer: Rainy March comes from a long line of Book Witches, guardians who jump into novels to protect stories from being changed. Armed with her magical umbrella and feline familiar, she knows the rules: real people stay in the real world, fictional characters stay in […]

REVIEW: MAD MABEL by Sally Hepworth
4th May / 3 Comments

REVIEW: MAD MABEL by Sally Hepworth

MAD MABEL by Sally Hepworth: Some women get quieter with age. Others become impossible to ignore. Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick is eighty-one, gloriously grumpy, fiercely independent, and perfectly content minding her business in suburban Melbourne—until a neighbor ends up dead and old rumors come roaring back. Because long before she was […]

Spotlight & Giveaway: Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu
1st May / 7 Comments

Spotlight & Giveaway: Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Canwen Xu’s new release: Boring Asian Female     An addictive novel about a young woman’s all-consuming obsession with a rival of her own making and the desperate lengths she goes to in order to succeed, by debut author Canwen Xu Elizabeth Zhang […]

REVIEW: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
30th Apr / 3 Comments

REVIEW: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Some books entertain you. Some books challenge the way you see the world. SMALL GREAT THINGS by by Jodi Picoult is a powerful, thought-provoking novel about prejudice, privilege, justice, and the moments that force people to confront who they truly are.

REVIEW: The Write Off by Kara McDowell
29th Apr / 3 Comments

REVIEW: The Write Off by Kara McDowell

In The Write Off by Kara McDowell, All Mars Darling has ever wanted to do was write. Specifically, she wanted to become a romance author. And while that dream has come true, it isn’t exactly everything she hoped for. Yes, she’s had success right out of the gate, bigger than […]