Time To Feed My Reads

Day 90 of Feed My Reads recommended in 2022 brings us another entry from Maria Frankland with her excellent Hit and Run.  This is a book which has a great story which delivers twists and turns a plenty and is well worth reading. The sunniest days can yield the darkest news After years of problem drinking, Fiona is getting her life back on track. She can deal with whatever problems life might throw at her without her former ‘crutch.’ But problems have a nasty habit of raining down all at once. The greatest threat to her new-found sobriety comes in the shape of two police officers with dreadful news to impart. As the aftermath of this news escalates, Fiona finds herself not only having to deal with losing her husband Rob, but also with the threat of losing her son, home, money and freedom. There are several people with cause to have run Rob off the road as he cycled, but Fiona is considered to have had the most motive and is therefore the main suspect. The evidence against her is sta...

When you check out quick read books you never know what you are going to find as it is a challenge to create a level of depth in a short time but Darkness Rising by A.A. Dhand is one of those that manages to provide a story with true depth and quality to it and thanks to that it is our day 89 of Feed My Reads recommended in 2022 reads. 'One of the most multi-layered policemen to have appeared in recent years.' -  Mail on Sunday Detective Inspector Harry Virdee has a lot on his plate. His team is facing government cuts, tensions are building between Bradford’s two rival drugs gangs and his wife Saima is due to give birth any day now. So when bodies start turning up in the old industrial district, the pressure is on to get the case wrapped up as quickly as possible, or risk a full-scale gang war. But the man behind the murders is ruthless and pushy. And things are getting personal. Harry must think fast and bend the rules if he wants to keep his city, and his family, safe . . . R...

Day 88  of Feed My Reads recommended in 2022 sees us revisit a book that was unexpected but brilliant, Bounty (Jill Anderson series book 1) by J.D. Cunegan.  This book is one which is well worth checking out and highly recommended. Jill Andersen is one of Baltimore's best and brightest detectives, but she harbors a dark secret -- a secret that threatens to come out when the body of Dr. Trent Roberts is pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Roberts' connection to Jill reveals a past that involves a tour in Iraq, a secretive cybernetic experiment, and a conspiracy that involves a native son. Can Jill solve the case while still keeping her secret? Will her partners at the Seventh Precinct find out what she's so desperate to hide? What was Dr. Roberts looking into that led to his murder? And perhaps the biggest question of all... Who is Bounty? Review: With her father sat on death row and counting down the days until his execution, Jill Anderson continues to work her job on the...

Feed My Reads recommended reads for 2022 has not had many quick reads as yet but The Skylight by Louise Candlish manages to pack a huge amount of story into a quick read and really does deserve to be up there as a recommended read. They can’t see her, but she can see them… Simone has a secret. She likes to stand at her bathroom window and spy on the couple downstairs through their kitchen skylight. She knows what they eat for breakfast and who they’ve got over for dinner. She knows what mood they’re in before they even step out the door. There’s nothing wrong with looking, is there? Until one day Simone sees something through the skylight she is not expecting. Something that upsets her so much she begins to plot a terrible crime… From the author of  Our House , the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year Review: You have the perfect life with your boyfriend, the home is perfect and you can see this being your forever but then one day you see something through the ...

Day 86 of Feed My Reads recommended reads in 2022 is one that is for children but stood out as being so good that it had to be included in our recommendations, here is Dear Dumb Diary: Am I the Princess or the Frog? by Jim Benton. More of the (nearly) true and absolutely hilarious confessions of Jamie Kelly . . . Jamie's best friend is planning to display a picture of Jamie next to her disgustingly stinky beagle, as part of a project to show how pets look like their people. Gee, thanks. And her mum, in a twisted plot created by the school dinner ladies, has been asked to cook meatloaf for the whole school. Mum's cooking - known for its ability to poison anyone who touches it. Mum's meatloaf - the food that even Stinker turns his nose up at. Can Jamie survive the shame? Review: Jamie Kelly maybe young but her diary shows she has attitude enough for the someone much older than her years.  Her class have been tasked with a simple task of creating a collage of photos of the per...

Feed My Reads loves discovering new authors and having the chance to read a few works from the same author thanks to a collection of stories makes this so much easier, Thunderlands offered a great chance to read work by Stewart Bint and stood out as a read worth recommending. A bolt of lightning. A crack of thunder. The lingering smell of ozone in the highly-charged air. And the world has changed forever. Welcome to  Thunderlands . It looks the same on the surface, but there's just a hint that all might not be what it seems beneath. Even the most ordinary things may be just a touch off kilter. Stewart Bint’s collection of 21 short stories ranges from the sublime, through powerful, puzzling, funny, horrific and different, to the unforgivably ridiculous. Review: This is a serious of short and not so short stories which are each excellent in their quality and show an author with a real talent.  The stories are varied and yet each one reads well in its own right.  This was my...

AUTHOR INTERVIEW A little introduction: Well, I’m Nicola and although I have always wanted to be a writer, I started my journey ‘for real’ a little over a year ago when I randomly entered a writing competition and got a lot further than I was expecting to. After years of doubting myself, I finally resolved to give it a proper go, and what started out as a tentative competition entry developed into my first complete work of fiction and I now have two more works-in-progress as well. Writing is not a full-time gig for me, I have the most wonderful day job as Head of Communications for Redwings, an amazing horse welfare charity here in the UK, so I get to write about ponies in the daytime, and then on a spare evening or at weekends or whenever I can find a few quiet moments, I put on my other writing ‘hat’ and work on my novels. Somewhere along the way I must have also had some kind of social life as I’ve managed to acquire a lovely husband and a beautiful little girl who are super toleran...