How many times is too many times when it comes to saving the world?

Two years ago, Paul, Sabrina and their friends stopped The Consortium from inflicting a massive drone strike designed to provoke World War III.

Thinking the bad guys are defeated, they try to relax, but faced with constant home invasions to steal vital information they hold, are forced back into action. Dealing with secret hostels, black ops gangs, and corrupt politicians is never easy – but finding out the original threat was only the beginning, and that the drones are back and deadlier than ever, means they’ll need to regroup and start again.

Can they save the world once more, or will The Consortium finally get the war it wants?

The rag-tag gang returns in this action-packed sequel to A Guy Walks into a Bar.

A Girl Walks Into A Bar

By Mick Williams

My review

I absolutely loved A Guy Walks Into A Bar so I was SO excited when I found out there would be a sequel! Mick Williams is one of my favourite authors. I have loved everything I have read of his. All his books are so different but are equally excellent. I can’t recommend them highly enough.

A Girl Walks Into A Bar is just as brilliant! I have thoroughly enjoyed catching up with Paul, Sabrina, Lennon, and Monica. They are all such awesome characters! Having said that I don’t think I’d feel safe hanging out with them as they don’t seem to get much peace for very long. Honestly, I was exhausted reading this book. SO much action! Fast paced would be an understatement.

The foursome saved the world once before and no one could deny they make a fantastic team. I would definitely want them on my side in an emergency. Now they face serious danger again, but they face it with the same courage, determination, and a cracking sense of humour. I did find myself laughing out loud at times. Given the nature of the story and what the characters are put through that is quite a talent!

I mostly found myself holding my breath and praying.

An easy five stars for me!

**Many thanks to Mick Williams for my review copy**

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How can a memory so vivid be wrong? In the summer of 1986 Robin and Izzie hold hands under The Faerie Tree and wish for a future together. Within hours tragedy rips their dreams apart. In the winter of 2006, each carrying their own burden of grief, they stumble back into each other’s lives and try to create a second chance. But why are their memories of 1986 so different? And which one of them is right? With strong themes of paganism, love and grief, The Faerie Tree is a novel as gripping and unputdownable as Jane Cable’s first book, The Cheesemaker’s House, which won the Suspense & Crime category of The Alan Titchmarsh Show’s People’s Novelist competition. It is a story that will resonate with fans of romance, suspense, and folklore.

The Faerie Tree

by Jane Cable 

My review

The Faerie Tree is an absorbing read. I have thoroughly enjoyed Izzie and Robin’s story. It’s a fascinating tale of love, loss, and acceptance of a life that is how it was meant to be. I found their differing memories of the same situation quite fascinating. It is funny how our minds can alter our memories to protect ourselves from pain.

I can’t say that I found Izzie an easily likable character, but I could certainly understand her and empathise with her. She is struggling with her own grief whilst trying to be a good mother to her sixteen-year-old daughter, Claire, and battling with her own conscience over reuniting with Robin.

Robin I warmed to much more easily. I can’t really say why, I just did. I’m not sure if it’s just me or if the author intended for him to be more likeable of the two. Either way, I think it’s a testament to his character how patient he is with Izzie.

This book is so full of raw emotion. It maintains an air of mystery throughout and I found it a very difficult book to put down.

I very much recommend!

I will be adding Jane Cable’s other books to my TBR list.

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Hi, and welcome to my Flashback Friday feature!

On the first Friday of each month I like to look back at the books I was reading during the same month in previous years, since starting my blog.

Please do join in if you have the time. I’d love to see your posts 🙂

Here are my reviews from October 2021 plus a link to previous October FBFs….

#FlashbackFriday October 2021 with @nholten40 Rebecca Zahabi, @danklefstad & @MTilburyAuthor #bookreviews

I can’t quite believe I started my little blog seven whole years ago!

Thank you if you’ve been with me from the start. Thank you for reading if this is the first of my posts you’re seeing. Thank you for all the likes, comments, and shares along the way. You’re all awesome!

Here’s to another year of fabulous books, fabulous authors, and hopefully more fabulous events along the way.

Cheers!

Jenny has just given birth to the baby she’s always wanted. She’s never been this happy.

Her husband, Leo, knows this baby girl can’t be his. He’s never felt so betrayed.

The same night, a vulnerable young woman, Hannah, wakes to find her newborn lifeless beside her. She’s crazed with grief.

When chance throws Hannah into Leo’s path, they make a plan that will have shattering consequences for all of them.

Years later, a sixteen-year-old girl reads an article in a newspaper and embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about herself. But what she learns will put everything she has ever known – and her own life – in grave danger. Because some people will go to desperate lengths to protect the secrets their lives are built on . . .

Keep Her Quiet

by Emma Curtis 

My Review

Wow! What a story this is! It certainly kept me glued to my Kindle late at night.

When we meet Leo and Jenny they are about to have a baby, but Leo knows the baby isn’t his. Jenny doesn’t realise he knows that.

When Jenny gives birth she is besotted with her little girl. Leo isn’t so enamoured, but he keeps his thoughts to himself so as not to rock the boat. He needs Jenny to be able to continue doing what he loves. He’s a writer and Jenny’s steady income and second property means he has had the luxury of focusing solely on his writing career. He is determined to become a best seller. Leaving Jenny isn’t an option if he wants to succeed. He is not a likeable person.

My heart went out to Jenny. I can’t even imagine how anyone would begin to move on from the trauma she suffers after just giving birth.

My heart went out to Hannah also, at the beginning. The grief she suffers is unimaginable too. Nothing can justify what she does next though. Her life collides with Leo’s in the most spectacularly twisted way, and she takes advantage of the situation, seemingly, without a second thought. What follows is horrifying.

Two mothers, two baby girls, stories entwined in a way I could never have imagined.

Keep Her Quiet is a fast-paced, suspenseful novel which had me holding my breath on more than one occasion. An incredibly emotional story, full of twists and turns. And, likeable or not, the characters are all fascinating. I loved it!

Highly recommend!

**Many thanks to the author and publisher for my review copy via NetGalley. I am working my way through my list, slowly but surely**

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