In a letter to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I cannot live without books," and we understand how he felt. Books have been our best friends ever since we can remember and we're going to celebrate our love for them with this 'reading challenge.' The aim is to tick one book off every month!

Although our lives have taken us in different directions, this challenge, and this blog, is also a way for us to celebrate our friendship as well as our love of reading.

This blog is really just for fun and each entry will explain how the 'book of the month' fits into the category, why we made our choices, and include some comments/thoughts on each book.

Let the challenge commence!!

Donna and Ida

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

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 ...

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 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.
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