WWW Wednesday – 7th April, 2021

WWW Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Taking on a World of Words. Anyone can take part and it is a great way of sharing what you have just finished reading, what you are currently reading and what is next on the TBR.

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What have you recently finished reading?

I included all my March reads in my wrap-up post – you can read it here. If you follow that link, you can read about my obsession with Bonnie MacBird’s Sherlock Holmes series, my blog tours and book club reads. It was a great reading month for me!

Since then, I’ve read the last of the Bonnie MacBird Sherlock Holmes books – ‘The Devil’s Due’ is the third in the series (out of 4) but they can be read in any order. I have talked endlessly here and on Twitter about how much I love these books and this one – about a mysterious alphabet killer – is just brilliant. You can read my review here.

Then I read ‘The Therapist’ by B A Paris for a blog tour later in the month. I hadn’t read any of Paris’ books before but enjoyed this one – a lively and tense tale of a woman who moves into a house with a sinister past.

I also read ‘What Beauty There Is’ by Cory Anderson for a blog tour with The Write Reads. This is a very bleak and sad book about two brothers fighting to survive in rural Idaho in winter. It is tense and compelling as the brothers come up against some awful people as they try to find the drug money that their jailed father left behind. I’ll admit that I found this book to be beautifully-written but a little too dark for my tastes.

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What are you reading now?

This section is always about how I’m reading more books than I can keep track of…and that theme continues this week!

I’m still reading ‘Insatiable’ by Daisy Buchanan – I put it down to read some blog tour books but it is time to pick it up again! It is very funny, very rude and I cannot imagine where it is all going!

I am also still reading ‘Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again’ by Katherine Angel on the recommendation of the lovely Ellie H on Twitter. It is a really interesting look at issues around sex and consent – another one that was put aside for blog tour books but that I’ve nearly finished now.

I’m reading ‘Both of You’ by Adele Parks for another blog tour. I expected more of a traditional thriller from this one, but so far it is a lot of back-story about the two women who go missing in the book. I’m really liking it, although I cannot see how it will all come together yet!

I’m also reading (for yet another tour) ‘The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls’ by Mona Eltahawy. I am finding Eltahawy’s feminist arguments extremely persuasive so far as she posits that women should be angry and demand attention – to do otherwise, to remain demure and ‘feminine’, is just serving the patriarchy. The breadth of information here – Eltahawy is Egyptian and uses global examples – is both impressive and compelling. This is an important and engaging feminist manifesto and I am looking forward to joining this blog tour organised by Helen Richardson PR.

Finally, I was also lucky enough to win the Chastity Riley series of books by Simone Buchholz and published by the fabulous people at Orenda Books. I picked up the first one, ‘Blue Night’, and was immediately hooked in – I’d read half of it before I even looked up! I love the character of state prosecutor Chasity Riley and I adore the slightly-seedy-side-of-Hamburg setting (on a side note, I loved Hamburg when I visited so it is interesting to read about another side of it!)

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What do you think you will read next?

I am so excited to have been granted access to the new Ambrose Parry book, ‘A Corruption of Blood’, on NetGalley. Although I’m finding digital reading a bit problematic at the moment, I really want to read this one – I’ve loved this historical crime series so far and cannot wait to return to Victorian Edinburgh for the next instalment.

I still have my eye on ‘The Road Trip’ by Beth O’Leary – I have loved her other books and cannot wait to curl up with this one.

‘Dangerous Women’ by Hope Adams is another book that seems to be calling to me from my TBR. I am a huge fan of historical fiction, doubly so if it is crime fiction – so this one really appeals.

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Many thanks to NetGalley, blog tour hosts, publishers and authors for books in exchange for an honest review.

Header photo with thanks to Aaron Burden on Unsplash.