Dungeons & Dimwits is a fantasy comedy series about a group of gamers trapped inside their own tabletop role-playing campaign. This first volume begins their journey as they discover that their imaginary world is now very real―and very dangerous. The series follows the party as they face monsters, magic, rival adventurers, impossible quests, and the consequences of their own chaotic
storytelling. Readers should begin with Volume 1, which introduces the characters, the world, and the hilarious disaster that launches the adventure.
James Mascia is the founder and publisher of Dren Productions, where he creates sci-fi, horror, and fantasy comics and novels packed with imagination, humor, and thrills. He is the author of titles including Flesh-Eating Cheerleaders, Dungeons & Dimwits, The Poe Murders, and High School Heroes. When he’s not writing strange and exciting stories, James works as a high school English teacher in Maryland. A lifelong fan of Comic Cons, cheesy sci-fi and horror movies, and Dungeons & Dragons, he brings his love of genre storytelling into everything he writes.
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My thoughts: Sucked into the role playing tabletop game (rptg) that shares it’s initials with this book’s title, a group of friends discover that things have just got very real. And that two of them are apparently girls now.
Trying to find a way out of the fantasy world where everything is trying to kill them only seems to make things worse. They’re not powerful to escape and they need to level up and also defeat a sorceress who seems to be the reason they’re stuck. So side quests it is. Once they escape the dwarf dungeons they’re currently stuck in and stay alive long enough to get home.
It’s funny, silly and perfect for anyone you know who likes D&D or other role playing games. You don’t need to know all the ins and outs of the games to enjoy it though, I have beginner’s knowledge gleaned from having friends who play these games, and I found it very entertaining.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Unassuming Emma, a blogger turned wannabe social media influencer, moves to an exclusive enclave in SW19 to get her son into the best school in the area. On the first day of school, she bumps into Annabel, a gregarious journalist who is head of the PTA.
An unfortunate misunderstanding leads to a clash, and the school gate mothers taking sides. Emma’s world has been blown apart by motherhood. As she struggles to find her new identity, she has to defend herself against Annabel and her clique. The mean girls with mortgages.
Emma learns a devastating secret about Annabel that could destroy her entire life. Will Emma play dirty to win, and what lengths will Annabel go to protect what she has?
There can only be one winner. But what will be the cost?
Catherine Yardley is a freelance journalist and author. She writes for The Sunday Times, Stylist, The Times, Telegraph, Metro, Huffpost and the i paper. She’s the editor-in-chief of Frost Magazine. The Mothers of SW19 is her third novel. Her two other books published are Ember and Where The Light is Hottest. Both did well and got fantastic reviews. She has been on numerous podcasts, including The Conversation with Nadine Matheson and Confessions of a Debut Novelist with Chloe Timms. She lives in SW19 with her husband and children.
My thoughts: Emma is hoping to make friends with the other mums at the school gate, but after a brief encounter with Queen Bee Annabel and her Mean Girls with Mortgages (MGwM), she’s left feeling a bit deflated, and when they start a campaign to discredit her and destroy her fledgling social media career, because Annabel says so, she’s totally thrown. It doesn’t help that her son and her nemesis’ son are now best friends, thrusting the two women constantly into each other’s lives.
However, a brief indiscretion on Annabel’s part, caught on Emma’s phone, gives her potential leverage. Will she utilise it as they go head to head for the vacant governor’s position at the school? And when things spiral out of control and lead to tragedy, can either woman come back from that?
What starts as a silly Mean Girls feud rapidly overwhelms both of their lives, threatening to destroy everything. Can they de-escalate and back down in time? Or will SW19 be gossiping about them forever?
Clever, funny and with a truly shocking twist, this is what happens when mean girls get older but don’t really grow up.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
What if one moment – one split second – changed everything?
When a firearms officer shoots a suspect dead and wounds another, who later dies in hospital, the official line is that the sun was in her eyes. Her body cam failed.
Known only as Officer X, her anonymity is meant to protect her – until a judge releases her name and a media storm erupts. Detective Superintendent Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann are called in to determine whether it was a justifiable use of force – or something darker. And when it’s revealed that Officer X knew the victim, and her brother died of a drug overdose linked to the same woman, the case becomes charged with personal and political tension.
