So I started book blogging about 6 years ago and have never looked back. I have always read ever since I was a child, I loved going to to library and choosing my books and then going home to my quiet room and getting myself lost in the adventures of what ever book I was reading at the time. I always remembered growing up I liked series which including the famous five and Animal Ark books by Lucy Daniels, I was a huge animal lover and still am now. Last year I actually re read the Animal Ark books and enjoyed them immensely. Over the years I have struggled with my health and book blogging was a way for me to do something I love but also have a bit of a purpose. I don’t get paid for it but who does? I feel as though the very kind author or publisher that has gone out of their way to send me the book is more than enough and I am very grateful for all the books and e copies I get sent. I feel as though that is my payment.

I started out with a basic blog here on wordpress and met a fellow book blogger who actually sent me my first book to review which was a book I would of never picked up before. It was one of Louise Candlish’s books and I have to say now she is one of my favourite authors. My sister in Law also used to have a book blog and she recommends books to me all the time and loves reading just as much as I do. I love writing my reviews as it gives the books a visibility and gives the author a greater chance of being seen by more readers. Writing a review can be hard as you have to be critical but then you don’t want to be nasty. If I don’t like a book doesn’t mean someone will not like it too, all reviews are my own. I choose books I want to read and don’t ever choose the ones I know I won’t like. I haven’t had too many books thankfully that I haven’t been able to finish.

Over the last six years I have built my website up, there are always things to be done with it but I like the way it looks at the moment and people have messaged me saying they love it. My husband actually was the one who thought of the name echoesinanemptyroom and I absolutely love it, I love a quiet space to read and this just fitted perfectly. So thumbs up to my husband. I read and review books for different authors and publishers some being Avon, Harper Collins, Bonnier Zaffre and Lovereading. My biggest achievements are I am a Lovereading Ambassador and I have had my review quotes in seven books ( so look out for me if you ever purchase a book) I am extremely proud of that.

With lockdown at the moment, quite a few publishers are not sending books out which I completely understand, so I have resorted to using my kindle, bearing in mind I wasn’t keen to use the kindle I actually really don’t mind using it now. I have set myself up on netgalley and I have to say some of the books on there have been absolutely brilliant.

I love it when an author or publisher emails me to ask me if I would love to read and review a certain books, it makes book blogging all the more worthwhile and it makes me feel as though I am doing a good job. Getting different types of genres has been an eye opener for me too as I would never of picked up say like a psychological thriller in the past and now I cannot get enough of them, so it is definitely worth going out of your comfort zone and choosing a genre you have never read before, you may not like it but you might as well give it a try.

I just want to say that I am most grateful to the wonderful authors and publishers that send me books and even though my health still is not great, book blogging gives me a purpose and a sense of achievement.

Hope you enjoyed getting to me a little bit and Thanks for reading and if you want to leave a comment please feel free to.

Hannah x

I stopped going to work. I went missing. We still live in a world where you can disappear if you want to. Or even if you don’t.

Detective Aidan Waits is in trouble

After a career-ending mistake, he’s forced into a nightmare undercover operation that his superiors don’t expect him to survive.

Isabelle Rossiter has run away again

When the teenage daughter of a prominent MP joins Zain Carver, the enigmatic criminal who Waits is investigating, everything changes.

A single mother, missing for a decade

Carver is a mesmerising figure who lures young women into his orbit – young women who have a bad habit of disappearing. Soon Waits is cut loose by the police, stalked by an unseen killer and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman.

How can he save the girl, when he can’t even save himself?

My Thoughts:

So this story is about Aidan Waits who is a police officer gone bad. He is tasked at finding the local MP’s daughter who has gone missing but the MP wants to keep it quiet. Why? The start of the story is a little slow but we can gather much of our information here, the way Waits has become involved in the drugs world and other stuff about himself. I found it interesting learning about the drugs world and behind the scenes of the gangs that supply and deal them. I found this a dark and compulsive read and I can’t wait to read the next one.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review. Thank you Joseph Knox for sending me a copy of your fantastic book.

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You’re not who you say you are. Neither is she.

She thinks she’s got away with it. She thinks she’s turned over a new leaf, that the past is in the past.

She thinks she’s finally safe, with her perfect son, her devoted husband, and her immaculate suburban house.

She believes the memories of what she did all those years ago are confined to her bedside drawer, tucked carefully away.

She believes she deserves a second chance.

I have to know, how can she live with herself? Isn’t she haunted by the wail of the alarm, the smoke in her lungs, the echoing scream? Doesn’t she lose sleep over the way the flames licked the walls, devouring everything they touched? Why hasn’t the guilt eaten her alive?

So how can I forget? How can I forgive?

Because I know her secret. And I’m not letting her get away with it.

My Thoughts:

This is a very cleverly written story, it makes you think you know what is going to happen but then it takes a turn that you were least expecting. The story started off ok but towards the middle was when I really started enjoying it. There are lots of shock twists that are edge of the seat stuff, it makes you think who do you believe of want to believe. I need to read more of Ruth’s books.

I received an ARC copy of this book for an honest review.

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