Dead Lovely By Helen Fitzgerald

The Blurb:

When Krissie joins her best friend, Sarah, on a walking holiday in the Scottish Highlands, it seems like the peaceful balm they both need. But peace turns to betrayal when Krissie seduces Sarah's husband, Kyle - and it isn't long before betrayal turns to murder . . .

My Opinion:

Where I picked this book up from I can't remember, but I'm so glad I did. Being a hopeless romantic when it comes to a book and loving a good mystery program I thought this would be a good mix of the two and how right I was. I have to say the quote from the Sunday Telegraph sold the book to me more than the blurb did. This book can be so far fetched you're sitting there like 'what?' but it also has the makings of a CSI episode. Killing someone for love, makes relationships all that bit more interesting. This book is fast paced and if you had a free day could be easily read within it. I didn't want to put it down out of curiosity with what will happen next, great plot twists which you didn't see coming. 

The main reason this book got a 3 1/2 * is for 2 reasons, the writing style is definitely aimed at a younger audience, which I am so that's great with me, but I feel this book could be so much better if the style was slightly tweaked. The other reason is for how far fetched it is, at times it doesn't even seem real or even in the same story and you could've just switched over to a slasher book.

Apart from that if you love the two main genres of this book, give it a good and i'm sure you'll love it.

Rating: *** 1/2

Release Year: 2006

Bookcover image and blurb are from Goodreads.

Ten Things I've Learnt About Love By Sarah Butler

The Blurb:

A uniquely heart-wrenching and life-affirming novel for fathers and daughters everywhere.

Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye.Daniel hasn't had a roof over his head for years, but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks and mortar ever did. He spends every day searching for his daughter; the daughter he has never met. Until now . . .Heart-wrenching and life-affirming, this is a unique story of love lost and found, of rootlessness and homecoming and the power of the ties that bind.It is a story for fathers and daughters everywhere.

My Opinion:

There's judging a book by it's cover but with this book for the first time I judged a book by it's title, and boy how wrong was I. The title of this book works with the book once you've read the book, but before you think it's a chick-lit and this is far from. This type of book is one of those where you have to expect nothing majorly exciting or gripping to happen to keep you reading the book, it's a nice relaxing read which at times makes you feel like you're reading for the sake of having a read. The beginning of this book dragged and was boring, hence why it took me a month to read a 276 page book. 

I really liked the way this book was laid out,each chapter was from a different point of view, either Alice or Daniel. Also at the beginning  of each chapter there's a list of 10 things from that person, usually it would be about a subject or topic. The way the author has done this has made the book stand out from others. Although the ending of this book was nice and leaves you guessing to what happened next I still feel there is plenty of unfinished business from these two characters where it could've been carried on or maybe into a sequel. Apart from the slowness of this story the book was well written and I will be checking out more short books from this author.

Rating:***

Release Year: 2013

Image and Blurb from Goodreads.

September Favourites

It's been a while since I've done a favourites post so here is my september favorites.

First up is a foundation, it's the Rimmel Match Perfection which has an spf 15 added in. When I first got this foundation I didn't like it, I felt it didn't give great coverage and didn't last long on my skin. But recently I've been using it to use up the bottle and I've fallen for it. I find it now gives my skins a nice natural dewy look, and somehow it's now lasting a good 12 hour day. I have no clue what I'm doing different now from before.

I wear shade 200 Soft Beige. £6.99 from Superdrug. 

Next is a blush, it's from a recently found brand that sells online and stock in Tesco, VIVO. I bought this baked blush when they had a half price sale on, before this I didn't wear blush so when buying this I didn't want to spend too much on one. I searched google and blogs for reviews on this product and it seemed that everyone reviewed one shade, that shade wasn't in stock when I bought mine so I bought it in the shade Cinnamon glow. By looking on the site they don't seem to have this shade any more, it may come back in stock. I found that this blush is greatly pigmented and you only need a couple of light dabs onto the blush with a brush to get enough for the cheeks. It gives a nice healthy glow. 

£4.00 from VIVO.

The next product is a make up from that I recently bought from eBay. I have recently done an in depth review on this product here. Before this I never used brushes I always applied my foundation with my hands, but after using this brush I found that it gives my skins a nice soft look and the foundation is blended in well.

£1.85 from eBay.

Then there is a perfume, this is Calvin Klein's In2U her. I bought this perfume around sometime last year (I think) and since I bought it, it's become one of my favourite perfumes. It's a nice floral scent with a slight fruity tinge that stays well, I found it stays better on clothes than it does on skin. 

£17.95 from Fragrance Direct for 100ml EDT.

Finally is a book which is from The Mortal Instruments series first is the city of bones. I recently did a full review on this book with the blurb and my opinion as part of my Bookworm Series here. I really enjoyed reading this book and when I got into it I didn't feel as long as the book looks. It's a great gripping book and I can't wait to read the rest of the series.

£3.85 Paperback price and £3.08 Kindle edition from Amazon.

What were your favourites for september? Where any of these in your favourites?

The Bookworm Series: The Summer I Turned Pretty

The Bookworm series : The Guardian