As pressure mounts, a vulnerable witness dies and a lost phone surfaces with a photograph and a message that could unravel everything – and reveal the truth about what happened that day.
Split Second brings Dylan and Mann together for the first time, in an investigation that will test their instincts, their loyalties and the limits of justice itself, as both detectives must decide how far they’ll go – and what they’re willing to sacrifice – to uncover the truth.
Former Head of CID Bob Bridgestock is now an international best-selling author, along with his wife Carol, who also worked for West Yorkshire Police. The couple, who write under the pen name of R.C. Bridgestock, were voted the eight best crime writers of all me by WHSmith Readers.
The writing duo created the character DI Jack Dylan, a detective from Harrowfield, with nine books in the Dylan series. In 2020, they launched a new series featuring a strong Yorkshire female, Detective Inspector Charley Mann. The couple were the storyline consultants/police procedural on BAFTA winning BBC1 police drama Happy Valley, Scott & Bailey and The Beast Must Die, as well as other police dramas.
My thoughts: I can’t imagine having to make the split second decision the story revolves around, knowing you might be about to end someone’s life, but the officer in this case does make that decision and then everything changes.
The decision is made to charge the officer with murder – because she has a link to one of the deceased pair of criminals, and it looks a bit convenient that she was the one who took the shot. But things are a lot more complicated than that.
As the case progresses, as the barristers present their versions of events, hoping to sway the jury, we spend time with Officer X, her nerves and her fears. It’s intense and the confines of the dock add to the feeling of pressure building. Juries can be hard to predict and if one barrister is more persuasive than the other, that could be all it takes.
There’s a couple of killer twists and a few things not followed up by either the police or the lawyers that leave unanswered questions and a nagging suspicion of something else going on. It’s very clever and subtle.
I really enjoyed this, it’s got excellent plotting, paced out beautifully, and interesting characters, I wanted to know more about so many of them. A really good read.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Detective Abigail Morton of Kent Police is in a race against time to catch a killer before he finds his perfect victim. Because when he finds her, she will die.
She must have red hair, green eyes, and pale skin. Just like Lizzy Oaken. Lizzyʼs drink is spiked. She wakes up in a locked basement. Trapped by a man who knows exactly what he wants from her. He cuts a lock of her hair as a trophy. But for some reason sheʼs not quite right. And Lizzy survives.
Detective Abigail is Lizzyʼs source handler. Her last informant turned up in A&E, badly beaten, too frightened to talk any more. Now sheʼs relying on Lizzy. Because the attacker is still out there. Still searching. And the next woman might be the perfect victim.
Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for thirteen years. During that time he had many roles — starting as a front-line response officer, he became a member of a specialist tactical team and finally a detective investigating serious offences. Charlie left to concentrate on writing full time.
My thoughts: DC Abigail Morton has a tendency to take risks, not check in with her colleagues and put herself in harm’s way. Which she does once again in pursuit of whoever is kidnapping young women, knocking them out, assaulting them and then threatening to send out degrading photos taken during the time they were unconscious. But as awful as it is, sometimes these women end up dead.
The victims have all been students at the university, and there seems to be a link with parties taking place in abandoned, condemned buildings. But Abigail’s informant claims not to know anything.
There’s also a connection to a case from fifteen years ago, could it be the same man, released from prison and living in another county?
As Abigail continues to run her own investigation, leaving her partner and the wider team out of the loop, she doesn’t realise that she’s being watched, her somewhat foolish attempt to solve the case all by herself, shadowed by people who will keep her safe.
She has good instincts, but is impulsive and her partner, the good natured, cake loving Vince is at the end of his tether. Abigail needs to get better at her communication skills or risk losing her job. Thankfully not this time, and the team might be just in time to save a life.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of the book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
In the city of Thebes on the great Nile River, Pharaoh Amenhotep III plans to build another temple that will bring glory to his reign. His favoured architect, Djedkare, has surpassed himself in noting his vision, and Pharaoh has chosen his site.
