SEED Book Review

I'm back with another review! This time I will be reviewing a new book being published in early March, this book is SEED by Lisa Heathfield. I received this book from Lovereading4kids.

Pearl had lived her whole life at Seed, never doubting Papa.S or anything she ever had to do. But when a new boy from the outside arrives she starts to feel and hear new, different things and thoughts, Pearl starts to doubt everything she was ever taught…

The more I read the more I realised the people in the seed weren’t just extreme hippies living in nature; there was something dramatically more sinister with layers of lies, abuse and mistreatment obvious to any outsider. I really liked the different view in this book, as Pearl wasn't the rebel or the heroine, she was just a somewhat naïve girl confused with what she was being told.  I hadn't read any cult books before this so I enjoyed the mystery of it. However I felt the ending was quite shocking and unpredictable; it took me a while to recover from it! All in all I felt, SEED was a complex and interesting book with believable characters and surprising story line.  I got this book in an uncorrected bound proof but the cover I have seen online (above) is so colour and pretty and would look fantastic on a bookshelf!

Until the next time, 

Izzy 

x

Flesh and Blood Book Review

For my first review on this blog I am reviewing Flesh and blood, a new novel written by Simon Cheshire in the new Red Eye series.

When Sam Hunter, a budding journalist, moves to No.3 Priory Mews in Hadlington, after his father makes some big money with his song writing, he starts to notice a few strange things. When he decides to check things out for himself, he doesn’t know how much danger he could be in and how far the lies go back…

When I say something disturbs me, whether it’s a book or movie, it usually intrigues me greatly as well. I have read a couple of horror books in my time and the have all recklessly gripped me, making me finish them within 48 hours; Flesh and Blood was no exception! Messed up and gory, Flesh and blood goes beyond the unwritten boundaries of ordinary books into something completely different that makes my stomach turn and my blood pump with a mixture of excitement, nervousness and horror.  The more Sam discovers about the Greenhill’s the more you realise he is slowly digging his own grave, unlike this novel however, as it lived up to my expectations and the standard of the other books in this series.  I loved this book but I will warn others that if you aren’t into scary or gory content then maybe say away…

If you enjoy this sort of book then you might enjoy Frozen Charlotte, Sleepless or Bad Bones, all in the Red eye series. Flesh and blood was sent to me by LoveReading4kids so go and check them out in the link below!

http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/

Enjoy yourselves,

Izzy x