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Book Review 🏚 Sleep ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 🏚 When Anna moves to the remote Scottish island of Rum to escape her tragic past, she hopes to make a fresh start. She takes a job at a small hotel, where seven guests arrive just before a storm brews. Soon the past appears to be catching up with Anna and what she doesn’t know is that there’s a murderer staying in the hotel and she looks set to be their next victim... 🏚 Sleep is the latest novel by @cltaylorauthor, which had me hooked from its opening line “If you’re reading this then I am no longer alive”. The story is a clever whodunnit and is reminiscent of an Agatha Christie mystery. It certainly kept me guessing right to the end, serving up quite a few neat twists. As well as being an excellent thriller, the book dealt with issues of survivors’ guilt, trauma and insomnia, as well as mirroring real life events that added to the eeriness of the story. The remote setting helped set the tone of the book and create the tense atmosphere within the story. I really loved the book, so thank you @avon_books and @meetbookgirl for another great thriller. Thank you too to @cltaylor for writing such an addictive read! 🏚 #grimdragon - It’s a trap! 🏚 #glenjensbookreviews 🏚 #daretosleep

Treat Tuesday featuring Keep Her Close, the latest book mail from @avon_books and @meetbookgirl. M.J. Ford’s Hold My Hand was one of my favourite crime thriller reads last year, so I’m really excited to read this next instalment featuring DS Josie Masters. In Keep Her Close, Josie investigates the case of a missing woman in Oxford. Then two more women disappear and Josie begins to realises the case is personal when the killer appears to be sending her a deadly message... 📚 On a separate note, is anyone else still having trouble with Instagram? I tried to do a post last night, but an error message kept popping up instead. Fingers crossed this post works! 🤞🏻 #grimdragon - Book Mail is the best mail!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I have been so excited that the day has fallen on my day off this year! 😀 I do miss having the extra day off back home! 😂 Have you been celebrating today? Do you have any favourite Irish authors, books, film or music? I think I know @bookstravelandtea’s answer! 😉 Have a great Paddy’s Night everyone! 🇮🇪☘️💚

Shelfie Saturday featuring @rossiter_books, my favourite place to spend the day! I haven’t spent much time on Bookstagram this week, mainly due to the weird glitch it had this week, so bear with me while I slowly catch up on all your posts! I’ve missed chatting to everyone here! Wishing you all a lovely weekend ❤️

Book Review ✍🏻 Can You Ever Forgive Me? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 ✍🏻 “I still consider the letters to be my best work. Reminiscent of Dustin Hoffman’s summing up in Tootsie, I was a better writer as a forger than I had ever been as a writer.” ✍🏻 After her writing career stalls, author Lee Israel resorts to desperate measures by forging letters that imitate the style of famous writers like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Her new found career of crime appears to pay, until she is investigated by the FBI... ✍🏻 Can You Ever Forgive Me? is Lee Israel’s memoirs of being a literary forger and was a recent book club read. The book is short and snappy at only 127 pages, all of which I read in about an hour. Lee Israel’s deadpan humour had me laughing out loud and she was such a great character. The book proved to polarise opinions at book club, with many disliking the author. Yet for me, her lack of morality somehow didn’t come into the equation as she was such an interesting character to read. There is a sense of aloofness and detachment when reading the author’s memoirs, but this was another element that I didn’t mind and the fact that it was short and to the point with no filler enhanced my enjoyment of the book. At the same time, it did leave me wanting more and I look forward to seeing the film adaptation of the book, which has been reported to be much better than its source material. ✍🏻 Have you read Can You Ever Forgive Me? Have you seen its film adaptation? Do you enjoy memoirs? ✍🏻 #glenjensbookreviews

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” - Michelle Obama 💖 Happy International Women’s Day! A day that remains as relevant as ever with true equality still not existing for many around the world. We have come a long way, but there is still much to be done regarding equal rights for women. Today is also a wonderful reminder of all that women have accomplished and can achieve. I love the above quote from Michelle Obama, who is such an inspirational figure and does so much work to help women around the world. Reading Becoming was such an incredible read and make me feel that anything is possible with hard work and determination. Today has already been a positive day regarding work and I also received a gift from one of my colleagues to celebrate today! Hope you all have a lovely International Women’s Day! 💖 What books or female figures have you felt inspired by? 💖 P.S. The lovely pins and print are designed by the talented @itslauracrow. Don’t forget you can use my code CROWREP18 to get 20% off in her shop! Being able to support and promote independent businesswomen is such a lovely aspect of Bookstagram! 💖 #happyinternationalwomensday

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