Waiting On Wednesday (9th October)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme, hosted by Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we can't wait to be published.

 

This week mine is The Killer Next Door by Alex Marwood

 

I read and enjoyed her debut novel The Wicked Girls and my review for that is here.

No. 23 has a secret. In this gloomy, bedsit-riddled South London wreck, lorded over by a lecherous landlord, a horrifying collection quietly waits to be discovered. Yet all six residents have something to hide. Collette is on the run from her ex-boss; Cher is an underage children's home escapee; lonely Dougal tries to make friends with his neighbours; while a gorgeous Iranian asylum seeker and a 'quiet man' nobody sees try to keep themselves hidden. And there for them all is Vesta, a woman who knows everything that goes on in the house - or thought she did. Then in the dead of night, a terrible accident pushes the six into an uneasy alliance. But one of them is a killer, expertly hiding their pastime, all the while closing in on their next victim...As a cloying heatwave suffocates the city, events build to an electrifying climax in this brilliantly constructed, tightly paced thriller. 

Publication date: 5th December 2013 - Kindle eBook/ 19th June 2014 - paperback

                                 

Teaser Tuesdays (8th October)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



My teaser:

"Well, how sick is he?" 
Tim found it difficult to meet their searching eyes - fact was, he had no earthly idea. 

8% The Troop by Nick Cutter

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (7th October)

 

Its Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme run by Book Journey and you can mention books you've just finished, are currently reading and any you plan to read this week. You can leave a link to your blog and read other bloggers posts.

 

 

This week I've read:

 

The Homecoming Of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield

The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald - I loved this one, a very good psychological thriller that I read in a couple of days.

 

I'm not sure at the moment what I'm going to read next, will have a think and start one tomorrow.

 

My Book Bargains For This Week

I've managed to get some good book bargains this week, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th novels in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde were in The Works and in their 3 for £5 offer:

Also two from my wishlist were in the kindle daily deal, Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler and The Secret Life Of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd:

 

Book Beginnings On Fridays (The Homecoming Of Samuel Lake)

Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.

 

My book beginning is The Homecoming Of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield:

John Moses couldn't have chosen a worse day, or a worse way to die. If he'd planned it for a lifetime. Which was possible. He was contrary as a mule. It was the weekend of the Moses family reunion, and everything was perfect - or at least perfectly normal - until John went and ruined it.

  

Book Blurb:

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as a welcome escape from the prying eyes of their father’s congregation; for Willadee it’s a precious opportunity to spend time with her mother and father, Calla and John. But just as the reunion is getting under way, tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core: John’s untimely death and, soon after, the loss of Samuel’s parish, which set the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change.

In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee’s outspoken eleven-year-old daughter, Swan, is a bright light. Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled three generations of the family. But it is Blade Ballenger, a traumatized eight-year-old neighbor, who soon captures Swan’s undivided attention. Full of righteous anger, and innocent of the peril facing her and those she loves, Swan makes it her mission to keep the boy safe from his terrifying father. 

  

 

Book Blogger Hop (4th - 10th October)

 

The Book Blogger Hop is hosted at Ramblings Of A Coffee Addicted Writer and this week's question is:

 

  Halloween Edition: What book gave you goosebumps?

 

 

Although I like horror novels it takes a lot to scare me nowadays. However when I was a teenager anything by Stephen King or James Herbert terrified me and gave me goosebumps and a lot of King's books still do, particularly Pet Sematary.

 

WWW Wednesdays (2nd October)

This is a weekly meme by Should Be Reading To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

 

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next? 

 

 

 

Currently Reading:
The Homecoming Of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield, I did start The Last Winter of Dani Lancing by Phil Viner yesterday but couldn't get into it so gave up.

Finished Reading:
More Than This  by Patrick Ness

Next Read:
The Cry by Helen Fitzgerald