Review: Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid - June 2025 This is honestly one of the hardest reviews I've had to write, and anyone who follows my reading journey knows that's saying something. I'd been practically vibrating with excitement for months, counting down the days until I could get my hands on Atmosphere. When Amazon showed it was sold out everywhere, I nearly had a meltdown – but then my incredible friend swooped in with a BookHero NZ voucher for my birthday (shoutout to the best gift-givers!), and I finally secured my precious copy. Here's where things get complicated, and you know I'm always brutally honest with you all: I went into this book with very specific expectations. I was absolutely convinced this would be a heart-wrenching deep dive into the 1986 Challenger disaster, packed with the kind of emotional devastation that would leave me sobbing into my tea at 2am. Instead, Atmosphere took me back to the early 1980s, following Joan Goodwin as she joins...

Review: Unloved - Book #2 The Undone - Peyton Corinne - February 2025 You know that feeling when you're standing in front of your bookshelf, finger hovering over a spine, completely torn? That was me with this Peyton Corinne hockey romance. Part of me was desperate to dive in, but my brain had been firmly planted in thriller territory lately – you know how it is when life gets messy and you need those adrenaline-pumping page-turners to match your internal chaos. But sometimes the universe knows what you need better than you do. This wasn't a "knock-your-socks-off, shout-from-the-rooftops" kind of read, but it was something more valuable – it was exactly what my vulnerable little heart needed. The emotional beats hit differently when you're already feeling raw, and Peyton Corinne doesn't shy away from the messy, complicated parts of human connection. Ro absolutely wrecked me. Her desperate need to be liked, that painful familiarity of trying just a bit too h...

  Review: Liar's Beach - Katie Cotugno - May 2023 This book had been on my Amazon wishlist and I belong to an Instagram group where you buy the person's birthday it is a book. This was my present from @what_sarahs_read. I had been looking forward to this YA Thriller as it was said to be a modern take on Agatha Christie's novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles which I have now to read on my Kindle as it was only 39c on Amazon Ebook- what a score. Liar's Beach is told from the male perspective of Michael Linden which was also a new take for me as I tend to read books that have the female as the lead character unless, of course, it's the Alex Cross series. Linden is on scholarship at his school and is friends with Jay. Jay invites him to his house in a setting like Martha's Vineyard for summer vacation. Looking forward to the break, Linden agrees as he even has the chance and opportunity to hook up with Jay's sister Eliza. All goes well, he even runs into an o...