Unfortunately, this sits on the vast spread of the Nileʼs edge, beneath the simple mudbrick homes of the fishermen. Under Pharaohʼs orders, the families are removed and their communities demolished. Anger builds before even a stone is laid, and Pharaohʼs name is spoken with disdain.
However, disaster soon stalks the Palace of Malkata, blighting the lives of Amenhotep and his family.
Nebka, Chief of the Medjay, is called in and, unsurprisingly, his inquiries lead him straight to the banks of the Nile.
Glennis Goodwin is a British author who has long had an interest in the myths of the Ancient Egyptians.
In her working life, she has gone from nursing to retail and from academic publishing to working as a PA. However, during this time, she never lost her love for the bygone tales of Egypt. Taking holidays there, she walked the paths of the many temples and immersed herself in the culture.
In 2004, she aimed to return to her nursing career and enrolled in a refresher course in New Zealand. Settling into life on the other side of the world, she continued to further her career, met her husband and made her home there. Sadly, a brain haemorrhage and a slight stroke ended her study. Yet after her recovery, she found herself wanting to write, something she had longed to do but never seemed to have the time for.
Returning to the UK in 2017, she settled down at her computer, and soon the tales of the Eight Deities of the Primordial Chaos came to life in the story of Malian, the altar tender. Her first book, The Eighth Deity, came into being, and The Gods of Chaos, a fantasy adventure series, was born.
Now living in a Nottinghamshire village, she has since added a further four books in this series: Brotherhood of Apep, In the Footsteps of Ra, The Papyrus of Maʼat, and The Bow of Horus.
Looking to expand the scope of her writing, she has recently written Within the Islandʼs Hold: A Nile Valley Mystery, and is looking to write further titles in this series, all set on the banks of the Nile.
My thoughts: Return to the banks of the Nile and the world of Ancient Egypt. We are in Thebes, at one point the capital city, and at the site of a new temple, which displaces the locals, causing anger.
When tragedy comes knocking, it is Nebka, chief of the Medjay (the closest thing to police) who must investigate and satisfy the Pharoah. The Queen is devastated and demands answers for her loss.
I like Nebka, he’s a smart man with a truly scary employer, the Pharoah is a god-king and will order your execution if you disappoint him. But the Pharoah also lives in a different world to many of his subjects and doesn’t care or understand why his whims might upset people.
But Nebka follows the evidence, a sliced piece of rope, a runaway fisherman, then the death of a young woman in the city. He’s careful and methodical and those he arrests quickly confess their crimes. Unfortunately the real danger might be inside the Medjay rather than among the citizens of Thebes.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Welcome to Nether Dene — the cosy English village where a crumbling manor, a long-buried secret and a second chance at first love are about to collide . . .
After thirteen years away, Oriana Foster has come home to the village that broke her heart — and bought the one house nobody thought she’d dare to touch: the Manor House, ancestral home of the very family who once helped send her away.
With a fortune from an anonymous benefactor and a heart full of unanswered questions, her plan is simple. Move in quietly, clear her name and finally uncover the truth about the night Rollo Seton died. Because she didnʼt kill him, but somebody knows who did.
What she didnʼt count on was Lowell Seton. Rolloʼs infuriating but handsome younger brother is convinced Oriana is guilty — and heʼll do anything to win his family’s houseback.
But he canʼt deny that the spark that flared between them when they were sixteen has never quite gone out . . .
With her first love convinced of her guilt, can Oriana uncover the truth before the killer strikes again?
Faith Martin was born in Oxford, and has spent all her life within twenty miles of the university city, even working at Somerville College for six years before turning to writing full-time.
Faith has been writing for nearly 30 years under four different pen names and has had nearly 50 books published so far. She began writing romantic thrillers as Maxine Barry, which Joffe Books are in the process of re-releasing as brand new eBooks.
Then she turned to crime, and as Joyce Cato wrote classic-style whodunits, since sheʼs always admired the golden-age crime novelists. But it was when she created her fictional DI Hillary Greene, and began writing under the name of Faith Martin, that she finally began to become more widely known.
