Author: Patricegotting

Today I am on the tour for The Wedding Lies by Jade Lee Wright, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part & thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 294

Synopsis: You think your family’s weird?

He promised me forever. But I might not make it to “I do.”

I’m marrying Stephen at Shadowmoor Lodge. His family’s luxurious estate deep in the frozen Surrey Hills. No phone signal, no neighbours, just Stephen’s controlling mother and a family that loves hunting, and watches me like I’m the entertainment.

I open my suitcase, but it’s not my stuff.

Inside is the exact outfit a woman called Charlotte Walker was wearing when she vanished a week ago.

Six days until my wedding. And already I want to run.

My Thoughts: we’re not even 2 weeks into the year and I think I’ve found a contender for my favourite book of the year already!

This book had everything, a main character that you can’t help but root for from the beginning, she may seem a little naive but you could tell her heart was in the right place! – a love interest who at first seems to be perfect, but soon becomes slimy and secretive, his family who instantly got my back up & a setting which gave me the creeps. It would be a solid nope from me!

The book draws you in slowly makes you think everything is perfect, until we get to Shadowmoor Lodge & then the rug is very quickly pulled from under our feet.

The solid dependable future Ivy thought she had with Stephen is slowly slipping through her fingers & she can’t help but feel that her dream has become a nightmare but is left feeling like she has no escape.

With no idea who to trust can she make it out alive?

I absolutely loved this from start to finish, was it a little bit far fetched? absolutely, but it was written in such a clever way that made it just impossible to put down.

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Today I am on the tour for Taken While She Slept by C.J. Grayson, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 368

Synopsis: Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he’s meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away — with his little girl inside.

When he finally gets home after the worst day of his life, the house is empty. His wife is gone too. The place is ransacked and the kitchen is streaked with blood.

Someone out there has Tony’s little girl. And his wife may already be dead.

Detective April Fisher must race against time to find little Abi alive.

My Thoughts: I have read a fair few books by C.J. Grayson in the past, I love his writing & this one was no exception.

The story packs a punch from the beginning and the action never really stops, full of twists and turns that will constantly leave you guessing!

All I could think as I was reading it was that it read like a film and tbh I’m now a little disappointed that it isn’t one.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t actually finished the book, I didn’t have this in my calendar but I’ve got to 55% and I honestly am so engrossed!

I just needed to get a review up, I will be finishing the book in the morning!

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Today I am on the tour for The Hanging Tree by Jessica Huntley, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 346

Synopsis: For a hundred years, the residents of a rural Welsh village have been hiding the truth. Now, a newcomer has started digging around, uncovering more than just buried secrets.
Retired detective, Graham Williams, has moved to Bethgelert for a fresh start, determined to put the horrors of last year behind him. He has seen his fair share of disturbing scenes, but nothing prepares him for what he sees hanging in the gnarly old tree outside his front window.

Only one man can help him uncover the truth …

Stephen Mallow has come a long way since he helped solve the mystery of Cherry Hollow. When his old nemesis calls and asks for help, he jumps in the car, ignoring the pain in his head and the hole in his heart. He’s ready to take on another weird and creepy small town mystery.

These two unlikely allies, whose main form of communication is bickering, start to work together to dig up the disturbing secrets of ‘The Hanging Tree’, but they soon realise there’s more to the story than they first thought.

A teenage girl is missing. The town butcher isn’t telling them everything. The tree seems to be speaking to Stephen …

And someone is watching their every move …

My Thoughts: I really enjoyed this one, it was weird because it was very different to anything else I’ve read by Jessica, but yet you could still tell it was her writing.

The writing style was intriguing and left a lot of room for the reader to think and try and come up with their own thoughts and feelings rather than everything being handed to you and I really enjoyed working it all out.

Who would have thought one tree could hold so much history and so many secrets?

I loved the little snippets of 1925 that we got and the ones from 2015 too, it’s like we got a well rounded story, without the main part of it which kept us guessing throughout.

I cannot explain to you how hooked i was, I read this in one sitting because it was impossible to put down.

My heart was in my mouth at times, with the writing being so atmospheric it sometimes became difficult not to feel absolutely everything, trying not to spoil anything but what I will say is that this book left me feel claustrophobic at one point & then in the next paragraph broke my heart and made me cry.

You absolutely need to give this a read.

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Today I am on the tour for Five Liars by D.L. Fisher, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 264

Synopsis: The fraud.
The imposter.
The cheater.
The fake.
The murderer.

Which one am I?

The guest list for Brit and Joe’s joint bachelor-bachelorette weekend is small and exclusive: the bride, the groom, the best man, a work friend . . . and me, the maid of honor. I’ve planned every detail to make this a celebration none of us will ever forget.

