The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams

The Alexander Cipher by Will Adams


My rating:
 4 of 5 stars


I thought this book was excellent!
The action was non stop and not a single boring bit in the book. I liked the characters and the plot was very good.
It's about a deadly race to find historys most enigmatic warrior king, Alexander The Great. Daniel Knox is an outcast Egyptologist and he battles two adversarys while on the run from them and trying to find Alexanders tomb.

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Farewell to The East End by Jennifer Worth

Farewell To The East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives by Jennifer Worth


My rating:
 4 of 5 stars


The third and last book in the series.
I really enjoyed this book. It was a bit all over the place, but the characters that Worth wrote about were superb to say the least.
It left me wanting to know more about 1950s London and the East End.

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Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London:  by Jennifer Worth


My rating:
 4 of 5 stars


This is the second book in the series and I really enjoyed it.
Worth's story telling is like it only happened yesterday so to speak.
The workhouses were really awful places and I really felt for the people who's stories were told in this book.

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Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s by Jennifer Worth


My rating: 4 of 5 stars


My partners mother lent me this book and to be honest with you, I didn't think I would like it, but that couldn't be further from the truth.
This book is set in the 1950's in the slums of the East End of London, and tells of Jennifers time as a midewife staying in a convent that offers midwifery to the local residents. The poverty was appalling and it was astounding to read how many children some women gave birth to back then.
Well written and done in a kind of 'action packed' way, I found it a compelling read.

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Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert


My rating: 5 of 5 stars


For years I have shunned classic books for no particular reason, and I wished I had not.
This book is so rich in text and so well written. The text just flowed so wonderfully. The use of words was like poetry in some instances.
It is such a sad romantic tale.
Emma (Madame Bovary), marries a doctor but yearns for romance and things above her means. She has affairs and gets herself and her husband into terrible debt and about to become destitute.
I will leave it there as I don't want my review to contain spoilers.

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Quantum Breach by Mark Powell

Quantum Breach by Mark Powell
My Rating
4 out of 5

I got this book free as a 'First Reads' on this www.Goodreads.com . The copy was signed too :) 

(Thank you Mark!)

I really enjoyed this book. I thought the characters were well thought out and I took an immediate liking to McCabe and Stowe, the two main characters.

I liked the fact that espionage was mixed in with the banking and terrorists and the intelligent services.

I also liked that Mark obviously researched the banking industry so well which lent credibility.

I look foward to the next book very much as it has left me wanting more