My Top 3 in

Crime / Thriller

I have blogged and reviewed about these books more in depth on my other page if you would like to know more about these books.

It was very tough trying to choose which one of Steve Cavanagh's books was the best, as I truly love them all, so I chose The Plea as this was the first book of his I had read which completey hooked me in - albeit I didn't know at the time that they're part of a series.

I Am Pilgrm - Starts off a bit slow as all the characters are introduced, but persevere because once this gets started, I promise you won't be doing much else!

 The Old You - Lots of exciting twists and turns that will have you wanting to know more. It's written from such a true perspective, no cliches, or unrealistic happenings.

 The Plea - Well what can I say? The Eddie Flynn series reminds me of a Netflix boxset, once you start, you then have to binge watch the rest all in one sitting - which is a bit like Steve Cavanagh's books, you read one and then feel compelled to sit and read the rest all in one sitting. They're like an addiction, you just cannot get enough.

Top 3 books in 
Literary Fiction

As I have previoulsy discussed these books on my other page, I won't repeat my blog/review of these two here, apart from just saying they they are both so beautifully written, every word chosen with precision.

Rebecca by

Daphne Du Maurier

This book became a bit of a sensational hit several months ago when Netflix aired their version of this book (of which I have to say I really enjoyed and was just as good as the book).

Rebecca was written back in the 1930's and the language and choice of words used is such a different style of writing than compared to today. (And I have to say, I rather preferred the older way of writing. It read more professionally, as if the writer had taken great care in each word they chose. Plus this is the first book I have read in a very long time where I did not find any typographical errors.)

The first chapter I found would be better read once the book has finished, as it is the protagnoist reflecting back upon the period written about in the book - i.e. after everything had happened. I had to re-read it several times to try and understand what was happening, but when I re-read Chapter 1 once I had finished the book, then it all made sense.

The book is about a young woman on holiday as a servant to a bullying, cantankerous old lady. During the course of this holiday, the protagnoist ends up forming a friendship with a very affluent and older gentleman, which blossoms into a relationship. But not everything is as it seems. She ends up leaving her job on holiday returning to England with him to his stately home and engaged. But the senior housemaid is less than impressed that the master has brought a young lady back home with him and jealousy soon errupts. 

This is a definite 10/10 from me.

My Top 3 in

Memoirs

Again, I won't review each book here as they have all been written about in my previous pages.

I do have to say though that the genre of 'Memoir' is my most favourite category of literature and therefore, I have really struggled to cut down my recommendations to only three.

Each of these books have such a powerful story to be told. I personally don't feel that they have had as publicity as they deserve and therefore, have probably never had many readers encounter them. This is the beauty of being a blogger - I am able to introduce these kind of books to the more diverse reader.

I read each book in a week (which is very fast for me), so be prepared once you start reading, as you will want to embark on the journey being shared by the writer, right until the very end, where you then won't want the book to end.

It would be wonderful if these books did a follow up as to 'what happened next'.