I\u2019m forever being asked to share my book recommendations on here, and with summer holidays and trips away on the horizon, I thought it was the perfect time to round up a few gripping reads for you guys to download on to your Kindle (or pick up in real, solid form if you prefer)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eden Close by Anita Shreve Dark Places by Gillian Flynn The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Cabin Fever by Mandy Smith The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger As with all time travel stories, you have to just follow the story without thinking too much in to it \u2013 but it\u2019s a beautiful tale and I\u2019ve only heard good things about the book!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m forever being asked to share my book recommendations on here, and with summer holidays…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/strong>This is one of my favourite stories, and it\u2019s about time I dusted it off and reread it as it\u2019s just such a gripping tale. The book follows the story of Andrew, a man who returns to his hometown for his mother\u2019s funeral. During this time, he\u2019s drawn back to the girl next door, Eden, who was blinded some 15 years before in an incident that also killed her father. Andrew and Eden had been childhood friends who drifted apart, and he upon getting to know her again he starts to find out the truth about that night.
I read this a while ago, and I think I\u2019ve read it twice actually \u2013 it\u2019s an entirely unputdownable read that had my heart racing! I love most of Anita Shreve\u2019s releases, she\u2019s a really talented writer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>The author of \u2018Gone Girl\u2019 has another book to her name, which is far better than the bestseller in my opinion. Dark Places is, as you would expect, quite a dark, thrilling read \u2013 I found this impossible to put down, and would often read it well in to the night (as long as Jordan was home!). The story is set around Libby Day, the sole survivor of a massacre that wiped out almost her entire family \u2013 a horrific act that was committed by her brother, which saw him being sentenced to prison. Many years later, she meets the Kill Club \u2013 a group of people who have become obsessed with serial killings. With their help, she\u2019s forced to reexamine the facts and realise her brother Ben is innocent. Expect to be hooked after a few pages \u2013 and this is also to be released as a film soon! It\u2019s starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Chloe Grace Moretz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>I\u2019m a big fan of the Hunger Games, I read the books a few years ago and have seen every film as it\u2019s been released. They\u2019re easy to get in to, and I think Katniss is the kind of girl hero we need. I\u2019m sure most of you know the details here, but I really recommend getting in to the books \u2013 they\u2019re even more entertaining than the films, and there\u2019s quite a lot more detail that the films skim over.
Even if you\u2019re not usually a fan of dystopian fantasies, I really recommend you getting involved in the books. Finnick Odair has to be one of my favourite fictional characters ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>I\u2019m not usually one to read a kind of \u2018tell all\u2019 book, but I think I got a sample of this and was obsessed within a few pages! The story follows the real-life experiences of Mandy Smith, an air hostess with Virgin Airlines. I know it may not sound like much, but I think I read this in a few hours \u2013 it\u2019s amazing! Mandy is so compelling and easy to love, and the book is so well-written and laid out. Expect all the scoop on what it\u2019s like to work on international flights \u2013 it gets pretty juicy\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>It\u2019s been so long since I read this that it shouldn\u2019t really even be here. Not really, but it\u2019s probably time I reread it as I\u2019ve forgotten most of the storyline by now. HOWEVER, I do think this is an absolutely mesmerising book and I have such fond memories of the story. The pages detail the interesting lives of Clare and Henry, a couple who find their marriage pulled in different directions due to Henry\u2019s time travelling, a genetic disorder which means he is often transported through the years without so much as a say in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n