I hope you have all read some great books in the last week or so. Unfortunately, in the present situation, I am finding it very difficult to read as much as I would like. It’s quite difficult to concentrate when you are sharing a bed like this: almost eleven weeks of enforced togetherness!

Anyway, I did manage to finish one book:

This was yet another completely random choice. I thought that it would be a nice change to read some short stories. This collection was very enjoyable indeed. Here is the blurb for A Sliver of Darkness by C J Tudor:

“A creak of the floorboard, a shiver down your spine, the feeling that you’re not alone . . .
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Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery.

Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station.

Travel along eerie country lanes in a world gone dark, enter a block of flats with the most monstrous of occupants and accompany a ruthless estate agent on a house sale that goes apocalyptically wrong.

These eleven twisted tales of the macabre from the bestselling author of The Chalk Man and The Burning Girls are your perfect companions as the nights draw in . . .

If you’re brave enough.”

And this is my response on Goodreads:

A Sliver of Darkness by C.J. Tudor
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

An excellent collection of short stories. I had never read anything by this author before, but, now that I have, I will be seeking out her full-length work. Also, as someone familiar with Nottingham, I really enjoyed re-visiting it in some of the tales and also the introductions.

Well worth reading if you like a mix of horror, thrillers and a very dark sense of humour.

Edit: well, that was silly! I just went and checked her other books and saw that I have read two before this one. My memory is dreadful!

View all my reviews

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You can see from that edit how poor my memory is!

Well, I am now trying to make some time to read my new book and I hope I can finish it by next Wednesday!

Until then: Happy Reading to you all!

Love and best wishes,

Anne

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