Joo's Book Reviews and Interviews

Here is my friend Helen.  One of the biggest lover of reading (apart from me) that I know, although I haven't got her into indies yet a...

It's a year after Grace was raped by her (now ex) boyfriend and she still can't cope.  A chance meeting with Ben, a councellor, make...

Hugh Howey has taken time out his extremely busy schedule to go under my spotlight.  Hugh is the author of the Silo series of books which s...

Wow, what a corker of an epic quest.  Conner, an IT consultant from East Anglia, is running a bar in some strange world of dwarves and elves...

From reader to reviewer to drabbler to author, what's next for Kath? How do you strike the balance between writing something you wa...

At first look this seems to be a story about a young girl called Romelda, however this book turns into a lot more. Set in ye olden days wh...

War and Piste is the fictional(?) tale of Poppy's season as a ski rep at an Austrian resort.   From the minute she arrives, she's th...

Bolt out of the Blue was an unexpected delight to read.  I'd picked it up without paying much attention to what it was about and then ha...

Maureen's latest outing takes her to Blackpool for a weekend.  She's not impressed with her first impressions of the B & B she...

Another book by Lexi Revellian and another genre for her to be listed under.  This time it's the "wrong place, wrong time" mys...

This is the second collection of stories from the KUForum authors.  A handful of them are available elsewhere, but most of them were new to ...

This was an interesting story that I was dragged into from reading the sample.  In fact I was on holidays with over 80 books loaded onto my ...

This is the second book in the Oliver Quest series. Flora and Oliver are officially a couple, but love doesn't run smoothly for them.  N...

This is a selection of 5 slightly abnormal stories.  As with the author's other books and short stories, his twisted mind shows.  Whilst...

Like Rosen Trevithick's first anthology, Seesaw, this is a collection of novellas, short stories and flash fiction.  I read some of the ...

As a lapsed scuba diver who did my first dives in Sharm, I was drawn to this book.  There are a lot of “me, me, me” books about at the mome...

This is the first of 3 volumes of short stories, drabbles and novellas from the KUForum's authors. I am a big fan of many of the author...

As with any Talli Roland story, you know what you will get and with this I wasn’t disappointed.   Lucy’s previous Christmas was her worst e...

Here’s M.T.McGuire.  She’s mad she is. How do you strike the balance between writing something you want to write and writing some...