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#BookReview of #DarkHorses by @SusanMihalic | #BlogTour with @welbeckpublish

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne28th May 2021Leave a comment

‘A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her abusive father.‘– Dark Horses [ About the Book ] Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been…

#BookReview of The Moon Over Kilmore Quay by Carmel Harrington | @HappyMrsH | #MoonOverKilmoreQuay

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne27th May 20214 Comments

‘When your heart belongs to two places, can you ever truly find home?‘– The Moon Over Kilmore Quay [ About the Book ] Brooklyn, New York. Bea has grown up in the heart of the Irish community, always hearing stories of home. When she discovers a letter from her younger self, written years before, it sends…

#BookReview of #SongOfTheNile by Hannah Fielding | #BlogTour with @midaspr | @fieldinghannah

Blog Tour, Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne25th May 20212 Comments

A sun-drenched romance set in the exotic and bygone world of Upper EgyptA sensual tale of romance and nostalgia, Song of the Nile illustrates the pain of loss, the power of love and the strength of heroine determined to put things right. [ About the Book ] Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri…

#BookReview of #TheAssistant by Kjell Ola Dahl | @ko_dahl @OrendaBooks

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne21st May 20212 Comments

‘A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting, cunningly plotted historical thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.‘– The Assistant [ About the Book ] Oslo, 1938.  War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied…

#BookReview of #ThreeWeddingsAndAProposal by @sheilaoflanagan | @headlinepg

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne20th May 20212 Comments

At the first wedding, there’s a shockThe second wedding is unexpectedBy the third, Delphie thinks nothing could surprise her. But she’s wrong . . .– Three Weddings and a Proposal [ About the Book ] Delphie is enjoying her brother’s wedding. Her surprise last-minute Plus One has stunned her family – and it’s also stopped…

#BookReview of #AKindOfDrowning by @cravenrobert

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne19th May 2021Leave a comment

‘The man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. CroweHis career as a detective is in tatters’– A Kind Of Drowning [ About the Book ] The man standing at the funeral in bubble-gum pink hair is P.J. Crowe. His career as a detective is in tatters – he’s facing dismissal, vilified…

#BookReview of #Fallen by #MelODoherty @Ofmooseandmen

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne18th May 2021Leave a comment

‘She picketed Mass with a sign that read: “They killed my baby in Bessborough”’– Fallen [ About Fallen] When Michael Connolly was a child in the 1970s, his mother told him about all the things that happened to her in that place. All that the nuns had done. The doctors encouraged her to talk, and…

#BookReview of #TheFinalTwist by #JefferyDeaver

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne17th May 20212 Comments

‘Colter Shaw is searching for the answer to his father’s final, posthumous riddle. It will lead him to evidence that will topple the secretive espionage company, BlackBridge’– The Final Twist [ About the Book ] Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he…

#BookReview of #EmmetandMe by Sara Gethin | @SGethinWriter | @honno

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne13th May 20214 Comments

‘I once had a forbidden friend.He was funny and brave, had scabbed knees and grubby shorts,a gleeful grin and fathomless eyes. My co-conspirator and hero.He called himself Emmet.’– Emmet and Me [ About the Book ] Summer 1966. Claire and her brothers are packed off to Granny Connemara when their mother runs away. Granny’s rural…

#BookReview of #Luster by Raven Leilani #SUDTP21

Book ReviewBy Mairéad Hearne12th May 20214 Comments

‘Retired internet slang interspersed with earnest remarks about how the light falls on my face.Compared to the inscrutable advances of younger men, it is a relief’– Luster [ About the Book ] Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the…

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