Searching for that rush...

Hey guys, for you all who don't like change, here's a book review! I have to say I really liked this book and can prove it by saying I read it all in one whole day!  It's quirky novel about love, hard decisions, glamour and complex relationships. It explores relationships between birth parents, adoptive parents, lovers, sisters, friends, the whole she-bang! My favourite insight is probably the family dynamics. I'm from your typical two parent family with one sister and brother so I find it so fascinating how the family bond is tested when Kirby goes in search of her birth parents.  Her birth father didn't know that she existed until she rocked up on his doorstep, Marian (birth mum) kept the secret between herself and her mum for 18 years. Not telling her own father or the babies father. This prove problematic for Marian, as she has a steady relationship and friends in New York who know nothing of her past. So when Kirby wants to know who her father is, the secre...

Hey guys, I hope you're all well. I've just finished my Journalism course, (exam wise anyway) I'm just waiting on results. Ahhhhh.. As a wee treat to myself and much to Scott's dismay I bought myself the rest of Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan books, including the newest one. Thought I might as well as I loved The Kill which is the 5th book in the series, if memory serves me right and I got so invested in the characters I just had to know more about them. Beginning with The Burning which is roughly about a nasty serial killer targeting young women. His trademark is the fact he then burns his victims making identifying them and him more difficult. The 'first' one we come across as a live crime scene is one that they are not sure if this victim was murdered by the Burning Man. This leads Maeve down a different route trying to discover if this victim is one of the serial killers victims OR if its an entirely different case entirely. In this book we see the bir...

Hey guys, this novel is a collection of short stories by Sheila O'Flanagan. She was inspired by this book when she was on holiday and just sat there wondering about the people around her. As someone who is a keen people watcher and who loves making up stories to go along with random strangers, this book was right up my street. I loved how each guest plays a part in other parts of the story so you may get a more complete picture of the reason why the little old granny is here on her own or the who the American couple is? The only critic would be, there was a couple of stories I was like, I wanna know more. Where do they go? What happens next? Did the nice man get to keep in touch with his son, did the old lady get what she was after... Will the book ever get written? ;) Anyway, this is a perfect little holiday read and it's not to late for a last minute book splurge for beach reads!! Hope you enjoy it! Annie xx 

Hey guys, I just love a weekend away so I thought I'd share with you pictures from our trip to Dublin for my birthday. We did quite a bit of touristy things to I'm sure for those of you who are thinking of staying in Dublin, it will give yous an idea of what's on offer! We stayed a bit outside the city centre in a rented apartment in Ranelagh.  It was cheaper and well we are planning to move in together so we treated it as a mini trial.. ;) First night (Friday) we went out was my birthday night so we went to my favourite bar in Dublin called Flannery's. Quite chilled with good music and large enough to fit a small country.  We ate in a local restaurant called Cinnamon for breakfast the next day, it was beautiful. Irish food is something to be reckoned with! We didn't do very much on the Saturday, we were very, very hungover. But we made up for it the next day... We walked into the City Centre through St Stephen's Green, dandered around Trinty College ...

Hey guys, This is a gripping book. Mainly because for the entire thing you have no idea wtf is going on.... It's told from the perspective of Rachel who takes the same train into London everyday. She watches the people in the houses on the street she used to live on with her ex husband Tom. She's even named them 'Jess and Jason.' In her imagination they have the perfect marriage, until one day she sees something she shouldn't. 'Jess' is with another man and when a couple of days later 'Jess' is reported missing. Rachel feels like she has to do something.  The thing is, Rachel is a raging alcoholic whose whole life basically went down the swanny when she realised her husband, Tom was having an affair and was leaving her.  She lost her job, she lives with her friend whose sick to the back teeth of her behaviour and is stalking her ex, his new wife and their new baby. I mean abusive phone calls and showing up drunk to their house... It's a...

Hey guys, How are we all? I hope you all had a lovely break. I certainly loved having two weeks off school, it was bliss! Actually had time to read so here we are... A blog post! I read Divergent and Insurgent last year; and LOVED them. The plot, the characters and themes were just so good and identifiable. So when I got the chance to buy and read Allegiant, I jumped at it!  The story just flowed on quite well especially since I had to wait so long between books. Tris and Four are finally on the same page in this book and they finally have their relationship sorted. However, there is an event at the beginning of the book which shows that Four's mother cannot be trusted so a new faction is formed, the Allegiant. It's with this new faction that the group finally gets to see what's outside the walls and if I'm honest it's no better than what they left. There is still in fighting and only the preface of peace. The theme of racism kind of comes into play in this no...

Hey guys,  Sorry it's been a while. Revision and exams kind of took over my life for six weeks there. (It sucked.) Bright side, I passed my shorthand, I am now fluent at 60wpm, woohoo! I bought this novel the same time I bought, Casey's 'The Kill'. I just love Easons. I was a bit sceptical of this one in the shop actually, no idea why but I kept coming back to it (I take book buying very seriously) and it was actually signed by the author, Colette Caddle, the rest is history. It took approx. eight hours to read this one. I just could not put it down!! The story grabbed me from the start. It begins months after the 'incident' when it's raw enough to hurt and yet long enough to start moving on. The 'incident' I'm referring to is when Sheila Fields disappears, presumed dead. Her twin sister and business partner, Sinead is devastated. Together they owned a hat shop, Sinead designed and made the hats while Sheila took care of the business side. They...

Hey guys, as per the standard story of my life, I randomly buy books I like the look of then realise it's the middle/ end of a series.  *facepalm* I just love doing things arse about face, hahaha. Anywho, was in Coleraine at the weekend for my lovely boyfriend's birthday and we nipped into Easons for a nosey. Of course this meant I bought half the store including one novel not even released yet... Book nerd. As we were down for the weekend, reading opportunities were slim but Scott knowing me so well by now, found times to otherwise amuse himself and let me get my nerd on. 'The Kill' is the fifth book in Jane Casey's series. It's a crime thriller novel (my fav) about DC Maeve Kerrigan and her partner DI Josh Derwent who take on the investigation, when a police officer is found dead in his car.  The case takes a horrible twist when a second policeman dies and then another... The Met Police are under immense pressure to carry out their duties but are c...