The Phantom Paragrapher

Review: The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp - Leonie Agnew - April 2023 Attempting to clear my TBR bookshelf, I grabbed this book off my shelf. I had been excited to read this one for several reasons from the cover, the fact it contained a mobile library and stories, the announcement that it won the Tessa Duder Award, and that it was a New Zealand fiction story. All those factors and the enjoyment of this book made it a great reading experience for me. In The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp, we meet a teenager named Hannah who is doing community service when an accident and impulse thought to cause a lady to crash her car and lose her unborn baby. The whole small town has shunned her and views her now as a bad seed. This accident has caused a domino effect for Hannah as now everyone just expects her to make mistakes and jump to conclusions like she is the "evil one". After an argument with her mum, Hannah finds a strange Mobile Library. As she reads the stories, she learns th...

Fighting Fate Diana Muñoz Stewart Publication date: June 20th 2023 Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense Risking herself to rescue others. No problem. Risking her heart on love? Problem. Dada As a Guild operative, I’ve seamlessly taken on dozens of false identities. Going undercover as a nun? No problem. But when my routine mission turns into a hunt for a vicious serial killer, I’m forced to join forces with Sion Bradford. Problem. The sexy, ex-soccer player doesn’t, for one minute, believe I’m a nun. Too many lives are at stake to tell him the truth. So, why am I struggling to keep the faith? Sean Learned a lot since leaving sports to go chase down degenerates. Mostly, how to spot a liar. Not that I need that skill when it comes to Dada. The woman’s every shade of hot, knows self-defense, and is a great kisser. Plainly, she’s rubbish at being a nun. Still, joining forces with her to take a killer off the streets is a no-brainer. I’d risk Hell itself to stop this lunatic and ke...

Review: The Hike - Lucy Clarke - Aprl 2023 I had seen this thriller talked about on Instagram and it sounded like something up my alley, seeing as I love and enjoy reading thrillers. Four friends embark on a hike in Norway, but only three will return home. Every year since college Maggie, Liz, Joni, and Helena have gone away for a holiday. They each take turns choosing the location and everyone goes along with the choice. This year is Liz's turn and she has chosen to hike a mountain in Norway. When Liz and Joni were in school, they did a project about Norway and dreamed of being amongst the mountains and now their dreams have come true. However, this trip will bring some feelings and unresolved issues to the surface that have been bubbling amongst friends. Maggie is worried about leaving her daughter with her now ex-husband, Helena has been masking her pain by sleeping with every man and his dog and now she has discovered that one of them impregnated her but which one? , Liz's ...