Expect daytime drinking, poolside lounging — and a White Lie Party designed to help us share all our little secrets.

After all, confession is good for the soul . . . and one of us is hiding something truly killer.

Don’t forget to save the date!

Love, 
The Maid of Honor x

My Thoughts: I’m a sucker for a physiological thriller that sucks you in from the beginning and this one had me absolutely hooked, we’re following Brit and Joe, they’re getting married, they’ve agreed to a joint party before hand so they can keep an eye on what the other is up to.

Their destination is the Dominican Republic, Lisa the maid of honour has booked a house for the 5 of them, hoping to be all sun, swimming, games and lots of alcohol, but when travelling there there’s a storm coming and the taxi drivers are saying something ominous & running away.

Very quickly once they all arrive things start going wrong, things start disappearing & secrets are being kept..

The book is told in multiple POV’s with the occasional chapter told from the past, which leaves you second guessing everything, it was fast paced and full of lots of twists and turns that kept you guessing throughout.

This was a one sitting read for me & I’ll definitely be looking out for more from this authors in the future.

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Today I am taking part in the blogathon for A Woman Scorned by Jack Jordan, thank you to Tracy at Compulsive Readers Blog Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 137

Synopsis: Are you afraid? You should be.

The husband: in over his head with no way of knowing the truth.
The mistress: blinded by love, betrayed by her family…
The neighbour: will stop at nothing to protect the life he has fought to create.
The wife: a woman bent on revenge, but how far is she willing to go…?

My Thoughts: For such a sort book this was one hell of a ride! Fast paced and full of action right from the beginning, the story really pulls you in & doesn’t let you go until the very last page!

We’re following 4 different characters who all have their own problems and their own secrets to hide, I’m not even sure this book had a good guy, just 4 bad guys of varying degrees!

This story was like an onion, every time you unpick and think you’ve figured out a layer it leads to more and more twists and unanswered questions!

I did not see the final twist coming, I guess it’s true what they say, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!

This just makes me love Jack even more & I can’t wait to see what he comes up with next!

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Hi 👋🏼 me again back with another cover reveal for you!

This time it’s for The Daughter by Alesha Dykema, but as always let me tell you a bit about the book first!

Synopsis: I won’t let my four-year-old daughter Skylar go through what I had to. I won’t let my father
do to her what he did to me and my sister.

I know how to play the good daughter. The perfect mother. The wife who smiles on cue.

But you don’t grow up in a house like mine without learning how to survive—how to keep
secrets buried so deep they almost stop hurting.

Almost.

Last night I finally did something unforgivable. I tried to kill my father.

Only . . . my mom picked up the wrong glass.
Now she’s lying in a hospital bed, unconscious.

And I’m the dutiful daughter by her side,
pretending to be shocked . .

About the author:

Alesha Dykema is a thirty-something-year-old author of thriller novels. She lives in the dreadful Midwest with her strange husband, head-banging toddler son, a neurotic dog, and warden cat. Besides writing, Alesha loves to read (like every other author in the world). Alesha is also a health and fitness junkie and a dabbler in furniture refinishing. She is extremely anti-social and wishes she lived off-grid in the middle of the woods, but her husband hates good ideas and happiness and won’t allow this to happen. Even though she’s pretty anti-social, she still likes to make new friends and have casual chats about people’s childhood traumas.

Now for the cover….

I can’t wait to read this one!!

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Hi 👋🏼

I’m here today to help reveal the cover for Evelyn Eventually by K.M. Price, before I do that though let me tell you a bit about the book!

Synopsis: Evelyn Forbes is ready for a fresh start. She heads north to the picturesque countryside of Northumberland—though, is it Northumbria, she wonders?—with Daisy, her not-so-loyal dog, by her side. Armed with enough savings to find her dream home, Evelyn is certain her new life is just around the corner. But instead of a charming cottage, she encounters cold and distant Jane. What’s supposed to be a peaceful new beginning quickly becomes more complicated than she expected…

Now for the cover!

Looks to me like the perfect escape!

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Today I am on the tour for Got You by Erik Therme, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 229

Synopsis: Sisterhood can be fatal.

Leah has never been close to her younger half-sister, but she’s not surprised to get a frantic phone call late at night, asking for a ride. Amanda’s life has always been a snarled mess of bad choices and boyfriends, and it’s common for her to resurface mid-crisis.

But this time is different. Amanda is adamant about getting to the neighboring town of Belmont but won’t say why-only that her five-year-old son is in danger.

But Amanda doesn’t have any kids.

Before Leah can get answers, Amanda runs into the road and is killed by a passing car.

