Challenge 4: A Book Your Friend Loves

Ida's book: "The Tent, the Bucket, and me" by Emma Kennedy (Ebury Press, 2009)

This was a fairly easy challenge. This autumn I watched a show on BBC called "The Kennedy's" with my friends and they recommended me the book it was based on. I absolutely loved the TV show, cried with laughter sometimes so the book has been ready on my shelf for a few months, waiting for the fourth challenge. Its time has now come and I can't wait to read this book!

Comments:

I absolutely loved this book! It's hard to believe all this misfortune happened to one single family, but from Emma Kennedy's reading it somehow just fits together. You really come to love this family, Brenda's hysterical nature and longing for a proper holiday, Tony's hatred for France and love of good old England, and Emma's countless accidents, somehow involving body fluids every single year. I can't recommend this book enough, it truly is laugh-out-loud funny!

Challenge 3: A Book You Pick Solely Because of its Cover

Donna's Book: "Stranger Child" by Rachel Abbot (Black Dot Publishing, 2015)

I get an email from amazon every day advertisng various deals on kindle books.  I usually delete them straight away, but this one caught my attention -- possibly because of the pink tinge!  But also because of the haunted expression on the girl's face, and the title intrigued me too.  I know nothing about the author or about this book other than I like the cover.  Let's find out more ...

Comments

I enjoyed this!  I can't talk about the plot too much because I don't want to spoil it for anyone.  There are numerous twists and turns, but never so many that it gets confusing, and enough to keep you turning the pages.  I thought I'd figured out the main twist at the end as I was reading, but I hadn't!  And it's begging for a sequel, or at least an epilogue.  It kept me interested, and engaged, and was written well and with intelligence.  If you like a good mystery/thriller, then this is worth a read.