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Today it’s also the turn of Friday Review Share to support Indie authors.  Please leave a link to a great review you’ve had on Amazon or Goodreads for one of your own books.  Just a link to the review is enough and the review itself if you like, because let’s face it, if people are interested in the book it’ll be easy to seek it out!

If you haven’t yet had any reviews for your books, then you can leave a review you’ve written for an Indie book that you’ve read. 

I’ll start the ball rolling today and leave a review that ‘Peter’ had left on Goodreads for my paranormal novel ‘Partners in Time’:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3166114571

At first I was a bit sceptical about this book. When looking at the cover I thought it would be more of a romance than some fine tale of horror. But I was wrong. John and Kay Finbow move into Southcombe Rectory. There he meets the ghost of Emily Cuthbertson (her bedroom is John’s study) and they even have a child together, a boy named Robbie (stunning idea!). But what about Kay? When she also got pregnant with John’s children, first Mia, then Ethan you can sense the upcoming problems here. Who will be John’s partner at the end, Emily (the ghost of the past) or his present wife? Can John overcome the ghost of Emily at the end? And what about the medium Coral? This was an entertaining, well written story with supernatural elements and a plot that kept you reading. Also the characters in the novel were quite convincing. If you’re looking for a novel focused on relationships with a ghostly touch this might be your stuff. Recommended!

 

 

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Today it’s the turn of Friday Review Share in order to support Indie authors.  Please leave a link to a review you’ve written on Amazon or Goodreads for an Indie book which is not your own.  Just a link to the review is enough and the review itself if you like, because let’s face it, if people are interested in the book it’ll be easy to seek it out!

I’ll start the ball rolling with my review of Sally Cronin’s ‘Just an Odd Job Girl‘, which I found quite delightfully entertaining, with many laugh-out-loud moments.

Amazon Blurb:

At 50 Imogen had been married for over 20 years, and was living in a big house, with money to spare. Suddenly she is traded-in for a younger model, a Fast-Tracker.
Devastated, she hides away and indulges in binge eating. But then, when hope is almost gone, she meets a new friend and makes a journey to her past that helps her move on to her future.

My 5 Star Review:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3153121273?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

Imogen, having turned down a career in nursing to please Peter, the love of her life, wonders how to re-build her life after he deserts her in middle age for a younger woman.

After comfort eating and moping about, Imogen decides she wants to be gainfully employed again after many years of being a wife and mother.  She’d had experience of many jobs in her youth, and nervously approaches an employment agency.   She is asked by Andrew Jenkins at the agency to talk him through the list of jobs she’d worked at in the past so that he could place her in the most suitable post.

Imogen reminisces about the times she spent working in a seaside kiosk, in a large department store, in a hotel, and as a dental assistant and a receptionist at a funeral home to name but a few.  I think Mrs Cronin may have worked at some (or all?) of these jobs herself, as she writes with great expertise about them.  There are some laugh-out-loud moments too. I particularly liked the 1970s disco scene and Imogen’s night out wearing her new wig, and  then there were the strange female customers who frequented the cosmetic department of Huntley’s Store, and the few dodgy clients who wanted to place adverts when Imogen worked at telesales…

As Imogen looks back in time at all the experiences she has had, she re-gains her self esteem and realises she is not ready to be thrown out just like yesterday’s newspaper.

Recommended for fans of light reading / humorous women’s fiction.

Friday Review Share

Today it’s also the turn of Friday Review Share to support Indie authors.  Please leave a link to a great review you’ve had on Amazon or Goodreads for one of your own books.  Just a link to the review is enough and the review itself if you like, because let’s face it, if people are interested in the book it’ll be easy to seek it out!

I’ll add a 5 star review I had this week on Goodreads from Jacqui Murray for my newest book ‘Examining Kitchen Cupboards’.

In Stevie Turner’s latest novel, Examining Kitchen Cupboards (2019), Jill Hayes takes on a new job In a college exam administration office. She had hoped it would lead to a career but quickly discovered it was much too technical for her skillset. As she struggles to learn the complicated tasks that would allow her to succeed, she stumbles upon illicit activities that she feels honor-bound to report. No one will listen–not the newspapers, the college, or even the agency responsible for the exams–until finally someone does. Things don’t work out as Jill had hoped.

This is a well-told story of a whistle blower’s efforts to fix a serious problem. It is told from various perspectives which adds to the depth of understanding about how complicated it can be to report actions when lots of people don’t want to admit there’s even a problem. It was at times difficult to read but the importance is significant–which is why it earned the 5/5.

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Here’s a new one to add to Friday’s Indie author support blogs.  This time please leave a link to a great review you’ve had on Amazon for one of your own books.  Just a link to the review is enough and the review itself if you like, because let’s face it, if people are interested in the book it’ll be easy to seek it out!

I’ll start the ball rolling with a review I had for ‘A House Without Windows‘ back in 2015 from Joy Nwosu-Lo-Bamijoko.  I have 69 reviews so far for this thriller on AmazonUS, and I’ll share this one with you:

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2KCLSZOSUL8JA

I read this book in just two days. I was so carried away with it, that I had to finish it, and I did. I had to know how the story ended. What a sad, sad experience Beth was subjected to, and Amy too. This was an extraordinarily vivid story about the fear, agony, and deprivation abduction inflicts on those who experience it.

One day Beth was a young, happy, and carefree doctor with everything going well for her. Then abduction hit her. How can this happen? Yet we hear that these things are still happening as we speak. Fully grown women, not just only children anymore, are being abducted every day, and imprisoned for decades against their will. Who knows how many more are languishing in dark holes hidden away from prying eyes, and from the public. Who knows how many of them will never be found.

Beth and Amy’s story is sad, and unnerving. It is hard to take. It is even harder to think that the perpetrator is unrepentant and spoiling for revenge. Edwin believed that he was the wronged party after all he put Beth and her daughter through. People that mad should never be allowed to see the light of day. This was a hard story to read, very interesting though, as I already said. I couldn’t put it down until I finished it. A must read!

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I look forward to reading your reviews!  If you could click on a couple of your colleagues’ review links and tweet them, then that would be awesome!  Thank you!

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