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📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 The Lucky Escape By Laura Jane Williams Thank you to @netgalley once again for gifting me this beautiful book to read for you! I wasn’t sure what to expect with this book, as I don’t read many Romance Novels, but the main plot was amazing and I loved the fact that Laura had chosen a mixture of Male and Female characters to feature within the main plot. 📚“ONE CANCELLED WEDDING When the day finally comes for Annie to marry Alexander, the last thing she expects is to be left standing at the altar. She was so sure he was Mr Right. Now, she has no idea how she could have got it so wrong. ONE UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER After a chance meeting with Patrick, an old friend who reminds her of who she used to be, Annie takes a vow of her own: she’ll say yes to every opportunity that comes her way from now on. ONE SPARE TICKET FOR THE HONEYMOON Could a spontaneous trip with Patrick be the way to mend Annie’s heart? She’s about to find out as she embarks on her honeymoon – with a man who’s not her husband…”📚 The story was told really intimately with plenty of different plot lines to allow the reader something to get their teeth into which I appreciated whilst reading. Through reading this book, I also loved the development of the leading character Annie as well and the ups and downs of her developing relationship with Patrick as well. There were some things that happened that I expected to happen and some that happened that I wasn’t expecting to happen. I will include an affiliate link in the bio to Amazon should you want to Pre-order this wonderful book. The UK release Date for this book is the June the 10th 2021. Will you read this book when it is released? Let me know in the comments. . . #TheLuckyEscape #Jilted #Alter #ComedyRomance #Comedy #Romance #Drama #ComedyRomanceDrama #LovedUp #Australia #London #NewAdventures #LifeistooShort #Alsoontheblog #NewBlog #NewBook #NetgalleyReader #NetGalleyReads #Reader #Bookstagram #CurrentRead (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM9iRKtLb6b/?igshid=1obhk4drgh9op

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 The Zoo By Christopher Wilson This book certainly isn’t for everyone, but I managed to have a laugh with it, because as times the plot was so outrageous it was funny! 📚“Meet Yuri Zipit A boy who’s had a bang on the head in a collision with a Moscow Milk Truck. He has a kind face, makes friends easily, and likes to help. People want to tell him their secrets. Including the Great Leader himself, who takes a shine to Yuri and employs him for his natural talents. In his new job, Yuri will witness it all- betrayals, body doubles, buffoonery. Who knew that a man could be in five places at once? That someone could break your nose as a sign of friendship? That people could be disinvented…? The Zoo is a brilliantly cutting satire told through the voice of one incredible boy.”📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book, is quite insulting and sometimes really revolting, but if you like books that are a little like that, then you’ll be absolutely fine! This isn’t one that I would usually read, but I enjoyed it all the same, even if I did end up cringing at some parts. Please remember also that this is a historical satire, so things were often done different to how they are today, thank goodness! Have you read this book yet? If you have please let me know what you thought in the comments below as I would be quite intrigued to know what others thought too! (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLww_cZAaNc/?igshid=xubw42p1fu3h

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 Such A Fun Age By Kiley Reid This book covers a multitude of modern subjects in many different ways, mostly with race and colour in the centre of the entire plot. Which is really good, as even though this is a fictional book, it provides the reader with much needed information, when it comes to people of different ethnic minorities and the problems that they face. 📚“When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for ‘kidnapping’ the white child she’s actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive chain of events. Her employer Alix, a feminist blogger with the best of intentions, resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix’s desire to help. When a surprising connection emerges between the two women, it sends them on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know- about themselves, each other, and the messy dynamics of privilege.”📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Emira and Alix are two really strong women, both are inspirational in their own way. Which is only credit to the author, because even though Alix did make mistakes along the way, she really did try and do her best for the people who are closest to her, Emira being one of them. This book really does stand out to me as being really inspirational for people to read, as the two main characters are really successful in their own way. Also the fact that the author has brought in many different diverse characters is amazing! (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLoPITygvMU/?igshid=13kzikqap7jl2

