Missouri in Mazury

I read my first M.R. Carey book, The Girl With All The Gifts ,  about a year ago while pregnant. The storyline combined with pregnancy meant that I woke up screaming in the night, thinking there was someone standing over me. Needless to say, I loved that book. Since I was such a fan of that book, naturally I also wanted to try more - this time, I went for Fellside . I started this book without reading the summary; I just assumed I'd like it and it'd be along the same thread as the previously read book. Fellside  is not a continuation, but rather a whole new story. It also has a sci-fi/supernatural theme, but not the zombie-esque theme of Girl With All The Gifts . Fellside  follows Jess Moulson, who might spend the rest of her life in prison at Fellside. She is contacted by a little boy with a message for her. The book takes us along with her as she struggles to survive in the maximum security prison, and listen to the boy's message. I will most certainly read ...

Lessons from Bookstagram, part 1. I have an account on Instagram (visible on the side of this blog, of course!) and post pictures occasionally. Well, I post pictures more often than I post anything on this blog. Anyway. I always love looking at pictures of books and getting suggestions from those accounts on what books to read. There have been a few good finds via "Bookstagram" on what to read, but I often find that the trending books aren't really my style. This was one of those examples of books that aren't my style, but I realized that too late. The Royals Series, I learned, is not for me. However, because I have to finish a book once I start unless it's really not interesting... I finished it. Please - if you've read these books and liked them, explain to me why . Do the authors of these books know that the characters are terrible? Was that the goal? Or do they really think that these type of male characters, if they were real people, are att...