It’s Saturday Morning, so you know what that means! It’s the weekly feature where you basically tell me to chuck the lot!
The results are in from last week……
Wow-what a week of voting! I know last time I saved a book even though they were voted to get rid but I can’t do it this week. It is a clear vote and so this week I am going to get rid of them all!! Bit gutted as I had my eye on but I need to be strong! So they all go!!!
What do I have to offer up this week? I already have a feeling I know where this will go!
The Letter: Kitty's Story (Life on the Moors #1) Goodreads
Thirty-four-year-old Kitty Bennett is trapped in a loveless marriage to criminal barrister, Dan, who’s gradually isolated her from her family and friends.
Until the day she (literally) bumps into her first love, the handsome and easy-going Ollie Cartwright – someone she’s done her best to avoid for as long as she can remember. Looking into Ollie’s eyes awakens feelings for him she thought she’d buried deep years ago, and he clearly feels the spark, too. As she walks away, Kitty can’t help but wonder what might have been… Dan senses that his marriage is on shaky ground and knows he needs to win his wife round. He turns on the charm, skilfully using their two children, Lucas and Lily, as bargaining tools.
But Kitty’s older brother, Jimby, and her childhood best-friends, Molly and Violet, have decided enough is enough. For years they’ve had to watch from afar as Kitty’s been browbeaten into an unrecognisable version of herself. They vow to make her see Dan for what he really is, but their attempts are no match for his finely-honed courtroom skills and, against her better judgement, Kitty agrees to give her husband one last chance. But, all-too-soon, a series of heart-breaking events and a shocking secret throw her life into turmoil… Will she stand by Dan, or will Kitty be brave enough to take the leap and follow her heart to Ollie?
Life is anything but peaceful in the chocolate-box pretty village of Lytell Stangdale, where life unravels, and hearts are broken. Full of heart-warming moments, this book with have you crying tears of joy, laughter and sadness.
Letters to Eloise by Emily Williams
Goodreads
‘Receiving a hand written letter is something that always puts a smile on my face, no matter who the sender is.’ Flora Tierney.
When post-graduate student Flora falls unexpectedly pregnant during her final year studies she hits a huge predicament; continue a recent affair with her handsome but mysterious lecturer who dazzles her with love letters taken from the ancient tale of ‘Abelard and Heloise’, or chase after the past with her estranged first love?But will either man be there to support her during the turmoil ahead?
‘Banish me, therefore, for ever from your heart’, Abelard to Heloise.
Letters to Eloise is the heart wrenching debut epistolary novel by Emily Williams; a love story of misunderstandings, loss, and betrayal but ultimately the incredible bond between mother and child.
The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay (Cockleberry Bay, #1) by Nicola May
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Also by this author: Christmas Spirit
Rosa Larkin is down on her luck in London, so when she inherits a near-derelict corner shop in a quaint Devon village, her first thought is to sell it for cash and sort out her life. But nothing is straightforward about this legacy.
While the identity of her benefactor remains a mystery, he - or she - has left one important legal proviso: that the shop cannot be sold, only passed on to somebody who really deserves it. Rosa makes up her mind to give it a go: to put everything she has into getting the shop up and running again in the small seaside community of Cockleberry Bay.
But can she do it all on her own?
And if not, who will help her succeed - and who among the following will work secretly to see her fail?
There is a handsome rugby player, a sexy plumber, a charlatan reporter and a selection of meddling locals. Add in a hit and run incident and the disappearance of a valuable engraved necklace – and what you get is a journey of self-discovery and unpredictable events. With surprising and heartfelt results, Rosa, accompanied at all times by her little sausage dog Hot, will slowly unravel the shadowy secrets of the inheritance, and also bring her own, long-hidden heritage into the light.
Don't Speak (Jade Harrington, #1) by J.L. Brown
Goodreads
The nursery rhyme was wrong. Words can hurt you.
Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States.
Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his ‘inner conservative’ to win re-election.
The lives of Jade, Whitney, Cole, and the killer—who has an agenda of his own—are on a collision course. That course will not just impact them each in ways they could never have foreseen, but also the future of the United States of America. Amidst a backdrop of contemporary power politics driven by the influence of talk radio and social media, Don't Speak thrills even as it explores many of the complex issues facing Americans today.
Prescient, Don’t Speak was completed a year before the 2016 US presidential election.
The Extraction by Steven F. Freeman
Goodreads
An anonymous note launches ex-FBI criminal profiler Decimus Farr into a nightmare. His fiancée has been kidnapped, and Farr is given only twenty-four hours to follow and solve a trail of ten hidden clues, or she dies.
Identifying the abductor could provide Farr with a vital shortcut for locating his fiancée. But with each new clue connected to a different criminal from his past cases, which offender should he pursue?
With the window closing fast, Farr must race the clock to rescue his love…or be consumed by the madness and violence he had thought left behind.
When the Black Roses Grow by Angela Christina Archer
Goodreads
Twenty-five men and women were accused. Nineteen hung to their death on Gallow Hills. One suffocated under bone-crushing stones. All believed to possess the power of witchcraft.
In 1692 the fear of witchcraft is spreading around Salem Village. While those who are accused and sentenced face death, everyone else faces the risk of accusations placed upon them.
As Emmalynn Hawthorne, the daughter of a woman hung for witchcraft, places a bouquet of flowers upon her mother's grave, a circle of black roses sprouts out of thin air. Dark magic, the roses strike fear through her heart when Mary Pruett and the handsome, James DeKane spy upon her as the pass along the traveling road. Emmalynn flees and her panic soon turns into terror as another vine of black roses sprouts and grows throughout the inside of her home. Is she a witch? Will she be the next accused?
James DeKane has secrets of his own--ones that could prove deadly for him and anyone he holds dear. At fault for the untimely death of his parents, he must protect his hidden brother and dying sister, all while fearing that the haunting prophecy bestowed upon him at birth will come to pass. Desperate and fighting the monster deep inside of him, he's searching for the one love who can alter his destiny.
Remember 2 will stay, how do you choose?
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Until next time xxx
Rae Reads says
You have to save Letters to Eloise! Although it is an emotional one xx
Zoé says
Sometimes that is good! Fingers crossed! Xxx
Davida Chazan says
That Don’t Speak sounds like it would be interesting to read and compare it with reality. I’d read the When the Black Roses Grow myself if it didn’t have magic and fantasy/paranormal elements.
Zoé says
I think that’s what drew me too when the black roses grow. We shall see what is saved!
Joanne - Portobello Book Blog says
I’ve read Letters to Eloise and is is beautiful though very emotional! First one sounds good too and I’ve read so many wonderful reviews of the Cockleberry book which is lurking on my Kindle somewhere!
Zoé says
Oh I have heard that it’s quite emotional to read! So have I ! I keep hearing about it x
yvonnembee says
I have read Eliza and Nicolas’s books and loved them both xx
Zoé says
Oh yay! Good to hear! Xx
nickimags @ The Secret Library Book Blog says
Definitely keep Cockleberry Bay! I’ve got a copy so we could buddy read it! lol
Zoé says
We need to keep track of what ones we are buddying!! X
nickimags @ The Secret Library Book Blog says
Good idea! X
Sarah Hardy says
Not read any of these and as my favourite one from last week didnt get saved, have gone for chuck them all lol. x
Zoé says
Lol I know there were a few I was hoping to stay! Xx
Karen says
I haven’t read any of them and although I would have been tempted by one, it has some poor GR reviews, so I say chuck em all!?
Zoé says
Oh no!! I wonder which one that is!!! ?
noveldeelights says
Have I mentioned yet how much I love that “chuck them all” option? ?
Zoé says
It’s your favourite isn’t it ?
noveldeelights says
Totes ?