At the start of the year, I often take an interest in the books coming out over the next 12 months. I usually end up buying a bunch, reading a selection, and finding myself no longer interested in the rest. But, for now, here are the ones that have caught my attention for one reason…
Books
Book Review: Cheryl: My Story by Cheryl Tweedy
I started reading this book last year but didn’t get past page 26 for some reason. I picked it up again last week after seeing Girls Aloud perform on 23rd May and I’m so glad I did. I really enjoyed reading this despite it being an emotional rollercoaster. I flew through it. Cheryl: My Story…
Book Review: Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth
In the early 1990s, in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out place. She’s always felt this way and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn’t appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend who is in love with her. Lucy begins to make sense…
Book Review: Girlcrush by Florence Given
Feminist influencer and illustrator Florence Given’s debut fiction novel, Girlcrush, follows Eartha on a wild and weird modern-day exploration as she exits an abusive relationship with a man and commences life as an openly bisexual woman, while also becoming a viral sensation on Wonder Land, a social media app where people project their dream selves…
Book Review: Unmasked, the Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence
Like many people with autism and/or ADHD, TikToker Ellie Middleton thought she was broken until she was diagnosed at 24. She wasn’t a bad person, she was neurodivergent. The diagnoses felt like a lightbulb being switched on and allowed her to finally begin healing from the trauma of being undiagnosed and misunderstood for so long….
Book Review: Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Harris
“I was 21 years old when I found myself on the front stoop of the Playboy Mansion. I want to tell the real story of my time there — the good and the bad, the light and the dark.” In 2008, the Playboy Mansion became Crystal Harris’s sanctuary. Within months she has ascended its hierarchy…
Book Review: The Ugly Truth
Melanie Lange has disappeared. Her father, Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and has been admitted to a private mental health clinic. Her ex-husband, Finn, and best friend, Nell, say she has been kidnapped. The media will say whichever gets the most views. But whose side are you on? #SaveMelanie or…
Book Review: The Blonde Identity
Having only read the first book in Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls series, I was still excited when I learned she was releasing an adult novel and the plot would follow a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night in Paris with no memory and ends up on the run with a hot…
Book Review: Is This OK?
I am obsessed with this book! It perfectly encapsulates what it’s like to grow up online and be caught in the lifelong search for connection while capturing the changing culture and social media of the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s. Harriet Gibsone manages to write about all the embarrassing and cringeworthy stuff we do and think and…
Book Review: The Brightsiders
The Brightsiders has the worst opening lines to a book that I’ve ever read — so much so that I closed my kindle book. I was prepared for it to be YA, but wow. I picked this up again because I noticed it was included in my Audible membership, so I thought I’d see if I…