Blog Tour | Book Review: Kill the Angel by Sandrone Dazieri (Torre and Caselli #2) #RandomThingsTours

May 8, 2018May 7, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 8 Comments

I’m delighted to be kicking of the Kill the Angel blog tour, and sharing my review of this title with you today. Kill the Angel follows Kill the Father in Dazieri’s Torre and Caselli series. The second novel from the acclaimed author of Kill the Father, a Richard and Judy 2017 Bookclub pick and Sunday Times bestseller, this thriller is multi-layered, complex, full … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: Kill the Angel by Sandrone Dazieri (Torre and Caselli #2) #RandomThingsTours

Book Review: Penance by Kanae Minato

April 26, 2018April 25, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 23 Comments

It's official, Minato is the Queen of writing tales of revenge! When a group of young girls are approached by a stranger, they cannot know that the encounter will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Hours later, Emily is dead. The surviving girls alone can identify the killer. But not one of them … Continue reading Book Review: Penance by Kanae Minato

Book Review: The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks (Modern Czech Classics)

April 23, 2018April 22, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 7 Comments

The theme for this month’s Book Bum Club is ‘Short and Sweet’ – read a book under two hundred pages - I chose to read The Cremator, a horror novel. "The devil's neatest trick is to persuade us that he doesn't exist." Giovanni Papini. It is a maxim that both rings true in our contemporary … Continue reading Book Review: The Cremator by Ladislav Fuks (Modern Czech Classics)

Blog Tour | Book Review: Keeper by Johana Gustawsson (Roy & Castells #2)

April 6, 2018April 5, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 13 Comments

The Queen of French Noir is back with the second book in the Emily Roy & Alexis Castells series, Keeper, and I’m delighted to be a part of the blog tour, sharing my review with you today. Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: Keeper by Johana Gustawsson (Roy & Castells #2)

Blog Tour | Book Review: We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard

March 30, 2018March 29, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 8 Comments

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for We Were the Salt of the Sea, I’m delighted to be sharing my review with you today. Book Description: Truth lingers in murky waters… As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: We Were the Salt of the Sea by Roxanne Bouchard

Book Review: Lullaby by Leïla Slimani

March 26, 2018March 25, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 17 Comments

*This novel is also published as The Perfect Nanny* This book had me wanting to read it after reading the first line of the synopsis! Book Description: The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look … Continue reading Book Review: Lullaby by Leïla Slimani

Blog Tour | Book Review: The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson (Hidden Iceland #1) #TheDarkness

March 20, 2018March 20, 2018 ~ Janel (Keeper of Pages) ~ 15 Comments

Welcome to my stop of the blog tour for Ragnar Jónasson’s latest novel, The Darkness, the first novel in an exciting new Nordic Noir series. I’m delighted to be sharing my review with you today. Book Description: The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson (Hidden Iceland #1) #TheDarkness