Hey,
WOW! Has it really been this long since I last wrote to you guys. You have some really good patience if you are some some of my original readers. Thank you for sticking around. I really can’t believe it’s been a year and half. Some of you, must of been wondering when I was going to upload a new book or even if I was going to upload ever again! Well since I have been away, most of you may of been thinking,
What have you’ve been doing in that time I’ve been away?! Well truthfully not a lot has changed I still LOVE reading all the books that I buy. The honest answer to that question is that I just fell out of love with writing and couldn’t seem to motivate myself to go back to writing each time I finished reading a new book. I finally have fallen out of that loop hole and here I am. I havent seen many reviews for this book so I thought I would give it ago myself. I picked a really great book but more about my opinion later on in the review. Silly me! All I’ve done so far is talk about myself,
How are all you guys doing?
Has anything changed for you guys, the readers since I’ve been away if so what?
Do you have any other book bloggers you enjoy reading, if so who?
Tell me!! I would love to know all of your answers. So please feel free to leave them down below in the comment section. I may even reply to some of them. Anyway that’s enough about us.
How about we talk about the book now?!
So the book I’ve chosen is If She Did It it was written by Jessica Treadway.
Before I go any further into the review I would like to take just a little side step, if we can call it that. I’m just going to say WELCOME!! To any new readers that have just found my blog posts. From the links that I’ve shared or a general click through the internet. It really does mean a lot to me and
to other bloggers that you choose to read our posts, thank you! Once you have finished reading this blog post, you might decide to go and read somebody else’s blog post instead and that’s okay. But if you wanted to hang around that little bit longer feel free to check out my other blog posts they can all be found at www.laurennpullennreviews.blogspot.com Once again a big THANK YOU!!! To the rest of the readers who came back and keep coming back every time I upload a new post! The support really means a lot!!
For the readers who are new around here and don’t know the structure to my blog posts yet. This next part of my blog post is all about the blurb from the book. The term blurb is just another fancy way of saying the short paragraph on the back cover that sums up the book perfectly. Most people use that term but it can also and very often be called the synopsis. The blurb can be found on the back cover like I mentioned before but if you’re reading a hard-backed copy of a certain book because you’re just so excited for that certain book and you just can’t wait for the paperback version to come out. The blurb for them can often be found on the inside of the front cover, or if you would like the proper term. On the inside of the dust jacket. Just a little enquiry, have any you tried when they completely cover the book in some sort of wrapping paper and you only get a few words describing the book and what type of book it is.
Please let me know what it was like in the comments below
What is it called?
Can you pick a different one if you’ve already got that book?
Did you enjoy the book?
Did it get you reading a book that you would of never picked up before?
Where can you take part in it?
So many questions, sometimes readers give the best answers. Here is a little heads up on why I put the blurb into my blog posts. I don’t think everybody does it. I have the blurb in my posts (it gets repetitive if I keep saying blog posts, which is just going to bore you) because it’s definitely more
convenient for you the readers as you can make up your mind/opinion on whether you like the sound of this particular book. Therefore you don’t have to spend ages looking online or roaming the shops
looking for the book just based off a picture that I will share with you later on at the end of this
segment of review. Or if you have already bought the book because the cover got your interest, this is something extra for you guys, the readers. Just don’t read the ending of this review, if you haven’t
finished the book yet because it might just spoil it for you. So here we go the blurb to this great
book:-
“One night changed everything. A father murdered in his bed. A mother beaten almost to death. A daughter who claims she knew nothing about her boyfriend’s murderous plans. But is she
telling the truth? Hanna can’t remember the details of what happened that traumatic night; she barely survived the brutal assault that left her a widow. However, if she is to keep her husband’s killer in jail,she knows she has to try. But Hanna hadn’t realised that those memories may cause her to question everything she thought she knew about her daughter...”
