Emma Grey

I didn't know anything about this book when I checked out the audio version on Libby. I just liked the Australian narrator's voice and it immediately drew me in. It was like listening to someone read their own diary. It was funny and heart wrenching and happy and devastatingly sad all at once. The story was about a middle age woman whose husband has early onset dementia and declines quickly before dying. She is left behind to raise their young son and figure out how to live a life without the love of her life. Loosely based on the author's real life experience of young widowhood, it all felt incredibly real to listen to. A bit intense at times, I was completely captivated. I gave it four stars because it was a bit repetitive and overly wrought and I had to take breaks from the intensity but otherwise loved its passion.… (mais)

Thank you to Zibby Books and the author.

I don't read reviews before reading the book so all I knew was from the back of the book about a “comedic”crisis and how she gets stranded with her boss. I wasn't expecting the plot to be what it really was in the beginning. And the light hearted cover didn't help much either. I was expecting a much lighter book.

I have mixed thoughts about this book. It wasn't a fast-paced book as I would have liked but yet it wasn't slow. I didn't dislike this book but I just can't put my finger on it and just kept reading to read it until the end. It held my interest though but yet it didn't.

I was 167 pages away from finishing it and I couldn't get through it . I knew what was going to happen in the epilogue and I was correct. So predictable.… (mais)

Dr. Bartley gibt bei einer Pressekonferenz bekannt, dass er eine neue bahnbrechende Operationstechnik für Parkinson-Patienten entwickelt hat. Bald wird er jedoch tot in seiner Badewanne aufgefunden, er wurde förmlich gekocht.
Inspektor Peter Cromwell hat seine Frau bei einem Badeunfall und seinen Kollegen bei einem Einsatz verloren. An beiden Todesfällen gibt er sich die Schuld. Er sucht das Vergessen im Alkohol, was dazu führt, dass er unkonzentriert, ungerecht und aufbrausend ist. Keine guten Voraussetzungen wenn man Morde aufklären muss. Dann zwingt ihm sein Chef auch noch die neue Kollegin auf, die seinen toten Partner ersetzen soll. Sofort geraten die beiden aneinander, denn Lynn ist recht vorlaut.
Dann geschieht noch ein Mord, ein Immobilienmakler stirbt auf die gleiche Art wie Bartley.
Bis die Polizei die Motivation des Täters erkennt, vergeht einige Zeit.
Die Protagonisten sind mir nicht sehr sympathisch. Peter reagiert aufgrund seiner Schuldgefühle nicht angemessen, außerdem lässt er den Lehrmeister oft heraushängen. Lynn tritt zunächst sehr souverän auf, reagiert dann aber vorschnell und besserwisserisch. Die anderen Personen in Peters Team haben eher eine Nebenrolle, obwohl sie fachlich kompetent sind.
Die Geschichte liest sich gut und war recht spannend, aber das Ende ist eher überraschend glatt.… (mais)

Im not really a fangirl, but I used to fangirl to the boy band called “Westlife” lol. So just imagine your boy band crush picked you out of million girls in a concert and broadcast it over tweeter? hahah sounds dreamy right. This book is not really about a fangirl, its actually the opposite of fangirling. Kat hates the boy band “unrequited”, but her sisters are such fangirls and they are going to one of the bands concert in Australia. Kat was asked by her mum to her twin sisters to the concert which she totally loathed.

I didn't expect to like this book, but yeh I totally found myself fangirling lol. Its a good book, its really entertaining and made me feel like I was still in high school. Its a cinderella story’ish and its like far fetched from reality, if you think something like this would happen to you. hahaha one can wish right?… (mais)