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✨Loving my Reading Corner...✨ Loving my new reading corner as of late, mainly because of these amazing lights that really add such a cosy feel, although this does make me want to stay here and read all day! Also exciting news! If you go to the link in the Bio you will now see that Worlds Beyond Pages now has a YouTube channel with more videos in the pipeline soon! So please feel free to head over there and subscribe! ✨ (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZpl2PAUOt/?igshid=879wwrygk5js

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 Circus of Wonders By Elizabeth Macneal Publication Date: 13th May 2021 Thank you to @netgalley for gifting this to review! This book was absolutely amazing and so incredibly researched, Elizabeth Macneal has done it again. First the Doll Factory and now The Circus of Wonders, I love this type of historical fiction! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚“1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell’s world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But when Jasper Jupiter’s Circus of Wonders arrives in the village, Nell is kidnapped. Her father has sold her, promising Jasper Jupiter his very own leopard girl. It is the greatest betrayal of Nell's life, but as her fame grows, and she finds friendship with the other performers and Jasper’s gentle brother Toby, she begins to wonder if joining the show is the best thing that has ever happened to her. In London, newspapers describe Nell as the eighth wonder of the world. Figurines are cast in her image, and crowds rush to watch her soar through the air. But who gets to tell Nell’s story? What happens when her fame threatens to eclipse that of the showman who bought her? And as she falls in love with Toby, can he detach himself from his past and the terrible secret that binds him to his brother? Moving from the pleasure gardens of Victorian London to the battle-scarred plains of the Crimea, Circus of Wonders is an astonishing story about power and ownership, fame and the threat of invisibility.”📚 A story how fame and fortune isn’t everything and how looks shouldn’t rule how people view others. Such an incredible plot with so many modern takes on the historical situations. Telling many different stories in one book takes some doing, but Elizabeth Macneal seems to do it effortlessly. If you get a chance to purchase a copy of this book when it is released, please do as it is absolutely stunningly written! 📚Will you be reading this when it has been published?📚 (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLWatSbAjll/?igshid=5q0lko4bw5gx

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 Horns- Joe Hill As someone who doesn’t normally read much horror, I really enjoyed reading this because of the horror and gore elements, but there were deeper plot elements to this book as well. Such as religion and how Joe Hill really wove the idea that religion can control someone to do both bad and good things with their lives. 📚“Once, Ig lived the life of the blessed, born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician, the younger brother of a rising late-night TV Star. Ig had security and wealth and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more - he had the love of Merrin Williams, a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic. Then beautiful vivacious Merrin was gone- raped and murdered, under inexplicable circumstances - and Ig the only suspect. He was never tried for the crime, but in the court of public opinion, he was and always would be guilty. Now Ig is possessed of Horns, and a terrible new power- he can hear people’s deepest, darkest secrets- to go with his terrible new look. He means to find whoever killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It’s time for a little revenge; it’s time the devil had his due.”📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book is definitely not for the faint hearted and should definitely come with a warning on the cover, but the way that Joe Hill writes so deeply for his characters is amazing, because he really focuses on how peoples views on others can change throughout and how you should never make assumptions about what other people are going through. Even the harmless can be pretending to be someone whom they’re not just to win the hearts of others. This book had me hooked from the beginning and had many different elements throughout, such as flashbacks, which I normally really struggle with in books, but these were written in really well. 📚FUN FACT: Joe Hill is the son of the great horror writer Stephen King, who has written the likes of IT and The Shining!📚 ✨Let me know if you have read this before and if so, what did you think?✨ (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK_2vbOgf_9/?igshid=3a0i8f51jjt

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 The Accidental Love Letter By Olivia Beirne A story of love, hope and coincidences. Bea is extremely relatable for many people throughout the course of the story and the paths that she takes. She faces problems at work, due to not getting the news stories that she would like to work on. She stays in and lives her whole life to a schedule, apart from when a letter gets delivered for her that turns her whole life upside down. The development of Bea throughout this book as she finds a cause close to her heart is extremely empowering to read about, she is no longer unconfident and afraid of what might happen if she doesn’t follow the pattern of her regular schedule. 📚”Bea used to feel confident, outgoing and fun, but she's not sure where that person went. Over the last few months, she's found herself becoming reclusive and withdrawn. And despite living with her two best friends, she's never felt lonelier. To make things worse, she's become so dependent on her daily routine, she's started to slip out of everyone else's. But when a mysterious battered envelope covered in stars lands on her doormat, Bea wonders if she could find the courage to open it. What's written inside might change everything...“📚 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book made me laugh out loud, it was funny and light hearted plus to see Bea find herself again, after such a long time was really heart warming. He care and compassion for others really shines through. Such an amazing book and I can wait to read Olivia Beirnes ( @olivia.beirne ) new book when it comes out! (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKWM490gzp8/?igshid=bktsa2fxryfq