There we have it, at the end of this section there will be a picture of the blurb/synopsis. That’s just in case you like taking in pictures in better than reading more information. Also readers if you are one of the few people who have already finished the book, PLEASE don’t give any spoilers to those who haven’t finished it yet!! Those people are just the worst. It just reminds me of the scene from FRIENDS when Rachel and Joey are reading Little Women and The Shining. If you know you know, but if you don’t watch FRIENDS that’s just gone straight over your head!
The next part of my blog post is all about the author of the book because they deserve a huge amount of credit also. I mean where would be without the many authors in the world. If books didn’t exist, that would mean you wouldn’t of been able to learn/write meaning you couldn’t of enjoyed this blog post or the many others that people post daily. Most people just think of them as being an ordinary person. But they are definitely more than that. Just think about them when your reading a really good book next. A lot of work goes into writing a book. Like the amount of meetings they have with their book management and the book publishers teams before a whole idea even gets contracted into a
book. The amount of phone calls they will have to take. The many hours they will have to spend
sitting at a computer screen answering the endless amounts of emails and finally the many hours they have to promote it traveling to many different parts of the world hoping it becomes the next bestseller. All of this is being done whilst they have their own lives to live so they don’t see much of their own families when they are writing or if they have a young family they wait til they have gone to bed. Meaning they have really long working hours. So it’s really nice to have a section dedicated to them as those hours seem worth it when you see the smiles on their faces when the book reaches the best outcome and receiving many awards and sometimes turning into great movies. So this is like my very own dedication page like at the beginning of each book. To authors where would we be without you!! So here goes some information about Jessica Treadway:
Jessica Treadway is a novelist and short-story writer interested primarily in the psychological lives of characters who may be hiding things from themselves. A former news reporter for United Press International, she published her first book of stories in 1992, followed by her first novel in 2001 and a second collection, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, in 2010. Most of her work is realistic fiction about families. Jessica is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College in Boston.
It is now time to start my opinion part of this blog post.
Do you ever have that annoying voice in the back of your head begging you to pick a really good one, the next time you pick up a new book. No just me? HA!
Why is that voice so judgemental most of time, mostly about books?
There was no need for it this time though. First of all let’s talk about the cover, although there’s that famous saying ‘never judge a book by it’s cover’ there was just something about it drew me towards it. It had to be the hard stare from the girl on the front. I’m sorry but I don’t know if this book has different covers for the rest of the world. But the U.K version is just intense making me feel a little uncomfortable. Plus it just makes me want to read before every other book I have to read and the fact that they put that rhetorical question on the cover they have cleverly placed it there making you pick it up so you can know the answer as soon as possible. That just makes you stand on the spot and start to read it. That was a clever design on their behalf. I don’t know why but when I pick a new book I always check the size of the print because when the print is really small it just puts me off reading that book but this time the print was on point and made me want to buy it that little bit more. There goes my judgemental brain again.
Why as people, are we so judgemental about most things?
Now the time came to read the book, once I started to read it I liked the fact that each chapter’s name was incorporated into the chapter. Kind of like a Where’s Wally? Type of thing. Once I got into the flow of the book I couldn’t put the book down, I found myself reading the next page quicker than the last it became so addictive. It’s like I had to know what was lying on the next page. But with every page turn it would shock you that little bit more. If you are like me and enjoy these crime fiction books, next time you’re out and about pick up this book you will love it! I loved it, especially with the amount of twist and turns that’s going to keep you second guessing who the actual guilty person actually is. My guess changed twice before I got it right in the end. I really didn’t want it to end. The only part that I really didn’t like was the last two pages being a huge animal lover myself. But again I’m giving away no spoilers just be prepared if you are too. Overalll it has to be one of the best book I have read this month. I will definitely be picking up more of Jessica’s books in the future after reading this one!!!
The time has come to round up this blog post! Firstly I would love to give this book a rating of 9/10
and I’m going to recommend it to anyone that is over the age of 16. As there is some shocking scenes that wouldn’t be suitable for younger readers. So once again thank you for reading my blog post, you can find the rest of my blogs at www.laurennpullennreviews.blogspot.com Please leave any questions or any suggestions on how to improve my posts in the comment section below. The continued support really means a lot!
Until my next book review x
