Dzikuska reads

Title: The Twelve dates of Christmas Author: Jenny Bayliss My rating: 4 stars Description: Kate Turner is happily single – a bit  too  happily, in fact. Since returning to her hometown of Blexford, a sleepy village where everybody knows each other, and between catching up with her oldest friends Laura and Matt, a flourishing career as a fabric designer, and taking care of her beloved dad, love hasn’t really had a look in. But Kate does love Christmas. So when Laura insists she signs up to the Twelve Dates of Christmas, a brand new dating app service, she doesn’t need too much persuading. Twelve perfect festive dates with the area’s most eligible men – who could say no? Amongst the twinkling lights and over hot chocolates and glasses of red wine, romance is easy to find. But with each date, Kate learns more about the men, and even more about herself. As the big day approaches, Kate’s left wondering – is it really the season for true love, or will this Christmas be t...

Title: What my sister knew Author: Nina Laurin My rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Description: "...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..." I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size. It's a shock that makes my breath catch. This is my brother as an adult, my brother who I last saw fifteen years ago after the fire that killed our parents, covered in soot, clutching a lighter in his hand, his knuckles stark white against the dirt and ash. Everyone always said he'd grow up to be a heartbreaker. But his face has gone gaunt instead. The stubble on his cheeks and chin is patchy, and his eyes look dull and dark. My first thought is that it's not him. Not my beautiful brother, the golden boy who everyone loved. Yet, deep down, I've always known this would eventually happen. What did you do this time, Eli? What the hell did you do? My opinion: I've rated...

  I don’t usually listen to audiobooks but I really enjoyed this one.  The story is just hilarious. I’ve been listening to this for a couple of sleepless nights and was bursting out laughing every few minutes. My husband kicked me out of the bedroom 🤣 The night on the sofa was really worth it though!  FREE EBOOK!   To celebrate back to school for the kids and Road Trip now being available on audio, the lovely authors, Laura Barnard and Andie M Long, have set the ebook to FREE for a limited time only.  Check out the synopsis below. After the end of a car crash relationship can Katy find true love? Catching her sister in bed with her fiancé, school teacher Katy Cornish enlists playboy colleague Felix Montague to help her save face. What she doesn’t bargain on is them both losing their jobs in the process.  With money running out, Katy must endure the rude and arrogant Felix while they embark on a road trip around the country in hopes of securing a new job. B...

  Title: Unfollow me Author: Charlotte Duckworth My rating: Description: You Can't Stop Watching Her. Violet Young is a hugely popular journalist-turned-mummy-vlogger, with three young children, a successful husband and a million subscribers on YouTube who tune in daily to watch her everyday life unfold. Until the day she's no longer there. But one day she disappears from the online world - her entire social media presence deleted overnight, with no explanation. Has she simply decided that baring her life to all online is no longer a good idea, or has something more sinister happened to her? But do you really know who Violet is? Told from the perspectives of her most avid fans, obsessed with finding out the truth, their search quickly reveals a web of lies, betrayal, and shocking consequences... My opinion: Unfollow me by Charlotte Duckworth is a story of social media obsession. When Violet Young, a succesful mummy-vlogger suddenly dissapears from her online...

  Title: Girl Author: Kenya Hunt My rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐ Description: Black women have never been more visible or more publicly celebrated. But for every new milestone, every magazine cover, every box office record smashed, every new face elected to public office, the reality of everyday life for black women remains a complex, conflicted, contradiction-laden experience. Girl  both illuminates our current cultural moment and transcends it. Hunt captures the zeitgeist while also creating a timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain. She blends the popular and the personal, the frivolous and the momentous in a collection that truly reflects what it is to be living and thriving as a black woman today. My opinion: First of all, thanks to NetGalley for a privilage of reviewing the ARC. It was a pleasure and I really enjoyed it. Kenya Hunt is a fashion director of Elle, she's a Black American woman living in London. Her book “Girl” i...