When you see this post, I'm going to guess your going to say WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Well my first response would be I'm sorry and secondly, I would say that I just couldn't be bothered to read and just fell out with reading. But now I'm over that and I've finished this book that I started nearly a month ago. Now I'm ready to write my next review. There is another small reason on why this book review took a little longer to come out. This book just didn't grip me, but more of that in my opinion part which can be found towards the end of each review I write. That's enough about me, how are you lovely readers doing. First of all, how are you? As its been over a month and a half since we last had contact. So much would of happened over that amount of time. Use my comment box as a place to ramble even if you wanted to vent about that one person just a little. Now that school/college has gone back, how is it going? Like I said before if you need to vent about that topic just go for it the comment box is always open. The big holiday that is at the end of October, which is my favourite month. Halloween is what I'm talking about. I know it's a pretty big thing in USA and it is getting bigger here in the UK. So, how did you celebrate it? What did you dress up as this year? Last question, Do you celebrate Halloween in your country? If you don't, do you celebrate anything that's equivalent to Halloween? You know where to leave those answers in the same place as always! I know I haven't been here for over a month but this part is going to be the same. If you are now a frequent reader around here, I would love to receive some of your feedback. So that I can improve the quality of these reviews it would really help. Please! Anyway I think I have now rambled on enough lets get back to this review. So this review is about Our Endless Numbered Days and it is written by Claire Fuller.
This next part of my review is a little thing for any new readers. Welcome to my blog posts. Here comes the part with a lot of thank you's it's like the section at the back of a book. First of all thank you to any new readers who have seen the link and has clicked on it to arrive here. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to read my small blog posts. It's so nice to see my blog posts reaching new places. Once you have finished this blog post and you thought I would like to read more you can find plenty more of my blogs at laurennpullennreviews.blogspot.co.uk Don't worry I haven't forgotten the many readers who return with each blog post I write. Thank you all so much it means the world to me.
For the many people who are new around here and don't know the full structure of my blog posts. This next section is all about the blurb from the actual book. There are many words/terms people use for the word 'blurb' but out of all the terms used, the most popular one is synopsis. But the most easy way to remember what the blurb is, it's a short paragraph that perfectly sums up the book. Most blurbs can be found on the back of most books. But when your reading a book with a hard back you can normally find the blurb on the inside of the front cover, or if you want the correct term for this as well you can find it on the inside of the dust jacket. Next comes the reasons why I put the blurb into my blog posts in the first place. I have the blurb in my posts because it is more convenient for my many readers as you can make your opinion on the book on whether or not you would like to read the book or not. As its more convenient to you the readers you don't have to spend ages looking online or roaming around in shops looking for the book when you can read it here right now. So without further delay here is the blurb to Claire Fuller's, Our Endless Numbered Days;
"Peggy is eight years old when her father takes her to live in a cabin in a remote European forest. There, he tells her that her mother and the rest of the world are gone. Now the two of them must scratch a living from the earth; trapping squirrels, foraging for berries, surviving winter as best they can. But it is easy to lose you way in the forest, to lose yourself. How long will Peggy believe her father's story? How long can you stay sane when the world is lost? And what happens when you stop believing in everything?"
But if you prefer to look at the blurb in picture format there will be a picture of the blurb at the bottom of this paragraph. Also please remember if you've already finished the book, don't give away any spoilers. Please and thank you again! 
This next part of my blog post is all about the author of each book I review. Where would many of us book worms be without the many talented authors that are out there. I have read a quote and thought about it a lot lately so I'm about to write it here and let you lot to think about it to 'a author is nothing without its readers'. This is just a little something to give back to them as they have worked so hard to create an excellent book. Just think about the author the next time you read a really good book. A lot of work has gone into that book your reading. Like the amount of meetings they have to fit into their busy schedules. They have to go to them as they could be with their management teams and book publishers. The amount of hours of hours they have to sit at a computer screen answering the endless amount of emails and going through the many edits as possible before deadline day. All of this is being done whilst the author has her/his own life to live which is made twice as hard to balance if the author has a young family. That's when most of their writing is done when their little ones have gone to bed. In the end of it exceeds all expectations the book can become top of the book charts, win many awards and then get turned into a big movie or TV series. That's definitely something to be happy and proud about. So without further delay let me introduce you to the author Claire Fuller:
'Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England in 1967. She gained a degree in Sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has an MA in Creative Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children. Our Endless Numbered Days ( the book I'm reviewing now) is her first novel, her second novel came out earlier this year and her third novel is expected to be released early 2019. So keep your eyes open for it.
The time has come to deliver my opinion part of my blog post like I mentioned earlier on in my blog post. Let's start from the beginning, I've heard many things about this book and heard many different authors rave about this book. So I went ahead and got the book. Once I read the back the back of the book (blurb) it's not like anything else I've read. I'm more into my crime and suspense novels. But I thought let's give it ago maybe it will change my opinion on these sort of books. So I began the book at a steady pace and enjoyed the beginning and the two or three chapters after that. But that was it for me because the book went down hill from there for me. It just didn't grip me and leave me wanting more. Like I said before I like fast pace novels which it lacked. So at every moment I was finding myself putting the book down more than picking it up. When I did read it I was yawning more and feeling tired, just a more polite way of saying it was boring there was never a rush of excitement. I think that was why I fell out with as I was still on this book as I couldn't be bothered to read it. I would like to mention the small bits about this book that were good, the book was clearly structured between the past and the present and the ending is where the book eventually picked back up, because I can never leave a book unfinished. You could say it was more of a cliff hanger ending, don't worry I'm not going to give away any spoilers. But anyway this is my opinion, so don't let this opinion stop you from reading this book. I don't know if I'm going to read any of her other books as I don't think they are for me.
Overall, I'm going to give this book a 6/10. I'm not going to recommend this book at this time. But if you love it please feel free to spread the word. If you enjoyed reading this blog post you can find the rest of them at laurennpullennreviews.blogspot.co.uk where you can follow the blog to stay updated on when I upload a new blog post. Or leave a question and I will get back to you at some point. Thank you for continued support, it means a lot
Until my next book review x
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