Review: Just Another Missing Person - Gillian McAllister - August 2023 I had some time to read and relax in bed on Saturday night and as I am a one-sitting reader often, I knew this was the perfect chance to read one of my The Book Shoppe Book Boxes. I just didn't know which one to read and so I got my partner to pick a number between 1-5 as I had 6 of them stacked up - but number 6 was my Christmas read one, which is a December read. He picked number 3 which turned out to be Gillian McAllister's Just Another Missing Person. So I made my cup of tea and settled in bed with this thrilling read. The book starts with an incident involving our main female detective DCI Day and her daughter Georgina. The book then jumps to the present time and they are eating at Nandos Chicken when she gets a call about a missing female named Olivia. This brings back memories of a girl she couldn't save and find - a year earlier named Sadie. On the way home, Julia is approached and told to plan...

Review: Someone Else's Shoes - Jojo Moyes - February 2023 Recently, I discovered a New Zealand book subscription box from a company called The Book Shoppe. I decided to try my first box and received the book "Someone Else's Shoes" by Jojo Moyes. In the book box, there were three little gifts wrapped up and each gift was to open up on a certain page.  The first gift was on a page that talked about flowers and I got a flower print, the second talked about how a guy smelled like citrus and got some delicious-smelling soap and the last page talked about being a strong woman and donning some red lipstick and the gift was red lipstick by Karen Murrell. I am now excited to receive the other books monthly and already have two lined up. Now back to the book, it had been a while since I read a really good chick-lit novel, and reading this one brought back great memories of when I first started writing book reviews over at Chicklit Club. Someone Else's shoes start when two...