The Social Bubble Reviews part 1

BOOK Reviews part 1 from 1st edition

https://geni.us/SBubbleTestaments

Synopsis

When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s

Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

“Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.” --Margaret Atwood

Review by Georgia’s Life Bookblogger

The Testaments is told in the perspectives of Aunt Lydia and Offred’s biological children, Agnes and Nicole, charting their interactions with their respective ‘families’ and their roles within the world of Gilead. Soon enough, the characters interact through the seamless chapter plotting, as the inner-workings of Gilead are revealed. It’s hard to not give things away, but the plotline will certainly have you on your feet.

Atwood, obviously, skilfully crafts language that is also addictive; regardless of the novel being 300 plus pages, it is still a relatively quick read, as every chapter leaves you wanting more. Aunt Lydia’s perspective was my particular favourite; Atwood’s subtle word choices allow the reader to delve deeper into how the Aunt’s interact with each other.

I know there has been some divided opinion and controversy surrounding The Testaments, so I expected not to enjoy it as much as I did. I tried to read it two times in the past year and failed to get past the first 100 pages, though, so I would recommend you make sure you have the time to give it your full attention. I really enjoyed reading it this summer with no pressing reading to do. The ending, which has a similar format to the ending of The Handmaid’s Tale, tied the novel together perfectly, as well as tying the duology together nicely, too. Overall, the novel didn’t disappoint at all: regardless of what controversy surrounds it, I certainly would put it to the top of your reading pile.

Georgia’s rating - 4 STARSGoodReads rating - 4.20 STARS

https://geni.us/SBDJandthe6

Synopsis

Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

Review by Jenna at jjsbookcase Bookstagram

Wow...Just wow wow wow. This book was structured like nothing else I have ever read before. It was a fictional tale of a band in the 70s that seemed strikingly real, told through an oral history interview. There is no narrator, and no real chapters, but it worked. It worked very well.

This book made me feel like I was watching Bohemian Rhapsody or The Dirt (movies based on real bands).

It told the story of how Daisy Jones & The Six came to be a band and how they eventually met their end. The creativity that TJR brought to the format of this book was insanely innovative for a historical fiction novel, and that made me all the more interested in it.

One of my favorite parts of this book was watching everyone tell their own side of the story, which meant that a lot of stories didn’t match up (because memories aren’t very reliable) and you aren’t sure who to necessarily believe. It made the book feel that much more realistic.

My second favorite part was the character of Camila. God bless Camila.

After reading Evelyn Hugo, I was very excited to read more books by @tjenkinsreid and I was not disappointed with this one. I can’t wait for her new novel Malibu Burning to debut ✨

P.S. (you know what’s coming here) Daisy Jones & The Six is being adapted to a 13-episode limited series on Amazon Prime starring Sam Claflin and Riley Keough (Elvis Presley’s granddaughter) produced by Reese Witherspoon

Jenna’s rating - 5 STARS GoodReads rating - 4.20 STARS

https://geni.us/BoneShard

Synopsis

In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. The Bone Shard Daughter marks the debut of a major new voice in epic fantasy.

The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s many islands.

Lin is the emperor’s daughter and spends her days trapped in a palace of locked doors and dark secrets. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering the forbidden art of bone shard magic.

Yet such power carries a great cost, and when the revolution reaches the gates of the palace, Lin must decide how far she is willing to go to claim her birthright - and save her people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m88jPRo5t68

Did Claire like this adult fantasy, you will have to watch to find out, but let’s just say after you watch this booktube video I think you might all have an addition to your ever growing TBR’s.

It is totally spoiler free and without doubt this review is out of the top draw, oh, and Books with Cliare is only a few subs short of 200. What are you waiting for.

Claire’s rating - Watch and see GoodReads rating - 4.42 STARS

GIVEAWAY

Make sure you subscribe to this magazine and then mail giveaway@the-social-bubble.com to enter to have a chance to win.

Room 119 - T F Lince

£1.99/$2.99 on Kindle until 1 Nov 2020

https://geni.us/SBubble

High-flying trader Dean Harrison has it all – the London penthouse apartment; the fast car; the beautifulwife. But when the threads of Dean’s life start to unravel, they do so with alarming speed.

Following the advice of a frail stranger, Dean sets off for Welnetham Hall Hotel and is plunged into the mysterious world of Room 119 – a world where nothing makes sense. How does everyone in the hotel know his name? Why does he travel there on a train line that shut down over fifty years ago? And who is the sinister man in black who pursues him wherever he goes?

As he gradually pieces together the puzzle of Welnetham Hall, Dean is forced to re-evaluate his life andrealises that nothing is more important to him than his wife and daughter. Desperate to get back tothem, he vows he would lay down his life for the people he loves.

Buy it Now