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 📚Confessions of a Curious Bookseller- Elizabeth Green 📚 Although I did enjoy reading this book, the story was a collection of Diary Entries, Letters and Emails to different people with no real character descriptions. So I did initially struggle with getting into the actual story of the book. That being said I did find that the book told the true story of what working in a book shop would actually be like. The main Character Fawn had obvious problems with her family as she was growing up and this lead to her becoming a fierce independent business woman, but because it felt like she was still struggling with what she went though as a child, it felt like she was taking all the anger and frustration out on people that she should have been doing business deals with. 📚“Without question, Fawn Birchill knows that her used bookstore is the heart of West Philadelphia, a cornerstone of culture for a community that, for the past twenty years, has found the quirkiness absolutely charming. When an amicable young indie bookseller invades her block, Fawn is convinced that his cushy couches, impressive selection, coffee bar, and knowledgeable staff are a neighborhood blight. Misguided yet blindly resilient, Fawn readies for battle. But as she wages her war, Fawn is forced to reflect on a few unavoidable truths: the tribulations of online dating, a strained relationship with her family, and a devoted if not always law-abiding intern—not to mention what to do about a pen pal with whom she hasn’t been entirely honest and the litany of repairs her aging store requires. Through emails, journal entries, combative online reviews, texts, and tweets, Fawn plans her next move. Now it’s time for her to dig deep and use every trick at her disposal if she’s to reclaim her beloved business—and her life.”📚 Overall a pretty good read, left open ended and a little bitty in places where you were left to guess what happened in certain parts but not a bad read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Have you read this book, if you have what did you think? (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKJOf_NAIXo/?igshid=576z6fjsvqu7

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 📚The Understudy- David Nicholls📚 Ok so here goes, I actually had really high hopes for this book before I started reading this. But throughout the book it was brilliant how the writer had used his past knowledge of acting on the West End to produce the varied detailed accounts of what Stephen went through in his trials and tribulations of trying to accomplish the life that he desired. The way that Stephen tried his hardest to support his family, even though they kept turning round and comparing his dreams to one of fiction and not real life, he still tried his best by them. This book was promised to be laugh out loud as an opinion given by the Daily Mail and it’s one I didn’t share as a reader. Which is a shame, and I can’t tell you how disappointed I was with this book. Although I did enjoy the parts on the West End, that may be because I’m really missing theatre at the moment though. ⭐️⭐️ 📚”For Josh Harper, being in show business means money, fame, a beautiful wife, and a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C McQueen, it means a disastrous career playing passers- by and dead people. Stephen’s stuck with an unfortunate name, a hopeless agent, a daughter he barely knows, and a job as understudy to Josh Harper, the 12th sexiest Man in the World. And when Stephen falls in love with Josh’s clever, funny wife Nora, things get even more difficult. But might there yet be a way for Stephen to get his big break?” 📚 📚Have you read this book yet, if you have let me know what you thought in the comments?📚 (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ8WaaaAFvT/?igshid=11p0tyqlbzqd2

📚N E W B O O K G O A L S📚 Hey how is everyone? I know it’s pretty rubbish out there now, but I would just like to send a little bit of happiness and love to everyone right now. 📚Also what are everyone’s reading goals this year and how many books did you read last year?📚 (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJyUOvtAldd/?igshid=1l4eccvxikhj0

