Book Reviews.
Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi
Sparks Like Stars starts in 1978 Kabul, Afghanistan and follows Sitara, a ten-year-old whose father is a high-ranking official working for President Daoud. She has a perfect life, until the night that soldiers storm the palace in a coup, killing her whole family. Sitara survives, thanks to a guard who smuggles her out of the palace and after meeting an American diplomat, she manages to escape to the US…
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
A witty, sexy book about two complex characters with a connection that tears them apart but makes them feel whole.
Eva is a bestselling erotic author and single mother to her teenage daughter, who is brilliant. Eva is intelligent, beautiful, and wildly talented. Shane is also a bestseller but of a completely different kind of book. Renowned for being a recluse, the mystery around him only makes him even more magnetic and adored by the literary world. After a chance meeting at a book event, we discover that Eva and Shane spent seven whirlwind days falling in love in June as teenagers and this one week shaped their entire lives…
How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
I just Googled the title of Bella Mackie’s novel and am now fairly certain I’m on some sort of criminal watch list. Not to worry – I’ve learnt enough from the psychopathic but worryingly relatable main character Grace Bernard to worm my way out of any legal trouble. Tip number one seems fairly obvious: don’t write down a detailed account of your misdeeds. But then, we wouldn’t have this romp of a cynical comedy to entertain us…