Fragments Of Life

Keeper of the Bees by Meg Kassel Genre: YA Paranormal Release Date: September 4th 2018 Entangled Teen Summary: “ Beauty and the beast like you’ve never imagined! ” — New York Times bestselling author Pintip Dunn KEEPER OF THE BEES is a tale of two teens who are both beautiful and beastly, and whose pasts are entangled in surprising and heartbreaking ways. Dresden is cursed. His chest houses a hive of bees that he can’t stop from stinging people with psychosis-inducing venom. His face is a shifting montage of all the people who have died because of those stings. And he has been this way for centuries—since he was eighteen and magic flowed through his homeland, corrupting its people. He follows harbingers of death, so at least his curse only affects those about to die anyway. But when he arrives in a Midwest town marked for death, he encounters Essie, a seventeen-year-old girl who suffers from debilitating delusions and hallucinations. His bees want to sting her on sight. But Essie does...

The pop culture phenomenon of 2014, the first season of Serial, which has since been downloaded a whopping 175 million times (and counting!) was the one the one that started it all: Serial brought podcasts to the masses and also unleashed the True Crime obsessive in us all (or is that just me?) In any case, if you were obsessed with Serial (and who wasn't?) then you've probably checked out a few dozen or so true crime podcasts in the time since Sarah Koenig detailed her investigation into the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee via weekly nail-biting instalments. That's the thing about pop culture phenomenons - they tend to spawn a gazillion offshoots. True crime podcasts are as popular as ever, but I think it's fair to say that not all true crime podcasts are made equally.  While it might be true that not every true crime podcast is the next Serial, it's also fair to say that a few have come pretty close.  Here are five to try before Serial Season Three launches on Septem...

Product details : Publisher : HarperCollins. Hardcover 416 pages. Release date : September 6th 2018. Rating : 4 out of 5. Source : Received from publisher for review. Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house . . . I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows. I’M IN YOUR HEAD Maybe it’s all in Elle’s mind? She’s a writer – her imagination, after all, is her strength. And yet every threat seems personal. As if someone has discovered the secrets that keep her awake at night. AND NOW I KNOW YOUR SECRET As fear and paranoia close in, Elle’s own home becomes a prison. Someone is unlocking her past – and she’s given them the key… Thinking of renting out your home on Airbnb? You might think again when you read You Let Me In by Lucy Cla...

Looking for a great new thriller?  Look no further!  Today sees the release of You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke and it just so happens - with thanks to Harper Collins -  that I have a shiny new copy of this most excellent book to give away to one lucky winner! I'll be reviewing You Let Me In next week (spoiler alert: I loved it!) but for now you can find more details on both book and blog tour below: You Let Me In by Lucy Clarke || Release date: September 6th 2018 Spine-tingling, chilling, and utterly compulsive, YOU LET ME IN is the stunning new novel from Richard & Judy Book Club author, Lucy Clarke Nothing has felt right since Elle rented out her house... I’M IN YOUR HOUSE There’s a new coldness. A shift in the atmosphere. The prickling feeling that someone is watching her every move from the shadows. I’M IN YOUR HEAD Maybe it’s all in Elle’s mind? She’s a writer – her imagination, after all, is her strength. And yet every threat seems personal. As if someone has dis...

Hot on the heels of a successful  exhibition , artist Emma Davis should be on top of the world. Instead, Emma feels like a fraud, her paintings borne out of a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier. Emma resolves to move on with her life and her work – but she can’t let go. She can’t stop thinking about Vivian, Natalie and Allison – three girls who disappeared without a trace from their shared cabin at summer camp fifteen years ago. These girls dominate every aspect of Emma’s life – her work, her dreams – most of all her nightmares. Even now, all these years later, Emma can’t stop thinking about the missing girls of Camp Nightingale. She also can’t stop thinking about all the lies she told in the aftermath of their disappearance.   When Emma is presented with an opportunity to return to the newly opened Camp Nightingale as an art tutor, she knows she shouldn’t go – deep down she knows that re-visiting her past is a bad idea. But Emma also wants to move on with her  l...

The Academy of Art University is a private university that was founded in 1929 and is located in San Francisco, California. The school has an enrollment of over 12,000 students studying in over 30 different programs. The university's programs are fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.  One of the schools within the university is the School of Fashion. Recently, several students of this school were honored for their outstanding fashion design work.  Susan Zienty received the Kenneth Cole Footwear Innovation Award presented by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Ms. Zienty's footwear designs are based upon ideas from her time within the foster care system. She calls her collection Adolescent Anonymous. This award comes with a $50,000 prize which the recipient will use to develop her work.    Academy of Art student Cameron Orland received the Liz Claiborne Design Scholarship Award which was also awarded by the Fashion Designers of...