Her latest literary characters WPC Trudy Loveday, and city coroner, Dr Clement Ryder, take readers back to the 1960ʼs and the city of Oxford. Having lived within a few miles of the city of dreaming spires for all her life, both the city and the countryside/wildlife often feature in her novels.
Although she has never lived on a narrow boat (unlike DI Hillary Greene!) the Oxford canal, the river Cherwell, and the flora and fauna of a farming landscape have always played a big part in her life – and often sneak their way onto the pages of her books.
Her hobbies include walking her now ageing dog, wildlife-watching, reading and (reluctantly) gardening.
My thoughts: This was really good, and when I discovered it was written by the very excellent Faith Martin under one of her pen names, it became clear why!
Oriana Foster hasn’t had an easy life, her parents died in a car crash when she was a child, and then she was framed for the murder of her boyfriend, and sent to prison at only 16. Now she’s out and determined to find the truth.
Armed with a sharp intellect, several million pounds from an anonymous benefactor, and an incredible amount of courage, her first move is to buy the slowly crumbling old Manor House her childhood friends lived in, aka the scene of the crime, hire a team of PIs and a bodyguard called Connor. She doesn’t know who the real killer is yet, but she’s sure they’ll be coming for her when they realise where she is.
It does also mean dealing with the people who think she’s guilty – her best friend Mercy and her brother Lowell. Who also happen to be the younger siblings of the boyfriend, Rollo, she was convicted of killing. And they now live next door.
Lowell has always felt guilty about his feelings for Oriana, she was his brother’s girlfriend and killer, but he couldn’t help fall for her. His girlfriend Margaret is the jealous kind, and his mixed up feelings for Oriana aren’t very well hidden.
With all the emotions – guilt, jealousy, love, you name it, in the air, things are bound to get fired up! And as Oriana starts to put the pieces together about the real killer and their reasons, she’s in danger. And not just her.
Absolutely cracking stuff, and bit by bit we’re given the reasons and the killer, all while Connor and Mercy and Lowell and Oriana fall in love and connect 🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶.
Really enjoyed this and can’t wait for the next Maxine Barry book as the marvellous Joffe Books are re-publishing them all.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
The Vengeance Man is back from the dead. For one last mission.
Former intelligence operative Mike Farrah thought he was done with spies, assassins and secret wars. Then his old handler comes calling. A ruthless enemy cell is operating on British soil. The government needs bait.
Mike must become The Vengeance Man. A black-ops legend. A vanished assassin. A ghost everyone believes is buried.
Then Mike learns the truth about Dawn. The woman he loved didn’t die by accident. She was murdered. And the people who killed her are the same people now hunting him.
This isn’t just a mission. It’s revenge.
Because Mike Farrah has one chance to expose the killers.
One chance to avenge Dawn.
And one chance to survive being the most wanted ghost in Britain.
John MacRae is the cover name of a former senior Intelligence Officer with a Special Forces background. He has written extensively on intelligence and military history, and has worked for BBC television and other TV companies as an advisor on military and intelligence subjects. He saw active service in the Falkland Islands, Cyprus, Arabia, and Northern Ireland.
My thoughts: Told he just has to be the mysterious Fritz, the Vengeance Man, a voice on the end of the phone for the various government spooks involved in what becomes Operation Ajax, Mike Farrah agrees, although he still isn’t happy with the last job he did for the intelligence services, ending as it did with two dead women, and a plate in his head.
But of course, it doesn’t go to plan, and he’s up to his neck in rogue Israeli agents, dodgy documents, gun fights, questions about his finances, several guns that he has supposedly been officially given, suspected of killing a mugger, his flat being ransacked and other nonsense.
But he is sort of enjoying it, helped by his developing relationship with Anna, a woman who also knew Dawn, and wouldn’t mind getting some revenge on her killers too. Anna has her own money, her own flat and is far too savvy to fob off with his cover story, so she’s soon drawn into the plot.
There’s a lot of meetings both in Whitehall and various London pubs, dinners out and a dodgy but on paper stunningly clean Irish gangster/businessman who might have some work for Mike down the line. Seems like the Vengeance Man can retire but keep his hand in with the intelligence crowd, just in case.
