Review: ‘The Charmed Wife’ by Olga Grushin

All I want is to be free - free of him, free of my past, free of my story.Free of myself, the way I was when I was with him. Rating: 5/5 paper planes Genre: Fantasy (fairytale retellings); feminism; postmodern literaturePublication: 21 Jan 2021Pages: 288 (hardcover) Synopsis (from Goodreads): Cinderella married the man of her …

Review: ‘The Shelf’ by Helly Acton (eARC)

Being single isn't scary. What's scary is being stuck with someone who will make you miserable for the rest of your life. That's the real campfire horror story. Rating: 4.5/5 paper planes Genre: Contemporary fiction Publication: 9th July 2020 Synopsis: Everyone in Amy's life seems to be getting married (or so Instagram tells her), and …

First Lines Friday: 8th May

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? How it works: Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open …