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Reading date - October 2020 This book started out very interesting, giving me an idea of what happened in the West household before the horrors of what they did to those poor women was revealed. However, the more I read, the more I got annoyed with the two kids who write this book.   The book is written by Mae and Stephen West, both of whom are totally products of their feckless parents.  Mae seems equally hyper aware yet also hyper in denial about what her mum did whilst Stephen is a certified nonce.  Check it, he has been working on the building sites and erecting his scaffolding on sites that haven't yet come of age. The book is very eye-opening, it goes through how the family grew up, with Rose getting on the game and working from home and Fred being really weird towards his female kids.   When suspicion was first aroused and the police came to the house to check the garden, for some reason, Fred came home late..it's my belief that Stephen knew more abo...

Reading date - October 2020 I read the Lonely Londoners a few years ago and I loved it.  I am the product of refugees and my understanding of the world is based always from that perspective.  Sam Selvon writes books about the Windrush generation and he writes it so well that I manage to find myself sharing their joys and their pains.  His works always makes me think how I would cope if I had to leave everything I knew and had to start life in a new country..and how hard it would be, and that is with me being able to speak English.  Imagine how hard it must be to do this in a country where you don't know anyone, you don't speak the language and the natives don't like you just because your skin is a different colour. This book is a bit more cheerful than the Lonely Londoners, it is about a group of friends who are fed up of renting and decide to pool together to buy their own place. I loved it, it describes them as normal people, trying to get money, trying to save and...

Reading date - October 2020 This book is very strange.  I can't describe it any further than that.   It's about two sisters in Nigeria, one is serial killer who kills her boyfriends.  It is written as a comedy but of course, serial killing is not funny. The saving grace for me and the reason why I read it all was the fact that for once, here was a book about two ethnic girls who were not described as being subservient women bowing to what a man wanted them to do for him.  They were thoroughly modern girls who were sassy and bitchy and like normal, every day girls. I found it weird but am not sorry I read it.  It was a quick, perky read.

Reading date - October 2020 This may be the longest review I have written on here..this is definitely the longest book I have read in a long time, coming in at over 700 pages.  The last book I read that was this size was Shantaram and that was years ago.  Non-fiction wise, it was The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and I read that last year but it seems like it was many years ago now. I originally bought this on kindle but I fell in love with the writing style so had to and buy a physical copy.  This is the kind of book I wish I had the ability to write myself.  The author is amazing with the way she writes, this is how all authors should write. Let me start by saying that no description I ever write of this book will do justice to the masterpiece that it is.  This is simultaneously the most depressing and uplifting book I have ever read.  If you are of a nervous disposition or are triggered easily then do not read this as it will destroy you.  I am a st...