Fragments Of Life

Product details : Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing. Hardcover, 320 pages. Release date : January 7th 2020. Rating : 3½ out of 5. Source : Received from publisher for review. What happens when you do the right thing for the wrong reason?  Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small girls, she started out as a blogger and has quickly built herself into a confidence-driven brand. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one night. Seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, a security guard at their local high-end supermarket accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make it right.  But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix’s desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health...

Product details : Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons. Hardcover, 320 pages. Release date : January 28th 2020. Rating : 3½ out of 5. Source : Received from publisher for review. Seductive, unsettling, and beautifully written,  The Truants  is a debut novel of literary suspense perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and  The Secret History --a thrilling exploration of deceit, first love, and the depths to which obsession can drive us. People disappear when they most want to be seen. Jess Walker has come to a concrete campus under the flat grey skies of East Anglia for one reason: To be taught by the mesmerizing and rebellious Dr Lorna Clay, whose seminars soon transform Jess's thinking on life, love, and Agatha Christie. Swept up in Lorna's thrall, Jess falls in with a tightly-knit group of rule-breakers--Alec, a courageous South African journalist with a nihilistic streak; Georgie, a seductive, pill-popping aristocrat; and Nick, a handsome geologist with layers of his own. But ...

It's time for my the third and final part of my round up of twenty books I can't wait to read in 2020! Today I'm talking YA Fiction, and yes, while my list is very heavy on the YA Contemporary fiction, I have tried to mix it up a bit with a must-read Hunger Games prequel and even a YA summer thriller. Let me know what you think of my YA 2020 picks! ***** The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes releases May 19th 2020 from Scholastic.  ***** Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can…but in the real world, it's more complicated. In this debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson, Marisa Kanter hilariously and poignantly explores what happens when internet friends turn into IRL crushes. Is it still a love triangle if there are only two people in it?...

With all the great books releasing in 2020, I have to admit it was pretty difficult to whittle my list of Adult Fiction picks (not including mysteries and thrillers - you can find those HERE ) down to just five books. But I did it! Here you'll find just some of the books I can't wait to read in 2020, including some much buzzed about titles (Such a Fun Age, My Dark Vanessa) and a new novel from Eve Chase, whose last novel, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde , I loved.  ***** Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: • She can’t actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left, • her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to break up with her, • she's so frazzled trying to keep up with everything you can practically hear her nerves jangling, • she spends all day online-stalking women with beautiful lives as her career goes down the d...

I love making a list and checking it twice, don't you? No, wait, Santa's been and gone, I got that all wrong! I do love compiling reading lists, though, mainly so I can look back at them at year's end and lament all the shiny new books I was so excited to read that are now beginning to gather dust on my bookshelf. I have form when it comes to this. My TBR boasts dusty books dating  way back to 2010 (The Distant Hours by Kate Morton - in case you were wondering). But let's not talk about that. I have good intentions. And I intend to read all of the following books. Let's see if that happens. Spoiler alert: it totally won't. Over the next few days I'll be listing twenty books I can't wait to read in 2020. Part I is mysteries and thrillers (because I read those most), followed by Part II -  Adult Fiction (not including mysteries and thrillers) and Part III  - YA Fiction.  Below you'll find a bunch of thrilling upcoming releases from some of my favourite...