1. Five Quarters Of The Orange - Joanne Harris
I have fallen in love with this book. Harris is a fantastic author, who can write about tragic events such as war, work and untimely deaths but still keep your mood at carefree whilst reading it. Harris' writing style I found succulent, as delicious as the food in her book. I wanted to be Framboise, running along the river (Loire), splashing, hanging upside down and causing trouble.
At age nine Framboise and her family make a quick exit out of Les Laveuses. Back to visit her home town, Framboise, now an old woman, is determined to keep the villagers unaware of who she is and away from the what really happened in 1942. This book is beautiful as well as teasing us with exciting information that pulls us to the dramatic moments- Five Quarters of the Orange, a feast for the senses.
2. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
This book definitely lives up to the hype that's surrounded it, this page turner is full of complex characters and intense situations that make your mind think hard on relationships and friendships, deceit, redemption, heartfelt and ugly. Consuming, upsetting at times, but a great book nonetheless.
3. Dhampir - Barb and J.C Hendee
This is a buffy tale mixed with the lord of the rings type. Magiere gains a reputation as the most fearful vampire slayer across the land. Villagers from all distances welcome her with desperation- grateful for riding their homes of the undead menaces. But there's a twist, is it all a game?
This book is not like it's contemporaries, move over Stephenie Meyer, this is a vampire novel to Eclipse all others.
4. Fried Green Tomatoes At the Whistle Stop Cafe - Fanny Flagg
Flagg is an incredibly entertaining, funny, amazing storyteller. The book, set in the deep south of the states, opens in June 1929 and closes in May 1988. Decades of lives and loves, scandals and barbeque sauce. Couch and Threadgoode are a formidable double act exploring together the memories of Whistle Stop, Idgie and Ruth among other fantastic characters. It delves into racial issues of the twenties and thirties through to the diet dilemmas of the eighties, some of it macabre, some hilarious. This was a thoroughly entertaining novel that made me laugh and cry on equal amounts.
5.
