Lindsey's Literary Leanings

  Comprehensive/Heart-breaking/Thought-Provoking Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Family Drama Abandoned by Vicky Ball author When Madison and Becky attend a family funeral, it sparks a chain of events, that forces Becky to confront her past. Initially, not as concerned as she might be, and only giving into her daughter’s questioning to stop her asking, rather than seeing it as a chance to connect and accept responsibility, or realisation that perhaps, it should be something she should have told her long before now. In her skewed reality, Becky fails to see the enormity of her actions from all those years ago, but when clear headed, fears the consequences. The ramifications extend far beyond mother and daughter, farther than anyone might have thought possible. Changing both of their futures forever, sending Madison on a journey of heartache, self discovery, and a new beginning. This novel presented me with some emotional memories and a chance to be able to relate to one of the charac...

  Compelling/Comprehensive/Intriguing Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Mystery/Thriller Chapter Forty-Nine by Michelle Powers, Author In the wake of disturbing and unexpected news, Emma Donovan returns to her home town to attempt to prevent the past from being repeated, and also visit someone she hasn’t seen for a quarter of a century so as to have no regrets, if what she has learned has any truth to it. With doubt firmly planted in her mind, she is reticent to act immediately, but when she sees something on the way to work, she is transported back to a memory from her childhood, and is compelled to investigate just what the correlation is between what she has seen, and what she recalls. However, in doing so, she is about to unearth a truth about someone she thought she could trust, a discovery about herself and the real reason behind the incidents that occurred all those years ago. I have never been a big reader of mystery or thrillers but decided to try it as a new genre earlier thi...