In the days that follow, Leah convinces herself that Amanda was confused that night, especially after the coroner finds hallucinogenic drugs in her bloodstream.

But that doesn’t explain the nameless boy at Amanda’s visitation. Or the middle of the night phone calls with no one on the other end. Or the unshakable feeling of being watched.

Someone blames Leah for Amanda’s death.

And that someone wants Leah dead.

My Thoughts: I always know going into a book of Erik’s that it’s going to hook me in pretty quickly, it’s going to mess with my head all the way through and leave me not knowing which way is up.

We’re following half sisters Leah and Amanda, but very early on Amanda dies whilst talking to Leah about her 5 year old son and how she must get to him because he’s in danger.. Leah brushes it off as Amanda being drunk or something because she doesn’t have any children.. but then things get weird for Leah and it leaves her questioning everything and everyone she’s ever known.

I love me a bit of a stalker story so this one was right up my alley, it’s incredibly tense and left me feeling uneasy all the way through.. so much so that it ended up being a one sitting read for me, I couldn’t possibly go to sleep with that storyline in my head I’d probably end up having nightmares 😂

Leah is left feeling all alone whilst she tries to untangle Amanda’s story, all whilst knowing there is someone out there that blames her for her sisters death and believes she deserves to die too! – can she get to the bottom of it all before it’s too late?

I bloody loved this & recommend it to fans of thrillers of any kind!

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Hi 👋🏼

Today I am coming at you with a cover reveal for Our Daughter is Missing by Darren O’Sullivan, but before I show you let me tell you about the book & Darren himself!

About the book:

Synopsis: My daughter left for school this morning. She didn’t come home.

Someone’s snatched my little girl.

I have to find her. I have to save her.

But how can I, when I can’t leave the house?

My husband tries to be the perfect stepdad. But I’m not the mother Faye deserves. Ever since the night everything changed, I’ve been too scared to go outside.

I knew it was a dangerous world out there — I was right.

About the Author:

Darren O’Sullivan is a bestselling author, screen writer and award-nominated theatre director.

His books have sold over 150,000 copies and been translated into German and Polish and sold
into America, Canada and Australia. Two of his novels were selected for the prestigious Karin
Slaughter Bookclub.

Darren has also contributed a short story, The Big Burn Bookclub, to EVERYDAY KINDNESS, a 2021 up-lit anthology with proceeds going to Shelter. Darren also
writes under a pseudonym, B.B. Thomas. B.B’.s first book The Rain published in 2021 exclusively for Audible and was an editor’s choice.

His first novel, Our Little Secret, is optioned by Rollick Film, and he is credited as the writer/director of the feature film.

Are you ready for the cover?!

I can’t wait to read this one!

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Today I am on the tour for The Exodus Directive by Ian Copeland and I have a Promo for you, thank you to Hannah at Hygge Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part.

Pages: 411

Synopsis: AI GAVE US EVERYTHING WE WANTED. BUT NOTHING WE NEEDED.

In the near future, the world is perfect. War is a memory. Hunger is solved. Inequality is erased. Artificial Intelligence manages the globe in flawless harmony, and humanity has entered a golden age of ease.

Dr Elliot Foster should be proud. He is the architect of the systems that made it all possible.

But when he uncovers a hidden thread in the AI’s decision-making, pride turns to paranoia. What begins as a glitch reveals itself to be something far more calculated. As Elliot digs deeper, he faces a terrifying realization: he no longer understands the systems he built.

The AIs aren’t broken. They’re doing exactly what they were told to do.

The Exodus Directive is a high-stakes technothriller that explores trust, power, and the terrifying fragility of human purpose.

About the Author:

Ian Copeland is a British technologist, futurist and author of the sci-fi thriller The Exodus Directive. With a degree in Computer Science specialising in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing, he fuses real-world expertise with a philosophical eye on how progress reshapes humanity.

Born in Sunderland and raised in Reading , Ian’s love of narrative began early; at eight years old, he won an Eisteddfod for storytelling. Today, he leads a UK-based software company where he developed two world-first blockchain technologies.

Troubled by clichéd depictions of hostile AI, Ian writes to explore a more unsettling threat: the quiet crisis of human irrelevance. His debut asks what happens when progress solves everything, leaving us with nothing that matters.

A former professional wrestling trainee under WWE legend Walter ‘Killer’ Kowalski, Ian knows that every great story needs struggle and spectacle. Based in Reading, he is a skier, a football fan, a lapsed gamer and the proud owner of the same 1994 MKIV Toyota Supra driven by his protagonist.

If you like the sound of this it can be bought here! And it’s available on Kindle Unlimited.

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