February 2025
This month I thought I’d use Valentines Day as my vibe, there are so many books concerned with love aren't there!
I adore Emma, it was my first Jane Austen, and I think my favourite. I am all about the love Emma realises she has for Mr Knightley – ahhh friends to lovers is such a great trope isn’t it!
Seven Sisters by Katherine Kovacic is like nothing I have read before, so it won’t be for everyone. It is about a group of women who are sisters to victims of domestic violence. It’s a women’s vigilante revenge novel. The police and legal system have failed each of these victims, so the group arranges for each member to kill one of the other victim’s killers. There is a lot of over-the-top killing plans, and obviously that isn’t lovely at all, but the love each woman has for their sister is.
Practice Makes Perfect was just such a fun romance novel by Sarah Adams. It has a real Gilmore Girls feel… girl lives in a small town, has a florist shop, girl meets boy with a million obstacles, of course.
Lovers in Auschwitz is a true story, and one I don’t think I will ever forget. Men and women met and fell in love while imprisoned in Auschwitz, of course, and this is the story of Zippi and David who promised to meet up once the war ended. It was such a different way to learn about the horrors of the concentration camps. 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and this biography felt like a good way to mark the occasion; Karen Blankfeld has done an important job with this story.
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is about two teenagers who have/have had cancer and fall in love. That first love is a big love, and this novel definitely explores that, along with terminal illness and everything big in between