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Cecelia Ahern: Love, Rosie

Hey guys, have to say I'm a big fan of Cecelia Ahern, I read and blog about her novels quite a lot. With her being one of Ireland's most prominent writers, we have to support our own right?! Right. Anyway, Love, Rosie, spans over 45 years and is told through instant messager, letters, greeting cards and texts. It's about two best friends, Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart who are separated at secondary school and how fate keeps intervening in their lives. Alex's father is offered a job in Boston, his whole family is uprooted and moved across the Atlantic. This is of course, devestating for the two young friends but the two manage to keep their deeply rooted friendship steady. It seems the two are to be reunited with Rosie being accepted into a University in Boston but the start of many twists happens and it works out that Rosie cannot move. The novel is basically about your average woman who is trying to make ends meet through various different jobs and yet never truly ful...

Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl

Hey guys, we need to talk about Gone Girl! This will contain spoilers so look away now, until you've seen/read it! This book gripped me right from the beginning. Haven't seen the film, it's on the to-do list. I swapped teams and bounced loyalties all over the show. I began reading this book on bus to see my boyfriend Scott and I have to say, as the novel is so focused on a relationship and Nick, (the husband) is always asking, "what are you thinking, Amy (wife)?" I found myself thinking, well, "what are you thinking, Scott?" Him being the quieter of us, means there is some gaps in the conversation. Freaked myself right out, don't think he's planning my murder though... Yet. Dun dun dun. Anyway, at the start I was convinced Nick had killed Amy and had cooked up this scheme that she had been kidnapped. It's such a twisty novel, the thoughts Nick has does not do anything to help his case. He imagines Amy with her bed bashed in, is caught smiling...