At moments funny, then action packed, I really liked Mike and Anna, and was pleased nothing horrible happened to either of them. The whole case hinges on passing off some fake documents as the real thing and following the money to see who is so keen to get their hands on what they think is solid gold blackmail material.
It’s a clever premise and I think that Mike will continue to prove to be an asset as the series goes on, and possibly Anna as well, as she’s clever and well connected.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
Discover the fascinating history of medicine from its primitive beginnings to the lifesaving technologies of today.
Award-winning author Dr Carol Cooper takes you on a journey through the 12 objects that have come to define medicine through the ages – from the barbaric and bizarre to the inventive and impressive, this captivating read is peppered with fascinating anecdotes.
In this unique history, you will discover how ill health has been with us for as long as humans have existed, as has the drive to treat and understand it. Over the course of centuries, the ways in which doctors have engaged with sickness has changed drastically, and so too have the tools at their disposal.
And as these tools have morphed and evolved, our knowledge of health and disease has expanded. Medical theories have slowly advanced, allowing people to live longer and healthier lives.
The 12 groundbreaking tools explored in this collection include:
THE TREPHINE THE BONE SAW THE MASK THE MICROSCOPE THE STETHOSCOPE THE ETHER INHALER THE HYPODERMIC SYRINGE THE OBSTETRIC FORCEPS THE X -RAY MACHINE THE ECT MACHINE THE HIP PROSTHESIS THE HEART-LUNG MACHINE
The history of these medical tools is truly astounding, revealing the true extent of human ingenuity, curiosity, and compassion. This is a book for anyone interested in medical history or looking for a fresh and dynamic take on their specialist subject. With herimmenseknowledge and engaging writing style, Dr Cooper delivers a history that is not for the faint of heart.
My thoughts: This was an absolutely fascinating read, complete with gross moments, funny ones and bizarre experiments (why were scientists so keen to experiment on themselves?) that covers the long expanse of medical history and the development of some of the most important medical devices.
When you’re sick you don’t really think about the ingenuity and endless work that went into designing and creating the tools doctors use to diagnose and treat you. When you’re lying in an MRI machine, all you’re thinking about is the noise, the claustrophobia and how hot you are (or is that just me?) You’re not thinking of the scientists, doctors and early patients who all contributed to that machine existing.
With a very readable style that neither talks down to the reader or requires you to stop and look up every other word, this is an engaging and interesting read, about things that we might take for granted these days (stethoscopes, hypodermic syringes, x-rays) but were brand new science at one point, created and refined by brilliant minds, sometimes accidentally, at other times with a definite need.
There were some things I’d read before, and some that were completely new to me, and Dr Cooper includes the women and people of colour who were often conveniently left out of the narrative when it came to naming devices or winning awards for their discoveries. She’s also pretty funny on the rivalries and sometimes gruesome history of medicine.
I think I might get a copy for my friend who’s a cardiologist, I think he’d really it.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
The Skelf women have been keeping their heads down, running the family’s funeral directors and private-investigation businesses. But when a woman collapses at her husband’s funeral and is saved by Dorothy, she finds herself drawn into the murky world of ‘grief tech’ – a booming new industry that creates digital avatars of the dead.
Jenny’s latest case – a simple blackmail job for an old school friend – quickly spirals into chaos as the woman’s tangled love life pulls Jenny towards dangerous old habits.
Meanwhile, Hannah and her wife, Indy, are confronted by the unexpected arrival of Indy’s ex-boyfriend, claiming to be dying and eager for the Skelfs to arrange his funeral. But his arrival uncovers more ghosts from the past, and threatens to upend everything they’ve built.
As their cases collide and their personal lives spiral, the Skelfs face danger from all sides.
Doug Johnstone is the author of twenty novels, many of which have been bestsellers. The Space Between Us was chosen for BBC Two’s Between the Covers, while Black Hearts was shortlisted – and The Big Chill longlisted – for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year. Three of his books – A Dark Matter, Breakers and The Jump – have been shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize.
Doug has taught creative writing or been writer in residence at universities, schools, writing retreats, festivals, prisons and a funeral home. He’s also been an arts journalist for 25 years.
