This year, I am once again participating in the 52 Book Club Challenge. The Challenge is to read one book each week, to a particular prompt. The thing I most enjoy about this challenge, apart from reading the books, is matching books to the prompts. It’s a fun thing to do, and I often end up choosing a book that I may not have otherwise read. That is always a positive. Quite often the prompts have me scratching my head for a while. and that’s when the challenge kicks in. I do enjoy the hunt for a book to fit a particular prompt, and I love seeing the books that others chose for the prompts.
I do include audio books as books that I’ve read, as I think it is entirely appropriate. I listen to them constantly when on the move during the day.
Challenge Books
Below are three challenge books. I have read these during the year and not posted them here yet. They are not books that I read during September.
Other Books Read
Day One by Abigail Dean ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Guilty wives by James Patterson ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Queens Tiger by Peter Watt ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tampa by Alissa Nutting ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gone for Good by Harlan Coben⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Woman in the Lake by Nicola Cornick⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Burning Island by Jock Serong⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-White⭐️⭐️⭐️
Love Lies and Legacies by Janeen Ann O’Connell ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The 13th Girl by N.V. Peacock ⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Girls in the Snow by Stacy Green⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Last Guest House by Caroline Mitchell ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Verity Creek by Bryan Byrne⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Main Character by Jaclyn Goldis⭐️⭐️⭐️
Three Little Birds by Sam Blake⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Queenie’s Castle by Lena Kennedy⭐️⭐️⭐️
Book of the Month
The Queen’s Tiger by Peter Watt The Colonial Series #2
From Goodreads: “It is 1857. Colonial India is a simmering volcano of nationalism about to erupt. Army surgeon Peter Campbell and his wife Alice, in India on their honeymoon, have no idea that they are about to be swept up in the chaos.
Ian Steele, known to all as Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting for Queen and country in Persia. A world away, the real Samuel Forbes is planning to return to London – with potentially disastrous consequences for Samuel and Ian both.
Then Ian is posted to India, but not before a brief return to England and a reunion with the woman he loves. In India he renews his friendship with Peter Campbell, and discovers that Alice has taken on a most unlikely role. Together they face the enemy and the terrible deprivations and savagery of war – and then Ian receives news from London that crushes all his hopes…”
This book is great Australian historical fiction. I read book 1 in this series a couple of years ago and have been looking forward to reading The Queen’s Tiger. It didn’t disappoint at all. The main characters continued to be interesting and very strong. The writing is quite savage at times, which I don’t usually enjoy, but it couldn’t be avoided to tell this story.
This book was included in The 52 Book Club Challenge – see image above.
Please note that my star rating system isn’t at all based on literary merit, but is based on my enjoyment for the book.
For me a book that gets five stars, is a book that I really enjoyed, and found difficult to put down.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Unputdownable. Would read it again.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fantastic read. Not to be missed
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Enjoyable. Would recommend it.
⭐️⭐️ Wouldn’t read it again.
⭐️ Don’t recommend this book at all.
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