The light years (the first book it the cazalet series). I actually thought the book was OK, but then I bought the others (for the sake of two characters i liked) and not only was that quite costly (i did only buy one at a time though) but the books got less interesting as I went on (far too many characters and stories) but I couldn’t abandon the series halfway through so I had to buy and read the rest of them and it just became a chore to finish them. Also everyone warned the rest of the Internet not to read the last book if you liked two of the characters but I had to read it to finish the series…major regret.

Thursday murder club, its brilliantly funny

You be mother. There was such a sad element to this whole book.

If I have to Google to find out what the book entails, its usually not going to be that great. Even the ones where the blurb is like “she has a secret…can she keep it?” irritate me becuase it does nothing to stand put from other books if I don’t know what it’s about

I read the blurb bit which tells you a bit about the book, although I do sometimes just buy books based off titles/ covers alone. I don’t read what other authors have to say as they’re not going to put anything bad on there are they (“don’t read this book it’s awful”- Colleen Hoover or “the story really drags and there’s too much description”- NY Times. And usually they are just one word like “brilliant” which tells me nothing) I have scanned to look for author names on some books if I don’t know whether to buy it. Usually if an author I like has commented on the book, then it’s probably going to be a good book.

The distant hours by Kate Morton. Couldn’t get my head around all the different time periods and the whole ‘mud man’ thing so I gave it up and then re read it a few years later and it made a lot more sense.