blog tour

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

November 6, 2017 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

I don’t know what I was expecting from Little Fires Everywhere, but what I got was a compulsively readable book, filled with fascinating characters on a slow but inexorable dance towards the disastrous start of the book in ways that I couldn’t have anticipated, and couldn’t wait to see unfold. Buy at Amazon Everyone in […]

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Stories for homes blog tour

September 26, 2017 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Tonight I’ve a slightly different type of review post for you. In the stories for homes anthology, published and unpublished writers come together to create this selection of stories about what ‘home’ means. There are 55 writers included in this second charity anthology that brings issues around housing, poverty and crisis to life through the […]

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Prisoner of Ice and Snow by Ruth Lauren

September 12, 2017 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

When 13-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn’t be happier. Demidova’s prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor’s twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for stealing from the royal family, and Valor is going to help her escape…from the inside. Never mind that no one has escaped […]

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The Finding of Martha Lost by Caroline Wallace

May 16, 2017 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

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A boy made of blocks – the blog tour

January 18, 2017 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

I read and reviewed A boy made of blocks last September – you can read my thoughts here. To summarise from then: although some parts of the ending are kind of predictable, I totally admit that I was swept up in the emotions, and may have shed a tear or two (or even a few […]

Filed Under: 2016, autism, Book club, It's where it is Tagged With: A boy made of blocks, blog tour, Keith Stuart, Little brown

The Dry blog tour

January 11, 2017 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

I just can’t understand how someone like him could do something like that. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, it hasn’t rained in small country town Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are brutally murdered. Everyone thinks Luke Hadler, who […]

Filed Under: Book club, It's where it is Tagged With: blog tour, crime, debut, Jane Harper, Little Brown UK, The Dry

Gravity by Andy Briggs

October 28, 2016 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Buy from Amazon here We very much enjoyed being part of the blog tour for Inventory: Iron Fist last spring, and I leapt at the chance for Small to read the sequel, not least because I love his reviews. I think you’ll agree with me that he has not disappointed 😉 I tried to go […]

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Finding Black Beauty (and 10 other horse stories you might enjoy)

October 16, 2016 By Jax Blunt 1 Comment

Post contains affiliate links. Find it at Amazon. Finding Black Beauty by Lou Kuenzler. An enchanting retelling of Anna Sewell’s classic horse story, a moving and uplifting tale of friendship. A horse needs the help of a young girl… Aspiring groom Josie comes to love her spirited charge, a black colt called Beauty. When he […]

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The Inventory: Iron Fist by Andy Briggs (review with giveaway)

May 13, 2016 By Jax Blunt 24 Comments

When Big was around 12 or 13 she read pretty much constantly, often books I was interested in – we’d rush to be first at a new YA, and wait impatiently for the other to finish so that we could discuss it. Small is a different kettle of fish. Although he is an extremely competent […]

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Bella Broomstick by Lou Kuenzler.

January 6, 2016 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Today I’m very pleased to welcome Lou Kuenzler to the blog, with a guest post: Why a witch? My new funny series Bella Broomstick is about a young witch who is so bad at magic, she is expelled from the Magic Realm and sent off in disgrace to the Person World to be fostered by […]

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