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 Big Little Lies- Liane Moriarty This book kept me hooked, although I was a little unsure at the start, it did keep me guessing throughout which I love. I like books that are very unpredictable and this was which I thought was amazing as I didn’t know where the plot was going to go from one minute to the next! 📚”Jane hasn’t lived anywhere for longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic coastal town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane feels as if she finally belongs. She finds friends in feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste, two women with seemingly perfect lives- and their own secrets. But at the start of the new term, an incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground, causing a rift between them and the other parents. Minor at first but escalating fast, until the whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful, and truths blur into lies. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder...”📚 The three main women Madeline, Celeste and Jane all told their own individual stories of trauma really well and the superb ending that Liane Moriarty gave to them all was spectacular and totally realistic the consequences some actions can have. I love how the writer also touched on some challenging storylines and how it makes the reader realise, that even the most beautiful people can have unthinkable things happen to them. 📚Have you read this book before, if you have what did you think?📚 (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJx5PaBgBDF/?igshid=3lfe9ztca3yv

📚B O O K R E V I E W📚 ✨The Doll Factory- Elizabeth Macneal✨ “London, 1850. On a crowded street, the Dollmaker Iris Whittle meets the artist Louis Frost. Louis is a Pre-Raphaelite painter who yearns to have his work displayed in the Royal Academy, and he is desperate for Iris to be his model. Iris agrees, on the condition that he teaches her to paint. Dreaming of freedom, Iris throws herself into this new life of art and love, unaware that she has caught the eye of a second man. Silas Reed is a curiosity collector, enchanted by the strange and beautiful. After seeing Iris at the site of the Great Exhibition, he finds he cannot forget her. As Iris’s world expands, Silas’s obsession grows. It is only a matter of time before they meet again...” 📚 This book is both uplifting and quite scary to read, a dark tale of obsession and love. Elizabeth Macneal is a superb writer, the adjectives and the suggestions throughout the first part of the book, that lead the reader to believe that something darker is going to happen later on in the book. This technique was also used by the likes of Charles Dickens in ‘A Christmas Carol’. A truly brilliant read! 📚 ✨Have you read this book yet, or is it on your 2021 reading list?✨ (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJgVu6-AAzu/?igshid=ze4av8u9ub0n

Happy New Year✨🥂 Happy New Year Everyone! I hope 2021 brings you more health, happiness and more opportunity to read! ✨What’s on everyone’s to be read list this year/reading goals?✨ (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJf3jO5gloY/?igshid=1icndxg4371na

📚The Silkworm By Robert Galbraith📚 The second book in the Cormoran Strike series, I’ve absolutely loved reading this book, so feel free to read on and enjoy my thoughts that I’ve also included this time around too! “When Novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine’s disappearance. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would ruin lives- so there are a lot of people who might want to silence him. And when Quine is found brutally murdered in bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before…” 📚This book further explores the partnership between Cormoran and Robin, as well as the dynamic between Robin and her fiancé Matthew. As well as the conflicting relationships, the book also demonstrates the difficulties and challenges faced by someone who is disabled and struggles with life as a private detective. But doesn’t like to feel vulnerable, so is very reluctant to take help from Robin initially. Also Strike is very reluctant to trust people, based on previous relationships and his somewhat turbulent past with his family, where they’ve either left him to his own devices or wanted something from him in return. The Silkworm is by far more complex than the previous book in the same series, plus far more gruesome as well as so much darker, this one reads more gothic horror compared with the first book with its added graphic descriptions of the murder. Theres a quickness of the pace in the interviews, to illustrate to the reader how against time Strike has to be whilst trying to solve this case. In this book, the writer also invites the reader to get to know Robin and her ambitions, that have previously been shot down in flames, this only ignites the developing flame all the more between Strike and Robin. 📚Have you read this before?📚 (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIsYTXZAofy/?igshid=10vbborplqoev

📚B O O K M A I L📚 ✨There’s No Such Thing As An Easy Job By Kiko Tsumura ✨ ❤️Translated by Polly Barton📚 This book sounds like it could be fun to read! I love getting new books, although I do like ‘rescuing books’ from charity shops too sometimes. 📚Is it only me who feels like buying books from charity shops feels as though sometimes you are ‘rescuing’ them instead?📚 (at Lincolnshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIlackhghiq/?igshid=1mlo54txnx70r

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