Reviews 2025

Listed A-Z by book title.

In case you need a reminder, my rating system is at the end.

A

A Curse For True Love by Stephanie Garber

A Dawn of Onyx by Kate Golden

A Game of Scandal by Laura Wood

A Season for Scandal by Laura Wood

The Agency for Scandal by Laura Wood

Arcana Academy by Elise Kova

B

Bad Tourists by Caro Carver

Be Our Ghost by Carla Luna

C

Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle

D

DallerGut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee

E

Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

F

The Favourites by Layne Fargo

Filthy Rich Fae by Geneva Lee

G

Glunda The Veg Witch by Keith W. Dickinson

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

H

Hagstone by Sinéad Gleeson

Hive by DL Orton

The House We Grew Up In by Lisa Jewell

How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

I

If The Ring Fits by Camilla Isley

L

The Last Lunar Witch by S.F. Henne

M

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

N

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

O

Orbital by Samantha Harvey

R

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai

S

The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

Small Favors by Erin A. Craig

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

T

Temptation by Ivy Smoak

They Never Learn by Layne Fargo

Three Fires by Denise Mina

U

Unhallowed Halls by Lili Wilkinson

W

The Whispering Night by Susan Dennard

Review ratings

I didn’t like it. I might have made myself finish it or I might have had to put it to one side. This book will have too many flaws for me to even mention. I’m hoping I never have to use this, I can’t think of any of the books I have ever read that would fall into this category but there is a first time for everything.

It was passable. Whilst I might have found an aspect of the book intriguing, say the plot or a character or the writing style, this book still has a lot of work to do.

I liked it. There will be parts that I felt were really strong, but there will still be some elements that aren’t reaching their full potential.

I really enjoyed this book. Mostly everything will be top notch, however, I may have found a few things throughout that I wasn’t keen on but I will be recommending this book.

Absolute brilliance! This book will be near perfection, one that I know will be staying with me for a while and that I will be telling people they must read.

I will also be attributing half ratings because sometimes there are some books that just deserve that little half extra or I’m being indecisive on what rating it sits between.