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#currentlyreading Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn, another book on my #glenjens40before40 challenge! I’m enjoying it so far, although I’ve only read one chapter! I’ve loved du Maurier’s Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel, so I have high hopes for this one. Are you a Daphne du Maurier fan? Do you have a favourite book of hers?

TV Tuesday...The trailer for the Little Fires Everywhere adaptation was released a few days ago and it looks so good! The tv show stars @reesewitherspoon and @kerrywashington and will premiere in the US on @hulu on March 18th. I’m hoping there will be a U.K. release date announced soon! Reese Witherspoon’s book adaptation picks are always so good and I loved Big Little Lies, so I feel very confident that @littlefireshulu will be just as good! Now I just need to decide whether I should finally read the book or just watch the show and let the surprises unfold?...🤔😅 📺 Have you read Little Fires Everywhere? Are you excited for the tv adaptation? Do you have a favourite Reese Witherspoon book to screen adaptation?

Book Review 🌲 Imaginary Friend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🌲 Imagine...Leaving your house in the middle of the night. Knowing your mother is doing her best, but she's just as scared as you. Imagine...Starting a new school, making friends. Seeing how happy it makes your mother. Hearing a voice, calling out to you. Imagine...Following the signs, into the woods. Going missing for six days. Remembering nothing about what happened. Imagine...Coming back a totally different person. Thinking you're going crazy - or being the only one who knows what's coming. Imagine...Something that will change everything...And having to save everyone you love. 🌲 Fleeing from an abusive relationship, Kate Reese seeks refuge with her seven year old son Christopher in the close community of Mill Grove in Pennsylvania. The isolated town seems like the perfect place to hide away and start again. But then Christopher vanishes in the woods for six days before reappearing, seemingly unharmed, yet different. Unbeknownst to everyone else, Christopher returns with a voice in his head, assigning him a mission: Build a treehouse by Christmas, or else no one will ever be the same again... 🌲 Imaginary Friend is an epic tale of good versus evil with echoes of classic Stephen King novels, even cleverly referencing King's stories within the narrative. As well as being an absorbing and eerie horror, the book tackles many themes and topics, including abuse, alcoholism, bullying, grief, mental health and religion. I read this book as an audiobook from @librofm and the narrator @yolakin was superb. She brought the characters to life in such an animated way that I really felt like I was listening to an array of voices. It completely enhanced my reading experience and possibly in a way that may not have happened if I had read a physical copy of the book. With an ending that left me completely mind blown, Imaginary Friend is a highly conceptual novel from @chboskys that I enjoyed wholeheartedly. 🌲 Have you read Imaginary Friend? Do you think that the way we read a book can alter how we enjoy reading? 🌲 #glenjensbookreviews

I love nonfiction and I received two great books this weekend thanks to my @rossiter_books workmates! I loved reading The Salt Path last year, so thanks to @rustie_bakes for picking a proof of @raynor.winn’s next book The Wild Silence for me. Thanks also to @cazrahnewby for lending me The Universe Has Your Back by @gabbybernstein. I’m actually not familiar with this author, but this is definitely a book I’m in need of right now. My friends know me so well! 🥰 I also received a wonderful surprise over the weekend, which I will share in my Stories after this post. It’s really made my week! ❤️ Have you received any books from friends recently? What is the best book you’ve received from a friend?

Book Review 📖 Force of Nature ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 📖 "Later, the four remaining women could finally agree on only two things. One: No-one saw the bushland swallow up Alice Russell. And two: Alice had a mean streak so sharp it could cut you." 📖 Force of Nature is Jane Harper's second novel and features the character of Aaron Falk again, previously seen in Harper's debut novel The Dry. I loved The Dry so much, so this second book had a lot to live up to! Force of Nature is another gripping crime fiction novel that kept me guessing right to the end. The narrative unfolds in the past and present, with the past counting down to Alice's disappearance. Again, the Australian landscape is integral to the story and I love how Harper weaves the setting into the storyline and vividly bringing it to life. 📖 While I Loved Force of Nature, it fell slightly short on The Dry for me. It's difficult not to compare the two, but as the character of Aaron Falk is featured again in this book, it's hard not to. It was great to revisit Falk and see how his life had moved on from the events in The Dry, but overall I didn't get the sense that his character arc really developed any further this novel and one element in his storyline in this book does resort to a classic crime genre cliché. The other characters in the book were not all that likeable, so the mystery was not quite as absorbing as its predecessor. Despite these minor flaws, Force of Nature is still an excellent mystery and crime novel and I will look forward to reading Harper's third novel The Lost Man. 📖 Have you read Force of Nature? How do you think it compares to The Dry? 📖 #glenjensbookreviews

{#gifted} 🍁 Seven teenagers went into the woods. Only six came back. 🍁 When a body is discovered, DCI Sheens is called to investigate the crime scene. He already knows who it is: Aurora Jackson, who went missing thirty years ago after going camping in the woods with her older sister and her friends. Her body is found in a hideaway only the other girls knew existed. Which means someone is lying about their innocence... 🍁 Fear Friday...I was delighted to receive She Lies In Wait by @gythalodge recently as I love a good murder mystery! Have you read this book? What book mail have you received lately? 🍁 #grimdragon - Spooky? Do you think I'm spooky?

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