Review of 'All Fall Down' by Sally Nicholls

I always feel like I completely judge whether or not I'm going to like a book before I've read it. I bought this shortly after reading Ways to Live Forever, which is a great book, but then lost interest in the idea of this and it sat un-read on my shelves for years. However, this really surprised me. I'd say it definitely feels more like a teen book than YA, and the storyline was a little too on-the-nose for our pandemic times, but it was a read I enjoyed.

'The Thursday Murder Club' by Richard Osman review

This book has had SO much hype around it on social media that I was super excited to read it. I love Richard Osman as a TV personality, and the idea of a book where OAPs solve crimes a la Midsomer murders together just sounded so cute and fun. I did end up being quite disappointed in the book in the end, but I'm not sure if I would have been had the reviews I'd read not all been absolutely glowing and intense.

'They Both Die at the End' by Adam Silvera review

Last month I was determined to read some LGBT books for Pride month. I feel like I've diversified my reading quite a lot over the past few years, but I'm still dragging behind on LGBT reads. I kickstarted the month with They Both Die at the End, which I've wanted to read for the longest time.

'The Longest Holiday' by Paige Toon review

This is the second Paige Toon book I've read and ultimately I just think I'm not a fan of her writing. So many people rave about her books so I tried this second time and I still just noped out of there. I'm a big romance fan, but the plot for this was something I just didn't really enjoy.
The Longest Holiday is about a woman called Laura who finds out her husband got another woman pregnant on a one night stand at his bachelor party. Distraught and not sure whether her marriage is salvageable, Laura heads to Florida for a two-week long holiday with her best gal pals to try and get her head back in gear and work out what she wants to do. There she meets Leo, a local who works with his family on tourist dives, and she finds she can't quite get him out of her head. Meanwhile her husband back in the UK is doing all he can to convince her to stay with him.
The book was an interesting one - there were a few strands of plot going on, which made it move a little quicker, but overall I found the whole thing dragged. I struggled to understand why her and Leo got together - she was still married and stringing her husband along, her and Leo knew nothing about each other, and he spent most of their time together sulking and revealing as little as possible about himself. It was an odd setup of her apparently being completely in love with her husband and within weeks of discovering his infidelity, setting up a whole new life to be with another man. I didn't find Leo or her husband attractive in either of their personalities and the whole book felt vindictive and forced. 
I gave this 2 stars because I felt the plotline with the bachelor part screw up was an interesting one, and there were parts of the book I found gripping, despite my overall dislike.
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'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess book review

I'm *trying* to push myself to read more classics this year (it's not going too well so far). I love a good dystopian fiction and have heard this talked about so much that I really wanted to read it. Spoiler alert: I was not a fan at all. I struggled a lot with the language in it, the plot just all a bit too much in your face with the violence, and it felt like it was done just for shock value with no purpose (which I assume was the point, but I just wasn't a fan).