Alex the Book Reviewer

  I'm not going to review each of these books separately. They're pretty much all the same!  The books I have read since starting this blog are: The Perfect Paragon Love, Lies and Liquor Kissing Christmas Goodbye A Spoonful of Poison There Goes the Bride Busy Body As The Pig Turns Hiss and Hers Christmas Crumble Something Borrowed, Someone Dead The Blood of an Englishman Dishing the Dirt Pushing up Daisies The Witches' Tree The Dead Ringer Beating about the Bush. I'm addicted to them. They are my go-to popcorn books, they require zero brain power and are sometimes just what I need to escape. The cases themselves are often quite weak but Agatha Raisin is such a great character. Hugely flawed, seemingly hard and uncaring, she's actually extremely vulnerable and insecure. I mean, don't get me wrong, she is a total cow! But she also just really needs someone to care for her. She grew up in the slums of Birmingham, very poor with awful parent...

  This is part of the Murder Most Unladylike series. The fourth in the series.  Ok .... this is a kids book. I can't pretend otherwise! Agatha Christie for kids. I got the first one for Grace and we read it together and now I nag her to get on with it so I can read them! In fact this one, I took off her because she was taking too long. Hazel Wong, the narrator of the story, is Dr Watson to Daisy Wells' Sherlock. Except, Hazel does an awful lot of Sherlocking too. She's by far the most interesting of the two characters as well. These books are always fun to read and have a proper whodunnit feel with the reveal you want at the end.  This one has an added message about bullying and pressure on children. The school bully / Head Girl gets wallopped round the head with a rake but she's so disliked by so many it's hard to narrow down the suspects .... especially when Daisy isn't talking to Hazel because she's keeping secrets. I think this is me trying to make it so...

..... actually, I just decided to write down everything I read this year.  I don't really know why. I think I just wanted to remember what I read as I never do. So I got myself a notepad and started writing down each title as I finished it. But then I started writing what I thought of them too. And then I thought, shall I share this? And here I am..... Don't expect anything too insightful, I'm no writer myself, there'll be a lot of "I loved this" and I will attempt to explain why .... no promises though. PS, I do promise not to have spoilers though!