Romance – I Think the Cover Was Red …

New literary fiction: Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

March 17, 2020March 16, 2020Posted in GeneralTagged Anne Tyler, RomanceLeave a comment

I’ve loved Anne Tyler ever since reading her novel Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant back in Year 11 Lit. You know how when you’re made to read a book for school and you have to pull it apart and analyse it to the nth degree until you never, ever want to read it again? Not so with Anne.

I’ve devoured every book that Tyler has written since. And I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of her latest, Redhead by the Side of the Road.

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7 romance novels that don’t actually suck

February 5, 2020March 23, 2020Posted in GeneralTagged book lists, David Nicholls, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gail Honeyman, Leo Tolstoy, Romance, Toni Jordan, William GoldmanLeave a comment

Romance novels often get a bad wrap. You can blame 50 Shades of Grey and decades of disastrous Mills and Boon bodice rippers for that.

Still, with Valentine’s Day creeping up, it’s a good time to get in touch with your romantic side. And the best way to do that, book lovers, is to snuggle on the couch with a cosy blanket, a block of chocolate (I’ll take Lindt 70 per cent dark, thanks) and a good romance.

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5 of the cringiest YA books you’ll ever read

August 23, 2019May 5, 2020Posted in YA fictionTagged 1980s, Dystopian, Fantasy, Romance, Stephenie Meyer, Suzanne Collins, Sweet Valley High, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Virginia AndrewsLeave a comment

It’s a great time to be alive if you’re a lover of YA lit. So many good reads, not enough hours to get lost in them! But it hasn’t always been that way.

For every brilliant YA novel like Book Thief or Between Us, you can bet there’s a bunch of Young Adult books dripping in cliched plot lines, over-dramatic characters and prose that kinda makes you want to vom. And I’ve devoured most of them.

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