He is a songwriter and musician with six albums and three EPs released, and he plays drums for the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers, a band of crime writers. He’s also co-founder of the Scotland Writers Football Club and lives in Edinburgh with his family.
My thoughts: Skelfs, Skelfs, Skelfs!!! The Skelf family are back and I am delighted.
As always, Dorothy, Jenny and Hannah have their own cases, stemming in part from their roles as funeral directors, that impact on their own lives.
Dorothy revives a woman at her husband’s funeral, only to become embroiled in the family’s problems and an AI program that resurrects the dead, with troubling results.
Jenny is contacted by an old school friend, who needs her help with blackmail. But as Jenny gets involved, things take a nasty turn and end with a young man dead. Can Jenny work out who killed him and solve the blackmail too?
And we learn a lot more about Hannah’s wife Indy, as her ex, Yannis, appears at the Skelfs’ office, asking for them to arrange his funeral. He’s dying and wants to sort out a few things before he does. Unfortunately for Hannah and Indy he brings trouble with him.
As always, this is a fantastic read, written by an excellent writer. It might seem like the usual crime novel but there’s always something profound and thought provoking in every book. As the Skelfs blend crime solving and funerals, things surface that really make you pause and consider. Masterful. Delighted to have more Skelfs in my life.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
A city-wide conspiracy. A serial killer on the loose. A detective battling her own demons.
If pain is the price of strength, Grace is one of the strongest people you will ever meet. Five crime scenes connected by a visible pattern. A serial killer terrorizes the citizens of Jacksonville, and the entire police force is focused on cracking the case—but will they be able to stop the murderer before more bodies are found?
Three suspects who all tell a different story. Homicide detective Grace Hartwellʼs knack for reading people has never let her down—until now. Is the killer playing a clever game or is she losing touch with herself? One determined detective with a taste for justice.
Grace’s life is dedicated to her work. But she has a dark secret—a secret that could jeopardize not only her job but her life . . .
Wendy Church is a Seattle-based author known for fast-paced and sometimes humorous crime fiction novels.
Her latest, Five Things I See, is to-date her darkest, and most psychologically complex book that Kirkus referred to as “A textbook case of how to make a police procedural pulse with energy.ˮ
Wendyʼs debut, Murder on the Spanish Seas, was named a Booklist Top Ten Debut Mystery/Thriller novel of 2023, and introduces Jesse OʼHara, an introverted and often inebriated woman with a million dollar brain and a ten-cent personality who travels to interesting places and solves crimes, sometimes on purpose.
Knife Skills, the first in Wendyʼs Shadows of Chicago series, follows a talented chef who is forced to work for the FBI. Knife Skills received a starred review from Kirkus, “Audiences who wish the TV series The Bear could make room for Russian mobsters are in for a treat.”
Wendyʼs propulsive novels are informed by her international travel and many careers. Sheʼs been a bartender, tennis pro, management consultant, nonprofit CEO, PhD researcher, and dive bar cleaner. When sheʼs not writing, doing research, or reading, Wendy spends time with her partner as full time personal valets to a dog and two cats.
My thoughts: Grace is an excellent detective, but has a habit of going off on her own and not always communicating with her colleagues. She has a theory about the killer and is determined to follow it, despite being told by her boss to stop digging.
Instead she finds a friend, a man in hiding, a former detective in witness protection, and someone she can test her theories out on, especially as a new colleague on the team is annoying her.
But Grace has secrets, her childhood was brutal and it’s left its marks. Marks she isn’t always totally aware of. Things only her psychiatrist knows. If the sheriffs office found out, she’d lose her job, and she has a killer to catch.
I really liked Grace, she’s complicated and brilliant, a smart and savvy detective, who won’t let anyone stop her from solving her cases, she sees things others miss and puts things together. She doesn’t trust easily and has few friends, which is understandable when you know about her childhood and how much she’s suffered.
Her secrets and how hard she works to keep them could be her downfall, but could also help her in solving cases, depending on how she uses them. I look forward to her next case, I’m intrigued to see where this goes.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
